Beggars at ATM machines.

Tomebagel · 05-12-2009 11:20PM

i kick them and try to pretend it was an accident.

VinnyTGM · 05-12-2009 11:22PM

I alway's show them the receipt I get and laugh at them.

Mr. Presentable · 05-12-2009 11:22PM

Q: have you any change?
A: Yes, plenty, but thanks anyway

Dudess · 05-12-2009 11:27PM

I'm very surprised at the lack of "there's this bunch of beggars who every evening get into a silver Bentley parked 'round the corner from their spot" comments thus far.

Mr. Presentable · 05-12-2009 11:29PM

There is??? Do tell!

ttm · 05-12-2009 11:34PM

Dudess wrote: »

I'm very surprised at the lack of "there's this bunch of beggars who every evening get into a silver Bentley parked 'round the corner from their spot" comments thus far.

Not quite but I've watched a family of beggers in Waterford take off good cloths and put on wretched looking ones as they approach their pitch.

Its not a silver Bentley that collects the crew that do a regular Dungarvan pitch but they are orgainised and one car goes around an picks up the 5 it dropped off in the morning.

Red Hand · 05-12-2009 11:37PM

Dudess wrote: »

I'm very surprised at the lack of "there's this bunch of beggars who every evening get into a silver Bentley parked 'round the corner from their spot" comments thus far.

Where'd you see them?

InkSlinger67 · 05-12-2009 11:54PM

gav_neonstars wrote: »

If you are indeed homeless how do you charge your phone/Ipod?
And how the fook do you fill the ipod with all your junkie hits?

Sounds like George Michael's pre-public toilet sex checklist

Darlughda · 05-12-2009 11:54PM

Dont like folk begging at ATM machines either.

But that's nothing compared to how sick I feel when I read posts from absolute scumbags who think they can get away with outpouring their vile fantasies of degradation on other human beings.

There are genuine cases of people in awful situations.
Just last week,I witnessed some random guy just attacking this poor homeless guy (he was nowhere near an atm machine btw), the vitriol of abuse was disgusting. Just because he thought he was in a higher place in society to the shivering guy, he thought it was okay to stand there and take out all his rage on him.

Racadh na Rian orthu!

deceit · 06-12-2009 12:17AM

Darlughda wrote: »

Dont like folk begging at ATM machines either.

But that's nothing compared to how sick I feel when I read posts from absolute scumbags who think they can get away with outpouring their vile fantasies of degradation on other human beings.

There are genuine cases of people in awful situations.
Just last week,I witnessed some random guy just attacking this poor homeless guy (he was nowhere near an atm machine btw), the vitriol of abuse was disgusting. Just because he thought he was in a higher place in society to the shivering guy, he thought it was okay to stand there and take out all his rage on him.

Racadh na Rian orthu!

I wouldnt give a begger money as no way of knowing if its really a needy person and if is are they going to use it for something useful like food etc. I seen something like this happen before and seen it from the start so knew was for no reason so went over and punched the guy, lucky wasnt arrested

but the guy was taking the piss.

Dudess · 06-12-2009 12:26AM

bluto63 wrote: »

In Camden in London there's a circle around each ATM which no one else is allowed in while someone is using the ATM. Pretty good idea imo

How are people stopped from entering the circle while someone is using the ATM?

Canard · 06-12-2009 12:31AM

robby^5 wrote: »

Nooooooo! The Ha'Penny bridge feels like a toll booth some days in town with the beggars positioning themselves at the steps on both ends, ****ing annoying.

haha, yeah, it's hard not to trip on them all.

Xinkai wrote: »

And walking around the spire/henry street theres always this plonker that actually APPROACHES you and says 'Sorry mate can i just ask ye a question?' I made the mistake of saying sure whats up one day... Now it's like 'Sorry Mate ca...' While i shout ENOUGH.

Theyre the worst kind. There's these ones on the south side who walk up and ask if you've 'change for the busssss?'. I said no, and he took out literally handfuls of change..makes me wonder how gullible they think we are.

And then, if you don't give some money, they start the whole 'where've i seen your face..I know I've seen your face...' which is extremely unnerving.

And just today at central bank I saw a man in a binbag and thought he was a pile of rubbish left there. I laughed loudly and pointed, then I realized it was a person. >.<

ttm · 06-12-2009 12:32AM

Dudess wrote: »

How are people stopped from entering the circle while someone is using the ATM?

Its in England they are English, civilised I expect, they que up and strange things like that so no way would they cross a yellow line when someone else was using the atm, except to kick a beggar.

nlgbbbblth · 06-12-2009 12:35AM

segaBOY wrote: »

I don't know which is worse, the beggar at the machine or the Concern chuggers hassling you as you try and get to the machine.

No comparison.

The chuggers are far worse. At least the beggars are fairly passive. The chuggers just try to bully / intimidate you into giving them money.

IvySlayer wrote: »

ATM = Automatic Teller MACHINE

ATM = Automated teller machine

highdef · 06-12-2009 12:37AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Something should be done about beggars hanging around ATM machines.

lol.....ATM machines........ automatic teller machine machines!!! That's like saying PIN number, as in Personal identification number number.

Sorry, carry on. I couldn't resist!!!

As for beggars at ATMs, I cannot stand them at all. I ignore them or tell them to pi$$ off.

trout · 06-12-2009 12:38AM

segaBOY wrote: »

I don't know which is worse, the beggar at the machine or the Concern chuggers hassling you as you try and get to the machine.

Chuggers, hands down.

Beggars for the most part are used to being passed by ... chuggers tend to be mobile, and they seem to get a perverse pleasure out of chasing people and hounding them.

Some beggars look so wretched, I feel sorry for them ... but the rational part of me thinks it is wrong to support begging.

Chuggers make my blood boil.

quirkster · 06-12-2009 12:41AM

What I do sometimes is get a 1e burger or something from McDonalds and give them that, usually late in the evening/nightime.

Better than giving them a euro that theyll possibly spend on drugs,drink etc.

Plus I feel better knowing Ive given them a warm 'meal' as feck all expense to me

Xinkai · 06-12-2009 12:41AM

Dudess wrote: »

How are people stopped from entering the circle while someone is using the ATM?

A big black man named Ben. He comes up to and says, Get Away From The Circle, Mother F*cker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6JJybtqNk8

Toots · 06-12-2009 01:05AM

That AIB one in Temple Bar is desperate, last weekend myself and the OH went to get cash out of it and there was this scruffy looking beggar sitting underneath it with a sign saying 'homeless and hungry', so we went to the one in the Centra instead. When we came out of the Centra, the beggar had taken out a little bit of tinfoil and a lighter and was happily toking up in the middle of the square!

Always cracks me up when there's one hanging around outside the Fleet Street car park, and they ask you have you any spare change, as you're feeding it all into the parking machine

Kittykook · 06-12-2009 02:31AM

Theyre either hanging around atms or creating dogs from sand..

clever and creative ..

furiousox · 06-12-2009 02:39AM

l heard a beggar in temple bar once saying "homeless and schizophrenic, please help"

l thought to myself "how does he know?"

Run_to_da_hills · 06-12-2009 03:02AM

furiousox wrote: »

l heard a beggar in temple bar once saying "homeless and schizophrenic, please help"

l thought to myself "how does he know?"

You don't have to shout !

LionelNashe · 06-12-2009 03:15AM

Kittykook wrote: »

Theyre either hanging around atms or creating dogs from sand....

Or chalking 'poetry' on the pavement with 8 different colours of chalk.

I was walking by the Molly Malone statue at the bottom of Grafton Street the other week. Some protesters outside the fur shop were forcing the foot traffic to have to walk through this guy's creative effort. The look of distress on his face, you would swear they were trampling his freshly poured concrete or something.

furiousox · 06-12-2009 03:20AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You don't have to shout !

sorry, tired and emotional and forgot to remove bold print

Run_to_da_hills · 06-12-2009 03:26AM

furiousox wrote: »

sorry, tired and emotional and forgot to remove bold print

I was half asleep and the bold print woke me up

DO'Carlo/Wex · 06-12-2009 04:08AM

Akin to what a previous poster alluded to, I also saw & passed on by a vagrant on College St. here in Carlow with Ear-Phones in & Changing an I-Pod.
He actually stopped what he was doing (sitting-down obviously) to ask me for a few bob.
Maybe it was pilfered & he hung-onto it cos he like the tunes & ye need some music to help pass the day like.
Sitting on concrete numbs yir' rear-end.
Either that or there's good money to be made, in which case I might give it a go although probably go somewhere no-one knows me.
Put up a sign saying something witty or unusual like:
Not Homeless, On Dole but No Overtime?
Need money for Five Star Hotel?
Need money for Tarquins' Eton Education?
Obviously won't do it until the Summer when it nice & dry like.
Wonder do Beggars have their' own patch? Like if I take up residence do the Beggars Union come along & say move along there Sonny Boy, this space is reserved?
Saw something similar happen on O'Connell Bridge where one fella was told to eff-off by another who was there first. Brightened up my day in a You Couldn't Make it Up Sort of a Way.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-12-2009 04:18AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Something should be done about beggars hanging around ATM machines. I came across coffee cup holders at the foot of several ATM machines around the city today.

With the amount of ATM scamming, "snatch and grabbing" etc strict law should be made about begging within 20 feet of these devices.

Bah Humbug, 'there but for the grace of God go I' - and all that other sh*t thats probably lost on you at this time of year.

Sharpshooter · 06-12-2009 04:24AM

Vance Poor Cube wrote: »

Bah Humbug, 'there but for the grace of God go I' - and all that other sh*t thats probably lost on you at this time of year.

This time of the year has nothing to do with it as they are always there.

And tbh they do make me nervous when there is no one in the queue behind me.

Dudess · 06-12-2009 04:27AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

coffee cup holders

:eek:

If they were genuine beggars, they'd be holding those plain white styrofoam cups, chipped.

marko91 · 06-12-2009 04:56AM

ye cos a circle has magical powers that keep bums away from atm machines...

Beggars at ATM machines.

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