Do you give money to people holding signs on street corners?
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Anonymous
They go out as families. They drug the little kids. They drive their luxury cars there but park them far away, get indignant and sometimes abusive if you offer anything other than cash, and are overall a boil on the skin of society. They're criminals but NoVa bleeding hearts keep them around here, sadly, by feeling sorry for them and giving them money. |
Anonymous
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Occasionally, if it's someone I see often and they're always nice and polite to passersby. There are a ton of homeless/panhandlers in my daily commute (from North Arlington near Glebe/Lee to Gallery Place via Ballston) so I've had to kind of harden myself to it so I wouldn't give away all of my money.
I prefer to donate to food banks and soup kitchens, so I know that the money is going toward food. |
Anonymous
I will write that on a sign and go stand by your house, Don't believe for one minute they are. they are fooling you. I worked at a place once, the owner didn't like going to the bank to get change and small bills so he would work a deal with these people. 75 cents on the dollar and he would take all the change and singles they wanted to trade in. I got to talking with a bunch of them seeing I worked the late afternoon evening shift and they would open up. some drive pretty nice cars, some woudl come on on their "day off" dressed just like us, some would have several signs, sayign they are veterens, or jsut laid off from a factory, of wife is at shelter and due any day.... remember back in the day the guy in the wheel chair in georgetown infront of the bank? He could walk and walk well. Parked his car in an alley and would pull up there, put his chair on the lift he had on the back, get in his car and drive off. they lie, they use you and I have no repsect for any of them,. |
Anonymous
| No, but I do give to and volunteer for organizations to help them. The only thing I will give them personally is food. |
Anonymous
| Yes, it's better to be a fool ten times than to pass by a single person to whom my gift may have made a difference. |
Anonymous
| To those who "don't judge" what someone does with the money you give them, it's not about judging. It's about the fact that your "gift" to an addict is not helping. Not at all. They don't need a bottle to get through the day because they have a hard life. They just need. a. bottle. Giving it to them does not make their life better. It doesn't feed a child who needs it. Or give them shelter. An addict's brain will make sure that the FIRST thing it gets is its drug. Please stop telling yourself you're doing something for them. You're only doing it to feel good about yourself. |
Anonymous
Are you from the US or elsewhere? |
Anonymous
I'm American. I've spent time living in Europe. Why should it matter? |
Anonymous
| Social worker here- I never give money to those people. I have known too many of them and how they manipulate people with fake stories. The people with mental illnesses are usually to sick/paranoid of people due to their psychiatric symptoms to be holding signs and engaging with the general public. |
Anonymous
| Never |
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Anonymous
| No. I have seen these fools standing on corners in shopping centers where EVERY STORE has a for hire sign on the door or window. If you are too lazy to fill out an app at California Tortilla or Wegmans or DSW that's your problem. You practically have to try to be unemployed here. |
ChuckMurphy
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| I give out coupons/cards for free food at Burger King, mcDonalds, etc and the phone numbers for social services |
Anonymous
Not all of them are addicts though. |
Anonymous
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