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How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? * 1
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How, do you deal with them? In your experiences, what have you told them?

When they ask me for change, I tell them that change comes from within.


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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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I give them any loose change I have.


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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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Punch them in the jaw, and take the change bucket. Its the only way they will stop, and get a job. Think of it, if every time a poor person asked for money for crack or beer, they got busted in the mouth, they would stop fairly quickly.


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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: Silversoul]
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Me too i toss em' some change.

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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i usually give them change if i've got any...


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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: Krishna]
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all i ever get asked for is gas money by random middle aged women... it's happened maybe 2 or 3 times....

I comply.


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I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo!

....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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Cinderblock and/or gas can with lighter.

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: ixitwistedixi] * 1
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I once met two bums once, one just constantly screamed 'change' over and over again at the top of his lungs. The other one was making flowers out af palm leaves, and he had a bunch in a bottle of water. When I asked him how much they were selling for he told me.

"How ever much you think they are worth."

I paid him two bucks and took a flower. When they are hitting people up for cash outside of the doors at a store I find that a little ridiculous. If they are doing something or providing some type of service, I feel more inclined to help them out. But people living off of the charity of others gets annoying after a while. Especially when its the same ones hitting you up day after day.


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molon labe.

Edited by lid (11/11/05 03:02 PM)

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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ill bum them loose change or a cigarette. their always bummin smokes.

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
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Ha yeah anytime you pull out a cig to smoke one, it attracts bums from miles away

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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I live in preppy white boy town, USA.. my first experience with panhandlers was in D.C. and I brushed them off.

Then I thought, fuck, maybe some of these people are really down on their luck and need some help.

Fastforward 2 yrs.. myself and 3 buddies went to Montreal. This homeless dude Charles was asking for money; didn't seem cracked out or anything. We're all like, "Sorry man" and then went and bought him and his buddies a pizza. :rasta:

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: Boom] * 1
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Booooom said:
Ha yeah anytime you pull out a cig to smoke one, it attracts bums from miles away


i hate that. they SEE you with a full pack, so you have to feel like an ass and just say "no." otherwise you're out of a pack of cigarettes in like an hour. this is most frequent at bus stops, i've noticed.

i had a bum scream at me "HEY! GIVE ME A DOLLAR!" when i was walking by, and i just said, "that's not the way to ask." and i walked away. that shit pissed me off. who the hell does a bum think he's going to intimidate? he was an old black dude, i could have kicked him in the shins and pranced away giggling.

usually, though, if the bum is cool i'll give them a couple quarters or a dollar or something. fuck, i don't need it, so why not.


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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid] * 2
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lid said:
When they ask me for change, I tell them that change comes from within.


:rolleyes:

For me it's a mix of feel and my physical situation. If I have loose change I can easily get to, and I get the feel from them like they're someone I want to help out, then I give it to them.

This deduction of what I "feel" about them is based on nothing short of eye contact. I consider myself a good reader of people. I dont' care if they're gonna use my change to go do drugs, what I care about is if I think I'm giving change to someone who's liable to be a rapist, a murderer, some low-down dirty thug of some sort.

Sometimes I'm lazy even when I have loose change.

There's no roadmap for "dealing with" :rolleyes: beggars. For me at least.  And in NYC, they're a dime a dozen.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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depends on what the panhandler is looking for

if they say they ned money for food I go buy them a sandwich...if that say bus fare I ask where

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: goobler]
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Yeah, if I run into a panhandler on my way into a deli, I try to pick them up something. And not junk food either. I once gave a guy an apple and animal crackers.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

Edited by OneMoreRobot3021 (11/11/05 03:53 PM)

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Similarly, if I'm walking by someone soliciting passerbys and I have food with me, I will give them my food.
Almost never do I hand out cold cash though.


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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: geokills]
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There are two or three beggars that I just know, and have known for about 5 or 6 years. They recognize me too, and I don't see them very often, but when I do I'll give them a buck. Otherwise, I don't like opening up my wallet in front of a homeless person.

It's just too tempting for those of them who want to fall back on petty theft to survive.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Depends on their story, some panhandlers I tell I only got plastic, however I seem to run across a lot of truly desperate people. I give them what I can.

Two days ago, some lady was stuck at a gas station and had run out of money. She was kind of dirty and obviously not in a good way. Gave her three bucks for gas, a bottle of orange juice, and a couple of cigarettes. I still wonder what happened to her because I haven't seen her in my neighborhood since. I'm more than happy to help displaced people trying to get somewhere but for the most part I don't give money to the panhandlers, except the ones selling the local homeless newspaper. Those guys are alright.

Real bums and especially crackheads annoy the fuck out of me. On more than one occasion I've had intense moments where some shit might have broken out. But for the most part I realize they're just sick people who need help which I cannot provide for them... however, if they bother the person I'm with or get threatening, I tend to go a little nuts.


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Hi  :scrambled:

My god... it's full of stars...

Edited by PhatWhitey420 (11/11/05 04:02 PM)

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: lid]
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say okay, and pull out a bunch of pennies and throw them into the oncoming traffic in the road and watch if they go after it.
And tell them "Sorry, I didnt mean to drop it, i didnt have a hold of it very well.." :lol:
btw, just kidding

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Re: How Do You Deal With Panhandlers? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
It's just too tempting for those of them who want to fall back on petty theft to survive.


^ well what you can do is stand perpendicularly to them, as well as a few steps away from them, so that they can't reach the wallet, and if they try to make a move you can easilly kick them or whatever it is you want to do.

that's usually what i do when i get money out for these middle aged women I referred to.

[i've never encountered a real bum on my own, which is good i guess, it might be an intimidating experience.... but who knows]


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I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo!

....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!

Edited by leery11 (11/11/05 04:00 PM)

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