Current Events > What's your go to when a panhandler asks you for money

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One time, me and my fiancee had just left a restaurant and took half a sandwich home with us. While walking home, I had a guy all for money, telling us he wanted to get something to eat, he hadn't eaten in days, he's starving, etc...

I told him "Actually dude, we just got out of that restaurant. We have half a sandwich we didn't touch. You want it?"

Needless to say he didn't want our sandwich and asked for money again, at which point I said no lol.
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No. If they want food, then ill give them some food i have with me or snacks. By giving them money, you're contributing to the problems that made them homeless in the first place (booze, drugs, gambling, etc)

DocileOrangeCup posted...

i almost never spend actual cash at stores so i never have change anyway, so ill usually say "sorry i used a card"

Yeah, same here. I usually keep a $20 in my wallet but thats it.
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southcoast09 posted...

WalkingLobsters posted...

don't acknowledge their existence.

This is the only correct answer.

How is that more correct than saying "sorry"
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I usually just ignore them and don't make eye contact, bro... I mean, "can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" right?

I don't want somebody else's hard earned money that they gave me going into some fuck-up's pocket then on over to the meth dealer's house. Fuck that. I'll just go buy a Blu-Ray or something instead. Everybody wins, duders.
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GhettoFlip posted...

southcoast09 posted...

WalkingLobsters posted...

don't acknowledge their existence.

This is the only correct answer.

How is that more correct than saying "sorry"

because you didn't do anything wrong by not giving them free money because of their shit life choices, brah
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No

Because their problem cant be solved with money

Money just prolongs it
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ForestLogic posted...

One time, me and my fiancee had just left a restaurant and took half a sandwich home with us. While walking home, I had a guy all for money, telling us he wanted to get something to eat, he hadn't eaten in days, he's starving, etc...

I told him "Actually dude, we just got out of that restaurant. We have half a sandwich we didn't touch. You want it?"

Needless to say he didn't want our sandwich and asked for money again, at which point I said no lol.

I forget if it was my dad or one of his coworkers, but I remember him telling me that some guy was in front of where they work asking for money for food, and my dad (or his coworker) told them they had a ton of pizza inside from some special lunch thing and he could go get him some but the starving guy said he didnt like pizza.
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Rad_Chad posted...

GhettoFlip posted...

southcoast09 posted...

WalkingLobsters posted...

don't acknowledge their existence.

This is the only correct answer.

How is that more correct than saying "sorry"

because you didn't do anything wrong by not giving them free money because of their shit life choices, brah

Sorry just acknowledges them. Or just say anything else (not denigrating of course). Or shake your head 'no'.

The worst thing you can do is complete ignore them and act like they're not even there. It's not just for panhandlers either -- this goes for anyone who works by soliciting people on the street (like for charities, etc). Treating them as invisible is disheartening.

Then again that may be the goal for some of you. Some people are just scumbags *coughsouthcoast09cough *
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The Top Crusader posted...

ForestLogic posted...

One time, me and my fiancee had just left a restaurant and took half a sandwich home with us. While walking home, I had a guy all for money, telling us he wanted to get something to eat, he hadn't eaten in days, he's starving, etc...

I told him "Actually dude, we just got out of that restaurant. We have half a sandwich we didn't touch. You want it?"

Needless to say he didn't want our sandwich and asked for money again, at which point I said no lol.

I forget if it was my dad or one of his coworkers, but I remember him telling me that some guy was in front of where they work asking for money for food, and my dad (or his coworker) told them they had a ton of pizza inside from some special lunch thing and he could go get him some but the starving guy said he didnt like pizza.

He deserves to starve then, the fucking monster lol.
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You take debit?

All my cash is for weed yo

Tho on my 23rd bday I gave all my weed to a bum >.<
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Sorry, don't carry cash.
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"oh sorry I just spent my last dollar" or "I only have enough for what I'm going to buy" which in my case is usually true anyway
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gmanthebest posted...

There was a fat homeless lady that had a cardboard sign that said to stop telling her to get a job.

Anytime I see her I tell her to get a job.

Lol no you dont.
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We used to tell them Obama is going to make a lot of change!

But you all know how that turned out v_v
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I would give them my pocket change if i have any. Yes i know it will probably be used for drugs.
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We-hell! Can you spare some bling? *takes coin out of his pan or whatever*
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Sorry.

I pretty much never carry cash, and I see the same 4 or 5 panhandlers twice a day, 5 days a week. Not that I would be obliged to give money to all of them if I gave to one of them, or to do it regularly if it did it now and then, but I dunno man.

If I do have a dollar or two on me I'll typically give it to someone down on their luck, elsewhere in the city.
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I hiss at them until they walk away.
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Usually ignore or say sorry, but one guy straight up told me he wanted booze, so I gave him $5 for his honesty.
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Tell them to fuck off.
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I usually give them a few dollars
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If they ask for change, I reach in my pocket and go "Sorry bro, I dont have any."

If they just ask for money, I say "Sorry homie, I dont have any."

I change bro to homie based on the construction of the question.
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I used to say sorry, dont carry cash.

Then i went to vegas and those dudes were fucking rude as shit.

I dont acknowledge and just keep on trucking now.
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I just ignore them. My area has a lot of fake homeless panhandlers. Theres an old dude who literally parks his nice truck and sits by the interstate every weekend doing it. We have a Facebook pAge of it too
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BuckVanHammer posted...

I used to say sorry, dont carry cash.

Then i went to vegas and those dudes were fucking rude as shit.

I dont acknowledge and just keep on trucking now.

The ones in Vegas are terrible, and they're everywhere.
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I just whip out my dick and say "you've gotta earn it"

Offer a cigarette or some change that I have.
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AlephZero posted...

BuckVanHammer posted...

I used to say sorry, dont carry cash.

Then i went to vegas and those dudes were fucking rude as shit.

I dont acknowledge and just keep on trucking now.

The ones in Vegas are terrible, and they're everywhere.

Well, global warming will probably take care of the issue for you soon enough. Just saying.
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i've given money to them. rarely though. in hindsight I kinda feel like a dick in one case though. walked by a guy and said sorry and kept walking got to the end of the block and this kid is playing his ass off on a sax. me and my friend start emptying or pockets of pocket change (not giving him our cash just any coins we could get) looked back at the first dude and said "sorry hes working for it"
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TerrifyingRei posted...

Sorry, I don't have any change.

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"I don't carry cash"
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I once had a dude ask me for change while walking down main street here, and he was holding a fucking mandolin.

Like, not an old cruddy one, a beautiful new one with intricate designs and an amp pickup module installed and shit that made it look like it cost thousands of dollars.

I mean holy shit dude if you're gonna ask for change at least play me a lively tune lol.
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ForestLogic posted...

I once had a dude ask me for change while walking down main street here, and he was holding a fucking mandolin.

Like, not an old cruddy one, a beautiful new one with intricate designs and an amp pickup module installed and shit that made it look like it cost thousands of dollars.

I mean holy shit dude if you're gonna ask for change at least play me a lively tune lol.

city I used to live near had a problem actually with people who where well off panhandling. even had so you had to have a licences to panhandle (which cost money to obtain) which made it so these well off panhandlers could call the cops on and run off the truly homeless ones.

one I know of would play bum all day long but once night hit, he'd go into a building and come back out in a tuxedo.

some woman didn't even try hiding it. but she wasn't playing like she needed the money she was lying and saying she was taking donations for a church. would run the homeless away from where she was trying to ask for money and when done would get in her really high dollar car and drive off.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

ForestLogic posted...

I once had a dude ask me for change while walking down main street here, and he was holding a fucking mandolin.

Like, not an old cruddy one, a beautiful new one with intricate designs and an amp pickup module installed and shit that made it look like it cost thousands of dollars.

I mean holy shit dude if you're gonna ask for change at least play me a lively tune lol.

city I used to live near had a problem actually with people who where well off panhandling. even had so you had to have a licences to panhandle (which cost money to obtain) which made it so these well off panhandlers could call the cops on and run off the truly homeless ones.

one I know of would play bum all day long but once night hit, he'd go into a building and come back out in a tuxedo.

some woman didn't even try hiding it. but she wasn't playing like she needed the money she was lying and saying she was taking donations for a church. would run the homeless away from where she was trying to ask for money and when done would get in her really high dollar car and drive off.

That's fucked up. I see chicks like that around here too on the corners of major roads. They're all done up with makeup and have a Starbucks drink with them, but a sign saying "Hungry, need to feed my kids, anything will help."

The dude with the mandolin was wearing a snappy looking velvet blazer when he asked me, the one time lol.
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ForestLogic posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

ForestLogic posted...

I once had a dude ask me for change while walking down main street here, and he was holding a fucking mandolin.

Like, not an old cruddy one, a beautiful new one with intricate designs and an amp pickup module installed and shit that made it look like it cost thousands of dollars.

I mean holy shit dude if you're gonna ask for change at least play me a lively tune lol.

city I used to live near had a problem actually with people who where well off panhandling. even had so you had to have a licences to panhandle (which cost money to obtain) which made it so these well off panhandlers could call the cops on and run off the truly homeless ones.

one I know of would play bum all day long but once night hit, he'd go into a building and come back out in a tuxedo.

some woman didn't even try hiding it. but she wasn't playing like she needed the money she was lying and saying she was taking donations for a church. would run the homeless away from where she was trying to ask for money and when done would get in her really high dollar car and drive off.

That's fucked up. I see chicks like that around here too on the corners of major roads. They're all done up with makeup and have a Starbucks drink with them, but a sign saying "Hungry, need to feed my kids, anything will help."

The dude with the mandolin was wearing a snappy looking velvet blazer when he asked me, the one time lol.

i'm assuming these well off people somehow managed to bribe the local government to make that license thing happen
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ColdOne666 posted...

gmanthebest posted...

There was a fat homeless lady that had a cardboard sign that said to stop telling her to get a job.

Anytime I see her I tell her to get a job.

Lol no you dont.

No, I do. She gets so upset about it, it's hard not to laugh. Stop projecting yourself onto others.
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Either sorry I don't carry cash anymore (which is true) or sorry but I'm wearing a hat (Which is usually true)
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ForestLogic posted...

One time, me and my fiancee had just left a restaurant and took half a sandwich home with us. While walking home, I had a guy all for money, telling us he wanted to get something to eat, he hadn't eaten in days, he's starving, etc...

I told him "Actually dude, we just got out of that restaurant. We have half a sandwich we didn't touch. You want it?"

Needless to say he didn't want our sandwich and asked for money again, at which point I said no lol.

I experienced something like that. I was leaving a 7-11 and there was a guy with a standard "Please help, hungry" sign, and for some reason I was feeling unusually generous, so I offered to buy him a spam musubi or something (this is Hawaii now, spam is popular and spam musubis are like a staple food lol). He refused, and said he needed cash :<
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One time I accidentally picked up a prostitute and I told her I had just spent the last of my money (but I still had a normal amount in my wallet... don't tell her).
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