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Money for the bus..

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  • 28-05-2010 12:01pm
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    splashthecash
    Registered Users Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone else have these chancers coming up to them regularly using the same old line "do ye have a lend of a euro, i've missed my bus" or something along those lines...

    A lot of the time they look respectable enough and you would stop to see what they want, thinking they are looking for directions or something like that and then they out comes that old ****e..

    Come up with a better line than that for the love of god!


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    Banned Account
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Banned Account


    splashthecash wrote: »
    Does anyone else have these chancers coming up to them regularly using the same old line "do ye have a lend of a euro, i've missed my bus" or something along those lines...

    A lot of the time they look respectable enough and you would stop to see what they want, thinking they are looking for directions or something like that and then they out comes that old ****e..

    Come up with a better line than that for the love of god!


    What about "have you got a spare euro, I need to top up the credit in my phone so I can get my dole money"


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    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Yeah i do get it when i'm in Dublin,not so much in Galway.


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    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    One guy hounding people around Exchequer street last Sunday, "Have ya got a eura" I just shook my head in disgust and walked on. He responded by saying "You could be down on your luck someday too pal". It took all of my control not to turn around and tell him I probably would be down on my luck at some point but if I ended up skagged off my head and couldn't figure out the welfare system it would be my own fault.


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    Evil_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Evil_Clown


    You should put those bus beggars in touch with the crown prince of Nigeria he sent me an email this morning saying as a result of a financial transaction he had a million US dollars that he wanted to transfer into my account.....


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    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    There's one particular lad who's a devil for it. His brain is fried on something. Was standing on O'Connell St for a while before and he came up to me, did the change for a bus spiel, told him I had none and away he goes. Not 5 minutes later he was back up to me starting off his spiel all over again.:rolleyes:.. I've had the same lad ask me the same thing on numerous days, O'Connell St, around Busáras, the quays etc etc. The fooker never has change for the bus home poor lad. At this stage I recognise him coming and just say NO before he opens his mouth.


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    EL_Loco
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    hey OP,

    you go around with your userID on your T-Shirt what can ya expect?! eh?

    gizz a quid ya flash git. :)


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    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure the "bus".


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    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Don't want to sound all right-wing or anything, but if you give them money, they will more than likely spend it on drugs and alcohol (this isn't something that I heard on Joe Duffy, I was told this by someone involved with a homeless charity).

    If you want to help homeless people, give the money to a homeless charity instead


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Nope, we run poor people out of town.


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    silvervixen84
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    Yep, there's this old fella in Cork who wears a suit, caught me out once with the "euro for the bus" line. I didn't fall for it the second time.

    I give money (and food sometimes) to homeless people as I pass by, but I don't want anyone invading my space looking for it.


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    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Evil_Clown wrote: »
    You should put those bus beggars in touch with the crown prince of Nigeria he sent me an email this morning saying as a result of a financial transaction he had a million US dollars that he wanted to transfer into my account.....

    only a million?? sure you can get that on the spanish lottery. and you don't even have to buy a ticket for that either..


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    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I'm pretty sure that were I to ever be caught in town with no money I'd sooner walk home (around 60-70mins by foot) than beg a stranger for a euro.

    If they just came out and said they wanted the money for skag or Dutch Gold or heavenforbid FOOD I might be more inclined to give them something. They're certainly not getting it just so they can use a public convenience at my expense.


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    Scráib
    Registered Users Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Scráib


    I had one lad try a whole new angle on it: 'My wife has just had a baby in the hospital and I need a euro for credit for my phone' Said with a thick Dublin accent.


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    Chorcai
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 2,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chorcai


    prinz wrote: »
    There's one particular lad who's a devil for it. His brain is fried on something. Was standing on O'Connell St for a while before and he came up to me, did the change for a bus spiel, told him I had none and away he goes. Not 5 minutes later he was back up to me starting off his spiel all over again.:rolleyes:.. I've had the same lad ask me the same thing on numerous days, O'Connell St, around Busáras, the quays etc etc. The fooker never has change for the bus home poor lad. At this stage I recognise him coming and just say NO before he opens his mouth.

    Looks like he cuts his own hair as well, sometimes he gives it a bit too much of trim ! Seen a woman give him a few cents, he said I'll pray for you. He is harmless, strange none the less.


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    Davexirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Davexirl


    I had one on O'Connell Street wouldn't leave me alone asking for " just even 10 cent", I just said I don't have a ****in job either. Then he was like ohhh sorry man sorry sorry.


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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    When I used to live around Ranelagh, there was this non-junkie guy,
    middle aged, chubby build and culchie accent.

    He asked me once for a quid to get the bus cos his car had broken down.
    No problem, seemed an honest sort, I gave him a quid.

    Over the course of the next few years, he tried the same act a couple of times with me and I saw him begging for off others too. Feckin chancer.


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    kiwi123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭kiwi123


    walking along grafton street and some girl comes up to me and asks for change and i didn't have any at time, so i was like sorry no and she starts abusing me, so rude!


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    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    There is a guy who I encountered on Patrick Street once who comes up to you and says that his flat has been broken in to and that he needs €4 to get to Kildare for work. He seemed pretty geniune but much to my disgust I bumped into him doing the exact same thing a few weeks later.

    Having said that when I was a teenager I lost my purse and was stuck in town with no way of going home so I had to ask someone for a quid for the bus. It wasn't a nice experience.


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    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    I dont visit Dublin very often but i was there last month. I walked from the top of O' Connell st. to Trinity to meet the girlfriend. In that short walk I was asked 6 times for money.

    I dont know how the fcuk ye put up with it.


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    Demonon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Demonon


    I remember in 2003 or something this respectable looking couple asked me for "a lend of a euro" for the bus, I just gave it to them because I had some change. Then they say "actually ya wouldn't have another euro" for the bus we still don't have enough. Some people are never satisfied! I've never bothered giving them anything since, ungrateful bastards.


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    dkdavey67
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    best one I ever had was when I was at central bank one day. a guy I knew from my local area had a junkie brother. anyway he approachs me and gives the old,

    " sory bud, me girlfriends pregnant and I need to get the bus to the hospital, have you any spare change"

    To which I replied " you dont have a girlfriend, Sam(not real name)"

    " you dont know me, me girlfriends in labour"

    To which I replied " I know your brother andrew( not real name), I know you and I know you dont have a girlfriend."

    then his demeanor changed and he said " ah you know andrew! Give us a fiver then!":rolleyes:
    they just have no shame and theres no point argueing with them.


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    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Then there was another time some junkie was asking me for 20c, I took out a handful of change to get a 20 and the chancer tried to take it all out of my hand, "I'll taaake the coupla yowro". No you won't. You won't get the 20c now either you ****.


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    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Scráib wrote: »
    I had one lad try a whole new angle on it: 'My wife has just had a baby in the hospital and I need a euro for credit for my phone' Said with a thick Dublin accent.

    Should have replied with "I'd have given you the money if you'd have had the common decency not to breed."


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    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    Sure they're everywhere these days, look at this chancer for instance :p


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    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I accidentely overpaid on some bus fair last week when out with some friends. The ticket showed I was owed €1.05c and stated I could collect the refund in town somewhere.

    Now, it crossed my mind at the time that if someone stopped to ask me if I had a euro, I probably would have just handed them the bus ticket and said "Sure, and you can keep the extra 5c as well!".


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    MardiB
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭MardiB


    I sometimes give money to homeless people but I hate people begging aggresively. Where I work there are loads of junkies hanging around the bus and luas stops, drinking etc. On my way home this week the usual ' have you got a euro' blah blah, 'give us a spare smoke' etc from a junkie. I replied ' I think I only have change for my fare' Cheeky fcuker starts shouting at me 'you fcuking think or you know' I was fuming. Anyway bus comes, on he gets, going on about forgetting his disability pass. Holds the bus up by argueing with the busman for about 10 minutes. When he gets off starts kicking the bus.

    I'm generally sympathetic to junkies, homeless people etc, because their lives must be pretty awful, but his sense of entitlement and utter absence of respect for everything really annoyed me:mad:


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    --LOS--
    Registered Users Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    An old woman approached me the other day looking for change to make a phone call, then my bus pulled up and she hopped on in front of me nearly knocking me out of the way. I felt cheated :mad:


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