@4meAndyou when they are working their game within a short distance of a meal & shelter place they are just wanting $ to blow on junk that charities don’t provide. The police have said when you give them money they’ll go buy alcohol or drugs and then create problems where the police get involved….and it’s every day in this city. Has created a burden for police on top of their other calls.

@Virgo79 there was an elderly white-haired woman standing at a busy intersection with a sign in Oklahoma City saying she needed help. This man, a Mexican who worked in construction said he would stop several days a week and give her his lunch money because he felt so bad for her being elderly and all. One day he saw her walking and watched her get into a new car. He went to the local news and they tracked her down and asked her why she was begging on street corners. She said she asked he pastor if it was OK and he said yes. And she also said she paid for the car with cash. They got her name and talked to her grown children and they had asked her to stop but she refused.

@Lilymoon they are taking resources away from those in dire need. There are social workers here who will assist them in getting their SS cards, their birth certificates, ID cards to get them signed up for help but at least 40% refuse to do it. They would rather play people and get what they want that way.

@cherokeepatti Yeah that's pretty sad..

@Lilymoon A man on the other side of the city told me you can drive up to Chick-Fil-A in that area of the city and there’s always a long line of people at the drive-through waiting to order. And always panhandlers there from starting about 10 a.m. asking people in their cars for money. He told me that he tells them about businesses that are hiring and always needing new employees and that’ll shut them down immediately, they don’t want to work. They want donations and tax-free ones at that.

@Confined easy money for them, probably paying for a nice vacation in the summer and other things.

@SW-User Harmless but annoying. Anyone who wants a job here can get one. Why do that though if you can stand around and manipulate others who do work to part with their money? And it’s illegal to panhandle in this city so he pretends to be mental instead but he did ask for money. Probably his way of not getting reported to authorities. And don’t think that there are thugs that pretend to be helpless and when people approach they’ll get them. Read about Ted Bundy, that’s how he got his victims.

I don't know. I have sympathy for such people. Never know what they've been through. @cherokeepatti

@SW-User And they never know what I’ve been through either.

@Stereoguy it’s usually their vehicle that they get into that gives them away. Then they get followed home. Have read a few stories about these con artists.