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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:03 AM
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Panhandling Etiquette
This morning before getting onto the train, I stopped by the ATM machine and, while trying to withdraw money, a panhandler apprached me (in the this City, you never know if they are homeless) apprached me asking for money. Will people ever understand that the last thing in the world that will convince me to give them money is to apprach me in the dark at an ATM machine?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:08 AM
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1. and they sure aren't getting a 20!
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:11 AM
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2. "Hi.

My name is Bob. I'll be your robber."
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:15 AM
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3. ATM machine-this just in from the department of redundancy department.
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:17 AM
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4. Would that be the redundant department of redundancy department?
Or am I repeating myself?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:18 AM
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5. let me look that up on my LCD display.
:o
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:25 AM
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8. Another one
PIN number


;)
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:53 AM
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14. And for the Canadians in the crowd...
the NDP party. :)

Sid
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:27 AM
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25. The NDP Party

just parties twice as much.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:19 AM
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6. I don't give even a penny to panhandlers
I don't believe any of them are really homeless.

Sorry, don't trust them to be what they claim.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:23 AM
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24. When I was 17, I was walking with some Burger King to my dorm.....
....guy said he hadn't eaten in days and asked for a dollar, so I took a cheeseburger out of the bag and handed it to him. He slapped it out of my hand and said "I need money, you asshole!". That was the day I ended all interactions with panhandlers. Not easy in Boston, either.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:35 AM
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26. I'm sorry, but that made me laugh.
Not the slapping part, but his comment. I have years of stories about panhandlers in Boston.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 07:08 PM
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31. I don't blame you
I had been in Boston for only a week, a very naive country boy, and the whole thing scared me. Then it made me angry. Then it made me sad.

Now I just mostly laugh about it.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:24 AM
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7. Not a very smart thing for him to do, in any case
He could get himself injured...or shot...by someone who's not going to bother to ask questions or get details.


I almost wrote that his panhandling should be limited to daytime hours, but maybe this guy already has a daytime job. Sad, but very possible these days... :(
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:39 AM
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9. A P P R O A C H
Thank you. That is all I have to say.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:00 AM
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17. Good catch!
:hi:

Bake
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:04 AM
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19. twice even.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:11 AM
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21. Thrice.
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mudesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:17 AM
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22. Freeper?
We know their spelling...
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:42 AM
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10. Some cities have laws prohibiting panhandling within a certain distance to ATMs
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:43 AM
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11. I just don't go to ATMs when it's dark.
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 10:44 AM by Starry Messenger
I've been bully mugged a couple of times and it's no picnic.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:55 AM
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15. What is "bully mugged"?
n/t
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:59 AM
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16. When you are opening your wallet and there is a panhandler around
and the person sees how much you have in there and says "Hey, you've got a lot in there. Give me that!" If I've got money in my pockets and I'm around other people, I don't mind giving a little something. But I usually keep most of my money in my wallet.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:50 AM
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12. I've had that happen but...
...I think I can top it. I once had a guy trying to panhandle from me while he was in the middle of taking a piss. I was walking past him when he turned to me with one hand holding his dick and the other extended towards me and said "Excuse me, can I talk to you for a minute". Around here that line is usually a prelude to asking for money. I just kept walking.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:53 AM
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13. Yep, that's the usual line too, "Excuse me, Can I talk to you?"
It's either panhandlers or Mormons.
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:02 AM
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18. I wish more panhandlers would hit up mormons
it would be a good cause and drain their coffers for more destructive intentions like banning gay marrigage.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:04 AM
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20. Here's a tip for would be panhandlers:
Put your cellphone on VIBRATE.

Serious as a piano falling out of a window. A Cleveland panhandler, as he was asking me for spare change, had an incoming call.

UNbelievable.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:21 AM
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23. Why do you find this so offensive?
Actually one of the biggest drawbacks to being homeless is not having a phone. Now with pay as you go phones, you can be homeless, yet still have a contact number for potential employers, etc.

I just love how people love to jump to conclusions and make baseless judgments when it comes to the homeless.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:57 AM
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27. why do you assume that panhandler=homeless?
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 11:59 AM by dysfunctional press
the two words are NOT interchangeable.

talk about "jumping to conclusions and making baseless judgements"...sheesh :eyes:
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 01:56 PM
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30. Often times aggressive panhandlers aren't homeless.
For the most part, the ones I see sleeping in the street don't beg or get aggressive. Cleveland has a great deal of them along with panhandlers who local news stations have photographed going into cars and apartments.

Expenses are expenses. Seems to me if the choice came down to cellphone vs smokes vs food, the logical choice would be food.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:59 AM
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28. I don't give to panhandlers, most homeless are not pandhandlers
if you are only giving to panhandlers, you are not helping the the larger population of homeless than includes children and (frequently) working people.

support for local charities like St. Anthony's provides free meals and other services. even if certain homeless won't sleep at a shelter, they can get fed at them.
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pnutbutr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:01 PM
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29. I don't like giving money
but I have bought breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for numerous homeless people. It's nice to sit, eat and talk with some of them. Some are just freekin looney though.
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