I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me, but I'm getting fed up with all the beggers. At least once a day someone is at the front door asking for money and they are getting angry when you refuse to give them anything. On the street it's the same they are getting more and more agressive. I wish there were a law forbidding people to beg. I always buy the Big Issue and I'm not talking about charity.
2006-12-10 03:04:38 · 22 answers · asked by Tuppence 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I MAKE EM STOP. I TELL THEM WHEN MY BILLS ARE PAID, I CAN THEN AND ONLY THEN PAY YOU. I KNOW THEY ARE DOWN AND OUT AND YOU FEEL BAD, BUT YOU GOTTA DO FOR YOUR OWN.
NO ONE GAVE ME ANYTHING. I WAS HOMELESS FOR THREE MONTHS WITH A KID. IT'S NOT FUN. I OWN MY OWN HOUSE OUTRIGHT AND DID IT MYSELF. THERE IS NO REASON FOR PEOPLE TO BEG WHEN THEY CAN STILL WORK.
2006-12-10 03:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by jayndee13 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Trying being a Kansas City cab driver, taking them home to a better apartment than what I live in, after stopping off at the liquor store and a fast food place. I mostly get paid in quarters.
I've seen a woman who provides a child for use by the different men, to create a sympathy. One will use the child for a while and same her off to someone else. According to the police, as long as the child is not being hurt, they are not breaking the law.
I do see the so called homeless, sitting on top of storm drain grates to stay warm. When people try to help them they refuse. They feel free to be living outside normal society.
I've been seeing the numbers growing rapidly in the last year. I have to deal with them nightly, asking me for money, not only when I've sitting outside bars, but while in line at McDonald's.
Two months ago, a panhandler got beat up. He got a private room at the hospital, before going home to a $200,000 home. Panhandling is a business for him.
2006-12-10 11:15:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One time there was a man standing at the end of an off ramp of the freeway, holding a sign saying "Will work for food". I told him where he could get a job and he came unglued! He haulered that he didn't want no damb job - he wanted MONEY!
There was another old couple And I mean they looked anceant) that used to sit at the entrance to the mall every day in the summer , holding a sign saying "Need Food, Please Help". One evening I was coming out of the mall and seen them walking across the parking lot. They got into a fancy Dodge 1 ton dually with a fancy camper and drove away.
I quit giving on that day. (One bad apple spoils the bunch).
2006-12-10 11:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Say What? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I despise the good looking people that stand in town trying to get u to set up a direct debit to support some charity, I support Green peace and child line through choice but these people just intimadate the public. The blokes go for the girls and vice versa *** holes!!!!!
2006-12-10 11:52:25 · answer #4 · answered by sammyantha 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The ones that sit near cash machines are the worst. Like anyone would give them a tenner so then can get wasted.
i saw a woman give a whole bag of her shopping to a homeless man once. he was so grateful it made me feel happy that there are nice people in the world.
then the same night i saw a man begging for change off some students and when they had given him everything he had, he turned to me and said "sweet, that'll get me in a few clubs tonight, stupid fuc kin students".
i have never given change to anyone since i saw that guy.
2006-12-10 11:34:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You know when you give money to a beggar and they ask for more that they are professional piss takers. Too many fall into this category and boast about it. I've seen beggars leave their patches leaving behind the hermetically sealed sandwiches that naive passers by have given them. This is why the genuinely needy find it so hard.
2006-12-10 12:48:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
if anything these days I see less and less beggers - where do you live that you see so many beggars? Here in RI and Boston where I was for part of yesterday - I would say I have seen less beggars than when I was younger. Maybe its just the cold weather up north - I don't know.
Good Luck!!!
2006-12-10 11:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do agree with you on the beggar stuff ! And i also buy the big issue i also give to some Charity's .we have to draw a line somewhere.Merry Christmas.
2006-12-10 11:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by small woman 49 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree with you. I live in Glasgow and it's a big problem as they are getting more and more aggressive if you try to ignore them. Why should we finance their booze or drug habits? Don't give them anything and if they keep bothering you call the police.
2006-12-10 11:19:28 · answer #9 · answered by Miranda Elizabeth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I could not agree more, its almost an occupation now, there will be a university degree in begging soon. Mostly just a bunch of lazy scroungers.
2006-12-10 11:14:04 · answer #10 · answered by Agustin-Jean F 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is an offence to beg on the streets in the UK, why don`t the police re -enforce it?
2006-12-10 12:20:20 · answer #11 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋