Who gives money to the homeless?

[PhilthyS13]

I'll give bums money if they ask politely. If they're homeless haight street type kids who say "give me change" or ask for random amounts like "do you have .86 cents?," I walk by. I also give them cigarettes if I don't have change.


One time I was at 1984, which is on Folsom in SOMA (at the time it was nothing but warehouses), and some crackhead asked me for change, so I gave him a cigarette. He kept coming back to ask for more, and I was talking to a girl, so I asked him what he wanted to buy. He said crack, and I asked how much he needed and he said 5 bucks. I took out a five and said "I'll give this to you, but you have to run to get the rock." He took it and ran all the way down the street, and the blocks in South of Market are really, really long. The nuisance value was well worth getting him out of my face.

That was my cruelest story, but my friends are worse. One time my friend was giving this bum dollars for doing backflips. Only thing was, he kept landing on his face. At that same party, my other friend puked on a carpet and the girl who lived there put it in the street and 1 minute later another crackhead came and picked it up and walked away.

[aziankingz]

the funniest bum ive seen is one guy walking around the city with a sign that said..please help out the broke ass nigga foundation..lol

[kaking]

at the safeway i used to work out of the bums had there own lil society. theyd take turns askin for money at the freeway entrance, they had one dude that held the money(pimpin), and one would go shop sometimes. they even had a girl that im sure they all tossed up.

dude ask me for money at KFC yesterday. i said i didnt have any cuz this guy was at least 300lbs(this fool obviously eat good).

if there polite ill give up the change since i get tips so i usually got extra to spare

[Future240]

I have only given money to a homeless guy one time. Back when in the summer before I went to college, A girl who I made a slave to my dick, took me to the Sundial in ATL. Well we run out of money for a taxi after we get out of the resturant and the place where we parked our car was right around the corner.

So we decided to walk. Yea we got lost. We walked around for about 30 min before we found a map of the city on the side of a building. We were trying to remember the street the car was one, when a homeless guy approaches us.

He says he will lead us back to where we need to go. Being dumbasses, we all follow him. Me and the other guy in my lil entourage walk up front with the homeless guy, and the two girls stay in back.

While we walk she calls me and says how he could be leading us to our death and all types of shit like that. But me being the intelligent dumbass I was, figured that if the guy tried somethin I would beat his ass. Not thinkin of course he could have a knife or somethin on him. that and the guy that was with me was a sorry sack of shit.

While we walked there people standing on the street would be saying stuff to us. We all had dressed up to go to the resturant. I kinda expected that though, it was two white girls, a white guy, and a black guy all dressed up(I had forgot my shoes, so I was wearing a pair of black and white tims) being led around by some random homeless guys.

While we walked I saw for the first time in life a world I had only heard about on tv. I saw a homeless man, so dirty he looked almost brown, climb out of a wheel chair with no legs and lay down on a cement tree pot thing to sleep.

It tore my heart in a few places. There is alot of things in the world that I dont give a flying fuck about, but seein that mind even now almost makes me feel sick inside.

Despite the choices people made even one as cold as I dont want to see them suffer in such ways, unless of course they are biggots, pedophiles, rapissts, etc.


He eventually lead us back to the garage. When we got there, he said, "now I did something for you, now its time for you to do something for me" I gave him like 8 bucks cuz that was all I had left by then

[DreEzed]

One time my buddy and I were at a gas station , filling up on gas and a bum comes over asking for change. We were broke so we gave him some food that we had. He comes back to the pump and so we try to give him some food but instead he gives us the cold shoulder and asks the person next to us for a dollar. What a prick.

But , I do feel bad for the ones with mental illnesses. I see so many in Santa Monica and DTLA.

[Stoichiometric]

Originally Posted by cserrano86

Fuck bums. I get into it alot with them. I never carry cash so when they ask me, I honestly feel bad saying no but its the truth. I work in LA so if i encounter one while I'm at lunch they see me in a shirt and tie and think I must carry wads of cash and when I tell them no, there's been a few instances where they start cussing me out. Fuck that.
1. It's not my fault you failed in life.
2. Go try to earn money in a decent way. Selling oranges, flowers, fruit, corn, ice cream. Fucking hold up a sign for 10 dollars an hour. Fuck that...
3. I'd rather support starving people in another part of the world...

AMEN~ or in your case, NEMA.


Why do you have a dislike towards the lower case "t" as seen in your signature.

"t" is just a letter of the alphabet.

[unlegendary]

this reminds me of the time i tried to give money to a bum while driving. i was a stop light when the light started to turn red and i was at a intersection on the left lane closest to the curb. on that curb there was this bum and i decided to toss a dollar but it was kind of windy so i found those weight things (the ones that help balance tires) in my car and i wrapped the dollar around it so it wouldnt fly. i threw it at the bum and i accidentally hit his forehead then he got hella mad. without noticing it was a dollar, he picked it up and threw it back inside my car LOL.

other than that, i would rather contribute to organizations that wanna help people re initiate their lives after failing lol.

[origin_s135]

i gave a bum a pair of adidas, i see him most of the time when i goto bars/clubs; he is rocking it still.

one time i even gave a bum a working cell phone. but the battery was low. the bum didn't believe it himself. he kept asking us, "F'REAL F'REAL!?"

[Stoichiometric]

Homeless problem. Have prison inmates build homes for the homeless on Golf courses.

GOLF= Useless acres of space that could be used for housing and Drift tracks.

GOLF= Boring and waste of space. What kind of a game requires an area of 50 sports arenas.

Damn rich people. They are the cause of homelessness, that's the truth.

Rich people keeping the poor people where they are, the honest truth.

But if I was rich, i'd probably do the same.

[x240xdrifter]

when it comes to homeless people, if they are extremely rude or obnixous, i'll turn the other cheek. Every once in awhile, if i see someone truely pathetic, i'll spare some change if i got it. However homeless street preformers, depending on how good they are usually get some money from me. Oh man, i remember one day in Boston, in the subway, there was this homeless man playing "Rolling down the River" on his keyboard, he was so pathetic but he was trying so hard, he just kepy saying "Rolling down the River, ROll'N, ROLL'N, rolling down the river" over and over it was funny as hell. so i spared him a couple bucks

[murda-c]

Originally Posted by Stoichiometric

Homeless problem. Have prison inmates build homes for the homeless on Golf courses.

GOLF= Useless acres of space that could be used for housing and Drift tracks.

GOLF= Boring and waste of space. What kind of a game requires an area of 50 sports arenas.

Damn rich people. They are the cause of homelessness, that's the truth.

Rich people keeping the poor people where they are, the honest truth.

But if I was rich, i'd probably do the same.

I work at a country club but we aren't allowed to accept tips and sometimes i just wanna burn this motherfucker down. not really tho cuz it isn't a bad job, i just hate having to turn down 10 dollar bills.

[theicecreamdan]

A country club where you can't accept tips? Fuck that go to the next closest one.
You'd probably double $10/hr if you were getting tipped there.

Its been a while since I saw a homeless person when I had some change. Most of them really are good people though. I'll help them out if I have some money to spare.

And its not my business what they do with their money, if they really need another beer or crack that bad whatever. Having an addiction doesn't make you a bad person or less needy than the next guy.

[ZenkiKid]

Originally Posted by ILoveMyRHS13

I don't; instead, I go buy them a sandwich and a bottle of water. No need to give them drug money to support their habit more.

thats what i do too.

[ZX88]

never give them money they need to straighten up their lives if someone is willing to give them money for free why do anything?

[bigOdom1]

Dont Make Eye Contact

I dont have it to spare for the most part, i do however do the angel tree at christmas adopting a person and getting them a few gifts. and im not against donating to good causes but i dont to handouts to people on the street.

[1ZlowZ]

Cant bums just get arrested or something so they have to struggle and get free food daily? You do loose freedom which in that case theres no point living.

[jeeper_x]

fuck that....

they'll just buy alcohol, or the damn scratchers....

i used to work at the liquor store....

if i really feel bad for a hobo, then i would rather buy him/her food....