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Offline CG6468

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How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« on: March 26, 2013, 11:17:12 AM »
How often do you see someone begging for money in public?

For me, never.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 11:19:56 AM »
Damn near every day. The entrance/exit to the Kroger here is a popular spot.  :whatever:
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 11:22:57 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on March 26, 2013, 11:19:56 AM
Damn near every day. The entrance/exit to the Kroger here is a popular spot.  :whatever:

Maybe twice a year I see some bum walking around a parking lot. I just keep the window closed and get the hell outta there as fast as possible.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 11:24:26 AM »
I see the same people at the same places begging.  I only give money and food to one of them.  Old man and he has throat cancer.  He can't speak and really looks horrible. 
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2013, 11:41:43 AM »
There's a town near us where they have bums at nearly every major intersection trying to sell a wino newspaper to cars stopped at the light.

Nothing like Central and South America, where bands of peasants walk through the stopped traffic selling everything from flowers to toaster ovens to DVDs.

In Nashville, during better weather, there are derelicts who work some of the interstate exit ramps.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2013, 12:13:07 PM »
Last week at the gas station.  They didn't take her EBT card and she was hitting everyone up for money for gas. (Or so she said)

I've actually offered people work who have those "will work for food signs" and they've never shown up  :(

I did feed a kid (looked to be about 18) at a McDonalds.  He was going through the trash eating what people that thrown away.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2013, 12:19:42 PM »
Every dang day.  Same guys, same street corners, for the last 3 years or so, as I drive the same route.  :whatever:

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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2013, 12:22:47 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on March 26, 2013, 12:19:42 PM
Every dang day.  Same guys, same street corners, for the last 3 years or so, as I drive the same route.  :whatever:

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It's really bad when we visit my sister in Tucson.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2013, 12:28:00 PM »
We have a older vet with pretty clear battle-induced injuries (missing/mangled limbs) who's favorite panhandling spot is the entrance driveway to the Walmart near my house.  I make about $5 to $10 a week contributions to him pretty frequently.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2013, 12:47:33 PM »
Occasionally, only when I go to Corpus.  There usually someone sitting at a stoplight,  but never more than one. I hear they hang out at the beach.  The stores do a good job of keeping panhandlers of the premises; I've never been approached in a parking lot or entrance.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2013, 12:57:42 PM »
Rarely. Haven't really seen anyone beg for money in more than six months. But I do not frequent State Street as I once did.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2013, 01:06:26 PM »
Every off/on ramp, major intersections and in front of the 99 cent store. The 99 cent store allows them to use the bath rooms. A lot of people sleeping on the street ( highway 39).
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2013, 01:31:40 PM »
We've got a guy we refer to as the Gladiator (because he lives in a Galdiator brand motorhome behind the local Home Depot near my office) who is on the Edinger onramp of the 55 freeway every day.  He presents a humble image of a helpless poor person complete with his little prop dog he holds on his lap as he gives a weak pathetic smile and wave to drivers entering the freeway.  Problem is, I see him often when he is not "on stage" and he isn't a nice person.  He has gotten in numerous altercations with several people (including the time he flipped me the bird one day just for walking by his motothome) in the local Carl's Jr parking lot to where Carl's have banned him from parking there. Now he camps out behind the Home Depot until he upsets enough Home Depot customers where he will probably asked to leave their lot.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2013, 01:33:39 PM »
I see the same person every so often near the local Walmart.  He has a big sign claiming to be a vet.  The cops rousted him once and he got in a late model car and drove off.  I saw him a couple of weeks ago near a Steak & Shake.  He was holding one phone between his shoulder and head and looked like he was texting on another one.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2013, 02:21:09 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on March 26, 2013, 01:31:40 PM
We've got a guy we refer to as the Gladiator (because he lives in a Galdiator brand motorhome behind the local Home Depot near my office) who is on the Edinger onramp of the 55 freeway every day.  He presents a humble image of a helpless poor person complete with his little prop dog he holds on his lap as he gives a weak pathetic smile and wave to drivers entering the freeway.  Problem is, I see him often when he is not "on stage" and he isn't a nice person.  He has gotten in numerous altercations with several people (including the time he flipped me the bird one day just for walking by his motothome) in the local Carl's Jr parking lot to where Carl's have banned him from parking there. Now he camps out behind the Home Depot until he upsets enough Home Depot customers where he will probably asked to leave their lot.

This guy I was talking about above with throat cancer could be like that.  I drove out of my way this past weekend with my son because we passed the man at the ramp and instead of holding up traffic I drove on and went to the next ramp and came back. I gave him my husbands lunch (quarter pounder and fries) and a $5.  My son said "Mom, I thought you said never to give money to bums" so I said "well son, there are just some you can tell they really are far worse than you and really need pity".  Me and him were both bawling by the time we got home  :lmao:  My son pulled a $5 out of his own pocket and gave to him.  That was his allowance. Made me pretty dang proud suffice it to say.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2013, 02:29:16 PM »
There are some who hang out at the I-95 Off/On ramps in town. There was also one who had a tent in a vacant lot and people would take him food and bottled water. He had a HUGE tumor on the side of his face and sat in a wheelchair. The locals kind of "adopted" him. There was a Facebook post about him when someone bought the lot he was in; and the cops booted him out of town. No one knows what happened to him.

When I worked at Waffle House, we would have them come in and get water. Some of them would sit for hours. We really didn't mind as long as they didn't bother customers (or us). I had one bum a cigarette from a customer; and I had to tell him to leave. Customers don't want their meals interrupted by a bum.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2013, 05:16:38 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 26, 2013, 02:21:09 PM
This guy I was talking about above with throat cancer could be like that.  I drove out of my way this past weekend with my son because we passed the man at the ramp and instead of holding up traffic I drove on and went to the next ramp and came back. I gave him my husbands lunch (quarter pounder and fries) and a $5.  My son said "Mom, I thought you said never to give money to bums" so I said "well son, there are just some you can tell they really are far worse than you and really need pity".  Me and him were both bawling by the time we got home  :lmao:  My son pulled a $5 out of his own pocket and gave to him.  That was his allowance. Made me pretty dang proud suffice it to say.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2013, 07:10:39 PM »
Used to be in our bucolic little burb we never saw any.

Now they hang out on the median coming into/out of the local Walmart and the plaza where Lowe's/Kohl's is located.  Nearly daily now.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2013, 07:54:03 PM »
Your pic looks so familiar, Rick.  Did you ever carpool from Big Lake to work ~15 years ago?  (My pic is not really me).  Wouldn't that be funny to meet up here?

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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2013, 08:14:55 PM »
Several times a day.  A couple of guys on my way to work, a lot more guys after work.  They all have their own corners they stand on.  Most of their signs say, "Can't work - Need money, God Bless."  Not sure why they "can't work" though.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2013, 08:21:20 PM »
Quote from: JLO on March 26, 2013, 07:54:03 PM
Your pic looks so familiar, Rick.  Did you ever carpool from Big Lake to work ~15 years ago?  (My pic is not really me).  Wouldn't that be funny to meet up here?



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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #21 on: March 26, 2013, 08:23:01 PM »
I see none in the small town I live in. But if I have to go over the mts to the Pudget Sound area it seems they are on every freeway off ramp.
Same signs, cant work, no money, God bless.
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Re: How often do you see someone begging for money in public?
« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2013, 10:17:04 PM »
Twice each of the last two summers in town.  I give them a phone number.  I donate to the "get them on their way fund."  It's a pool of money available to folks who think they want to live here but have no way of doing so.  There are some people in town who zero in on these drifters and offer them a way out as soon as they start looking a bit dejected. 
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