Posted on 07/23/2019 6:55:56 AM PDT by 4Liberty
(Meredith) – A Florida man decided to stand near a busy intersection on Sunday to expose a panhandler who turned down a job offer. Ryan Bray said he saw a homeless man begging for money on the side of the road in Bradenton, about 46 miles south of Tampa. When the panhandler approached his car, Bray offered him $15 an hour to do yard work, the Bradenton Herald reported. “He said, ‘Absolutely not, I’m not doing that,’” Bray told the newspaper. “I didn’t give him any money and rolled up my window and he kicked my tire.”
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Excellent.
He needed to print it larger so it would have been easier to read from the distance cars would be at.
Plenty of homeless shelters locally if you follow the rules.
No drinking, drugging, fighting or fu**ing.
Shoot why live if you can’t do any of those things ? /s
Don’t let the bastards wear you down, without those four, you could still have chocolate in the shelter...
“Bray offered him $15 an hour to do yard work, the Bradenton Herald reported. “He said, ‘Absolutely not, I’m not doing that...”
Very typical. The vast majority of “beggars” the “will work for food” etc. types have zero desire to work. They wish only the free money.
Because pan handling, IS his job
I remember about a decade ago, someone did a study on what Pan Handlers outside Penn Station in New York make, and they make about 80 grand a year, cash/tax free, that is like making 130K a year from a real job. Plus they live in government housing, get all kinds of government benefits etc
I never have a nickel to these bums and never will.
They all can get jobs, but pan handling is there job
Watched two of our regular panhandlers get out of a late model Toyota that they had parked behind a car shop and walk to their corner to start begging. Nice that they carpool.
There was a guy in town with a sign that read “ Bet you can’t hit me with a quarter.” I found it amusing. I didn’t throw a quarter at him. I didn’t go home and come back with a slingshot, either.
I never understand why panhandling isn’t illegal; why they can’t be swept off the streets.
Apparently you have a civil right to be a beggar. Apparently you have a civil right to block traffic and put yourself in traffic, to be a panhandler.
Feel good story of the day - Ryan Bray’s shirt shows his company “Bray Remodeling.” Freepers in that area of Florida should consider contracting with him.
https://www.homeadvisor.com/rated.BrayRemodeling.77950415.html
The money anyone gives them nearly always will go right to supporting a drug or drinking habit.
Thanks for posting.
I roll down my window and tell them they can’t be in the street and need to get back on the sidewalk.
My wife keeps telling me that I am going to get a bad result from one of these scam-grifters.
Time to expose these leeches.
This is no surprise to some of us. Way back when I was a young man, I worked as an AC contractor with two other guys in the Houston area. With two helpers, we could knock out two central air installations a day. We would go down to the Elysian Fields viaduct warehouses early in the mornings where all the bums and winos stayed to try and find help. We offered 80 to 100 bucks cash for a days work. This was a lot of money back in the late 70’s. I had a running bet with my partners that if we couldn’t hire any of the bums, they had to buy me a steak for lunch. I got so tired of eating steak, that I switched over to seafood. After many months, we did manage to hire one steady helper that worked with us constantly. At the rate we were paying him, he managed to get his own place and a car in about a month.
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I never understand why panhandling isn’t illegal; why they can’t be swept off the streets.
Apparently you have a civil right to be a beggar. Apparently you have a civil right to block traffic and put yourself in traffic, to be a panhandler.
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But the Rights to your own property & not being (economically) enslaved...
Panhandling has been ruled a ‘right’. Impeding traffic is not.
Here, in Ft. Walton Beach, they made certain areas off limits to panhandlers, like within 100 feet of a traffic signal..................
I wouldn’t want the guy to know where I lived, but maybe he meant yard work at a rental or something.
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