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For Some BART Panhandlers, Begging Is Their Job
CBS San Francisco ^ | September 25, 2017 | Christin Ayers and Abby Sterling

Posted on 10/07/2017 1:08:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: BobL

“Work for Food” Most of us do that don’t we?


41 posted on 10/07/2017 3:34:02 PM PDT by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: HotHunt

The Nazis got it right when it came to gypsies. Yeah, I said it.

In Germany where I was stationed the gypsies would appear in farmers’ fields like mushrooms after a storm. Then the village men would get out their shotguns, form a line at one end of the field, and start advancing on the gypsy camp. Worked every time.

“Die Zigeuner” were nothing but trouble. That was forty years ago. Mutti Merkel probably has them on the payroll now.


42 posted on 10/07/2017 3:38:08 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: dvan

...yea, I was thinking the same when I posted.


43 posted on 10/07/2017 3:44:28 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: gaijin

See the little girl in the front?

That is how you catch a gypsy.

You get a pencil and jab it into a baget...bouguet.....piece of bread.

It mesmerizes them like chickens watching The View.

Then you throw some fish net stockings over them.


44 posted on 10/07/2017 3:53:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve been hit up on numerous occasions, with the same sob story being told by a young pregnant woman in front of the local WalMart and the very next day I see the same woman in the middle of a 4-way controlled intersection.


45 posted on 10/07/2017 4:01:26 PM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: humblegunner

With your reputation you could become wealthy blogging.

I probably wouldn’t like the target demographic much.
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Well, maybe you now have an inclination how we feel about your uselessness.


46 posted on 10/07/2017 4:13:27 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: Eagles Field
Well, maybe you now have an inclination how we feel

"We" who?

You and your pet Gerbil, Mr Wiggles?

47 posted on 10/07/2017 4:15:22 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: nickcarraway

gypsies have a reputation and sadly, its mostly true...


48 posted on 10/07/2017 4:17:07 PM PDT by cherry
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To: humblegunner

You and your pet Gerbil, Mr Wiggles?
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The prosecution rests it’s case.


49 posted on 10/07/2017 4:23:50 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: nickcarraway

While BART is well aware of the panhandling groups, “It’s a First Amendment protected right to panhandle,” said Alvarez.

That’s weapons grade stupid.


51 posted on 10/07/2017 4:32:38 PM PDT by Vision (If you can't respect the Anthem, then it's time for you to find another home.)
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To: humblegunner

Uh oh. LOL


52 posted on 10/07/2017 4:52:07 PM PDT by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: wideminded
Thanks for the distinction but my point is that they are ALL scammers and grifters.

My first exposure to gypsies or "gitanos" in Spanish, was when I was a kid living in Spain when my dad was stationed there in the Air Force in 1957-60. The gitanos would travel around the country in wagons and wore distinctive clothing. We lived in a small town outside of Sevilla and they would camp just outside of town. We'd see their camps when we took the bus to school.

Our Spanish landlord told us to stay away from them because, while they weren't exactly dangerous criminals, they were shifty and not to be trusted. They were petty thieves. Flim-flam stuff. None of them worked because with their reputations, no one would hire them. They always wanted something from you. That is where I learned about the gypsy culture.

Before I retired to Florida in 2011, I had my own business in Arizona. I frequented a hot dog stand set up in the parking lot of my office building and got to know the owner/operator pretty well. He had done a wedding for some gypsies who hired him to park his cart outside the reception hall and give away hot dogs to anybody in the 3-day long wedding celebration who wanted them. He said the reception was a drunken, brawling party. He said he made a good profit for the 3 days. But the hotel where the party was held, didn't fare so well. They'd taken a $5,000 deposit up front, with the balance of $20,000 due when the extended reception was over.

Well, not only did they not get the balance on their contract but the gypsies had done north of $80,000 worth of damages to the rented space. Chandeliers were destroyed, walls had holes punched in them, the carpet was a disaster and had to be replaced, bathrooms were destroyed and more. They went after them for the contract balance and damages, but they were gypsies, and no where to be found. Phony addresses, phony phone numbers, etc, etc, etc. The hotel took it in the shorts. I'm sure the catering manager was fired over the whole mess.

So from my experiences and other stories related to me, I do not have a good picture of gypsies or various other groups similar to them, whatever they called.

53 posted on 10/07/2017 5:12:56 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: elcid1970
See my comment #53 below. Sounds like what president Duterte in the Philippines was doing to drug smugglers and dealers when he first took office.

No evidence, no arrests, no trials, no problem. He just had his people kill them. Problem solved. Drug problems erased.

Hangings on Tuesday. Trials on Wednesday.

54 posted on 10/07/2017 5:19:42 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: humblegunner
"We" who?

"We" ME, nukka.

Latest polling data has your approval/disapproval rating at 2%/98%

bubblegummer stock is falling faster than your mom's chonies behind the 7-11 on Friday night.

55 posted on 10/07/2017 5:42:57 PM PDT by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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