beggars creating a nuisance
@pratiksanghvi (1281)
India
February 2, 2009 8:01am CST
i go to my college everyday and outside our college we have a few food stalls and i have experienced that whenever we eat out here the beggars come out there make poor faces and beg for the food if we give them they get their friends to ask for more food and if you do not give them they snatch the plate of food from you.once ma friend was having a chocolate a beggar just came and snatched it from him he jsut could nt do anything have you ever experienced any thing like this.can u suggest measures to prevent this.
4 responses
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
2 Feb 09
oh where is this at? i would love to go there and deal with them myself. i can get right rude with beggers, i've been appoach by a few and tell them straight up you better step away or else!!!
i would complain to the manager or whoever about this, and get as many people you can find to complain as well
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@pratiksanghvi (1281)
• India
2 Feb 09
hey bro thx for helping itsi n india,in mumbai near kc college if you do not live in mumbai then you will not get the location
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
2 Feb 09
oh man.. lol. often if i have to go washington dc to the bus station and i go out to smoke i'll have them come up to me. i tell them naw dude like get away from me.
had one person come up to my car, asking for money and i told them straight out dude like step back from my car or i will run your a$$ over with my car.
another time i was in dc for a job interveiw and this dude came up to my car asking for 5 bucks, i looked at him, ok for real dude, i am in my good clothes and you are dress way better then me for a begger so how about you give me 5 bucks ?
he just laughed and walked away
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@gbolly54 (661)
• Nigeria
2 Feb 09
I agree with you that beggars are a nuisance, especially when they breach the "protocol". Beggar problems are particularly daunting in the poor countries of the world, including mine - Nigeria.
However, we have no choice but live with the problem. Economic problems keep worsening by the day, and people are losing their means of sustenance, or the means of sustenance is rapidly getting inadequate. Unfortunately, we have abandoned our duty of being our brother's keeper and the extended family system is fast disappearing.
Let us thank our stars where only the beggars are the nuisance. I even thank and commend them for choosing to beg to keep body and soul together. It is much worse where some of the beggars degenerate into armed robbers. Where this happens, people will come to appreciate the patriotic role of beggars. Often here in my country, whenever I run into a gang of what we call "area boys", who swarm on us for "chop money", I inwardly commend them for choosing to undertake their forcible begging rather than joining armed gangs.
Our leaders have a great role to play in minimizing the incidence of begging in our societies. Let them be less corrupt; let them create enabling environments for job creation and gainful employment; let them introduce social security system. Otherwise, there is great danger of the nuisance beggars turning into dreaded robbers.
@marty3888 (2355)
• Acme, Michigan
2 Feb 09
You could report it to security. I can't believe this happens on a collee campus. I hate that. It sounds like your problem is even worse than my experiences. Outside Mcdonalds those beggars would be asking for money, telling stories like they are just trying to get enough money for a train ticket back home. But you could say no, I don't have any money, walk away and they would leave you alone.
@WePayGuide (128)
• United States
3 Feb 09
I would give them food but let them know that I am not a push over. I guess being homeless myself at one point in my earlyer life, I have more respect for all men & women. Plus, helping them out is good karma.
