Last few times I have gone to the gas station there has been different people with new angles on panhandling...

I tell them I have no money.. paid with a credit card.. They know this answer and ask if you can pump a few $$ in their tank so they can get home.. I usually tell them Sure.. no problem bring it over... when they get there I usually tell them don't know what it will do to your car but pump as much as you want... when they realize it is diesel they just leave....

Problem solved.. I am waiting for one of them to actually pump it in!!..

Gerry

 

That's good. I'm not going to tell them...

 

I usually give them a few gallons, or a $10 bill.

 

Never happened to me, but if it did, I would just tell 'em to eff-off!

I'm not nice.......

 

There was a guy doing this at the station that I usually fill up at, and he was there for a couple months! Well, he would be gettin the gas in his can then going to people and selling it to them for cheaper than the pump price. This got to me so I let him pump a gallon of diesel into the tank one time. Have not seen the guy for quite some time now.

 

Maybe I'm a hick living in Montana,
what's a panhandler?

 

A person begging for food , fuel, or anything else. Wanting a handout. Usually a scam. Like Nuk's experience.

Hay

 

Hmm, I've seen these panhandlers with their little red gas cans and signs hanging out at gas stations. I knew it was a scam, but I didn't really think how they converted it to money.

What I have to wonder about is the morons that buy the "gas" from some strange person they don't know. I wouldn't want it in my fuel tank.

I know what I would do if I was running the scam. I would have a second gas can around the side of the building in my car that I would dump half the gas from the first can into and then top both off with water. Twice the "gas" to sell now.

Tony

 

After one day at Chicago's Miracle Mile, I decided to never give to panhandlers again. Every last one was a scam.

I saw the Oprah show where she had the homeless guy who was given $100,000 to spend however he wished - a documentary film crew followed him around. The idea of the documentary was to see if money really could solve the problems homeless people face.

Well, it couldn't - at least for this guy. After buying a new 1500 Ram with cash ($35,000 - I guess he didn't haggle), another car for a friend, giving a bunch of money away as "loans", getting married within a few months, and drinking at the pool hall a lot, he ran out of money and became homeless again.

The money I make has already been involuntarily reduced by about 40% by the time I get my hands on it, and some of that goes to social programs to help the homeless. We all literally give to the homeless and poor every month. It's okay to say "sorry - I gave at the office".

 

Wow, this sounds like the guy I referred to in my post! he had a rather new 1500 ram, though he was homeless & living in it...

Makes me wonder.....

 

That is why we have such a problem with them, because there is always a "Bleeding Heart" (like you) out there that will try to "help" them by "giving" them something.

They are like a stray cat that will never go away because of a constant supply of food. Cut off the food and the stray will go away.

I can't tell you how many times I have seen in Dallas.......a "Soccer Mom" driving her Suburban with her kids seeing some "poor soul" holding a sign and begging motorists for money. And she says to her kids......"ohhhh, that poor guy.......kids, not everybody is as fortunate as us,.....watch this"...as she hands him a $10 or $20 bill and drives away feeling like she did her good deed for the day. Course......as soon as she is out of site he goes and buys his next bottle of booze or a "crack rock" with it.

She helped nobody. She enabled his lifestyle of choice which is to not work or be productive, but to beg and make all of our cities look bad and create traffic hazards. After his "fix" he will be right back out there waiting on his next "Soccer Mom" to come along.

There are shelters and soup kitchens and job corps for those who truely need help. These people im referring to don't want help......they want their next "fix".

Ok, I will shut up now and get off my rant.

 

Amen brother.
CJ

 

I was only kidding. I have never seen a panhandler at the truck stop. I would not give them any money.

 

Yesterday I was at an intersection and I had panhandler ask for some money... I look to my left and there was a gas station that had a marque sign under the fuel prices that said "Hiring All Positions"...
I told him to get a job and pointed it out.

Oilguy

 

They get no $$ from me