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Originally Posted by manaboutown
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Yes we had one near where I worked, he used to stand on the center island of a main road near the highway exit with his homeless vet sign. He'd been arrested a couple of times and eventually his situation was given local newspaper coverage. Turned out he had a home, was actually fairly well to do, but incredibly eccentric. They didn't say *why* he would go out begging like that. Like, what his own reasoning was for it. Did he forget he wasn't homeless? Was he mentally ill and was living in some past decade when he actually was homeless, maybe?? Was he trying to make a political statement? Was it a social sciences test? I never learned the answer to the why of it.
He didn't make a lot of money at that spot but he had other spots he'd go to during the week as well. Very strange man, but harmless.
There was also a guy who used to come to my job, who everyone assumed was homeless. Turned out he was one of the wealthiest people in town, he was just super grungy and drove a beat-up car because, he said, it worked just fine and there was no reason to replace it yet.