Collection for Cancer..

Sully

Hey,

Anybody know who the crowd were that decended onto the streets of Waterford city today walking on the main road asking for money for some Cancer Society? There was over a 100 of them, some had some ride-on-lawnmores? I wouldnt give them a penny, they all looked really dodgy and even the van that was driving around with the loudspeaker looked dodgy!

Whats most annoying is, EVERYWHERE you went they were in your face asking for money. On the roads, there were SEVERAL on the same stretch of the road taping on windows asking for money etc.

Im sure if it was dodgy that Gardai would of told them where to go, but nothing was said.

Anybody know anything??

Jor

I had heard some thing last week about a group of people doing a lawn-mower trip across Munster ( presumably for some charity ) but no definite information.

meldrew

Some chap in Kerry or Clare is recovering from cancer and he came up with the idea of travelling around Munster on lawnmowers to raise funds for cancer charities .
Its all above board as I remember hearing about it on the radio the other day and they were telling people when it was coming into waterford City .

Sully

Looked dodgy to me and it was extremley annoying ><

meldrew

All charity collections are annoying but they play on your concience and you feel guilty if you dont give them anything .

Sully

Well these guys are not your normaly collection people, instead they go and terrorise us till we give something. And they all looked soo dodgy

Cabaal

meldrew wrote:

Some chap in Kerry or Clare is recovering from cancer and he came up with the idea of travelling around Munster on lawnmowers to raise funds for cancer charities ..

Oh I get it, save someone from cancer but **** the enviroment by needlessly driving around munster on a lawnmower wasting petrol & money as you go :rolleyes:

strangepaddy

ah shut the hell up u twisted old farts! whether they look dodgy or not they were collection from a cancer charity what the f**k have ye done, except bitch?! one of their friends had cancer at a very young age and was lucky to survive...at least they tried to do something to help!

Cabaal

strangepaddy wrote:

ah shut the hell up u twisted old farts! whether they look dodgy or not they were collection from a cancer charity what the f**k have ye done, except bitch?! one of their friends had cancer at a very young age and was lucky to survive...at least they tried to do something to help!

Hey kid, no need for the personal abuse,

In fairness their's more productive ways of raising money for somebody.....
Knocking on car windows on a main road is only going to piss people off and you'll end up getting less money.

DéiseGirl

meldrew wrote:

All charity collections are annoying but they play on your concience and you feel guilty if you dont give them anything .

Do you include chuggers in that, because I never feel guilty about not giving anything to chuggers?

Maharet

D&#233 wrote: »

Do you include chuggers in that, because I never feel guilty about not giving anything to chuggers?

Yes and there's more of them around everyday...luckily I have cut my ties with the associated charities, still feel a bit bad walkin past them, but I have no money!!

Sully

strangepaddy wrote:

ah shut the hell up u twisted old farts! whether they look dodgy or not they were collection from a cancer charity what the f**k have ye done, except bitch?! one of their friends had cancer at a very young age and was lucky to survive...at least they tried to do something to help!

"Twisted old farts"? LOL. Im not that old.

Dodgy people collecting money = not a good sign. Why? You could be "donating" money to a false cause.

They are incredibly annoying. Several times asking you for money. I wouldnt give a penny to them, god knows where it goes.

meldrew

D&#233 wrote: »

Do you include chuggers in that, because I never feel guilty about not giving anything to chuggers?

No its quite acceptable to walk past chuggers

DéiseGirl

Maharet wrote:

Yes and there's more of them around everyday...luckily I have cut my ties with the associated charities, still feel a bit bad walkin past them, but I have no money!!

I have money (well more than I did when I was a student) but really, I prefer to give money to the charities I like best when and where I want. Bit selfish really, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who does that.