Posh Beggars

05-03-2013 12:07AM

Nothing new, someone I knew in college used to do it regularly enough and come out with a couple of hundred quid a night.

TheNap · 05-03-2013 04:32PM

Happened to me coming home from work last week . 2 travellers stopped me and said their mother is in hospital here and they needed money to get home to Cavan . Seems its more common than i thought

De Hipster · 05-03-2013 04:35PM

brummytom wrote: »

I hate 'have you got a spare?'...

I usually answer with 'nope...no spares, there were only 20 in the box when I opened it, sorry dude.'

frank reynolds · 05-03-2013 04:42PM

there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for these people to be begging "genuinely". they get hand-outs, no matter who they are, where they're from etc. all that they are begging for is pocket money most of the time.

i would say (imo) that anyone who is in genuine need of things like food and shelter, are getting it from services provided for them.

that's why you see the same beggars all the time. they're ALL scammers.

AnonoBoy · 05-03-2013 05:20PM

dodderangler wrote: »

Or worse is when they say they only smoke when they drink
I usually reply then would you not buy smokes when you drink

Or tell them that you only drink when you smoke so could they buy you a pint?

Lollipops23 · 05-03-2013 06:08PM

There's also "fake pregnant lady" in and around the Grafton St area- I don't know if she just has a naturally rounded belly or if it's padding, but she sure as hell ain't pregnant. She's been using it for several years now.

AnonoBoy · 05-03-2013 06:13PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

There's also "fake pregnant lady" in and around the Grafton St area- I don't know if she just has a naturally rounded belly or if it's padding, but she sure as hell ain't pregnant. She's been using it for several years now.

Is it Miriam O'Callaghan?

wolfpawnat · 05-03-2013 06:17PM

I have to laugh at the amount of "beggars" in Dublin with full head to toe Nike tracksuit along with obligatory Nike Airs, their shoes are more expensive than my whole outfit!!!! I just look at their branded clothes and cannot believe their gaul!

I was approached by a guy in a suit one day asking "Would I care to donate a Euro to you?" in a posh accent. Kind of shocked me, but I only had my luas fare on me so I gave nothing anyway.

B.A._Baracus · 05-03-2013 09:33PM

Some of the old 'classics' get under your skin.

- Someone asks you for a light and you say 'sure' then they ask 'do you have a spare smoke too?' :rolleyes:

- Someone taps you for a smoke. You give them one. Then they just put it in their pocket and walk down the road. You just know they're going to tap the next 20 people asking the same. Why pay for smokes when you can get them for free.

riclad · 06-03-2013 12:47AM

I Never give money to beggars, especially women with kids,
its a scam.
we have a good welfare system, i reckon they make hundreds of pounds tax free.every week.
on JOE duffy show, foreign women with kids, are asking people to buy them food ,grocerys in the city centre.
or eg i was robbed , i need money to go home,
eg as in previous,post .
SOME of them may be drug addicts,why give someone money to buy drugs.?

fasttalkerchat · 06-03-2013 03:41AM

riclad wrote: »

I Never give money to beggars, especially women with kids,
its a scam.
we have a good welfare system, i reckon they make hundreds of pounds tax free.every week.
on JOE duffy show, foreign women with kids, are asking people to buy them food ,grocerys in the city centre.
or eg i was robbed , i need money to go home,
eg as in previous,post .
SOME of them may be drug addicts,why give someone money to buy drugs.?

I remember one who limped around Georges Street outside Dunnes on a crutch with no shoes. One evening I saw him fully clothed getting onto a bus.
Next day, no shoes again!

ColeTrain · 06-03-2013 03:53AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I remember one who limped around Georges Street outside Dunnes on a crutch with no shoes. One evening I saw him fully clothed getting onto a bus.
Next day, no shoes again!

It could have been his uncompassionate, identical twin getting on the bus?

seven_eleven · 06-03-2013 09:28AM

Yep, some guy came up to once, well dressed & spoken, cleanly shaved etc and gave me this sop story about him being from Northern Ireland and he came down to visit his parents but he lost his wallet, and slept rough last night. But he needed just a few euro to pay for the bus fare back to N.I.

Outright told him no and walked off. So many people fall for this bullshít scam every day and then go off feeling good about themselves for helping somebody.

The weird thing was when he first approached me he asked "excuse me, do you speak english?"

Made me think he was a tourist looking for advice so I stopped. It's a pretty good way to get people to listen to him, otherwise I would have just kept walking to be honest.

topper75 · 06-03-2013 10:47AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I was in a train station in Europe recently waiting for a friend, I sat down and soon enough the two homeless drunk guys beside me started to chat to me, was there for about half an hour with them trying between the three of us to have a conversation in a common language, one of them insisted on buying me a coffee (or a beer or a coke). Can't say I've ever been offered a cup of coffee by a homeless person before, it was sweet!

First you buy her coffee, then you get the sex. Every homeless knows that!

Tabnabs · 06-03-2013 11:00AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I remember one who limped around Georges Street outside Dunnes on a crutch with no shoes. One evening I saw him fully clothed getting onto a bus.
Next day, no shoes again!

He's well known to the locals and the gards. He actually takes his shoes off when he arrives to his pitch and sits on them...

06-03-2013 11:03AM

Most of the 'Posh Beggars' in Ireland go to NAMA, where they can cadge €100,000 or more per year, not bad eh?

06-03-2013 11:05AM

Yep, had it happen to me a few times in south Dublin. Always young girls, 16-22 age group. The most recent one was over Christmas when some D4 girl with 10 layers of makeup asked my boyfriend and I to buy her a drink because she'd lost her wallet.

My bf told her in no uncertain terms that he didn't give a fck and that if she really had lost her wallet, she should be trying to get home, not begging strangers for drinks.

What goes on in people's heads when they do this? Are they really so spoiled that they expect strangers to buy totally unnecessary stuff for them? It was the way she asked as well, as if she just expected us to do it and she was really shocked when we said no.

A Primal Nut · 06-03-2013 11:08AM

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

It has actually been proven by study on Brainiac (old tv show on sky one) that a well dressed person is more likely to recieve money, i.e., lost my wallet, can i have a few euro to get the bus/coffee etc, than a person who is dressed "like a skanger"

Happened me and my friend once in the US, some guy in a sharp dressed suit came up and had some sob story about having lost his wallet and had no money to get home or something along those lines and I gave him a dollar. A couple of weeks later my friend went back to the same place and said the same guy in the same suit came up to him with the same story.

giant_midget · 06-03-2013 11:19AM

People should realise that anyone that stops you on the street in a city or anywhere is just looking to get something from you. Just blank them and keep walking that's what i do.
Not interested about your lost wallet or you needing a euro for a hostel or any other story....

06-03-2013 11:21AM

giant_midget wrote: »

People should realise that anyone that stops you on the street in a city or anywhere is just looking to get something from you. Just blank them and keep walking that's what i do.
Not interested about your lost wallet or you needing a euro for a hostel or any other story....

Not true. A lot of people just want directions or something. When I'm abroad, I'm grateful to locals who stop to help me. It's a shame that all the con artists and pickpockets make people so paranoid that they won't stop to help anyone out.

Angron · 06-03-2013 11:22AM

The Pheasant wrote: »

Yeah I was in Tesco buying a few beers the other day and a nicely dressed girl around my age or maybe a year or two older than me (I'm 18), comes up to me and says "Sorry would you have a spare 5er on you?" of course I look at her as if she has about 20 heads and she just goes "sorry it's just that I need wine?".........."What?! I don't care if you need wine - earn your own 5er!"

That just has me thinking of the Simpsons: "Come on, my last paycheck bounced. My children need wine!"

everlast75 · 06-03-2013 11:49AM

I for one, am delighted that beggar spent his begged money on fine clothes, good grooming and elocution lessons rather than tatty heroine or the like..

homeless student · 06-03-2013 11:55AM

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

It has actually been proven by study on Brainiac (old tv show on sky one) that a well dressed person is more likely to recieve money, i.e., lost my wallet, can i have a few euro to get the bus/coffee etc, than a person who is dressed "like a skanger"

I was once in bus aurus in dublin, and a seemingly respectable woman(well dressed, well spoken) told me she had lost her purse and could I give her 2 euro to make up the rest of her bus fare. I gave it to her. then I watched as she asked about 10 more people the same question. I told the foreign security guard to kick her out but he pretended he had no english.

homeless student · 06-03-2013 11:58AM

SamHall wrote: »

Filling station last week in Naas.

Man approached me (Irish lad, well dressed) sorry, do you speak English?
Says me, I do yeah?
/produces some kinda i.d (with no photo) and says he needs a few euro for petrol to get him home to waterford.
I say I'm at work mate, don't carry cash when I'm working.
He asks if I've any loose change even? I say nope.

Watch him do this to about a dozen more people in the space of ten mins.

Then watch him drive off, in the Dublin direction.

Cute hoors have just got cuter it seems.

I dont know, id feel a bit of a loser doing that, but some people have no dignity I suppose.

06-03-2013 12:01PM

wolfpawnat wrote: »

I was approached by a guy in a suit one day asking "Would I care to donate a Euro to you?" in a posh accent.

You should have taken the euro from him

homeless student · 06-03-2013 12:15PM

was approached by an old woman and man in dublin city centre, i need money for hospital bla bla bla.. i said sorry i have to...... and started walking away lol she roars at me have to what? and started roaring abuse at me. FCUK OFF never give beggers anything or chuggers.

Frank Bullitt · 06-03-2013 12:16PM

Had a begger come up to me at the lights, was on my bike, he had a bluetooth device in his ear.

Sorry mate, not today.

--Kaiser-- · 06-03-2013 12:17PM

SamHall wrote: »

Filling station last week in Naas.

Man approached me (Irish lad, well dressed) sorry, do you speak English?
Says me, I do yeah?
/produces some kinda i.d (with no photo) and says he needs a few euro for petrol to get him home to waterford.
I say I'm at work mate, don't carry cash when I'm working.
He asks if I've any loose change even? I say nope.

Watch him do this to about a dozen more people in the space of ten mins.

Then watch him drive off, in the Dublin direction.

Cute hoors have just got cuter it seems.

I got this as well, from an itinerant. He says he and his family were stranded and needed some petrol money to get home. I looked at his 2012 Ford Transit van and just laughed and walked off

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