i just ignore people when they try this
even if they get in my face i can act pretty zoned out (because it doesn't even really have to be an act)
they give up after max 3 attempts usually the first though

pinenamu

United States770 Posts

June 24 2009 03:42 GMT

#25

wow that is so messed up for the real deaf people.

i can't believe there are some people that would swoop down so low to get money. =_=

HeavOnEarth

United States7087 Posts

June 24 2009 03:56 GMT

#26

On June 24 2009 12:19 Empyrean wrote:
As they're leaving, yell out "WATCH OUT" and see if they turn around.

haha awesome

Toxic

Canada233 Posts

June 24 2009 03:57 GMT

#27

On June 24 2009 12:56 HeavOnEarth wrote:

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haha awesome

I actually tried that for ~5 minutes to no avail, they are good at it.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

June 24 2009 04:19 GMT

#28

On June 24 2009 11:10 InfeSteD wrote:
CM where do u work at

I think he stated not to long ago he worked at a Verizon store or some sort of shop for phones.

d(O.o)a

Canada5066 Posts

June 24 2009 04:35 GMT

#29

Just mouth words and you can usually tell what's up from their facial expression.

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

June 24 2009 04:52 GMT

#30

On June 24 2009 13:35 iCCup.d(O.o)a wrote:
Just mouth words and you can usually tell what's up from their facial expression.

"Vacuum... Vacuuuuummmm..."

HeavOnEarth

United States7087 Posts

June 24 2009 05:33 GMT

#31

Lolol.
Daft Deaf(?) Deadbeats~

fanatacist

10319 Posts

June 24 2009 06:58 GMT

#32

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.

How would all the blind people find each other? How would they meet without letting outsiders into their cult? How would they read secret instructions and private messages? It's not like they have braille envelopes to send mail to blind people who could decode it.

Think before you post, seriously.

fanatacist

10319 Posts

June 24 2009 07:03 GMT

#33

Fuck you ForeverWar, beat me to it.

TheFoReveRwaR

United States10657 Posts

June 24 2009 08:02 GMT

#34

On June 24 2009 11:58 iheartgna wrote:
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

I'm pretty sure he needed the crack more than he needed a bottle of water.

The buckets wouldve worked fine. I'm fairly confident homeless people aren't overly picky about the quality of their water.

TheFoReveRwaR

United States10657 Posts

June 24 2009 08:03 GMT

#35

On June 24 2009 16:03 fanatacist wrote:
Fuck you ForeverWar, beat me to it.

Ya mine was way better too.

Yours had too many words.

fanatacist

10319 Posts

June 24 2009 08:25 GMT

#36

On June 24 2009 17:03 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:

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Ya mine was way better too.

Yours had too many words.

Beauty of the written word is best shown in detail, omitting nothing.

OhThatDang

United States4685 Posts

June 24 2009 08:47 GMT

#37

haha that reminds me of that month in sandiego and i believe elsewhere too that certain individuals or even pairs were trying to get money for a ride on the bus

basically in my two instances it was a woman and then a woman and a man. They both had the same stories which was....their children are in the car waiting and they have no money to get on a bus to go someplace else. They would say that they need money for them and the kids or whatever you "have". The first time with the woman i was worried and said..well you can always come with me and I can take your kids to wherever (then i thought about how dumb that was hahahaha) she wouldnt accept and kept telling me money was fine. It got really fishy and so i left her there alone with her "KiDS" which i never saw BTW. couple weeks later two couples with same story as that last woman and they had kids too

this time i was like...why did u leave them there? =p

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6635 Posts

June 24 2009 17:03 GMT

#38

I never give a penny to the homeless, the fucking krsna people or these god damn people saying they're disabled in some fashion and that entitles them to my money, or these people that perpetually need just another 50p for the bus, fuck them all.

QuanticHawk

United States32051 Posts

June 24 2009 17:25 GMT

#39

I take certain joy in throwing out all those door to door people and shit. I'm on the main drag too, and we get a ton of them. The only ones I ever really give stuff to are kids for local teams or shit I know is a real, worthy cause. The deaf people are jerkoffs.

The worst are those retard salesmen who peddle cheap ass toys and shit. My favorite was the one guy who ignored me when I told him we weren't interested and to leave and went back to bother everyone else in the office. His shit ended up in the middle of the street.

Oddly enough, I'm more inclined to toss a few bucks towards a homeless person. yeah, they'll prolly get loaded (and sometimes we help and buy beer !) but shit, like I'd do anything different if I was living on a fucking street.

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

June 24 2009 19:51 GMT

#40

On June 24 2009 11:42 Falcynn wrote:

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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.

Yea i dont really have a problem with it because it is only a dollar and it helps people somewhat. I read some of the articles and i am still not sure if they are written by homeless people..