Originally Posted by
white_n_slow
A couple hobo stories from my visit to Chicago a couple months ago:
1) I was walking down the street and some guy asked for 80 cents, as if he has something specific he wanted to buy. I gave him a quarter and went inside. About 5 minutes later I came back out and walked by him again and he asked for 80 cents again.
2) One guy asked me for change and I didn't have any (I generally don't give any even if I have some). He apparently took offense to that because I was wearing a nice suede jacket and if I was dressed that well, I must have change. So he followed me for three blocks ranting about how "if you don't have any money looking like that, you might as well shoot yourself."
There are plenty of hobos in Boulder, but they leave you alone for the most part.
Chicago bums are the worst... one time I had one ask for some cash, I gave him a few bucks and he looked in my wallet and asked for more
Originally Posted by
95SiR
i dont give them fuckfaces any money. even if it's pennies. i used to offer food if i was already at a fastfood joint, but fuck that too. i gave a breakfast sandwich to a bum once at a jack in the box. motherfucker takes it and throws it away. FUCK U AND UR MENTAL ILLNESS. zero sympathy for bums.
i'm pretty much the same way but once in a while, I might give a little bit. mental illness is a tough situation and i definitely sympathize but there are plenty of tax dollar funded hospitals and shelters to oversee these dudes...