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i got these folks i had been givin money to when i could... they are always at the wallmart

spare changin. a man a woman and a small child... they sit at the end of the drive and

accept money from those that can give...

it was all good 'til i saw their late model suv with chromed out 22s on it.

AND THAT'S WHEN I NOTICED...

just about every one of the people i had been givin money to had way better cars than mine

and AND they work in shifts and watch one another's cars when it's their off time.

once upon a time i would have taxed them for the insult (which is a lucritive bizzness in big cities...

wow.

Reading KindBAD post...

About 30 years ago my late father and I were waling to a book reading on the North Side of Chicago. Out the corner of my eye, I could see and hear a man with Texas accent wearing cowboy boots panhandling. A decade later my mother and I were ( again the North Side) walking to a Cubs playoff game. I hear a Texas accent ...I'm thinking. I've heard this accent before. Yep, the same man in the same get-up a little older but panhandling, that was his job.

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Interesting social experiment.

But it's flawed.

First, the "subject" is a healthy-looking young male. People are not prone to feel sorry for someone who appears to be suitable for work but isn't doing so. His appearance screams "don't want to work".

Second, the passersby who donated in the first scenario (to drink and get high) obviously did so out of amusement. The way you give money to people singing or dancing or providing some sort of entertainment.



Personally, as a father who would work three jobs and scrub toilets before allowing my children to go hungry...I would more likely call CPS on the dude before giving him cash. We have institutions and charities in NYC to provide assistance to people in need.

by makin it an experiment it soes more damage than anything else...

AGAIN, its not the givin of the money, its the insult of bein played.

there are people out there that can REALLY use help...

SO...

you get some people out there that do these things to surprise people with a payoff

for their generosity... now more people become marks to folks with no need.

i'll still give to folks i see doin stuff like recyclin

Both PJ and KB make some valid points. I think people have become more cynical when seeing someone with a homeless child, to many factors could be wrong.

But if some of the homeless are driving around in nice cars it says a lot about how generous people really are. It's sad that the ones that really need it get shuffled to the background.

KingBAD said:

by makin it an experiment it soes more damage than anything else...

AGAIN, its not the givin of the money, its the insult of bein played.

there are people out there that can REALLY use help...

SO...

you get some people out there that do these things to surprise people with a payoff

for their generosity... now more people become marks to folks with no need.

i'll still give to folks i see doin stuff like recyclin

the embolded words, i agree.

a pet peeve from my pov:

is a well off folk going out to experiment and experience what it is like to be homeless. then at the end of their alloted time they go back to their furnished dwelling, take a shower, glance over his/her notes, call a compadre to discuss the experimental scenario. then post it. for what prosterity?

(unless there is some sort of benevolent propose for the scam of pretending to be poor, i say gtf outta heah)

i mean to play 'man in the poverty mask', then return to a well off reality doth not a poor man/woman need.