I keep going.
Once, I offered one a cookie and he didn't want it. Once, you're on the street begging, you haven't got the liberty to choose what you're given. Some even have the audacity to ask for dollars! LOL Most of these losers created their demise with drugs and alcohol or just being lazy.
If they need the help, they should take what they can get and lose the attitude like working America owes them something. Besides that, there's plenty of programs and shelters for them to go to if they really want to change their lives.
2007-07-26 11:49:16
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answered by Kami 4
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I never give out cash ever. Pulling out a bill fold or purse and flashing all your cash seems to me to be inviting a mugging.
Sometimes on very rare occasions if someone really looks pathetic and it is pulling at my heartstrings, and the feeling doesnt leave me, I will buy food and go back and hand them food. This is rare.
Usually I tell them where a local soup kitchen or charity food bank is and how they can get there. I have looked up the local charities that actually are in place running soup kitchens and food banks and refer the people to the professionals. I prefer to donate to those charities and let them be a liason between me and the poor people I want to help, because I am not always aware of how best to help them.
2007-07-26 12:00:59
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answered by zz 2
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You DO know that there is special secret 'bum schools' that offer classes on how to dress, how to smell, how to fix your face, how to obtain long-lasting permanent markers, where to find those craptastic cardboard signs etc...? This is why it's so hard to tell the fakers from the real ones.
Ugh!! They are rampant here in Florida!!! It's like an epidemic, I swear! Some of them are actually homeless and I know this because I've talked to some and seen where they live. I was suckered once, just once and never again... actually twice, first by a one-legged raggedy looking girl in brooklyn NY. The second time was here in FL, at the exit for the Ellenton Outlet Mall. He looked so sad and hungry. I gave him my FRESH, HOT hamburger that I had JUST got from Wendy's. (I wasn't being completely self sacrificing because I did have two). He walked over to my truck with a grimace when he saw my arm holding a white bag out the window. Dude BARELY mumbled a "thank you" as he snatched the bag and walked back over to his post only to TOSS it to the ground. Oh, uh-uh! I SOOOO felt like rolling that window back down and yelling, "AYYE! Gimme back my junk, if you ain't gon eat it den!!"
He obviously never heard that 'beggars can't be choosy' because he FA SHO had an attitude! If he wanted money he should have made his sign clearly say so, instead of making me believe that his stomach was empty.
I've even heard statistics that some of them in NY live in penthouses so, never again!
2007-07-26 12:06:12
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answered by OneBrick 3
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In my city, there are actually 'professional panhandlers' who live in 'minimansions' on an island and 'support that lifestyle' with their signs on street corners. Both my husband and I have been homeless ... but you would not have been able to 'tell us' from any 'upper middle class' person ... we always 'dressed well' and were clean, and we 'hung out' in higher class places because they were more comfortable.
I do, on RARE occasions, give money to the 'homeless' ... but mostly I tell them that I was once homeless and that my husband and I now have a 'good steady income' and live in a nice place ... and believe it or not, THAT means MORE to them than any 'money' ... because if we 'made it' off the street, they think 'maybe I can make it too' ... and we also give our 'big money' to places that provide REAL help ... food, shelter, transitional housing, furniture and household goods, clothing, etc. We've BEEN THERE and we both know 'what helps' and what doesn't help.
2007-07-26 11:54:13
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answered by Kris L 7
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I tried to buy this dude some food the other day. I saw him on the side of the road in Montgomery. I was on my way home from the beach. So I turned around, went to Mickey D's, bought him a meal, and when I went back to give it to him, he was gone. Vanished into thin air! So I had to waste that meal cause I didn't see any more homeless dudes and I had already eaten.
2007-07-26 11:51:24
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answered by behappy9805 4
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Keep going. Most of them are not homeless to begin with and are only trying to dupe people into giving them money or food...
2007-07-26 11:50:46
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answered by Anonymous
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I'll usually just give them money. A lot of people won't because they think the person will spend it on drugs or alcohol. However, I've been convicted by God that it's not my place to judge what that person does with the money. I truly believe that if He feels it's being used inappropriately, He'll eventually let that person know.
2007-07-26 11:55:14
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answered by Kori spelled backwards is Irok 6
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If they ask for money for food, I will go to the store and buy them some food and give it to them! Sometimes I have given money to them though <3
2007-07-26 11:52:21
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answered by Anonymous
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I usually keep going, I feel bad for them but I help in other ways like donating to organizations and volunteering at the Help House.
2007-07-26 11:50:47
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answered by lovin' life... 4
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Keep going because there are so many of them and I would be broke if I gave them money all the time.
2007-07-26 11:50:23
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answered by KatGuy 7
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