How Do You Handle Bums Begging?

[HappyScrappy]

I never give them money, but I'll take them into a store and let them pick out food they want if they are hungry... usually they decline - they want the money
one guy I know (he always stands in the same spot) will accept and he never gets all that much stuff, not greedy - just an oj and a sub. comes to like $5.

 

[Latimer]

I usually just tell them to get lost or fuck off if they are annoying me. I think I've only given to bums twice in my life. Once I gave a bum a few pennies. I think I gave him two and it was more of an experiment. It may have been a nickel and 2 pennies, whatever change I had in my pocket after buying a fake I.D. when I was 16. He thanked me and gave me a god bless you. The other time was last year outside of Comerica Park. We were getting loaded before the Tigers' game and we were about to go in and my buddy had about 1/4 of a litre of crown and coke and the bums were collecting bottles. I gave him our empties and the remaing mixture and told him there was some crown royal in there and to have at it. He was very pleased.

 

[WombRaider]

I use my Glock.

 

[WODIN]

I usually try and buy them food like scrappy said. I also ask them if the want to sell their kidneys. You should see the looks I get when I pull out my bowie knife! "What? You said yes! Now give me!"

 

[curling]

I usually try and buy them food like scrappy said. I also ask them if the want to sell their kidneys. You should see the looks I get when I pull out my bowie knife! "What? You said yes! Now give me!"

LOL You are terrible. You probably scared the bum into working.

 

[uNOwho]

i tell them to go and get a job...in chicago the bums are just damn annoying. and when you say no they get pissed and harass the hell out of you till you give in. that's where i say, "hey asswipe i work for my fucking money and i'm not about to give it to some old drunk like you who doesn't work for a goddamn thing!"

oh and i worked at a P.A.D. shelter so i know what the fuck i'm talking about. these people are junkies who are unwilling to change and live day to day getting their fix. most are this way, there are some who want to change and try yet succumb to the dark force inside them. a lot of them have serious mental issues and they don't realize half the shit they do.

don't feel sorry for these people, they don't feel sorry for themselves. they feel that you and I owe them for their pathetic lives being fucked up. well too bad for them, this is America. land of the free enterprise, and while we tolerate this shit I for one do not let them get my money.

~p~

ps. i also had my life threatened by a few of the people in the shelter. why? i still don't know, one may be because i called the cops on this one guy who was about to beat his junkie wife in his own junkie state of mind, and the other guy was just mentally unstable. no symapthy from me.

 

[Island Son]

nope
i broke the rule once the guy said he needed money for the subway (that was about a block away). So I gave him a buck, and he starts walking.... away from the subway, and coincidentally in the direction I was going in. He looked over his shoulder and said "oh i don't need the subway" and ran off
In the summer i see enough healthy-looking, decently dressed kids begging for money. Wearing newer shoes than me, hell they had Nikes I'm wearing no-names. That REALLY pisses me off.

 

[thebigugly]

O.K. here's what you do. hold 5 buck in your hand, have a bottle of crazy glue. Ask the bum, " 5 bucks for food or booze?" if he says food have him hold out his hand, place a couple of drops of crazy glue on the palm, then have him stick the palm of his hand on his fore head REAL tight. Give the 5, and tell him the glue thing was for lyin, cause you know he's going to get some night train. Then watch him try and remove his hand from his head. Bum women, ask for a BJ for 5 bucks............Gotta earn your keep on the street.

 

[JuliusPeppers]

All them beggars are all hanging out on the main road outside of my school. I usually am with my buds so I just ignore them by engaging in a conversation. I dont feel bad at all since I give money to the food kitchen that shelters and feeds these bums. All this extra money must be for booze and crack rock.

 

[the nature boy]

NYC used to be a lot worse than it is now (thanks RUDY G). There used to be bums EVERYWHERE. Smelly bums, Naked bums, hungry bums, shoeless bums, drunk bums, dirty bums, rich bums, cart pushing bums, subway bums, native bums, foreign bums etc etc etc.

I learned as a Kid to just keep on steppin by. If gave every bum I ever saw a $1 I'd be a broke bum too.

On a side note- I worked in a hospital as a kid and one time a bum was checked into the ER. They took all his clothes (for washing bc they smelled) and found over $20K in all his pockets. He was in the hospital for getting beat up for harrassing people while panhandling.

Dude the bums in NYC are the worst!! I don't know how many times I've been told to fuck off for not giving them money! If I was a bum I wouldn't live in NYC. No way.