Police Make Example of Homeless Man Begging With $800 in Pockets
 

A police department in Louisiana took issue of homelessness on their Facebook page last week in an unapologetic way, after arresting a homeless man who had $800 in cash stuffed in his pockets.

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But where else are they going to keep their money?

That's what I was thinking.

$800 sounds like a lot of money. However, when $800 is your entire net worth.....

Nice work, they just set him up to get robbed, idiot idiot idiot police, morons

Wow i guess those homeless bums who sleep on the street are all actually secretly rich. Thanks to the police for exposing their lavish lives high on the hog .

Exactly!

His problems didn't go away just because he had $800 either.

This story is so fucked up on so many levels...

Maybe he was saving up for his first month of rent somewhere to get himself off the streets...

A bank won't open an account for him, no one will rent to him, so if he'd drunk it all away that would be better? They say he was offered jobs, but wonder what they were?

the pigs call them bum rolls. you wait till after 6pm and roll his drunk ass :2 cents::2 cents:

At least he was not black, BMs would have gone nuts in that case.
Instead of evil po po + dass raciss we live with just evil popo :)

Might be, not may be :2 cents:

These fuckers "earn" more than hard working minimum wage people.

Everybody who supports their begging antics should seriously reconsider.

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.

fuck them. If he didn't steal it they should mind their own business

What if he's holding a sign that says "widowed father of tree and homeless vet, almost evicted, desperately need your help" when none of it is true? ... when he's really just going to go buy booze and sleep under an overpass? That's several fraudulent misrepresentations which are the very reasons people might be helping him.

Personally, I think that this is an interesting issue. A very high percent of homeless people either have mental issues or addictions and there is no way to force anyone to get help... but if you can't force someone to get help, that meds to be on mess to function at all... then how do you help them? Giving money to fund booze and drugs changes nothing. Giving no money china he's nothing.

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.

Texas cops being typical Texas dick cops. The guy could of been saving that money for quite some time and trying to get himself a car or even a place to stay.

He obviously wasn't drinking his money away and wasn't doing drugs. What business is it over their's how much money he had?

The worst part is they are insinuating that he's banking money from begging, which will lead to homeless people getting attacked and robbed by idiots whom think they all have fat wads of cash.

Extremely irresponsible move by these dumb fucks..

:2 cents::2 cents:

It depends why he's doing it.. If he's lying to try and get himself off the streets then who gives a shit if he's lying.. He's doing what he can to better himself. He's obviously not wasting the money on bad habits.. He was clearly saving it for a reason..

It's very unlikely he's lying just to bank a bunch of money, pretending to be a homeless bum, because if he were, he certainly wouldn't just keep that kind of money on his person if he did that all the time. He would be sticking it in a hole somewhere or in a bank.

What did you pay a guy to hold a sign for? Advertising some local business?

Yeah, :)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh nope!

Strange news intem.... they put "$800" and "begging" in the news title as if that $800 and the begging is somehow related to the arrest... The money and the begging had nothing to do with the arrest...

He was arrested because he stumbled on the road; stole a shoppingcar and urinated in public... Now wtf is news about that?

So, you claim these Texas cops are being typical Texas dick cops... and you refer to these Texas cops as dumb fucks doing something extremely irresponsible.

But you totally missed that this shit happened in Louisiana?

Some are. We have this crazy lady that get's dropped off by her son-in-law with an s-class near at a hotel parking lot near a shopping center here and she goes around begging in the parking lot of the shopping center. Apparently she's got some mental illness and they just let her do it rather then fight it.

It's not like that he had the keys to a Lambo in his pockets...

the article does not say that he DIDN'T...

Surewood always looked like a homeless bum and before he went to prison the cops could have arrested him on any given day with 800 bucks in his pocket. All it would have meant is he worked a few times for Jim and hadn't gotten a chance to buy his pot yet.

800 bucks is chump change.

When the cops arrest a homeless guy with $25,000 and he has a both a bank account and a credit card then I'll be indignant. Until then the cops are just gun totting neo-nazi red neck punks getting their kicks by power tripping and hunting people.

When I was in Santa Monica I made the mistake of visiting Jack in the box, there was this homeless hippy under 30 who looked at us when we ate and asked for money and made puppy face all the time while we were eating. By the end it got to me and I asked him if he was hungry and told him that I can buy him something to eat, he said sure. I asked him what he wants, and then he asked for the milkshake, i looked at him and said fine, took a second or two to proccess wtf cuz I was so high of cali weed, looked at the menu, saw that this asshat wanted a $3-$4 milkshake which is around the cost of an entire fucking meal, and off I went. Fuck that shit, lol.

You sound like an ass. You would not buy someone a milkshake after you agreed to do it...:disgust

As if milk (protein) and sugar (carbohydrates) do not qualify as food.

You should not have wasted his fuckin time!

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He agreed because he was high on narcotics, so it took some time till he realized - a person who is in trouble financially do not ask for a fucking milkshake.

Living in Woodland Hills in 1999/2000 there was a middle aged lady who used to beg at the bottom of the 101 / Topanga canyon ramp...

Used to always drop a few bucks to her, but one day I saw her being picked up in a top end Mercedes Benz... Stopped giving from that point on, and even saw her getting picked up in a Porsche on another occasion...

Few months later they had all been arrested as it was a high end organised begging ring, with the employees being dropped off and picked up after 'work' on a daily basis

Ok you are entitled to your opinion, and no milk and sugar doesn't qualify as food, considering how bad milk and sugar is for you I did him a favor.