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I do not recommend that anyone do what I do.\u00a0 I collect cardboard signs from people begging money who claim to be veterans.\u00a0 Only once have I found it to be an actual veteran with honorable service.\u00a0 That one stayed in one of my apartments for 3 weeks until he moved to live with a family member.\u00a0 The Soviet has asked that I not “collect” signs and such while she is standing or sitting right next to me.\u00a0 A few weeks back in Savannah, GA when I came across one of these guys sitting with a USMC RECON sign, I didn’t even have to say anything to her.\u00a0 She just calmly walked across the street and waited for me.\u00a0 If there is one thing I can not stand it’s people begging for money as veterans…fake or otherwise.\u00a0 If there is one thing I love it is a woman who lets me participate in my hobbies at a whims notice.<\/p>\n
\nAn Idaho resident is warning others about giving money to two panhandlers in the Post Falls area after he saw one of them get up out of his wheelchair and walk to his car following a day’s ‘work’ of begging for change.<\/p>\n
Tim Stephens said in a\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0post that he had stopped a\u00a0Walmart<\/a>\u00a0in the area when he saw a man with an eye patch sitting in a wheelchair near the exit asking people for money. He said the man was holding a sign that read: ‘USMC (United States Marine Corp) thanks and God bless.’<\/p>\n
Stephens said after he left the store he pulled into a parking lot across the street so his grandchildren could eat their food. As he was parked, he said a white car pulled into a space a few spots down from him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Of course it turned\u00a0 out that this “person of interest” could walk and see just fine.<\/p>\n
\nStephens was so angry over situation he confronted the panhandler waiting in the car. He said when he approached the vehicle the guy’s lap was full of cash and he had removed his eye patch because he didn’t need it.<\/p>\n
‘I asked … if he was busy counting all that money he stole from people,’ Stephens posted. ‘He looked up at me with no eye patch and both eyes. With a grin he said \u201cevery penny”.\u00a0He was lucky I had my grandkids with me.’<\/p>\n
Stephens said he told the guy that he needed to leave town, and then went across the street the same thing.<\/p>\n
‘Watch out for these thieves,’ he warned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The entire article with pictures and such is available HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n
As I said, I do NOT recommend anyone do what I do in these situations.\u00a0 I calmly and convincingly explain to these gentlemen that it is not my preference for them to beg for money in the name of veterans and through thoughtful meditation and careful reconsideration they give me their sign.\u00a0 Once, while both of my sons watched from the vehicle, one of these beggars was kind enough to give me a baseball bat.\u00a0 That was very thoughtful and considerate of him.\u00a0 Fairly sure my oldest son still has that bat.\u00a0 Please, do not try this at home…call your local Law Enforcement Officer.<\/p>\n
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