Slags with there hand out

[Arnold Layne]

On having to q up at my local benefits office for over 2 hours, just to collect a cheque they owe me for the money I declared over 2 years ago when I was working part time, the schmocker in front of me was trying to claim literally anything he could, but I was sure I recognized him (by the way he was claiming to be blind, stick n all) still I put it down to the amount of rocks I had consumed this week, and forgotabahtit, on avoiding people (who are supposed to have no money) drinking special brew, and skol super etc, on the way out, I needed a piss, only to find the the bogs full of pricks smoking spliffs etc, so, I found a nearby wall, anyways to cut a long story short, tonight after having a few sherberts, I venture of to the local cheap n cheerful chicken emporium, with me dog, and 2ft long maglite torch (I am short sighted) and who's in front of me? but the blind man from the social, with no cane, and vastly fucking improved eyesight, on the dole, but collecting three rather large fucking pizza's, he looks at me, and I realise where I've seen him before, in my video shop! so much for blindness, alright he says, I don't know what came over me, but after having a fucked up day, I smacked the cunt round the head with my torch, dig it? I mean he got off lightly, a quick, short, sharp shock,

[Illinoisblue]

Talking of handouts, some homeless guy a few weeks back was begging in front of the local store near me. He was asking for enough money for a cheeseburger and fries.

I don't often give money to beggars but was in a goodish sort of mood and gave him two dollars.

The cheeky cunt's reply?

"Hey man, that's only enough for a cheeseburger, what about the fries?"

Left me fucking speechless it did!

[Rude Boy]

Classic! In Cambridge I often see a sort of terrorist/beggar hybrid type who berate foreign tourists and follow them up the street demanding, "More!" The poor sods hand over more and more cash until the nasty scumbags eventually fuck off.

[Illinoisblue]

I went to Cambridge a while back (the city, not the university) and was taken aback at just how many beggars there were.

And just like your experience above they were all quite aggressive and menacing.

But what's the answer?

[Rude Boy]

Nuke the place. I'm serious, I fucking hate the place. Nuke it and start again, the road system was designed to piss you off to the point of insanity and it is full of piss-heads and all the houses cost a million quid even though they are crap. In fact nuke the whole of Cambridgeshire as it is all crap, the Fens are full of Satanists, murderers and gypos and the landscape is the most dull in the entire UK if not the world except maybe for Holland.

The ONE saving grace is that three Pink Floyd alumni come from Cambridge but two of them have sensibly moved out and one is now a vegetable (Man!) so let's be sensible and nuke Cambridge.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit...the only way to be sure."

What film is that a quote from? Illinois Blue I will be very let down if you don't know!

[Deuce Bigolo]

For starters,Don't give money PERIOD

The real solution lies in properly funding programs for the drug addicted,mentally ill & homeless all in one not seperately

Alas for those at the bottom its not likely to happen as there are no votes in helping those that have fallen

Plenty of programs that will treat drug addicts but not if they are mentally ill and vice versa so they fall through the cracks and resort to self medication
because the system has basically rejected them

cheers
B....OZ

[Rude Boy]

Sadly the most visible and obnoxious beggars in Cambridge aren't genuine cases, they are just yobs out to harass people and scrounge money from them. One of the local papers there did a great expose recently and trailed several notorious "Beggars" out of the city centre to where they park their cars after a day's begging complete with covert pictures of them.

Having said that the tramps in the park in the middle of the town (Park! That's a joke, it's about as much fun as a visit to Belsen) with their cans of Special Brew are also pretty obnoxious. You've only got to glance at them and you get a volley of abuse, that also includes women out doing the shopping and young kids, they don't discriminate!

It's the most over-rated place in England, a total shithole hiding behind the facade of being a University City.

[Illinoisblue]

NOT giving money to beggars might be the 'answer' long term, but when you see another human being covered in filthy rags with no shoes on their feet asking for money to eat it's sometimes hard to look at their situation coldly.

There's a woman who sleeps, pretty much lives actaully, at a bus stop near me. Can you imagine how shitty that feels, every hour of every day with no hope, no money, no shelter? Living in a bus shelter.

Maybe the harsh Chicago winter will solve her problem, if she's lucky the sub-zero temperatures will finish her off.

[Illinoisblue]

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit...the only way to be sure."

You'll have to put me out of my misery - I ain't got a clue! I have been drinking today so I''m not firing on all cylinders!

[Pervert]

James Cameron's marines in space.