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Because if you don't like giing money or anything else to beggars and one day your feeling generous giving to a charity that works with homeless/beggars is a good idea that all 🙄
I don't give to beggars, I especially don't buy the big issue. You can never tell if anyone on the street is genuine.
Manchester city centre- you do feel abit intimidated by the number of Big Issue sellers on each street corner then the various chuggers.
**** me, you work hard, pay bills and with the money you have left to treat yourself with your bothered yet again.
**** off.
Many moons ago, I was working at an a&e in central london. I was walking through town about 5:30am on my way to an early shift, with a stinking hangover crunching my way through some paracetamol. As I cut down a side street there was a group of homeless folk gathered in a cirlce having a right laugh. As I got closer, I could see that one of their group had passed out, and they were laughing as one of their dogs was licking sick from the chaps face. The laugher then got greater as one of them decided to have a slash on him, closely followed by a couple of the others. I remember thinking that it was one of the most depressing things I'd witnessed at the time. Then how I laughed, as when I got on shift the ambulance crew were bringing the pass out homeless gent in to be my first customer of the day.
Why not give the hardworking bloke a reward instead of mind-bending drugs or a life of being off your face and pissed without having to pay any bills whilst being fed and no responsibilities.Harsh but true.
At least they don't have to have to listen to you trolling Hora! 😀
In the nearest town to me with a lot of beggars,there is also one of the biggest Heroin problems in Scotland.I would never give money to a begger in Dundee because of that.I have bought cups of tea and a roll,but this was brought into focus as I watched a begger trying to sell the Mcd's that somebody had bought them.
Awesome job those who go and buy stuff.
In the end there are probably more folks on the street begging who don't really need to than those that do, but there are still some that really need it. In the end if you really help only one in ten it has to be worth it it. As someone else also said, I've seen folks out on the street who have just had a series of really bad things happen to them and have just lost it for a bit, and they are often not the people who look most needy or are best at begging.
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****ing ell 🙁
I give money and/or food to a guy who begs outside a local supermarket. He comes from Sudan and is looking for a better life in Europe. I started buying him drinks in the warm weather because he was always smiling, rain, shine, hot or freezing.
He is a qualified welder and is just waiting for his official papers to come through and can't work officially.
We always have a chat and a laugh and I always give him something.
I rarely give to the beggars (occasional Big Issue) but I regularly give dog food to those with some tatty mutt at their feet.
As a dog owner, I feel for these animals - not their choice and they can't get off their backside and go get a job. Some people will disagree with that view but that's my feeling.
The responses I get are varied. Some are clearly delighted, they love their dogs and are pleased. Some are pretty hacked off and say so - they want cash for whatever. And some are pretty hacked off because their dog is clearly a tool to encourage donations. Much like amputee children in India iirc.
Let them eat brioche.
Geneva airport a couple of years ago 'chap comes up and says "Excuse me do you have change for a cup of coffee"?
You get a better breed of them out there 😆
He wasn't trying to get to the Salvation Army in Salford was he?
It's difficult, isn't it.
There seems to be some sort of organised begging in Manchester, either that or a lot of people try the same routine. I've been approached multiple times by scruffy-looking blokes, usually with scouse-sounding accents, who launch into a protracted hard-luck story which ends with "and I don't have my train fare home." Should've bought a return ticket then, you tool.
With regular beggars, I've started saying "sorry mate, I've no change" and then seeing what happens. If they respond "f'k you, then" then I'm glad I gave 'em nowt. If they reply "thanks anyway, have a good day" then I often find some hitherto unnoticed shrapnel in the recesses of my jeans.
I appreciate that this could easily be "part of the game" but y'know, when I get more civility and politeness from a tramp than I do from some herbert working behind the counter at a petrol station, I kinda think that's worth rewarding.