do you give money to beggar's

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Originally Posted by friendowl

do you help em out
or
are you fucked up

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I like the options you gave. :smokin:

I get stopped about once a month. There are three homeless guys walking around my town who stand outside stores and at gas stations and shit. I give them money cuz I'm usually putting my baby in the car and I stand up and their right behind me and I figure it's give em the money or get stabbed.

I'd give it to them anyway if they asked nicely but it pissed me off the other day when some guy asked me for money at the gas station and I had only my bank card and thats what I payed with and I didn't even have any change and I said i was sorry and he got all, "THANKS ALOT MAM" like I was just lying about not having any money. And if I was lying about it it's MY GOD DAMN MONEY and he should consider it a privelege that I'm taking that dollar away from me and my child so he can eat/smoke/toke/or drink. But I let it go, why? Because it would be stupid to start a fight with some poor homeless guy just because he's mad at me for not giving him a dollar.

I make it a rule not to give money to anyone wearing nicer shoes than I am.

Theres this guy in Harvard Square whose always in the same spot everytime I go by, but hes also always wearing a different pair of Nikes....

i usually don't give money. Cause most of them are going to drink it away and NOT use it fo survive. It's one thing to drink (which I do) and smoke weed (wich I also do) but these people should spend the $$ on food and shelter..Anyway, thats the way I see it. I offer to buy them some food or clothing.

No, I never gave money to begging people but if I had the spare money I would..I'm a generous person but in certain situations I gotta look out for my self first, and my financial situations is no exception :p.

Yeah, a couple times I've given $20 to bums in Venice.

Oh yeah, you're not going to believe this but once, after hurricane Katrina, there were some refugees put up at a abandoned Wal-Mart here in Texas. I got $100 out of the bank and went to the Wal-Mart refugee camp and gave the bill to a thuggish lookin black dude on the other side of a chain link fence. Of course we also donated clothes, books and stuff as well.

short answer yes, Its like Pt Barnum 'Theres a sucker born every minuite u just happened to coming by at the right time'

Yeh i cant help it although in scotlandthe Big Issue makes a diff cos there street vending(if they can get the job) instead of begging

peace rips

i give em all the time. they can use chunk change and dollars more than me.

I usually tell them to take a shower, shave and go apply at micky d's, they will hire anyone, then you won't need to beg.

I still think, I should make a nice coffee table book of the homeless
it will feature them in their best pose and a small autobiography and you tell their lives thru what they tell you. Could be some funny and interesting pieces. Now, don't go stealing my idea.