Parking lot grifters?

[RecycleMichael]

If I wasn't already married, Thoya Emmanuelle would become Thoya Recycle Michael.

[DTowner]

Feed the strays and they stick around.  Stop, and they move on.

Absolutely.  This scam is used all over the country.

[Gonesouth1234]

These are all common scams.

I got hit up in a parking lot yesterday by some gal, about 25 or so, just walking through the parking lot and asking everyone she could walk up to for a dollar.

When she asked me as I was loading the groceries in the car, I just grinned and said that Wally World had just cleaned me out.  She just moved on to the next person.

Business takes me into the c stores in several states.  There is rarely a day goes by that I don't get asked at one of them for money --to buy gas, to feed the kids, or so the family can continue their journey to the next stop and get back home.   

One gal stepped in front of my car while I was stopped a stop sign  with her young daughter one day, and wouldn't move.  She told me she needed a dime to round out the bus fare for her daughter because the doctor's office was downtown, and the kid was suffering from some rare disease.

She stopped me later at a c store, and said they needed money for a coke for the daughter because it was so hot.

The ones sitting at the off ramp stop signs or street corners with the signs are my favorites.  They are dropped off early in the morning by someone with a van, and then picked after rush hour.

[Red Arrow]

The ones sitting at the off ramp stop signs or street corners with the signs are my favorites.  They are dropped off early in the morning by someone with a van, and then picked after rush hour.

I couldn't do that,  without a port-a-potty.

[HazMatCFO]

These are all common scams.

The ones sitting at the off ramp stop signs or street corners with the signs are my favorites.  They are dropped off early in the morning by someone with a van, and then picked after rush hour.

I saw a pan handler that frequents 41st street bridge over I-44 that drives to the parking lot of Commerce tower and then goes to scam motorists. I know for I had an office there that faced the intersection and was looking out the window one evening before I was going home. I saw the panhandler leave in his GEO Tracker about dusk when rush hour was done. Saw him a few more times after that.

There also used to be a fat guy with a metal pole for a leg who panhandled the same intersection and now he's moved up to big time at the 71st street / Highway 169 intersection, usually the east side. Must be better loot there with all the shoppers and diners passing through. Has to fight the Ultimate Electronics sign holder for curb time.    

[Gonesouth1234]

I have wondered for years what the pecking order system is for this group, and how the various corners and off ramps are assigned.

It would seem by now that there is a move to get a union vote for the "workers".

[Ed W]

Give this guy a dollar for creativity:

[bmuscotty]

One of the local newstations did a piece on this several years ago. Don't remember which station. Found out the people at I-44 and Sheridan and Lewis were collecting for a church but the signs they carried said they were homeless leading you to believe the money was for them. I've noticed a woman at I-44 and Lewis with a bucket that clearly states its for a church. Over this past summer I was at the light at I-44 and Lewis long enough to see a guy who looked like rolled around in the dirt there go over and get into a newer Chevy parked across the street, start the car and turn on the A/C to cool off.

[runfromtulsa]

You're already helping these low-life grifters by paying taxes for their "entitlements". They just spend all their money on drugs, and you're helping them support the pusher, probably at the expense of their children.

[Hoss]

You're already helping these low-life grifters by paying taxes for their "entitlements". They just spend all their money on drugs, and you're helping them support the pusher, probably at the expense of their children.

Nice job bumping a 3 month old thread.

That was for Guido, BTW...

[Ed W]

You're already helping these low-life grifters by paying taxes for their "entitlements". They just spend all their money on drugs, and you're helping them support the pusher, probably at the expense of their children.

Ahhh, the pungent, fetid stench of a troll.

Nothing to see here.  Move along.  Move along.

[guido911]

Ahhh, the pungent, fetid stench of a troll.

Nothing to see here.  Move along.  Move along.

Take it easy on the forum cop. He's just doing his job, pathetic and sad that the job is. 

[Hoss]

Take it easy on the forum cop. He's just doing his job, pathetic and sad that the job is. 

Can't be any worse than being an attorney...

[Louie B]

I hate it when scammers use God's name to scam. I have been approached before a few times and when I start hearing God's name to get money I am done listening. God deserves better than scammers using his name wrong. How sad. But I like what I read from some posts, I don't mind helping a person in true need and the best way is to offer to buy the thing they need, not give money. And common sense, lots of common sense.