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Since I work in a downtown area I get all kinds of people in my store, and I see all kinds of unusual stuff (actually its pretty usual since I see it all the time lol), that I don't see anywhere else.
Bums, walking in and asking a bunch of strange questions or talking nonsense. Or just quietly taking all the pamphlets and not responding to anything, then leaving.
Old people and tourists coming in confused as fuck.
People with disabilities, either mental or physical are always a bit of a challenge also. Stutterers, mentally retarded, physically retarded, blind, etc.
Kids, coming in with the poorest selling techniques (someone should teach these kids some of the basics at least) Selling 5$ candy bars for their baseball team or whatever.
I don't mind dealing with them so much, but every so often I get these people who come in and generally look all raggety and dirty. Sometimes they will interrupt everything between you and/or customer and disregard what's going on. They either have a card or some paper and stick it in your face that usually reads:
"Hi i am _____ I am deaf and have ____ problem. Please help me/family with ______ by a small donation of ____."
Sometimes they will be selling some cheap trinket or picture for an obscene amount of 'donation'. Anywhere from 5-20$ US.
I just googled around and generally find that these are a scam, and that the 'deaf community' really hates these fuckers for giving them a bad name and implying that deaf people are helpless.
So if you ever see these people, DO NOT feel sorry for them, DO NOT feel obligated to help them, just read their stupid card/paper and shake your head.
They are using a sale technique by invoking your sympathy. And it's even worse in front of customers because you wanna look good/not look like an asshole in front of customers.
If you have the balls tell these fuckers off when they turn their back to walk out, they most likely are not deaf. If they are deaf (which is really fucking unlikely), no harm done anyways.
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I live in Chicago, and ride the CTA daily. Even though panhandling/asking for money is technically illegal on CTA trains. I've had experiences with every kind of scam imaginable.
From African American kids asking for donations for a fake basketball team, to individuals pretending to be homeless for money, and even this.
It's really horrible that they play on peoples sympathy. As much as I feel obligated to help the less fortunate, people who scam using this kind of method really make me angry.
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On June 24 2009 10:37 CharlieMurphy wrote:
If you have the balls tell these fuckers off when they turn their back to walk out, they most likely are not deaf. If they are deaf (which is really fucking unlikely), no harm done anyways.
That's not a bad idea except you'll look like a dick to everyone else.
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I don't understand why there is such a tightly knit deaf community but not a blind one. I don't know anything about it other than deaf people are usually against cures for deafness or curing babies born deaf because they think deafness is just an alternate lifestyle.
I also know deaf people rioted at some university for deaf people when a hearing president was appointed / elected however it works.
But bums generally just buy drugs. My rule when bums ask me for money for food (very often, there are a lot on High Street, the main street on the East side of Ohio State University) I offer to walk with them to McDonald's to get them a sandwich or something. Sometimes they accept, sometimes not.
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On June 24 2009 10:48 Ancestral wrote:
I don't understand why there is such a tightly knit deaf community but not a blind one. I don't know anything about it other than deaf people are usually against cures for deafness or curing babies born deaf because they think deafness is just an alternate lifestyle.
I also know deaf people rioted at some university for deaf people when a hearing president was appointed / elected however it works.
But bums generally just buy drugs. My rule when bums ask me for money for food (very often, there are a lot on High Street, the main street on the East side of Ohio State University) I offer to walk with them to McDonald's to get them a sandwich or something. Sometimes they accept, sometimes not.
Blind people can't find each other.
When a bum asks me for money for food, I give them a quarter. And keep on walking.
Then 30 seconds later I return and ask to burrow a quarter. If they pass the test, and give me my quarter back , I buy them a kilo of blow.
*cheesy comedy club drum roll*
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oh shit i think i got scammed lol. only a dollar though
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On June 24 2009 10:56 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2009 10:48 Ancestral wrote:
I don't understand why there is such a tightly knit deaf community but not a blind one. I don't know anything about it other than deaf people are usually against cures for deafness or curing babies born deaf because they think deafness is just an alternate lifestyle.
I also know deaf people rioted at some university for deaf people when a hearing president was appointed / elected however it works.
But bums generally just buy drugs. My rule when bums ask me for money for food (very often, there are a lot on High Street, the main street on the East side of Ohio State University) I offer to walk with them to McDonald's to get them a sandwich or something. Sometimes they accept, sometimes not. Blind people can't find each other.
it'd be the worst orchestrated riot of all time
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On June 24 2009 10:58 Ideas wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2009 10:56 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:On June 24 2009 10:48 Ancestral wrote:
I don't understand why there is such a tightly knit deaf community but not a blind one. I don't know anything about it other than deaf people are usually against cures for deafness or curing babies born deaf because they think deafness is just an alternate lifestyle.
I also know deaf people rioted at some university for deaf people when a hearing president was appointed / elected however it works.
But bums generally just buy drugs. My rule when bums ask me for money for food (very often, there are a lot on High Street, the main street on the East side of Ohio State University) I offer to walk with them to McDonald's to get them a sandwich or something. Sometimes they accept, sometimes not. Blind people can't find each other. it'd be the worst orchestrated riot of all time
Honestly a deaf riot sounds freaking hilarious.
I coulnd't help but just laugh.
Its pretty hard to convey outrage with signs. No matter how fast and forcefully you do them, just not that intimidating.
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That reminds me of the time a homeless man asked me for money for the bus, i gave him a bus ticket and he started freaking out at me for 20 minutes. -.-
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On June 24 2009 10:46 Mickey wrote:
I live in Chicago, and ride the CTA daily. Even though panhandling/asking for money is technically illegal on CTA trains. I've had experiences with every kind of scam imaginable.
From African American kids asking for donations for a fake basketball team, to individuals pretending to be homeless for money, and even this.
It's really horrible that they play on peoples sympathy. As much as I feel obligated to help the less fortunate, people who scam using this kind of method really make me angry.
I love when panhandlers ask me for money on on the CTA. I just repeat the recorded announcement in the exact tone as they play it: "Soliciting on CTA trains is forbidden. Violators will be arrested," or whatever it is. It makes everyone else less uncomfortable about not giving him any money.
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pan handling in the US is nothing like true pan handling in asia, where kids with missing limbs (plural), malnourished as fuck, mob tourists asking for money. this wouldn't be nearly as bad if not for the fact that often the limbs are removed on purpose by the pan handling equivalent of a pimp who runs these circles and shit. truly sad :[
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Apparently you're never supposed to give children money in Asia or else hoards of kids will come and follow you
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happens all the time at Niagra Falls. People are just sitting on the stone ridges, and they show you the sign, you say no, they move on. They never get 1 cent... wonder why they keep trying?
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Last week i bought one of those papers that "helps the homeless" for $1. This week i bought another one from the same guy because its only $1.. It was the same fucking paper I read last week on the light rail. It only costs 25 cents to make these shitty papers, why dont they hire a few bums and ask them to write a story for 75 cents and make the paper interesting and actually benefit them. Total bullshit,
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On June 24 2009 11:27 Hypnosis wrote:
Last week i bought one of those papers that "helps the homeless" for $1. This week i bought another one from the same guy because its only $1.. It was the same fucking paper I read last week on the light rail. It only costs 25 cents to make these shitty papers, why dont they hire a few bums and ask them to write a story for 75 cents and make the paper interesting and actually benefit them. Total bullshit, I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but the papers actually do that. Most of the articles are written by homeless people, or at least the papers they sell out here in San Francisco are.
Also they're usually monthly papers, hence why you got the same paper two weeks in a row 
Still bullshit sort of, but it's more respectable then some of the scams that others try to pull.
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I while back I gave a guy three dollars at the gas station - he said he needed gas or something of that nature - Later that night the same guy knocked on my window at a red light, cracked out asking for more money. He didn't recognize me at all.
Recently however, I saw a guy filling up buckets with water from behind a 7-11 so I bought him a pallete of water bottles and a sandwich. If you really want to help, buying what they actually need is the best policy
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When I was in Rome a really dirty homeless guy just came and ripped a cigarette out of my fiance's hand and ran away with it. Right in front of the cops  Also in Rome but on a separate day, when I went to use some public toilets there was a psycho man in there just walking around jerking his dick and yelling shit at everybody who was in there 
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