Beggars hate me.

[Nick]

Does anyone else live in a city where it is an every day occurrence for someone to come up and beg for money or even worse, try to "trick" you into giving them money? Well, let me tell you, I have run ins these people at least four or five times a week and it seriously pisses me off. Unfortunately for them, I'm not a nice person when it comes to these things.

In fact, I'll be honest, I'm a huge ---- about it. I'm at the point where I just make a huge scene so this person just leaves the immediate area all together. If you come up to me begging for money, especially if you're pushy about it, I am going to tell you exactly what I think about what you're doing, where I think you should go, and if you have any particularly interesting characteristics (strong stench of booze, track marks on your arms, etc) I'm going to make a point to bring lots of light on the subject. Granted I wont be yelling, but my booming voice is easily heard within a 50 foot radius.

Yes people stare and no I don't care in the least bit. Maybe I'm just crazy, but as many times as I have to hear "hey man, I'm a navy vet here's my ID [quick flash, not long enough to see] I need five bucks to ride the bus to the veteran's hospital", they should be lucky that me being a jerk is the worst that's happened.

I'd post what I said to the guy who came up to my car while I was in a drive-thru pounding on my trunk asking me to buy him a sandwich, but it's a bit graphic for FWS.

/rant

[Corazu]

Oh do tell..I live in the suburbs so there's not really much of that here, but whenever I used to go downtown for games (hockey, basketball, baseball etc) or for some other reason..we'd see em around, especially by the skyway (goes from the subway station to the Air Canada Centre and the Skydome (SCREW YOU ROGERS)) most of them just sitting there with signs, some would have good lines but I never had spare change. Besides, you could always tell those who were faking it:
-Tim Horton's cup is too new and not worn enough
-Clothes aren't battered/too new
-Shoes especially
-Most have scraggly bears, look unclean, teeth etc...any of this missing is suspicious
-Sign is too neat/on fresh cardboard etc

Obviously not all is a telltale sign, but multiple is a flag..plus, there's jsut too many people faking it, I don't bother. It's a shame for the situation..but I mean come on, get off the street and get a job at McDonalds, you'd make more than on the street. Most people who live on the street deserve to, there are a few who really don't (IE: those who were born on the street, or lost to natural disaster/family disaster) but those are the ones who register for charity help, try and help themselves...not go around begging for money and then spending it on booze or drugs.

Pisses me off.

If I get well off enough that I have a bit of cash laying around when I'm older..I'd like to start a program to help people get minimum-wage jobs. Get them on their feet so they can support themselves. The whole fish analogy.

And it's not even that bad up here, Canada, Ontario especially, has pretty low unemployment rates compared to some states in the US.

[Richard]

Come to Canterbury, you cant walk 100 feet without a beggar asking for money. Actually. On second thoughts don't. You get stabbed by our beggars.

PS: Anyone ever been to Canterbury before? Know what I mean? :P

[Richard]

Corazu,

I should just add. Begging in the united kingdom, and the united states, is one of the most well paid "Jobs" you can do.

We have a family in England that was on the TV a few years ago, millionaires by begging, and they do it day after day to get more. Its their "full time job". Its a family of 4 (2 Children in their early teens). They have a large house, and a very nice car.

Just goes to show you. Most are faking and dont need the money, but some are not, and do. But the ones that do, just spend the money on drugs and booze.

[Ben]

I get it nearly every day. One day I was in Little 5 Points (http://www.l5p.com) with a friend of mine and we were walking to a cafe that rented hookahs. We were about 1/4 mile away and this homeless-looking guy starts following us and attempting to converse. We're both generally nice people so we talk to him. The guy's obviously following us in an attempt to get money, food, etc. When we're about 20 feet from the place he mentions that he can tell us where anything is in Atlanta no problem, he has the city memorized. And he also asks for a couple of dollars we can spare ... so we inform him we live here and also know the city. He just had this dumbfounded look on his face. I offered to buy him a sammich at the coffee shop / deli next door in lieu of crack money and he accepted.

Also, I live a few exits away from North Avenue on 85. So I go to The Varsity like once every week or two with friends. Every freakin' time I go on the way back to the car I'll get approached by 3 or 4 people wanting change and telling me "be safe on the way back out the city when ya goin home!".

Everyone thinks I'm a tourist/suburbanite.

[fnixws]

Happens all the time here. Mainly junkys tho.

Usually, i just give em a dirty look and they know not to ask, im not to most friendly looking guy :D

The latest incident:
I walk out of the Tattoo shop, and some guy starts muttering stuff to me. I cant understand a word he saying, but i figure he wants cash. I told him to p|$$ off and kept walking.

I get about 5 meters away, and i realise hes following me, so i stopped, turned around and said "look man, i aint giving you ----, now F##k off!"
Guy come right up to me, stops litterally an inch from my face and said a few more words i couldnt understand, and took a swing at me.

Well, i been doing kickboxing for somthing like 9 years now, i saw it coming and weaved. Pushed him and he went --- over tit onto the ground, at wich point i just walked away.


I have no problem with beggers if they are just down on their luck, but people like this guy, who was clearly a junky, screw peoples generosity up for all...

[Nick]

Pushed him and he went --- over tit onto the ground, at wich point i just walked away.

You guys are on like a whole different level of swearing over there.

[Ben]

You guys are on like a whole different level of swearing over there.

I would be, too, if I were stuck in a late-80s television show.

[iBrightDev]

i like to drive by them and yell "Get a job you ----ING bum!!!!"

[fnixws]

You guys are on like a whole different level of swearing over there.
lol... its aussie talk for "he fell over" :P



I would be, too, if I were stuck in a late-80s television show.

I resent that, we have the latest shows over here. Why just last week, i watched the pilot for the latest series, Knight Rider...

[Jan]

Here in Darwin we have the indiginous people begging. The councils are slowly cleaning them up. If they aren't begging for smokes, they are asking for $2 for the "bus" (in reality accumulated it to buy a cheap cask of wine). One old guy approached me once for $2 to get a bus to the hostpital cos he was "really ill", I went to my bag and pulled out a mobile phone. I said, you just sit yourself down here and I'll call an ambulance for you :D He walked away!

[jmiller]

Here in Darwin we have the indiginous people begging. The councils are slowly cleaning them up. If they aren't begging for smokes, they are asking for $2 for the "bus" (in reality accumulated it to buy a cheap cask of wine). One old guy approached me once for $2 to get a bus to the hostpital cos he was "really ill", I went to my bag and pulled out a mobile phone. I said, you just sit yourself down here and I'll call an ambulance for you :D He walked away!What is the situation like in other parts of Australia? Mainly Melbourne and Sidney. I'll be there fairly soon and want to know what to expect. :P

[Jan]

Some of the other guys might be able to aswer that as I haven't lived in Sydney and it's been many years since I lived in Melbourne briefly. In Hobart, about the only time I was approached was for someone wanting a cigarette and more often than not they offered to pay for it.

[fnixws]

The latest incident:
I walk out of the Tattoo shop, and some guy starts muttering stuff to me. I cant understand a word he saying, but i figure he wants cash. I told him to p|$$ off and kept walking.

I get about 5 meters away, and i realise hes following me, so i stopped, turned around and said "look man, i aint giving you ----, now F##k off!"
Guy come right up to me, stops litterally an inch from my face and said a few more words i couldnt understand, and took a swing at me.

Well, i been doing kickboxing for somthing like 9 years now, i saw it coming and weaved. Pushed him and he went --- over tit onto the ground, at wich point i just walked away.



This was in Melbourne.

[themoose]

No beggars where I am, seriously.

:D

[Ben]

Crazy ----ing Uzbeks ...

[JohnN]

In the UK its easy, give to big issue sellers and no-one else. If they're selling the big issue they are definitely homeless, but more importantly trying to do something about it.

[HeaveProjects]

Come to Canterbury, you cant walk 100 feet without a beggar asking for money. Actually. On second thoughts don't. You get stabbed by our beggars.

PS: Anyone ever been to Canterbury before? Know what I mean? :PBeen there 5 years ago as a student, didn't meet one.

Anyway, when a beggar asks me something, I let them tell their story. When they need money for food, I give them my sandwiches (90% denies it and tells me to piss off). When they keep on begging, I do this :
(I tell this very slow, loud and clear)
You know it's forbidden to beg? ... I'm taking my cellphone right now ... I'm calling the cops ...

I still have to meet the first beggar that doesn't leave. If they wouldn't leave, I'd defenitly call the cops.

[Ben]

Heave Hammering: Yeah, around here when I offer food almost everyone will start thanking me over and over again and say "God bless!" a few times. I also go downtown with my Dad every few weeks and hand out clothes and such. I've only run into one person who refused my offer to buy them food when they asked for money ... Poverty's a big problem in Atlanta, unfortunately. It's a little bit depressing when you realize they aren't junkies trying to get their quick fix and they really do need some help.

Now, that's not to say there aren't Junkies here. There are plenty ... I'm walking distance from Crack/Smack Alley ...

[themoose]

Buying food for them is a good idea.

[BananaMaster]

I must be one of the lucky ones.... No beggers in this town, though when i've been on holiday it whole new story, I feel sorry for all the beggers that asked me for money for the "bus" to goto hospital or home.

[Dynash]

I should just add. Begging in the united kingdom, and the united states, is one of the most well paid "Jobs" you can do.

thats true. alot of them in my city are rich.
I've only seen one bum lately, i see him everywhere. thing is, he has a dog, i feel sorry for the dog more than him. he isn't trying to get a job, thats clear. he just sits on the streets like all the time.

& about buying them food, that is what i only do. i remember one time, i was at the bowling alley with friends, and we where going to McDs, and there was this guy outside, clearly homeless. asking for food, not money, food. so i did, i told him to come in, and i bought him a big mac meal. and the ---'s at McD's phoned the police, to get him kicked out. well, to cut it short, at that point i flipped (i'm not made angry easy, nor do i like to make a scene) but he did nothing wrong and they phoned the police.

there is alot of people in my city selling the big issue though, but i don't see them as homeless, as they have a job. not a nice job, but still a job.

[HeaveProjects]

Heave Hammering: Yeah, around here when I offer food almost everyone will start thanking me over and over again and say "God bless!" a few times. I also go downtown with my Dad every few weeks and hand out clothes and such. I've only run into one person who refused my offer to buy them food when they asked for money ... Poverty's a big problem in Atlanta, unfortunately. It's a little bit depressing when you realize they aren't junkies trying to get their quick fix and they really do need some help.

Now, that's not to say there aren't Junkies here. There are plenty ... I'm walking distance from Crack/Smack Alley ...I live in Belgium. We have a social system (or how you want to call it) If you're unemployed but willing to work (but you can't find offers, etc) you get a minimum amount of money that should be enough to survive. It's quite a lot : more than 500€ (almost 800$). If people still are begging they are junkies not willing to get a job.

[Corazu]

I live in Belgium. We have a social system (or how you want to call it) If you're unemployed but willing to work (but you can't find offers, etc) you get a minimum amount of money that should be enough to survive. It's quite a lot : more than 500€ (almost 800$). If people still are begging they are junkies not willing to get a job.

Interesting. Canada has welfare too..not sure how it works with the homeless...but I think it;s enough to survive..not sure about the living arrangements though.

[Johnson]

Nick, please post some beggar stories, also the graphic one you mentioned.

[Dynash]

I live in Belgium. We have a social system (or how you want to call it) If you're unemployed but willing to work (but you can't find offers, etc) you get a minimum amount of money that should be enough to survive. It's quite a lot : more than 500€ (almost 800$). If people still are begging they are junkies not willing to get a job.

in the UK thats called "the doal", or JobSeekers. whatever one.
it's not alot though, like over there :eek3:
about £50 or something.

[Decker]

In the UK it varies, there are 3 types (and it's the broo, the social, the dole, along with varous others) - and yes it's a sorry amout of cash for those without a job even though they want one (and a &*^% poor service to get them one) to live on (irony in there but unless you know what it is and what you can't get for it it means little).

1. The poor deserving of help sod!
Usually a he, a poor fleabitten sod, who's life has collapsed, beyond saving and the system in the UK (social services, feel free to laugh out loud) has just abandoned (yes they do that, as there's no press value in number 1).
They just survive day to day and do occassionally require a few handouts to make it through the next day. No point in offering a bed a shower a meal, just don't give whilst off-licenses are still open and ignore if you want to be verbally abused or just make a polite help on passing, usually greeted with respect for even noticing they are there.
Can't be helped with your resources unless your rich.

2. The poor but trying.
These folks actually try and help themselves,not always to a point where they can even afford a bed or even get to a positon where they would be considered for one (again UK social services/Westminster Governments abolish poverty, again feel free to laugh, in a mocking fashion now).
Some do manage and it's with taking the elements we would hide from, freezing cold, driving winds and pouring rain. Just to sell a magazine for homeless for a small profit for each copy to allow them some comforts.
Some also end up still on the streets adn may be a bit 'merry' due to using drink to keep out the cold or just make the time pass quicker.
Usually friendly and not as scruffy, as they try to keep clean and presentable.
(short version but it's easy to interpret)

3. The despicable feckin leeches.
Now these are drug ridden scum that will do nothing for themselves and very often actually 'beg' as hobby/money spinner/setup to mug you.
Some too riddled to do any of the above but still try. Will use every penny to get their next fix.
Usually if you pass by you will get abuse, turn around confront them (as in ask them to repeat what they said in a firm voice), that should stop them following you shouting abuse as they have no clue when to give up.
Don't use any of the methods above (for 1. & 2.) for No.3 as it doesn't work, you get a Klingon, just ignore them (if it works out you made the wrong choice a kind word does defuse it easily)
These people are the type to have had possible help from the ones that should be helping 1. & 2. and abused it so wasting the resources.
If in doubt kick No.3 inthe nuts - sometimes No.3 comes in female form, usually with child or offering services you don't want to have the legacy of (or the frequent visits to the clinic) this is different but usually being firm and using a term of non-intamacy is appropriate. the child may be borrowed from another No. 3 or if not they will have a place to live due to circumstance so they are on the 'con'

Hope this helps as a guide to Glasgow City Center (which takes in many tourist routes), Edinburgh City Center (again around the city) and most London train & bus stations, possibly more.

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Hmm.. The welfare system in Canada is corrupted by lazy bums. I remember when I got my first part-time job, there was such a person working there. She was working full-time like any other person for years (6-8 hours per day, 30-40 hours per week). One day, she asked for a schedule change. She wanted to only work 20 hours a week, AKA 4 hours a day.

What's the reason you ask? Apparently it was because she was making too much money to keep taking welfare. Sheesh.. Wasting OUR tax money.

[utcrazy]

Get this sometimes when I go to the city right next to mine. When I go down to Toronto to either the Rogers center or Molson Ampitheatre, they are hundreds of them everywhere.

I won't say screw you Rogers or call it the Skydome out of spite. Rogers is a reliable company who bought out the venue, what can I say.

Corazu: I go up to Rich mans hill rather often. Kind of up near Vaughan.

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Heh.. Reminds me of Ottawans' reactions to the name change of the Corel Centre to Scotiabank Place.

[utcrazy]

Yuxuan;976086']Heh.. Reminds me of Ottawans' reactions to the name change of the Corel Centre to Scotiabank Place.

I mean really, who cares. Occasionally in conversation I'll misspeak and say Skydome, but I correct myself. It's a name, it's not like it was Martin Luther King building and changing the name is disrespectful. Torontonians are just stubborn. :)

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Naw, I'm sure it is like that everywhere (for example, Ottawa). People just complain because it is new and unfamiliar, takes a while getting used. Anyways, one should always expect the names of these sport centres to be changing. Their sponsors are always changing, and they need money, so they satisfy their sponsors.

[utcrazy]

Yuxuan;976095']Naw, I'm sure it is like that everywhere (for example, Ottawa). People just complain because it is new and unfamiliar, takes a while getting used. Anyways, one should always expect the names of these sport centres to be changing. Their sponsors are always changing, and they need money, so they satisfy their sponsors.

It was 3 years ago though. I guess it takes these people to have kids and for their kids to know it only as what it is now.

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Heh.. 3 years is quite a bit of time now that you mention it. But ya, I guess if you knew it all your life as one thing, then BOOM it changes to something else, it will take quite a bit of getting used to.

[Decker]

Yuxuan;976075']Hmm.. The welfare system in Canada is corrupted by lazy bums. I remember when I got my first part-time job, there was such a person working there. She was working full-time like any other person for years (6-8 hours per day, 30-40 hours per week). One day, she asked for a schedule change. She wanted to only work 20 hours a week, AKA 4 hours a day.

What's the reason you ask? Apparently it was because she was making too much money to keep taking welfare. Sheesh.. Wasting OUR tax money.

What age are you? How long have you been paying into it?


Wasting OUR tax money

Ever looked into why?

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

I'm 19, and I will admit, I didn't exactly pay a lot of taxes yet. But hardworking people like my dad has to pay more than 30% of his income into taxes... To be spent on who? Lazy freeloaders.

I don't mind if the taxes were spent into something productive, ie, healthcare, roadways (the roads are crap here), education, or people who genuinely need the money, etc. But people like her (mentioned above) make me angry.

[Corazu]

Get this sometimes when I go to the city right next to mine. When I go down to Toronto to either the Rogers center or Molson Ampitheatre, they are hundreds of them everywhere.

I won't say screw you Rogers or call it the Skydome out of spite. Rogers is a reliable company who bought out the venue, what can I say.

Corazu: I go up to Rich mans hill rather often. Kind of up near Vaughan.

Well I have other beefs with rogers (cheaper and unlimited HDSPA plzkthx!)

But changing a historic name like the Skydome to a sleazy marketing effort...just stupid. I mean, the Rogers Skydome would have been cool with me, but Rogers Centre?

And I live in Richmond Hill :)

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Lol, it's part of the GTA, so technically it is Toronto?

[Decker]

Oh what a feckin waste of 30 years of being here.

Any chance any of you are actually good?

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Sorry, was that directed at me? If so, I don't quite understand what you mean..

[Corazu]

Oh what a feckin waste of 30 years of being here.

Any chance any of you are actually good?

Any chance this was posted in the right thread? :P

I think Decker's out of it tonight..can't understand half his posts :P

[Ben]

Decker's gotten a little too crunk for FWS at times.

[JoDrRe]

jeez dynash... steal my reply!

i feel sorry for the people w/ the dogs... but i'm a major animal lover

in my city, there are about 6 different people who beg. and you can just tell that they are faking it.
1. The mall thing at the end of town
2. One of the McDonalds in the middle of town
3. One of the stoplights on the parkway
4. outside the AM/PM gas station on the corner
5. near the library in the Old Mill District
6. and there is another one in the next town over that stands outside the Hotel 8 next to the fairgrounds and the old WalMart (pretty much the same town)

i went to school with a kid who didn't have a home, and he said that his parents were too ashamed to actually go out and beg for money.

[Dynash]

To be fair, most of the people claiming benifits are lazy asses who wont go and look for a job, and then moan when their money gets dropped/lowered.

now myself, i have no source of income, i can't get a darn job, it's too hard. i've applied for around 40 jobs, in the last 3/4 months, even ones i wouldn't enjoy to take. but since i'm not 18 right now, i can't work at decent places. one thing they should do for sure, is increase the minimum wage for -18.


I don't mind if the taxes were spent into something productive, ie, healthcare, roadways (the roads are crap here), education, or people who genuinely need the money, etc. But people like her (mentioned above) make me angry.

well, they are wasting more money in the education system... it shouldn't be spent there in my eyes. take this week, my cousin, got a new laptop, and about another 200 kids, because they need help learning. granted, some of them do, but most of them wont have a clue on using a computer, so why give them one.

oh, and about the "people who need the money", well in the UK if you take drugs, you get more money on top of anything you get, to "get off" the drugs. they pay it into your bank account, don't keep track of you, to see if you are spending it to quit, or if you are just spending it on the drugs. when we know what the majority are spending it on.

[jmiller]

Well I have other beefs with rogers (cheaper and unlimited HDSPA plzkthx!)

But changing a historic name like the Skydome to a sleazy marketing effort...just stupid. I mean, the Rogers Skydome would have been cool with me, but Rogers Centre?

And I live in Richmond Hill :)We had the same issue here when they built our new arena a couple years back. It was originally the 'Memorial Centre', and was supposedly to dedicate WWII vets. Then a local millionaire shelled out cash to sponsor it and have the name changed to the Save on Foods Arena (SOFA). There was a huge outcry and it ended up being changed again to Save on Foods Memorial Arena. Which is even cheesier if you ask me.

[Decker]

We had the same issue here when they built our new arena a couple years back. It was originally the 'Memorial Centre', and was supposedly to dedicate WWII vets. Then a local millionaire shelled out cash to sponsor it and have the name changed to the Save on Foods Arena (SOFA). There was a huge outcry and it ended up being changed again to Save on Foods Memorial Area. Which is even cheesier if you ask me.

What do either of those last 2 actually mean?

Dynash, sometimes the 'classroom in a box' that's handed out in the UK does do good (that is a MAC based only in class/teacher thing) but I agree handing out 200 laptops is a stupid waste as I've seen the misuse in the UK of these, some (a lot) of which surprisingly stolen/lost...

The drug problem and assistance you mention is off topic but pertinant to spending money on ineffectual solutions.

We have a great doctors at the corner of our street, so close it's very comforting, unfortunately they also deal with the methadone handouts.

I want to quit smoking and will have to pay more than it costs me to smoke to try (including with government assistance, paid in for 30 years and nowt back) but if I had a drug habit - wayhey party time!

[Eclouds]

I stopped at a gas station to put some gas and pump my tires.

As soon as I stop, I see a homeless person standing next to the entrance looking at me. Being discreet, I pretend like I did not see. Then this individual approaches me asking for 25 cents. Unfortunately I NEVER carry change, I like plastic better. Well being in Miami, I responded "I don't speak Spanish" (I couldn't understand what he was saying) then he repeated and I repeated the same thing. Then he yells out "I am not speaking spanish!". I felt stupid because I assumed he was since I couldn't understand him.

[Decker]

Then he yells out "I am not speaking spanish!". I felt stupid because I assumed he was since I couldn't understand him.

:fangel: Woops! You sounded as if you were afraid of them approaching you!

[Eclouds]

Don't know how you came to that assumption. No.

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Sounds like the British education system is loaded. I remember one of my friends telling me he went to a public school in Britain, and they had Go-Karts.

Unfortunately, that's not the case in Canada, the public education system is in serious need of more funds.

[Dynash]

Yuxuan;976678']Sounds like the British education system is loaded. I remember one of my friends telling me he went to a public school in Britain, and they had Go-Karts.

Unfortunately, that's not the case in Canada, the public education system is in serious need of more funds.

well, "loaded" if you are the one handing the cash out. but if you go to the public schools, they are crumbling, and need major work on them. it's a pain in the --- just to get new pens and tables. though they give free laptops out, which just "disapear".

[jmiller]

What do either of those last 2 actually mean
What do you mean, Decker? :confused4

[BananaMaster]

Yuxuan;976678']Sounds like the British education system is loaded. I remember one of my friends telling me he went to a public school in Britain, and they had Go-Karts.

Unfortunately, that's not the case in Canada, the public education system is in serious need of more funds.

Never seen a school near where I live with go-karts..... and a public school??? I wonder how much they spend on there education.

[Decker]

Yuxuan;976678']Sounds like the British education system is loaded. I remember one of my friends telling me he went to a public school in Britain, and they had Go-Karts.

The 'British' education sytem has many levels and I don't doubt your friends report.
Public School is not 'public' it's for those and such as those (in other words dads or mums that can afford to pay a lot), and taken normally as the places where those with no talent come out of, but end up in high paid jobs :wink2:

Take the UK's last 2 PM's including incumbent. Neither even wanted to admit to being there (as in the real world) which is what they are 'learned' as they don't know the word 'tought'

I am very bitter at the UK system as it's been taken away over the past 10 years from being democratic to being autocratic to being dictatorial.

So your friend at public school will have a nice job now then :)

[Decker]

What do you mean, Decker? :confused4

Meant the first had some meaning ('Memorial Centre'), what do the last 2 mean?

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

Heh, my friend wasn't exactly rich.

He first lived in Portugal, then he moved to Britain and lived there for one year, went to that school, then immigrated to Canada.

I guess you could call him lucky.

[Decker]

Any chance you have a background of 'no worries'?

[[DWH]Yuxuan]

"No worries?" Lol, sorry decker, but I'm not up to date with the slangs across the pond.

But if you're asking whether I'm rich or not, I can sadly (or gladly, whichever you prefer) say, no I am not.

[Moonman]

Here in Darwin we have the indiginous people begging.

Heh. I was in Perth a couple of weeks ago, and one came up to me and goes

"Hey brutha, Spare a dolla or two for me! Comeon brutha I'm outta piss and I need to go to the bottle-o to buy some more".

I actually gave him some coin, only because he was honest in the first place!

[Ben]

Heh. I was in Perth a couple of weeks ago, and one came up to me and goes

"Hey brutha, Spare a dolla or two for me! Comeon brutha I'm outta piss and I need to go to the bottle-o to buy some more".

I actually gave him some coin, only because he was honest in the first place!

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