Finally did something worth while in my life

[ec437]

Originally Posted by Gotti

I always just ignore beggers, its their fault their on the street. I mean come on, its North America there are so many social services that could help them, they just dont want the help.

Anybody can get a shitty minimum wage job or go on welfare until they find a job.... unlike other poor countries where there arent enough jobs for everybody and most of the jobs dont pay shit (ex. eastern europe, most of south america, etc.)

I do believe that this is possibly the one and only issue that I somewhat agree with you on.

[Heep]

Yeah at Dad's office there was this lady who needed, but could nowhere near afford her glasses - yet she faithfully came in and made $1 or $2 payments every week - one time after she left, a guy sitting in the waiting room went up and paid the $50 or so left on the bill....

As for myself, I don't usually give either - having a job downtown back home, I always see the same guys, and I know that they are neither hurting for cash, nor spending what they have wisely. However, once, while on my lunch break, I had an early 20s or so girl, whom I'd not seen before, look up from writing something in a diary and ask for some change - turns out she'd just run out of her abusive house - gave her all I had in cash at the time ($20 or so). Never saw her again, but felt good about what I'd done.

BTW, I saw one of the regular bums bumming one of the other regular bums once

[-Josh-]

I agree that people should make an effort to get jobs. I just have a guilty conscience if i dont help in some way. And i always remember this line growing up- “For I was hungry and you gave me food.” “When you feed the hungry, you are feeding me.”

Besides i'm used to feeding people, my roommate is broke as hell, i'm always buying him food.

[mike1224]

who wants to help pitch in for the guy in Andydg's sig.?? I've got a few bucks to see some ass-kicking

[clawhammer]

Good job Josh. That was a really nice thing to do for the man. I usually don't give, just because I have this feeling that they're not going to use it for essentials, instead they're going to get drugs.

[mike1224]

[ci5ic]

Fucking hate bums. Sorry, but it's true. They're fucking irritating as hell, and I don't give them a damn thing anymore. I used to, but I'm poor as shit myself and gotta look out for me.

[2.2 Straight six]

if they ask for money or annoy me i dont give them any, if they're good natured then sure, i'll give them a few quid.

[-Jayson-]

yeah incase you dont know, a begging bum can make like 20,000 dollars a year. When i was in California, there was a guy begging. He took a milk crate and stuck leaves in it, then he would hide behind a bush and when you walked buy he would jump out and scare people. He asked that if he scared you, you gave him some change, or whatever. Well when he did it to me, i decided to talk to him. Turns out he was only doing it as a second job. He was making 20,000 dollars a year extra money doing that like 5 days a week for like 7 hours a day.

Think about, a bum standing on a corner with lots of people. Lets say 10 people an hour give him one dollar. He stays on that corner for 5 hours. 50 bucks a day, 5 days, 250 dollars a week, 1,000 dollars a month. 12,000 dollars a year. Yeah hes really poor. . .

[ci5ic]

Originally Posted by -Jayson-

yeah incase you dont know, a begging bum can make like 20,000 dollars a year. When i was in California, there was a guy begging. He took a milk crate and stuck leaves in it, then he would hide behind a bush and when you walked buy he would jump out and scare people. He asked that if he scared you, you gave him some change, or whatever. Well when he did it to me, i decided to talk to him. Turns out he was only doing it as a second job. He was making 20,000 dollars a year extra money doing that like 5 days a week for like 7 hours a day.

Think about, a bum standing on a corner with lots of people. Lets say 10 people an hour give him one dollar. He stays on that corner for 5 hours. 50 bucks a day, 5 days, 250 dollars a week, 1,000 dollars a month. 12,000 dollars a year. Yeah hes really poor. . .

Not sure I get the part about the milk crate...

[AlmostStock]

Once when I was about to give a bum some money, my friend stopped me and said "don't do that, he'll just go spend it on alcohol!" So I handed him a small bottle of whiskey instead. Then I told my friend "there, now he can use his money for food!"

[jcz1987]

Wow dude that was very kind of you to do.I guess one day...nice people like us will always finish last but overall the best.

[ec437]

Originally Posted by -Jayson-

yeah incase you dont know, a begging bum can make like 20,000 dollars a year. When i was in California, there was a guy begging. He took a milk crate and stuck leaves in it, then he would hide behind a bush and when you walked buy he would jump out and scare people. He asked that if he scared you, you gave him some change, or whatever. Well when he did it to me, i decided to talk to him. Turns out he was only doing it as a second job. He was making 20,000 dollars a year extra money doing that like 5 days a week for like 7 hours a day.

Think about, a bum standing on a corner with lots of people. Lets say 10 people an hour give him one dollar. He stays on that corner for 5 hours. 50 bucks a day, 5 days, 250 dollars a week, 1,000 dollars a month. 12,000 dollars a year. Yeah hes really poor. . .

actually, I think it was 60 minutes or dateline or something that followed some panhandlers around for a while, and they figured they made upwards of $80,000 a year.

[-Josh-]

I guarantee you this guy wont make shit where he's panhandling, on the UOFI campus, broke ass college students dont have money to give. Like i said though he didn't seem like the others i had seen out there. Most of our bums didn't get here until recently because Chicago tore the Cabrini Green subdivision down because it was so bad there.