Give to the poor?

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Originally Posted by Vasteel

Also, fuck giving your old shit to Goodwill. They aren't a charity, they are a fucking retail store who gets all of their shit for free.

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Are we talking about the same Goodwill that uses the money they get from reselling old clothes to provide job training and career services to the unemployed?

I'll gladly donate my old shit to that cause.

I never said Goodwill.

I said Purple heart - donating to military families that lost loved ones. And Salvation Army.

The reason some people hate bums (well maybe hate is a strong word, but something close to it) is because we need to believe there is something wrong with them. In our minds, this is why they live on the streets and we never will. Relating to them means considering that we could be just as bad off as them, which is terrifying.

Sometimes I put a penny in the "give a penny/take a penny" jar but I've never taken one. That counts as charity, right?

I support organizations that try to help homeless, the poor, etc. But I would never give money to them directly, that would only encourage them to be aggressive in begging (especially here in NYC where the bums actually get angry with you if you don't give money.... talk about entitlement).

whenever i go to a concert in one of the clubs around downtown houston, i always get the same mofo bum riding around on his bicycle asking for change. He's got the same sob story, ?I gotta baby under the bridge *mumble mumble* need to buy some milk". He's a total crackhead, and has been giving the same story for years now, the only problem with crackheads is you gotta be careful with them b/c they could get extremely violent.

Last show i went to, i gave the guy change before the show, and then he hits me up afterwards when I'm dehydrated and exhausted, "I already gave you money you fucker!"

Next time I see him I'll be really tempted to push him off that bicycle.

Crackheads and methheads are the worst. When I lived in hamilton, I always carried a combat knife with me because some of them get lippy if you don't pay attention to them.
There's something uniquely satisfying about making street trash shit their pants.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

Crackheads and methheads are the worst. When I lived in hamilton, I always carried a combat knife with me because some of them get lippy if you don't pay attention to them.
There's something uniquely satisfying about making street trash shit their pants.

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Totally, cause they've got it so good.

Asshole.

I suppose you'd just fork over some cash if some douchebag tries to intimidate you?

I don't owe them a fucking thing.

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Originally Posted by Jetman

Alright, how many of you guys here give to the poor? Whether it be a quick $10 to the homeless vet on the corner of your road or volunteering your time at the local homeless shelter?

The town I live it now currently has a fuck ton of homeless people begging near the University grounds, Interstate exits, and at the corners of every major road. I usually volunteer my time at the local homeless shelter on the holidays when I get some free time, and occasionally give a 10 spot (and Im not a very rich dude these days, but I know what its like to be on hard times) to the guy on the corner.

Recently though at least one of those actions has come into question. Last week while on my lunch break I give a homeless guy at the stop light a 5 I had in my wallet. I had my window down, he gave me a sob story about how he was starving and "Please, I just need a little something to get some food!". Ill never turn anyone down who is starving and dying of it. Not in my America, its not my nature. Well, not 2 hours later this same guy walks into my store and buys a Memory card with the $5 I gave him, and likely a bunch of other money he had swindled from other kind souls. A FUCKING MEMORY CARD. He denied it was him and I felt like shoving the memory card down his fucking throat. I talked to my boss about it and he mentioned that when he came into work in the morning he saw a van with a whole load of "homeless" people get off and head to their respective corners.Another of my co-workers mentioned that a person has to have a license to beg as well?
Anyways, this whole thing got me thinking that their is unfortunately a lot I hadnt opened my eyes up to in the world of the needy. Do you have to have a license to beg? I wonder if there is some shady business here in town that pays people to beg, gives them protection, a place to sleep for a cut in the begging,etc.? and if so is this against the law to prey on peoples good intentions like this?

I rightfully feel like a dumbass now, and from now on if I have money to give, its going to go to a shelter and/or some place that can do some good with it.

Kind of sad as their may actually be a person or family begging that may actually need that money.

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Dateline (or one of those types of shows), did a piece where they exposed regular middleclass dudes who panhandle at off-ramps in Los Angeles. They followed one guy back to his Range Rover at the end of the day where he changed back to his "non-beggar" clothes and drove off.

lol.