I'm Too Lazy....

[Leadeye]

A smile and direct eye contact, they move on to the next guy.

 

[Gluemanz28]

I was on my way back to Indiana from Chicago Midway airport. I was on Garfield Blvd when I spotted a guy at the intersection ahead. He was on crutches and had a prosthetic leg. The boot section where his partial leg went into the prosthetic leg was covered in silver duct tape. The tape looked weathered and fraying like it had seen some combat.

He was holding a sign that had the following words on it.
Disabled vet, Anything you can give will help, God Bless

I really felt overwhelmed with compassion and wanted to do something so I rolled down my window and gave him a roll of duct tape.

 

[Heavy]

I never give money or a bat of an eye to those people.

A guy in lightly tattered clothing asked me for some money one night when I was in Las Vegas for a buddies wedding. I was walking out of a CVS that happened to be next to a McDonald's when he hit me up. I said no, and heard him ask another passerby, getting the same response. I asked my wife if she heard/saw that and turned back to point him out to her. As I did, he was digging a half eaten burger from Mcd's out of a trash can. I watched him eat it. I almost went back and gave him some money.

Ultimately, I decided that as someone who has worked in the food industry, cut grass, dug graves, bagged groceries, worked a line in a factory, broke my back in a trench and behind an air hammer, crawled sewers etc. I have no sympathy for someone who would rather eat garbage than work and earn.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

...to sit at an intersection waiting for people to hand me money. How does this work? Isn't easier, and more profitable, to simply get a job, which typically is indoors and climate controlled?

Do they allow the beggars to work the corners in Carmel? They don't put up with it in Plainfield.

Abdul on WIBC panhandled downtown as an experiment and made around $35 an hour for half a day.

 

[Hkindiana]

I used to work at a bank in Commiefornia, and one of these "opportunists" had an account with us. He would stop in daily to make a deposit, and had over six figures in his account.

 

[Gluemanz28]

A local reporter interviewed a panhandler in the Mishawaka area. They admitted to making $75,000 tax free annually.

My Mother in law keeps $5 gift cards to McDonalds with her. She said she just follows her heart. If she feels compassion for the person then she gives them a gift card. $5 on the value menu can go a long way if your really hungry.

Its not cash so not buying booze or drugs with it.

 

[Hkindiana]

A local reporter interviewed a panhandler in the Mishawaka area. They admitted to making $75,000 tax free annually.

My Mother in law keeps $5 gift cards to McDonalds with her. She said she just follows her heart. If she feels compassion for the person then she gives them a gift card. $5 on the value menu can go a long way if your really hungry.

Its not cash so not buying booze or drugs with it.

A $5 Mcdonalds gift card can be readily sold for $3 or $4, and THAT cash CAN (and often WILL) be used to purchase booze or drugs. Heck, a hard core addict would gladly sell it for $1.

 

[Gluemanz28]

A $5 Mcdonalds gift card can be readily sold for $3 or $4, and THAT cash CAN (and often WILL) be used to purchase booze or drugs. Heck, a hard core addict would gladly sell it for $1.

Who would they sell it to?

 

[Hkindiana]

Who would they sell it to?

The same people that used to buy food stamps. There are ALWAYS enterprising people out there ready to make a buck, especially off of the downtrodden.

 

[Gluemanz28]

The same people that used to buy food stamps. There are ALWAYS enterprising people out there ready to make a buck, especially off of the downtrodden.

A hardcore addict will have a hard time selling a card to anybody. That would require work on their part and they aren't much into that are they? Would you buy a $5 gift card from a panhandler?

 

[Sylvain]

A local reporter interviewed a panhandler in the Mishawaka area. They admitted to making $75,000 tax free annually.

My Mother in law keeps $5 gift cards to McDonalds with her. She said she just follows her heart. If she feels compassion for the person then she gives them a gift card. $5 on the value menu can go a long way if your really hungry.

Its not cash so not buying booze or drugs with it.

McDonalds restaurants serve beer over here.

 

[Gluemanz28]

McDonalds restaurants serve beer over here.

Well that explains a lot

 

[Sylvain]

Well that explains a lot

I don't drink.

 

[Gluemanz28]

I don't drink.

Me either.

 

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[foszoe]

McDonalds restaurants serve beer over here.

In the Drive thru?

 

[MostCrucialMarsupial]

Local expose here found that they make damn good money doing it. Actually got one lady to admit it was just over 6 figures some years.

There is one guy that stands at the top of the EB70 to Emerson exit. He is in his late 40s, early 50s. He takes his teeth out and hobbles around on a cane, with one foot flexed up so he walks on his heel like he is crippled.

One day I left work late. I saw him speed walking toward his car, fit as a fiddle. Ever since I have been tempted to stick a sign at the base of the ramp "He isnt crippled, he is playing you".

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wtf, I see that guy all the time

 

[Sylvain]

In the Drive thru?

Probably with a lead at the drive thru.

 

[adcecil]

Last winter I saw a guy toss a few bucks out his window the wind blew them into traffic. The panhandler must have been hard up because he dodged traffic to pick up like two bucks. I felt bad for the guy

 

[Doug]

If you work for your money, you don't get the satisfaction of outsmarting the people who fall for your hard luck story.
Some prefer to cheat and steal. (Yes, steal; if you aren't truly needy, you're stealing from the people who give you money.)