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Question About Homeless People at Walmart
When we cross 441/27 to go to Walmart, many days there are homeless people looking
for money or a handout. Do you donate to their cause? What's you opinion on them being there? |
It’s a scam.
Watch them some day at the end of their shift when they are picked up. |
We used to on occasion now too many of them are scammers.
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Interrupted one who got very aggressive with an older lady..
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I refer them to the Help Wanted poster in the window.
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I had occasion to work where we would encounter some of these same type of people. they admitted they made a good amount of money which they spent on booze or drugs, not food or lodging. I particularly always looked at the women's hands....they were usually immaculately manicured. had a friend who tried to offer some of the groceries she just bought and was rudely rebuffed. so, I do not give anything.
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I usually drop off cookies that I get from the Open Houses! They get picked up in the evening by a white van... never followed the van but it's full... You will notice that as the weather cools down up north , we will be bombarded with snowbird bums... NC television exposed the scam, these people make approx 500-600 a Day...meth & Heroin is their drug of choice ... gotta love Television
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It can't be easy begging for money. I feel bad they haven't chosen, or figured out, how to earn a legit living. When I feel they are really hard up I'll give, but even then, I may be scammed.
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I occasionally give a buck and it makes me feel kinda warm even though I know i'm being scammed.
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Occasionally I will give if someone truly looks like they can’t work and need a meal. However, if someone is inked up with hundreds of dollars worth of tattoos and is smoking cigarettes, which are very expensive these days, and claim they need $$ for food, I am not biting.
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I don’t give them $$ because 1) I don’t get a tax deductible receipt, and 2) I don’t have the training to know who needs it and who doesn’t.
There are social programs that can help people in need, if they need it. If they don’t qualify, I conclude that it is for a good reason. |
My daughter said look at their shoes they are wearing. Usually they are very nice. Sometimes I’d see them picked up in a better car than I’m driving. I do not give them anything. With all of the job openings now they can work but why should they since they make more money begging .(no taxes)
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