Beggars/Con artists or genuine people in need of a Samaritan?

We’ve had  big problem with fake beggars for years here in the States. The approach your talking about doesn’t work well because people are always mooching a couple bucks off each other here. We toss so much money off to people we know, we have none left for the stranger with a sob story. That or we have no patience left for them.

What they do here is stand on busy street corners in the big cities, dressed in rags, and hold up signs looking for a handout. Investigative news teams here have followed many of the ‘poor souls’ when they knock off for the day to find them going around the corner to a late model car and driving home to a nice house in the suburbs.

My boss loves to take an extra sandwich and some fruit with him when he goes into the city to make deliveries. He’ll tell one of the beggars that he has no extra money but gives them the food so they can eat. As he looks in his mirrors when he drives off, he usually sees the beggar throw the food in the trash can. Someone really down on their luck would be hungry enough to eat the food.

I think there’s good money in playing on the goodwill of others. It could be worse, they could be working for an investment firm and just take big money from people’s investment accounts… oh wait, they really do that too!!!!!!

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