Beat the shit out of him in an alley.......... or just start your own versio of bum-fights with him and another bum.

In Oregon there are always bums on the regulated on-ramps to highways (The ones with the stop lights). Whenever they ask for change, i take some change (usually a dime) and put it on the cigarette lighter and toss it at them.

Lol.  You just reminded me that two years ago when some band was in town whose name escapes me, these teenagers and their dogs were camped out in front of store which was closed that Sunday.  They had a small cup in front of them which read "spare change."

"Can you spare some change?" one them asked.

"No thanks." I said.

Then the girl who was tending to the dog yells out after I'm like ten feet away, "Give change now; avoid a mugging later!"

I had to laugh.  Had I found a cop walking a beat, I would have reported the threat, but I was late for my appointment. 

File that under how not to win friends and influence others.

in the area i live in there aren't but maybe 5 actual "bums in the county but if you move closer to the city any bridge in pittsburgh (aka. city of bridges) you'll find gangs of them.  I saw my first one when i was like 15 on a school feild trip we passed a few and i seriously cried went home told my mom and she thought it was funny that i had a heart towards them. 

      but anyhow when eric was in his accident before i would go through the tunnels there was a man who was in rags and his sign said "please help one of gods children and the act will come back to you"  kind of caught me off  guard since i'm in a bad way due to eric being hurt and now a semi single mother so i gave him 5 bux ever time i saw him for the month i drove past.  always said thank you and god bless you. very kind man.  well a week or so later i recieved a check from a church because they heard about eric's situation and i think the church helped me because i helped that man!!  yea thats my story

Wow you guys got a bunch of liars,

Down here in West Palm Beach we got bums that have signs that say "Why Lie? Need beer"

They do quite well because of it I think.

Just came from the gas station.  While I was pumping gas, this guy with a backpack, who looked like he was drunk wandered over to my trunk and started to count change aloud.  He did it agian and then looked up at me like he had a problem.

"Uh, I want to buy a soda," he said pointing to the pile of change in his hands, indicating it wasn't enough. 

He continued, "I only have forty-five cents and a soda costs . . ."

"I'm not helping you man.  Sorry," I said.

He looked at me with semi-sobering eyes, like he wasn't expecting that and kinda gestured like he was disapointed in me for not getting with the program.  Soda, right.  This gas station sells beer.  So he broke eye contact and started to stagger away slowly.  

I thought about this post and how my theory about folks who look well fed just needing a fix.  That's the second time today!  This guy obviously needed more beer to keep his buzz going. 

I think I'm from now on I'm just going to wait until they actually ask for money and then say "no."  If they persist, I'm calling the cops.  That will fix that problem because I'm going to start fearing for my safety after that, I've decided.

When me and my friends were like 15 we would help out the local bum population.  See what we did was ask a bum to go buy us booze, and whatever change was left over he could have.  If he worked his arithmatic right, we would get our booze, he would get a 40, and probably enough loot left over for a slice of pizza.  If the bum tried to make off with our money we would beat him in the head with a bat, luckily that never had to happen.

 

Shark

 

Heh, me and my friends resorted to that last year on our Senior Trip to Disneyland... We were shoulder tapping all the normal looking people, but they had no interrest in a few bucks for an illegal act.