Spare Change?

Fishooks12 · 17-11-2011 03:04PM #1

I was in Dublin for the last few days and as per usual I was inundated for change on numerous occasions

It got me wondering. How much would the average beggar make per day? Or even per hour?

Does the type of beggar effect the amount of change they receive, i.e. does a toothless junkie Irish beggar hanging around LUAS stops get less than a gypsy squatted on a piece of cardboard on O O'Connell bridge?

Latchy · 17-11-2011 03:06PM

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Does the type of beggar effect the amount of change they receive, i.e. does a toothless junkie Irish beggar hanging around LUAS stops get less than a gypsy squatted on a piece of cardboard on O O'Connell bridge?

toothless junkie Irish beggar €37 a day

gypsy squatted on a piece of cardboard€53 a day

= Pimp € 80 .

Kojak · 17-11-2011 03:07PM

You got any spare change OP?

Misticles · 17-11-2011 03:07PM

Whoever has an animal beside them will get more!

Knex* · 17-11-2011 03:08PM

Fishooks12 wrote: »

I was in Dublin for the last few days and as per usual I was inundated for change on numerous occasions

It got me wondering. How much would the average beggar make per day? Or even per hour?

Does the type of beggar effect the amount of change they receive, i.e. does a toothless junkie Irish beggar hanging around LUAS stops get less than a gypsy squatted on a piece of cardboard on O O'Connell bridge?

You trying to find a niche in the maket OP? Oh you sly old fox you.

chin_grin · 17-11-2011 03:10PM

Misticles wrote: »

Whoever has an animal beside them will get more!

Especially if it's a rabbit.

foxyboxer · 17-11-2011 03:10PM

Like the girl on Grafton Street walking up and down approaching people in tears "Pleeeease Sir, d'ya have any spare change

"

She's there every bloody time. Meryl Streep would be proud of those skills. :rolleyes:

biko · 17-11-2011 03:10PM

It's not as common in Galway, thankfully, but they do hang around ATMs on Shop Street etc.
Pretty lucrative.

Misticles · 17-11-2011 03:13PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Especially if it's a rabbit.

Yup. I never give beggars money but I did to that man!

I'm a sucker for an animal!

IdidIt · 17-11-2011 03:14PM

I'd say the old lady that lays on the ground saying "Can somebody help me pleeee-asssse?" doesn't make much, I'm always confused with what she wants help with... does she have a crossword or something?

FatherLen · 17-11-2011 03:16PM

apparently they can make up to 200 a day!

Wattle · 17-11-2011 03:16PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

Like the girl on Grafton Street walking up and down approaching people in tears "Pleeeease Sir, d'ya have any spare change "

She's there every bloody time. Meryl Streep would be proud of those skills. :rolleyes:

I think I know the one your talking about. She kinda bleats at you 'Would ya help me pleeeease?"

foxyboxer · 17-11-2011 03:17PM

Misticles wrote: »

Yup. I never give beggars money but I did to that man!

I'm a sucker for an animal!

It's ironic isn't it. When there's an animal we're more generous to give some change as we feel that we're helping the animal. If their on their own we're less inclined. Cunning beggars are cunning.

Bruthal · 17-11-2011 03:22PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

Like the girl on Grafton Street walking up and down approaching people in tears "Pleeeease Sir, d'ya have any spare change "

She's there every bloody time. Meryl Streep would be proud of those skills. :rolleyes:

If people are in tears, you`d think she would leave them alone...

im invisible · 17-11-2011 03:23PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shCLIjlMYx8

westies4ever · 17-11-2011 03:27PM

The last job my husband had was on mary st and he got hassled everyday. one guy in particular asked him everyday for a euro. This went on and on and eventually hubbie asked him what he wanted it for. The reply - vodka!

the purple tin · 17-11-2011 03:28PM

They make a lot more than you would think.
The ones who use babies as guilt props should be ashamed of themselves.

jester77 · 17-11-2011 03:30PM

Exposing the stump to a missing limb is surely worth an extra 10%
Kid under 10 playing the accordian about 25%

MungBean · 17-11-2011 03:34PM

Government needs to crack down hard on beggars I think. Hit it at its source and do away with change altogether. Sooner we get this futuristic credit system thing off the ground the better.

FinnLizzy · 17-11-2011 03:35PM

Well, its common for the general public to make forced donations to Pavee Point. Your 'gis a euro' money will go towards much needed chicken nuggets for the children, a stretch Hummer for the up coming wedding and immunity from a shlap in the jaw.

Snowie · 17-11-2011 03:43PM

I don't even pay any attention to them now if any one beggar chuggers approach me they get a look that could break glass.

iCosmopolis · 17-11-2011 03:49PM

I'm always amazed at the neck of the ones sitting under the ATMs, as if you'd feel guilty enough to slip them a crisp 20.. I Don't be too charmed having to straddle them to get to the machine either.

foxyboxer · 17-11-2011 03:51PM

iCosmopolis wrote: »

I'm always amazed at the neck of the ones sitting under the ATMs, as if you'd feel guilty enough to slip them a crisp 20.. I Don't be too charmed having to straddle them to get to the machine either.

Essentially it's loitering. And the low lifes who stand beside the luas tickets machines too :mad:

Immaculate Pasta · 17-11-2011 04:05PM

I was in the pub at Dublin Heuston station a couple of weekends ago and I was on the phone and in my 15 minute phone call three beggars came up asking me for money. One of the beggars also went through all the ash trays on the tables putting half used fags in his cigarette packet before the landlord shooed him away

:eek:.

John Doe1 · 17-11-2011 04:22PM

I was in burger king on o connell street when a women asked for change off two amercan tourists, when they refused she told their daughter they had parents, disgusting:mad:

G S R · 17-11-2011 04:43PM

Some newspaper ran an article a few years back where a journalist dressedup as a begger for a day and earned the bones of €200. Serious money to be made.

I was in Kilkenny one night where a lad came up to me with an empty paper cup. I wasn't drinking but threw him 2 or 3 euro. I seen him take the money out of the cup, put it in his back pocket and approach another couple across the street. It wouldn't surprise me if he earned over €100 in the night.

Wetai · 17-11-2011 04:43PM

Got any change?
About .. Three Fiddy?

chiloutus · 17-11-2011 04:45PM

LiamN wrote: »

Got any change?
About .. Three Fiddy?

You gave him three fiddy?

17-11-2011 04:58PM

I remember reading about a chap that took the coins out of fountains in Dublin and made approx 75K a year!

When Dail Eireann found out the sale of waders went through the roof.

MIN2511 · 17-11-2011 04:59PM

There were 3 beggars on the CHQ bridge on Tuesday - 3 fooking beggars on one bridge!!!!

Wrecks my head

petes · 17-11-2011 05:04PM

One guy around Dundalk always asks for change for a cup of tea. Never seen him near a cafe once!

Would like to tell him to go home and make a cup of tea himself as he lives nearly directly opposite where I work.

Annoying fcukers!

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