[3AngelaD]

I live in northern Virginia. At the Route 1 exit onto 15th Street in Crystal City, four blocks from Pentagon Center Mall, there is always a white-headed man sitting at the stoplight begging. Sometimes there is a woman there with him, looking pitiful as well. One day when I was first in line at the stop light, I glanced over, and he had a DIAMOND EARRING in one ear, and not a little one, either, I would estimate it to be 3/4 of a carat. Of course, I couldn't jump out of my car and look at this guy's diamond with my loup, but if it isn't a real diamond, it's a pretty good CZ -- not the accessories you usually associate with beggars. Obviously, he's unclear on the concept. He is there every weekend, his sign always says he's stranded and I think he's a huge fraud. If he is stranded, he's been stranded there since sometime last summer.

[Ditter]

There is a man who begs underneath the 610 loop at Memorial Dr. in Houston. He has a fresh haircut, neat beard, nice duffle bag looks like from Orvis & leather trimmed bedroll. He always has on a fresh laundry ironed shirt. He is holding a sign begging for money, I can't remember what the sign says. When he moves around he appears to have a limp, probably fake. I haven't seen him lately, I guess he took early retirement.