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My wife and I are sitting down eating breakfast when some “Dude” walks up to us and has the gonads to ask us for spare change. I say Sorry. He leaves only to return one minute later to come in to the establishment and order food. I’ve had it! Panhandling should be made illegal.
This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2008.
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yah fuck that guy ordering food
I’ve seen that happen myself senor. I’ve given up on giving to them directly. I will donate to a shelter, cancer society etc. But I refuse to give to these guys directly. I’ve seen one guy bum on the water front then go to bingo that night, another lady bumming off me when I was a student later I see her with a bottle of wine! Fuck I can’t afford that luxury myself!! Maybe I should quit school and work and go and be a bum!! Might be more profitable.
Go on welfare AND become a bum. That should guarantee smokes, booze, free prescription drugs plus howls of laughter from your friends as you regal them with the ‘sob’ stories you fed the suckers.
My favorite is the time i passed a lady begging for change on Spring Garden, and when i sat down in the movie theatre 10 minutes later, there she was, seated one row ahead of me..slurping a big gulp and scarfing down her colassal sized popcorn, snorting and laughing and ruining my view with her fat fucking head. The kicker: her little cardboard sign read that she was DEAF and needed money for rent. What a fucking joke.
It seems to me that for every person who really is a streetperson, there are 10 posers waiting to part you from your money. I’ve even seen one woman on Barrington St. smoking and yakking on a cell phone while shaking a cup under people’s noses. I soooo wanted to drive my size 10 up her bogus arse but I probably would have lost a perfectly good shoe in the process. And what about that idiot in front of Barrington’s Tim’s that has his dog hold the fucking cup? That’s one lazy bastard.
I was walking through the commons last summer on my way home and saw the group of squeegee kids that ask to wash your windsheild at the intersection of Robie and Quinpool all sitting in a circle under the tree by the fountain passing around a bottle of Jack Daniels . I swore to never give any of them change again .
KMB I hear ya. I’d give them food rather than money. Some do appreciate the food. But fuck I can’t afford Jack Daniels!! So should they?