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01-06-2010, 10:46 PM | #21 |
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Or he could have been a sweet guy and died with his dog because he didn't help him. :]
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01-06-2010, 10:51 PM | #22 |
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Lol, this must be a new trend with homeless people (I am seeing it more and more). They are getting dogs now. Studies actually shows that people are more likely to stop and help a dog then a human. The homeless (the smart ones) are hip to this and keep a dog at their side and doing so increases their incoming donations substantially.
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01-06-2010, 10:52 PM | #23 |
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Correct he could have.
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01-06-2010, 10:53 PM | #24 |
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Lol, this must be a new trend with homeless people (I am seeing it more and more). They are getting dogs now. Studies actually shows that people are more likely to stop and help a dog then a human. The homeless (the smart ones) are hip to this and keep a dog at their side and doing so increases their incoming donations substantially.
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01-06-2010, 10:54 PM | #25 |
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I was going to say, dont make me quote Ivan Drago....... but that would be insensitive.
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01-06-2010, 10:55 PM | #26 |
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... :P
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01-06-2010, 10:58 PM | #27 |
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Obviously, I'm pretty jaded. I'll only go so far as to say it's from years of experience with outdoors folks. Some good, some bad, some flat out nuts. You can help best by giving to reputable local charities. Help local first. Don't have money? Donate time. Volunteer. But never, ever take in strays. |
01-06-2010, 11:00 PM | #28 |
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01-06-2010, 11:01 PM | #29 |
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I try to help people, but not just give them money. I remember when I was about 20, some guy was at the gas station and said he needed money for gas. I told the cashier to let him put $5 in the tank and I'd pay for it. The guy just looked at me and said, "Can't you just give me the cash?". It's sad that we have to actually think this way, but that's how it is. And I've picked up strangers by myself before, but would never do so with my wife or kids in the car.
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01-06-2010, 11:22 PM | #30 |
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So, here is a bit of a sad story, but I think it will make you feel a lot better about yourself. After high school I had a really good grant to go to school and was accepted to almost every school I applied to, but I decided that I wanted to go live a little before going to collage. So I enlisted in the navy. About 5 months before I shipped out to boot camp my mom threw me out. So here I am 18 homeless with 20 bucks in my pocket. So, what do I do I start pan handling. A little sign “I’ll work for food”, and a bucket. Well I did this for a few days made about 75 bucks. Sure, not as much as the rest of the pan handlers, most of them brought in that much or more a day, but that’s not really the point. A lot of the people would drop a business card in with a few bucks or just drop a business card. Remember my sign “I’ll work for food”. well one of the card I got was for a contractor. Seeing as I spent a few summers swinging a hammer. I decided this guy might have some work I can do. I’ll give him a call. He tells me to meet him some place, a gas station I think if I want to work. I meet him, he ask me if I have any experience. I tell him I have done a little framing, a little ruff finishing, and some roofing. Lied about the roofing. I hate heights, but hell I was hungry, and I knew enough to fake it. He ask me if I have any place to stay. I tell him no. He tells me he will try me out for a few days and we’ll see from there. So we get to the job site, he sends me of with a crew foreman who makes me his fetch boy to hall lumber all over the place. Hard brainless work, but I busted my butt. Remember I was hungry. At the end of the work day he hands me 50 bucks and sets me up at this $25 a night hole of a motel but it was warm, had a semi color TV, hot water and a bed. Better than the streets any day. Told me to be out front at 6 AM and some one would pick me up every day. Had Sundays off, and that if I kept working as hard as I did today he would pay me $50 a day. I had it made. I could do this until I left for boot camp. Well as luck would have it I only had to do it for 3 wks, because my recruiter knew what was going on with me got me an earlier seat in boot camp. I told my boss what was going on and that I would be quitting in a few days, and why. I had never told him about the navy. I was a little afraid of loosing my job. Do you know what he told me. Now this is the part that makes you feel a little better about your self. He told me for as long as he can remember he has been giving his card to people with signs “I’ll work for food” and I was the first person to ever call him, and that he had no doubt that I would make something of my self because I knew how to work and I knew what it was like to be hungry.
My point is this and I believe Benjamin Franklin states it best. “I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it” Don’t feel guilty because you didn’t help a man you thought might be stuck out in the cold, and you had the opportunity. Only feel guilt because you didn’t help him when he was out in the could, and you had the opportunity.
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