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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes.

It depends on the mood I'm in and the vibe I get from the person. Two cases:

When I lived in Durham, NC, I used to see a guy standing out on the median holding a cardboard sign everyday. One day he got on my bus, pulled a dollar from a huge wad of cash and paid his fare. When he got to his stop, he pulled out his Duke Hospital employee badge and put the lanyard around his neck and went to work.

We had a huge thunderstorm about a month ago and I saw a family huddled under tarps by the overpass near the light between 66 and the Watergate. The next day, I saw a teenage girl from that family standing with a sign by that light. I gave her all the cash I had on me. [/quote]

[b]Cripes, haven't you people ever heard of gypsies??[/quote][/b]

I am not being snarky all.... but what do you mean?  I guess I really don't know what gypsies are.  Do gypsies just beg for money?  Is there more to this?  I seriously am curious.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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