Have you ever busted a panhandler?

Cold

I called out that guy on College on a day he had a weak joke. He's upped his game since then

In Lafayette we have a few at the corner of Ambassador/Kaliste Saloom. They alternate and always manage to have a piece of cardboard. Will never give those hacks cash.

Plenty because I worked in a downtown financial district for over 7 years.

Quite the opposite story, I had a panhandler track me down. I had/have zero policy about giving money to panhandlers. I will buy them things (lunch, clothes, umbrellas, etc) if they go with me.

One guy haggled me every day as I walked to lunch. He kept telling me the job market was bad and he was down on his luck. I bought him lunch a couple times and stopped that as I felt like he would target me. Finally I just started buying him a newspaper. I would read it at lunch and then give it to him after pointing out the help wanted ads. Of course it was a bit of sarcasm and he started avoiding me and my newspaper. A fewi months later I saw him in a van with a ladder rack as I walked to lunch. He purposely sought me out and damn near stalked me. He followed me, confronted me, and bought ME lunch. He thanked me for never giving him cash because he was using it for drugs. He found a painting job from help wanteds I kept showing him. He met me for lunch downtown several times after. He was living 2 weeks in a motel, 2 weeks in the van every month the last time I saw him. He was dating a woman who had a house and wanted him to move in with her to get off the streets. He wouldnt do it because he was raised where men didnt live with a woman without being married. He was a real stand up guy and I hope he is doing ok.

Man that's a hell of a story! Thank you.

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Yes. Baton Rouge pop a lock before he got famous. He still around? This was 2-3 years ago

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yea this POS got my wife with that story. We were moving my son in LSU his freshman year and she gave him $20 before I got back to my truck. Well fast forward a year , me and my son see him outside a restaurant trying the story with some young ladies. We called him on it, little shite took off like a bat out of hell

Was given he old "please pull up while we finish your order" routine at the Jack In the Box north of campus. Guy comes up and says, "God bless you, we are all God's children and I'm just looking for some help to get smething to eat, do you have any change". I kindly tell him I don't have any money on me, I'm sorry. He says "frick you!", and walks away. He was not the godly man he pretended to be.........busted!

Me and one of my workers were changing a tire in the Home Depot parking lot in the middle of December in the rain. Some fat "Democrat" drove up in a fairly nice Nissan Titan and asked for $200 to buy tires to make it back home to NOLA to see her dying mom one last time in the hospital. I told her I would give her $200 to get out and change my tire for me. She cursed me out and drove off. There wasn't a thing wrong with her tires.

All over in downtown Houston. It's always funny when suburbanites are down here for a game or something and you see a career homeless guy with his papers out telling them his 30 minute long story. It's amazing people will sit there and listen to this bullshite for that long.