Why are there suddenly beggars on my Uni campus???

Question

Aaargh it seems like I can't leave my house without getting asked for money at least 2-3 times within 3mins of leaving! 6 months ago the charity muggers (who are sooo hard to avoid as they've been trained on how to get you to talk to them) arrived, so you have to run the gaunlet of the 3 of them, then just this week 3 beggars arrived!!
One is outside the library holding fake copies of the Irish issue, another is across the street outside tutorial rooms, and the other sounds really posh and sits with his starbucks cup near where ppl queue for the bus. On the way to class today I was asked for money 3 times, and I live 3 mins walk away!
The local shop is also 3 mins walk in the other direction and I have to pass 2 beggars to get to it! I'm not a very confident person so to me it feels like I'm always being hassled for money, don't they know students r stingey?
I'd rather give to a homeless charity so I know the money is used wisely, what can I do to stop being hassled?

I know these people have to make their money somehow but come on, isn't setting up around a university a bit much? Today I actually took a different, longer route to class to avoid them!

Yeah I don't ignore them, I just say sorry I'm skint or something, I feel so bad about it though, students are so selfish, any money they do have is spent on going out so I dunno why 3 have suddenly appeared here. And it's not Cambridge or Oxford, it's Belfast

Well the bits where they are are the public street so I doubt there's much that can be done, for a project last yr I had to look into legislation about begging and busking and in this city there is none, some of the beggers make their kids busk with an accordian but you don't need a licence here so they're free to do it!!!

Answer 1

I would have thought begging from students was a non starter.


What Uni are you at?Cambridge or Oxford?

Answer 2

It relies upon what the beggar feels like. quite a few human beings right here, often Gypsies, are prepared into communities and that they rotate their places daily. 8 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous youngsters begging on an identical time as they communicate on their cellular telephones, and then spending their funds on sniffing glue are not relatively human beings i might provide my funds to. Neither are obtrusive alcoholics. in spite of the shown fact that, i've got given funds to those that are patently residing on the line in a card container, or if he seems in relatively undesirable shape. i assume i could walk with him to an ATM gadget and supply him $a million from my mastercard. yet provide him my card... nicely, i do no longer provide it to my acquaintances, why might I do it for a finished stranger?

Answer 3

I find that if you stop and treat them like human beings (which most people don't do) and explain you're a student with almost no money yourself, they'll remember you and won't hassle you again.

They'd prefer that to being ignored, apparently.

Edit to joytingz: You're at Uni, yet you can't read? Did I say "Give them money"? Are you really that retarded? Read what I typed again.

Edit v2: You must be retarded. You're doing Media Studies A2 at Uni, huh? Why aren't you doing it at A-level like everyone else? Lying retard.

Edit v3: Haha! Busted.

Answer 4

Don't you have university security, because these beggars are breaking the law.

Maybe you should tell them to get a busking permit so they can play the violin and tell their sob stories.

Answer 5

shut your mouth tall paul lanky panky, why dont you hand out your money to these TRAMPS dont you think they are homeless for a reason, who has time for them. I go to uni and i dont have time to explain why i cant give somene my money, i can barely support myself, let alone someone i dont even know. Why dont you cancell your broadband subscription and give the money to the traps, you will be doing all of the people on yahoo answers a favour

DONT READ MY PROFILE YOU DIRTY PERVERT ITS PRIVATE AND I DONT APPRECIATE TRAMP HUGGERS LIKE YOUSELF LOOKING AT MY DETAILS. YOU DID A DEGREE IN ARCHERY COZ U LIVE IN A FOREST