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  • yellowdog
    Alma Wi
    Posts: 1303
    May 8, 2009 at 9:47 pm #1262835

    OK heres one for you. I was driving in Roch.yesterday and saw someone sitting near an exit. The man was well groomed and appeared to be healthy. He was well dressed including a carhart jacket that I have been wishing i could afford. he was holding a sign that stated “homeless and hungry any amount will help” At the very next exit there was a large sandwich board with a sign stating HELP WANTED and a phone no.I very much wanted to take the sign back to the gentleman and tell him his troubles were over but my wife outvoted me

    Doug Bonwell
    Cedar Falls IA
    Posts: 887
    May 8, 2009 at 9:57 pm #775204

    I saw the same type of thing in town the other day. The couple were holding a sign “starving artists needs a pizza”. I was going to help them by saying if they would stop spending so much on tattoos and piercings they could afford a pizza!

    thegun
    mn
    Posts: 1009
    May 8, 2009 at 10:00 pm #775206

    seen the same guy your talking about and asked him if he wanted to help me pour some concrete and make a few bucks!

    he was busy!

    yellowdog
    Alma Wi
    Posts: 1303
    May 8, 2009 at 10:57 pm #775211

    Quote:

    seen the same guy your talking about and asked him if he wanted to help me pour some concrete and make a few bucks!

    he was busy!

    I’m not suprised

    dan-thiem
    Zumbro Falls Mn.
    Posts: 387
    May 9, 2009 at 12:02 am #775219

    I’ve seen them dudes in Rochester before too. Makes me wonder. Can anybody just panhandle anywhere like that? I thought there was some sort of law against it. More and more of them turning up in the N.W. area too.

    sink-her
    Kasson MN
    Posts: 365
    May 9, 2009 at 1:55 am #775244

    Yep their is a couple of them in town a job would be work not a hand out . I see he can afford smokes.

    predator2 jr
    rochester,mn
    Posts: 448
    May 9, 2009 at 2:10 am #775248

    Quote:

    I’ve seen them dudes in Rochester before too. Makes me wonder. Can anybody just panhandle anywhere like that? I thought there was some sort of law against it. More and more of them turning up in the N.W. area too.


    dan there was a few articals in the pb a while back. if i remember right there is no law in rochester but there is in bigger citys. the articale had interviews with some of they people and i geuss some of them make very good money doing that.

    yellowdog
    Alma Wi
    Posts: 1303
    May 9, 2009 at 11:49 am #775256

    Quote:

    Yep their is a couple of them in town a job would be work not a hand out . I see he can afford smokes.

    Yes I noticed that he could afford to buy cigs too, at what 5$ a pack?

    medic242
    Sioux Falls, SD
    Posts: 71
    May 9, 2009 at 3:19 pm #775286

    What kills me, is a gentleman i know runs a church. He stopped and offered a guy a job at his church, and the guy said “I can’t go with you I make too much doing this”.

    ron_w_basser2
    North Central, MN
    Posts: 136
    May 9, 2009 at 5:10 pm #775304

    I saw a man and wife, with a dog, doing this in Brainerd a few years back. They pulled the dog in a wagon down the street asking for handouts and for food for the dog. At the end of the day we saw them walking back to a park where they proceeded to climb into a nice motorhome.

    Makes you wonder.

    jon_wbl
    Posts: 289
    May 11, 2009 at 1:06 pm #775598

    If I remember right one of the metro news channels did a story a year or so ago. They filmed a couple “working” an intersection. When they finished for they day they got into a fairly new mini van and drove to a nice house in the burbs. I guess they do all right with all of that tax free income.

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