Ex-cop: Don't give money to panhandlers

Drip · Oct 12, 2009

three_bags_full said:

Did you give him/her the backdoor boogie BEFORE, or AFTER, you paid your "friend?"
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I have no idea what the backdoor boogie is. And I didn't "pay" my friend.

The Big Ragu · Oct 12, 2009

Drip said:

three_bags_full said:

Did you give him/her the backdoor boogie BEFORE, or AFTER, you paid your "friend?"
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I have no idea what the backdoor boogie is. And I didn't "pay" my friend.
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You couldn't figure out the going rate for imaginary friends, eh?

Drip · Oct 12, 2009

There is no rate for friendship Ragu. I'm still waiting for the definition of backdoor boogie.

Buck · Oct 12, 2009

I had a friend who was down on his luck. He tried pan-handling, but eventually had to swicth to male prostitution. Imagine my surprise when I called the escort service and he showed up.
We had a good laugh over that one.

He eventually gave up the male prostitution to become a harvester for Chinese organ thieves. Seems to be doing quite well.

Ace · Oct 12, 2009

Buck said:

I had a friend who was down on his luck. He tried pan-handling, but eventually had to swicth to male prostitution. Imagine my surprise when I called the escort service and he showed up.
We had a good laugh over that one.

He eventually gave up the male prostitution to become a harvester for Chinese organ thieves. Seems to be doing quite well.
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This is BS, Buck.

Indonesian organ thieves pay a lot better.

playthrough · Oct 12, 2009

Baron Scicluna said:

Smallpotatoes said:

Cousin Oliver said:

I read a story that completely changed my mind on this subject. The story mentioned some of the panhandlers have different signs for different people. They see a mother? Out comes the "I need diaper money" sign. They see a young, college-looking kid? Out comes the "need beer money" sign. A white dude in a pick-up? "Vet needs money."

The best thing to do is to give money to charities that specifically help the homeless.
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Of course, for every dollar you give to those charities, only 50, 60, 75 cents or whatever is actually used to help the homeless. You give a pandhandler a dollar, the whole dollar helps him get whatever he wants or needs at the moment.
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Yeah, don't get me started on the United Way. Every year, they would do their big drive, and my paper would make us sit for a meeting/guilt trip by the United Way to get us to donate. I would always refuse and after the first one, I skipped the meetings. I figured that I had enough work to do without wasting time sitting in a meeting for which I wasn't going to make a donation.

The UW would say that we could designate the charity that we could have our money sent to. They really didn't have an answer for when a fellow employee asked them why they should send their money to the UW when they could just send it directly to the other charity.
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The annual UW drive was a huge racket at my old paper. I think the publisher sat on the local UW board because we would get clobbered over the head with the give message for weeks. All the department heads were responsible for collecting donations from their employees in a "contest", yet the ones who came in last were allegedly reprimanded rather than just told "thanks for the effort." And there were so many bake sales around the office in the name of the UW, I stopped buying cookies. And that never happens!

Drip · Oct 12, 2009

playthrough said:

Baron Scicluna said:

Smallpotatoes said:

Cousin Oliver said:

I read a story that completely changed my mind on this subject. The story mentioned some of the panhandlers have different signs for different people. They see a mother? Out comes the "I need diaper money" sign. They see a young, college-looking kid? Out comes the "need beer money" sign. A white dude in a pick-up? "Vet needs money."

The best thing to do is to give money to charities that specifically help the homeless.
Click to expand...

Of course, for every dollar you give to those charities, only 50, 60, 75 cents or whatever is actually used to help the homeless. You give a pandhandler a dollar, the whole dollar helps him get whatever he wants or needs at the moment.
Click to expand...

Yeah, don't get me started on the United Way. Every year, they would do their big drive, and my paper would make us sit for a meeting/guilt trip by the United Way to get us to donate. I would always refuse and after the first one, I skipped the meetings. I figured that I had enough work to do without wasting time sitting in a meeting for which I wasn't going to make a donation.

The UW would say that we could designate the charity that we could have our money sent to. They really didn't have an answer for when a fellow employee asked them why they should send their money to the UW when they could just send it directly to the other charity.
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The annual UW drive was a huge racket at my old paper. I think the publisher sat on the local UW board because we would get clobbered over the head with the give message for weeks. All the department heads were responsible for collecting donations from their employees in a "contest", yet the ones who came in last were allegedly reprimanded rather than just told "thanks for the effort." And there were so many bake sales around the office in the name of the UW, I stopped buying cookies. And that never happens!
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Would Jerry's Kid's fall in the same category as panhandlers?

ScribePharisee · Oct 12, 2009

three_bags_full said:

ScribePharisee said:

I recall a story from a friend of a friend who a few years back picked up a panhandler, telling him he wouldn't just give him the money but he had some yard work he'd pay him $100 for. He agreed. After an hour or so, the story goes, the friend of a friend left the house to go get some burgers, some of which was the panhandler's lunch. When he got back, the panhandler and about $700 in power tools were gone. He was found and arrested because a neighbor had spotted him.
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Anyone stupid enough to leave their home with a panhandler working in the yard/garage, etc., deserves to be parted with his/her tools/money/jewelry, etc.
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True, but the tools were locked in a shed, I think.

Baron Scicluna · Oct 12, 2009

playthrough said:

Baron Scicluna said:

Smallpotatoes said:

Cousin Oliver said:

I read a story that completely changed my mind on this subject. The story mentioned some of the panhandlers have different signs for different people. They see a mother? Out comes the "I need diaper money" sign. They see a young, college-looking kid? Out comes the "need beer money" sign. A white dude in a pick-up? "Vet needs money."

The best thing to do is to give money to charities that specifically help the homeless.
Click to expand...

Of course, for every dollar you give to those charities, only 50, 60, 75 cents or whatever is actually used to help the homeless. You give a pandhandler a dollar, the whole dollar helps him get whatever he wants or needs at the moment.
Click to expand...

Yeah, don't get me started on the United Way. Every year, they would do their big drive, and my paper would make us sit for a meeting/guilt trip by the United Way to get us to donate. I would always refuse and after the first one, I skipped the meetings. I figured that I had enough work to do without wasting time sitting in a meeting for which I wasn't going to make a donation.

The UW would say that we could designate the charity that we could have our money sent to. They really didn't have an answer for when a fellow employee asked them why they should send their money to the UW when they could just send it directly to the other charity.
Click to expand...

The annual UW drive was a huge racket at my old paper. I think the publisher sat on the local UW board because we would get clobbered over the head with the give message for weeks. All the department heads were responsible for collecting donations from their employees in a "contest", yet the ones who came in last were allegedly reprimanded rather than just told "thanks for the effort." And there were so many bake sales around the office in the name of the UW, I stopped buying cookies. And that never happens!
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I always found it strange how we would get hit over the head by the whole 'conflict of interest' thing every year or so when some shit would hit the fan, yet, every year, coincidentally, I'm sure, my (now-former) paper would run a bunch of UW stories right during their annual drive.

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