re: Do you have any experiences with professional beggars?

RWent to the neightborhood walmart a few months ago and was approaached while walking to my car by an older black lady

"Do you know were SI-Gaan lane is?"

You mean siegan? yes its that way

"Do you think I can walk from here to there?"

I wouldnt reccommend it, its a very far walk

"Hmm well I ran out of gas and i left my infant child in the car over there and i need a ride over there, can you give me one?"

Uhh you probably shouldnt have done that, sorry but ive entertained this long enough, ive got to go




----fast forward about a month or so ago, I go into the same walmart real late at night, and whenever i came out rain started POURING down, so I tried to wait out the rain a little bit underneath the walkway and some old lady says something about the rain being crazy and i said yeah

next thing she says "You know how to get to SI-gaaan lane??"


These folks need new material. She tried exact same line on me at Post Office on Bennington. At what point do the stores do something about the harassment?

i just went "youve got to be kidding me lady" and just jogged thru the rain

My aunt is a professional mooch.... does that count?

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When you see them approach, ask them for change first

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A friend of mine in college was the master of this. Stops them in their tracks with a WTF look on their face. Priceless.

Several years back, in downtown BR, I had a dude give me the sob story about how he just got out of jail with only the shoes on his feet.

About a month later, same guy, same EXACT story.

The second time I had forgotten something at the office so I had to walk back from the parking lot. Saw him getting into his car corner of North and 3rd.

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To be fair, I would rather have cash than Jack in the Box too.

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Yep. Never cared for food poisoning myself.

I pulled over at a Wal-Mart in Lafayette once because I had to go in and pee. Dude approached me in the parking lot and said he and his family were stranded and could he have some money for "some food and a little bit of gas".

I told him I don't have cash, and he said - "it's OK, there's an ATM inside". That kind of pissed me off. So I kind of just abruptly said - "nah man sorry" and walked away.

I ended up seeing a post shared all over Facebook the next few days with his picture and people saying - watch out for this guy at the grocery stores you go to, he's trying to con money out of you.

I want to hear from somebody who gave the bum a ride to Saigon Street.


What's the end game here?

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There's a woman who posts up in front of the Costco on Carrollton that I swear has been pregnant for 4 years.

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IWNHI

All the time.

Work in ERs and live(d) in Houston and Katy.

Some have homes or little shitty apartments and vehicles. Otherwise the game is this. Make enough $$$ to buy your vice. Liquor or drugs and a meal. A great day is enough cash for a room and liquor or drugs. If they can get a room, they can get a woman to stay with them. The woman pays for the room by fricking the guy.

Others are a pair man and woman. Those cases are usually just trying to get enough cash for a shitty room and get drunk and high for the night.