As I was driving today, I noticed a shirtless man standing in the middle of an intersection holding up a sign that said (I may be paraphrasing here)
If I hadn’t been in the middle of a right turn I would have given the guy a buck. I laughed my ass off.
Sometimes, I think I’m crazy for believing that aliens are having fun dropping idiots like that off to pollute the gene pool.
Then somedays, it makes perfect sense.
I hate it when that happens.
You should have gone round the block to see if you could get him the next time. He sounds like a complete wanker. It’s idiots like him that give the other 10% of us a bad name.
Esprix, SqrlCub, et al:
Beware the man with one arm, the pirate with one leg and the guy with the sign in the intersection…
I don’t tend to give money to bums and whackos, except for one guy, sitting in the middle of the sidewalk in Times Square, with a cardboard sign: “I need money to buy booze, drugs, and a hooker.”
I gave him a buck.
You’re a good man Charlie Brown.
At least he was honest about it. 
I wonder if that was the same wacko who approached me in Times Square last year? He rasped at me that he was either going to “kill me with kindness” or “kill me with cannons.” His enunciation was such that I’m not sure which it was . . .
What a coincidence. 1997 was the same year that Seventh Day Adventists killed my dog.
freido:
There’s a guy in DC, who usually can be found on M Street in Georgetown, who is a step up from a prop comedian. He uses little found items, like a big cardboard arrow which he continually waves towards a bucket, and talks like a sideshow barker. He always gets some of my money.
Not only did we kill her, we did it maliciously. Die your mother Die! heheheh
I never give homeless people money. Them having money propogates their street existence. As there are thousands and thousands of homeless people here in DC (big surprise, I think the next largest populations of homeless people are in SF and NYC.) I have become immune to their guile. They do a homeless weekend outing for people interested in homeless advocacy here in DC. One agency in particular (don’t remember its name) had an article published in The Current (our carrier of the Straight Dope) that had three college kids, one girl and two boys, who spent the weekend out as homeless people. Anyway, they talked about how all the travelling soup kitchens would wander around the city constantly feeding the homeless people and how at many times they would just throw away what they had because other travelling kitchens had better food. In DC at least it would be extremely difficult for a homeless person to starve to death. That person would have to have little connection with reality for that to happen. Also, the activists were encouraged to do some street begging. The girl had a sign that said “I could be your daughter.” She raked in money. She said that she made more money on the streets (about $500 in one day) than she ever had working and she only begged for about 2 hours a day. I know that since she was a pretty, young, white girl (most of the homeless here are black because most of the population here is black) her case wasn’t typical of the old bastard image of homeless people. Still, I know for a fact that any homeless person who has some type of moderate control over himself/herself will in no way ever starve to death. Giving them money for begging just gives them incentive to stay on the streets.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Well, the homosexuals didn’t kill my mother, but a group of them did hold her down and do her hair.
cool, you live in DC too…maybe we should start aclub of us homos who kill Moms, we do that a lot here in the Nations capitol
i am not sure how i feel about your previous post. yeah, a pretty, clean, washed, nice, healthy looking girl would rake in the money, for those reasons…she doesn’t scare anyone, especially all of the people who are whiote and have money…she fits a mold
My favorite sign is “Spare cash for White Trash”
That one cracks me up.
Sqrl, that was so unlike you!
Have you ever read Down and Out in London and Paris? I’m sure that article you read makes being homeless seem so voluntary. Those 3 non-homeless people wrote about just how ungrateful those nasty homeless were. What a exciting and adventurous life the D.C. homeless must lead!
I believe that a large percentage of the homeless population is so because the are NOT in control. Often through drugs or alcohol, these people have lost their grip on reality. Some have been released from mental insitutions that had no room for them or were closed because of allegations of abuse. Many are developmentally disabled, learning disabled or live with mental retardation. Three young, clean college students with the ability to make consistent eye contact and to speak clearly and even eloquently are not a realistic test group. It’s outrageously unfair to expect people who live under the burden of a desperation you cannot even come close to understanding to live up to those kind of standards. 99% of homeless people are not homeless by choice. To imply that are is heartless.
Hey Black, you do realize I was being sarcastic. Perhaps you were commenting on Sqrl’s post.
Ok, if you do that, just don’t list me as the founder 
I also make it a rule not to give cash to street folks, but this was too funny. Actually, who I really feel sorry for are the guys who work the street corners selling flowers. There is this one street corner I drive by almost every day, and the same guy is there half the time. I have never once seen anyone buy a flower from him 