Words fail me

[Guest Grout]

Work?,these bums are working.You try standing in 1 spot for hrs on end looking pitiful,your back and legs stiffen up, not to mention the cold,heat rain,etc...

[Il Duce]

Oh hehe.. I thought he said that to you or it was saying that on the sign he was holding up.. Sorry.. I am blonde and had a brainfart

We have people like that here too.. if you offer to put gas in their tank sinse they are stranded.. they do not want that. .they want cash...... pffftttttttt...

It gave me a good laugh

[LI0NSFAN]

Sitting at the intersection of Cedar Bluff and Peter's Road one day, waiting for the red light to go green, I saw a Toyota that looked newish - not brand new but the newest vehicle I've ever bought was more than five years old so a couple of years old is newish, to me - pull into an empty parking lot. There was a woman driving, a male in the passenger's seat and two dogs in the car. The guy - who was dressed like you would expect a 'homeless' person to be dressed - got out, retrieved a cardboard sign from the back seat, got one of the dogs out of the car (had it on a leash) and proceeded to walk to the median of the intersection to begin panhandling while the woman and the other dog waited in the car. I was there through a couple of cycles of the red light (anyone familiar with that light/intersection will understand) so I witnessed the entire series of events. It looked pretty obvious, to me, that the whole thing was a big scam and probably a regular routine for the guy and the woman. Of course, had I not seen them arrive, etc. I probably would have never noticed that she was sitting in the car waiting for him. I felt sorry for the dog for being demeaned by being used in such a manner.

That guy with the dog is usually somewhere on Cedar Bluff. I saw him get in a newer Tacoma, tossed his sign in the back of it and drove off.

I talked to a couple that panhandled in Memphis, the said they cleared six figures doing it. They would hang out around the basketball games and any other big event. They said during Memphis in May they made 40,000 one year. They now run a shelter for the homeless and regret what they did so they fund the shelter themselves and have real jobs now. They feel it is the only way they can pay it back.