I have had to do this before and I was homeless till a week ago i moved in to my employee house my mom passed 2 years ago I never did drugs drank or smoked my signs said put me to work I work harder than any employee you've seen . And some just gave me money that went to food and food that I ate lol but I got lots of side jobs and was able to get motel rooms it wasn't till last month that I was able to get a job taking care of this amazing couple doing respite work for them they are elders and need some one to cook clean and shop for them and they ran my background and I moved into their house and have been working for them in exchange for room and board plus 100 a week sometime people just need a hand up

I have held a sign before but mine said day labor available with my phone number. I got quite a bit of work out of it. The people that say they are hungry are full of it cause i could eat 5 times a day here.

I am an Urban Missionary and I must say only 5% of shelterless individuals fly signs. I always encourage those who truly wants to give back to those in need to find a nonprofit organization and or Church that you investigated and feel are engaged in the city and donate to them! People truly in need do utilize their services on a daily basis. But if you do feel God's telling you to give directly to someone then give and let go. Don't worry where your money is going but where you are going ☝🏾. Give from your hearts not your your smarts!

And this is why i will never give a dollar to one of these pan handlers.

when you give you are guilty of holding them back from helping them selves, Drugs and alcohol are the reasons why most of them are even out there.

I'm currently homeless and have been for several years now. I used to hold a sign at an intersection and I used the money to survive. I am now in a wheelchair and don't do the sign thing anymore but I could really use some help with housing, rehabilitation, and medical necessities. Donating to "charities" is utterly worthless because someone like myself who needs the help doesn't get any. Sure I can get food from a food bank but it's worthless because I have nowhere to store it or cook. So where does the donated money go if a person like myself who actually needs the help? People who live in a house, motel, etc get the food because they are the ones who can use it but they don't need housing. I use money that people give me to eat out every day which is expensive, buy bandages and other medical supplies for my legs that medi-cal should be covering but doesn't. Yes most of the people who are holding a sign and panhandling are on drugs and or alcohol. I'm homeless and have a cell phone, that's a ridiculous point to focus on. You can get an Obama phone for free but I pay for mine. You don't have to be a selfish asshole, just use your judgment and eyes, you can usually tell if someone is on dope or alcohol, or look to clean to be homeless. Being selfish is not the answer.

folks would give their left hand for that food and this joker want to hide it in the bushes real sad

let me add to this education. especially knoxville tn. i was homeless for two years. i never panhandled. I did have help. my mother did buy my first bus pass so i could seek work. i did do some things that were in the grey area of the law. nothing that ever consisted of theft, drugs or burglary. more of ignoring licensing laws. all of what i did to get off the streets was out of otivation. many people in the shelter had checks. you could tell the first and fifteen of the month because of how few people were there. they would take their checks ,some of which were over 1200 dollars, and go to cheap hotels in known drug areas. they would bang their heroin smoke crack and drink until their check was gone. afterwards they would return to the shelter and wait for the next check. the saddest part is that the shelters are not set up for people like me. i worked at a restaurant sometimes until 2 am. no matter what time i returned to the shelter i had to be awake at 630 am and down in the chapek by 7 am. for weeks i ran on 3 to 4 hours of sleep every night and during this time was often working 16 hours. to say the least i wanted off the street. on my days off i would find a safe place to sleep. the shelter had no mercy. some of the good employees would often allow me to sleep in because they knew i worked. the good people would often quit the job because of the way people who were trying to get out were treated. one of the staff members favorite thing to do was to start arguements with people he didnt like so he could ban them. sadly to this many good people are barred from assitance at KARM due to this mans pass time. I recall one night i had worked very late and my boss had given me yeast rolls and pulled pork along with some other food to eat for dinner. the rules of LEXTRAN forbid eating on the bus. i walked in with food and the man yelled at me because i asked to eat. i had to show my clock out stub every night to get in. if the time i clocked out wasnt consistant with the travel time nominally neccessary to travel from work to the shelter they would not let you in. i ended up throwing the food away and sleeping hungry. the man simply enjoyed being cruel to others. i was approached by one of the leaders once asking me i wanted to go into the program. he said was a model candidate for this. i thought about and decided no. the program would have cost my job and after the program is finished you have one month to leave the shelter and if i remember correctly you cannot return for one year. sounded more like a way to get funding and then force someone out of the system after they had been used. I am going to agree with this news broadcast. MOST HOMELESS DO NOT BEG and MOST BEGGERS ARE NOT HOMELESS

Would you rather have them steal? Chew on that.

So what if these people ask for money. Most of these people need help. These Caucasian folks want all of the money. If people are willing to give in God's will that's them. They envy these people because they make more money then them. They can't stop me for giving panhandlers money because I'm willing in the name of God. I careless what they do with the money. I don't judge other human beings like some of these other humans do.

They should be able to panhandle wherever they want except where they obstruct traffic - that's freedom of speech. They shouldn't be able to lie about their situation - that's fraud. Simply don't give to panhandlers.

it's funny how professed Christians will be the main people getting scammed by these imposters by not knowing this scripture principle! 👎🙄 the Apostle Paul, for example, made tents for a living while he preached the gospel two Samaria, Judea and Asia Minor. No excuse for these disgraceful bums. 2 Thessalonians 3:9, 10 Not that we do not have authority,+ but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.+ 10 In fact, when we were with you, we used to give you this order: *_“If anyone does not want to work, neither let him eat.”_*

There are a lot honest panhandlers out there

I feel for Robert

So what good does it do to donate money to these charities, which they are getting donations, and the hungry homeless people can't get food because they are out?

Dear American folks, come down to South America and learn how a REAL hungry and homeless individual looks like.

AMERICA!LAND OF THE FREE!!YOU MAY NOT VIOLATE THE FIRST AMMENDMENT!!!Panhandling is LEGAL!!

OMG AT 15:20 SOMETHING. IF ANYONE DONATED FOOD TO MY FAMILY I WOULD BE TOTALLY GRATEFUL!!!! We have some good times and some low food times. That would br a hugge blrssing!

dishonest people are pathetic

GOOD SHOW THANK YOU SO MUCH.........COULD YOU PLEASE SEND ME SOME MONEY..... JUST KIDDING...HA ...HA..HA....

There's hundreds of people that are homeless. Why does the one person panhandling think he deserves to be more than anybody else? I would reither give my money to people who don't feel entitled enough to stand at an intersection and hold up traffic for the hard working schmucks like us

Also many things I have I found on the ground so you can’t just not give. That’s no solution. It’s a fact that you feel better when you give, and many get it back, even get back more soon after through some luck or karma.

Notice the negative spin

I work got robbed 500 in 3 weeks made 25$ last afternoon its a shame people are making community even more weary....

There are all kinds of organizations they can go to for help. They have kids so can probably get welfare and food stamps. If they can't get work, go to the next town or city and look there. Look in the newspapers and take anything until you can get back on your feet. The wife can get a job almost anywhere at McDonalds, Burger King, etc. They always seem to be hiring. Maybe the mechanic needs to find a new line of work.

I seen a few of them scammers panhandles on the median strip and at the end of their time they get into a nice car and drive away

First of all, let me say that it takes what it takes for an addict to reach their absolute bottom before they change. Fact: addiction costs money and there are 2 ways to go about it until a decision to clean up is made. They can panhandle where the choice is up to potential giver or they can take it by force leaving victims with no choice. It's a devastating position to be in for someone holding a sign. Detox and long term treatment isn't readily available unlike jails and prisons where a profit can be made from their incarceration. This country is fucked in so many ways and most of its citizens are like blind sheep believing mainstream media bull shit.

Just because some people lie and con people doesn’t mean most panhandlers really are homeless and need help. There are cons in every facet of making money wether from regular employment or panhandling. Many people have extra money and how else can you ask your brothers to share? We are only here for a short period of time, and in this temporary existence cant we share with our brothers? Can’t we share with each other? Many people who give actually do it for selfish reasons because it actually makes them feel better about themselves. Also if people aren’t spending their money on drugs why can’t they buy things like phones and apartments? Isn’t that what you want? You can’t just eat and eat and eat...!

I think I'm going to try to build a house where some of them set up tents. See if the city starts to care then.

This should be against the law, when people defraud the public on purpose they should be jailed. They are taking from people that really need the help. God help them and us all.

Panhandlers are 50 points each if you can get them with your car.

Been there still there with kid great f king desperate to the max

The fake homeless person has a sign that reads help hungry need rent money and I'm starving and his belly is full you can tell he lives quite good on people given him money which they should not give him any kind of money only the real homeless people deserve I hand out food and money

Ok

Eye of a needle.

Scaming is a way of live for some people

are they allowed to use "homeless vet" on the sign if they are not a vet

That's not black top roads

While it's unfortunately their right to panhandle, it's a good practice for police to check on outstanding warrants.

Hi, im from Anchorage Alaska,here if a panhander gets caught they will get into truble, and the car that gave them money will get a fine of $50:00

This is sad

I wished that they had all the rules here in California but they don't.

Lazy fools

He's workin hard; to barrow from jack Black's character in School Of Rock, He's on the front lines Rockin everyday.

they call them street side beggers

They're just trying to supply their drug habit that's all it boils down to

Ha that's funny that you say most panhandlers are not homeless and most homeless are not panhandlers, because it means that most homeless are too lazy to panhandle.

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