Beggars Ltd

Motley Crue

So, having read the thread about beggars earnings, I taught I'd start this one - it's based on a personal experience I had of two beggars arguing over this particularly lucrative spot in Dublin City.

One turns to another and says something along the lines of "this is my space today, you have it next week" and if this wasn't odd enough...the beggar takes his seat on the curb and as I'm heading back in the same direction later on, maybe two hours later, I spot him again - only this time he's handing over all his money to a guy with a red cloth bag. The guy pockets the bag and moves on. He leaves the beggar with a few coppers and the guy seems happy enough with this.

So I'm wondering, is the whole thing "unionised" in Dublin City, is their a hierarchy of begging that we don't know about....do beggars earn a percentage of the money they collect according to their spaces...and for that matter, as absurd as it sounds, who is the one keeping all the beggars in their place and assuring they each get different spots at different times...who's creating the roster?

Has anyone else had any experience of this?

Abrasax

Motley Crue wrote: »

who is the one keeping all the beggars in their place and assuring they each get different spots at different times...who's creating the roster?

Fella goes by the name of Fagin.

Einhard

What the hell is it with begging threads on AH this week?!

Motley Crue

Abrasax wrote: »

Fella goes by the name of Fagin.

Fagin is a fictional character who appears in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, referred to in the preface of the novel as a "receiver of stolen goods", but referred to more frequently within the actual story as the "merry old gentleman"

OK, so whose the new Fagin?

genericguy

Motley Crue wrote: »

Has anyone else had any experience of this?

no, i don't beg so i don't report to this Fagin character.

Yakult

Einhard wrote: »

What the hell is it with begging threads on AH this week?!

And racism threads!

genericguy

Einhard wrote: »

What the hell is it with begging threads on AH this week?!

beggars are annoying cnuts. that's why.

Coriolanus

Begging is an international business. Horizon or something like that reported on it a decade ago. I've seen no reason not to think that it's ongoing.

stupidusername

It'd be my guess that it was someone taking the bulk of his money so that he wouldn't be robbed, and so people would think he's only getting coppers and feel sorry for him. I know that beggars in Limerick hide away euro coins and that. As for the reasons I'm taking a guess.

Terry

I'll be on O'Connell bridge tomorrow. Please give me money.
Thanks in advance.

I'll be the one with the McDoanlds coffee cup.

Lando Griffin

Was there any goods exchanged before this transaction took place? And yea whats about all the AH threads, next we will be posting about cracking street hookers. Ohh.

thebullkf

used to see it when i worked nights in town.

its organised....lucrative and cut throat...most irish beggars have drug problems.

very few homeless irish people begging on the high profile streets....
too many foreigners acting in packs.

i never give money. i give my time, or failing that i buy em a sambo/burger