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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends.  [b]In Paris (we are French but live in DC) I give to the Syrian refugees, it is heartbreaking, especially if they have children.  But not Roma. [/b]Roma beggars are in the DMV now too, and if you have a lot of experience with them you can recognized them a mile away.  But usually they try to scam.  They are now doing a similar scam here that they've been doing in the EU for a long time: pretending to be broken down on the side of the road, waving drivers to pull over to help, and asking for money to pay for a repair or gas or taxi or tow (or saying I don't have any cash but need it for a tow, if I sell you my watch here On the side of the road will you give me some cash). I think there was even a story about this in the post.

Anyway, I will always buy them something to eat, but often if the beggar has a mental issue they may not want anyone to buy them food because they are skeptical (I've been yelled at for trying to poison them, is it dirty, etc.). I won't give to the people who hold the signs on street corners usually, especially since they all have signs that look like they are written by the same person with the same handwriting.[/quote]

Similar experience. We are French too, and I steel myself never to give to Roma, but those little kids are heartbreaking. They would never get a whiff of my money anyway, but I wish something could be done about their enslavement. Because this is really what it is.[/quote]

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