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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Maybe he made that 800.00 that day with a sign that said "I'm not gonna lie, I need beer moe y". That's what a guy near my gym did and made hundreds a day in a very short period of time and did it 5 days a week. I used to pay a guy to hold a sign that would stand near him at the intersection and we got to know him well. He was making hundreds of dollars a day, anytime he wanted and even had a real job as well. Why assume police don't know him well and talk to him often? That's usually the case with people who do this, are the source of frequent reports and are often breaking the law by being in traffic asking for money.
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I would rather give those guys few dollars than usual "God bless, Jesus this and that". We had one guy with sign like that so I went in and bought him 12 pack.
The saddest homeless I ever saw was this old clean guy looking for a job. He was laid off from some retail store where he worked for years. He was standing in back roads by Tuesday Morning store type area with "looking for job" sign. He lost his house to reverse mortgage scam and was two years towards retirement. My heart dropped. I gave him all the cash I had and couple Subway gift cards to buy food. He told me he just needed a job to pay his friend back for time he was staying in his house. I came back next day and he was there with white socks on his hands because he was getting a sunburn. I gave him prepaid net10 phone and $150 dollars just in case he needed place to crash. While I was pulling out there were 2 more people talking to old man. He never called me, so I assumed God gave him something. I cried when I drove by week later and didn't see him standing there any more.