Last month the grandmom of my wife died. On the funeral we were in church and then came that beggar who started to annoy people at this very sad moment of our life, asking for money - the guy was so annoying that caused the indignation of the people. I had to give him some change so he had to walk away and live us in peace.

I have in the past. I used to work at a place where there was a homeless guy that lived right next to the building I worked in. He was a nice old guy who was clearly mentally ill and people that worked there, myself included, would give him money, buy him food and other stuff all the time.

if someone looks really pathetic maybe. usually some food. if it's kids, drunks or annoying people no.

No cash since I got to know some people who made around $30 an hour that way for years. I might offer to buy a meal, mostly because it's entertaining to see these professional scammers get all pissed off and tell me to go fuck myself because I offered to buy tnem a burger.

Normally they'll have some story about their car being broken down or whatever. For a while the popular one here was to claim to be a Katrina refugee. I'll confirm it's BS by asking a simple question or two, like what town they're from. If you need help, I'll help. If you try to scam me by saying you're out of gas, but refuse when I offer to buy gas for you, I'm not going to just give money to a scammer.

I don't judge the drunks and the druggies either. I also don't assist in their suicide usually usually. That's not judging them as people, but choosing to use my resources to help someone rather than hurt them. I buy dinner for a drunk who is sobering up several times a year.

you know the dog is a sympathy prop right? oldest trick those street urchins use. have tons of them in my neighborhood.

well, as you, Jack Sparrow, probably know the people who are selling those "homeless" papers and/or pretending to be homeless, are from Romania as explained in a tv-broadcast on Dutch Televison.

but if not, you should read news papers and check in on TV broadcasts other then the Disney Channel.

You have "a" homeless guy? Try navigating downtown Toronto sometime.

I`m aware of the sympathy vote winner that they use mate but it doesn`t change the fact that it`s the winter season, the guy could actually be homeless and they have a cute dog sitting on the cold pavement who may or may not have eaten for a day or two.

My wife says I think more about dogs more than people. She`s probably right.

Honestly can't even remember ever seeing a bum where I live (medium sized coastal town).

When I lived in the city, no never as they were very very aggressive with the way in which they begged. Also it was pretty much give one a dollar and you'd be surrounded, so the blinkers went on whenever they were around and begging.

If you think all homeless people are from romania you might need to get away from that local newspaper you are reading. You would be learning something if you would watch disney instead.

Talking aboit ignorant...

WELL.....I did before this happened....You'll never believe this shit. So I was at dunkins one day and it was a nice sunday morning. There was a rough looking african american sitting there just outside as I walked in. I didn't have change...until I got my coffee. I gave him a handful of change and even realized i had additional change in my other pockets. I felt good. Helped him out. I then realized I forgot a straw for the Iced coffee. No biggie I'll just run back in and grab one. What did I see. He shuffled through all of the coins that I gave him...and threw all the pennies on the ground and kept only those of higher value. I let this MOFO have a huge piece of my mind. That was the last time I gave anyone change. It's his fault that no one will get it ever again. I was bullshit!

Every time I've seen someone less fortunate at the time when I wasn't one of the less fortunate (heh), I would give whatever bill happened to be the first I grabbed out of my pocket or wallet unless it was just $1, then I'd look for a bigger denomination. This might sound crazy to most, but during the years I was doing this I would "justify" it by comparing it to what I'd buy with that and realize they were in need of it more than I.

This came to a halt when a friend of mine gave a homeless man in NYC a $20 just out of the goodness of his heart, then the homeless man was searched by a cop on-foot outside of the establishment and there were drugs found on him. The cop then was accusing my friend of a transaction, rather than a donation.

-JM

Lol I learned the hard way about these people. Was going into a grocery store one time and some guy held me up for at least 5 minutes telling this story about him having no money to eat. I had no cash on me just my card so I offered to buy him what he needed to make some sandwiches for at least a few days. When I came out the guy was gone.