Did I do the right thing?

V4NT0M

V4NT0M

V4NT0M

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OK, so was walking home from work last night about 8pm and some guy pops out from a street in front of me, but he walked the opposite direction. 5 minutes later, said bloke has caught up to me (I walk pretty fast) and the following conversation took place;

Bloke: Hey mate can you help me?
Me: Whats up?
Bloke: I just went to the cinema with *cant remember* and these lads jumped me.
Me: Erk..
Bloke: Can you change a £2 coin?

At this point its worth pointing out the guy looked your average thuggish bloke, wearing a tracksuit, he emerged nowhere near the cinema and was cradling a twig under his arm. I made an excuse about not having change, then he asked if I had a £2 coin, you can see where this is going, I told him I wasn't going to give him any money and he lost interest...

I would have helped the guy out if he needed some help but all he seemed interested in was getting money off me, and we had walked past many houses and open shops where he could have got help.

Was I being too paranoid and analytical?
 
Depends really, you'll know by instinct if they're genuine, or just a smackhead. I'm guessing he was the latter. ;)
 
I probably would have done the same but then again I get pretty fed up being asked for change for the bus by the same people over and over again. If you don't have enough money to get home from town then stop coming in and preferably don't ask me in such a wheedling way - just ask straight up with no excuses (about your dog/mum/brother going to hospital or whatever) and I might be more likely to give you cash.
 
I'd never give someone money in that situation. I complain often at my girlfriend for doing so, even when she is with me.
 
Same kinda situation happened to me. I was going into the cinema and a guy came up to me from inside the cinema and asked me for 2p. He said he needed it to get into the cinema, so i gave him 2p and he just walked out down the street. Pretty strange.
 
I never give money to someone who approaches me in the street!

We have a couple of youths around here that hang about by the cash machines asking for a "spare quid", and when people say no they start hassling them when they're trying to withdraw cash!
 
We used to get kids asking for £1.67 for their bus fare. That just happened to be the price for 10 lambert and butler in the corner shop.
 
Beggars get my Death stare & a Stern **** Off !!!
S'pose it comes from growing up in London & dealing with tramps on the Tube platforms. Anything less than the above & they carry on bothering you. My way they just walk off to the next person & start hassling them. If it's a Hotty then i will say Oi I told you to **** off NOW **** OFF.
 
Heh, I used to be really good about it - assuming they didn't look to rough if i could i'd help them out.

But the other week some guy comes upto me in the train station which i was trying to buy a ticket from the machine, asks for some change as he "really needs to get home" so i said "sure, you can have whatever change i get from the machine" so i insert all my money. im 5p short! so i just laughed and said "well your outta luck i dont even have enough money" so he gave me 10p. i said "well you sure you obviously need it?" and he just shrugged and walked off. so i put it in got my ticket all was well (found 5p in the bottom of my pocket on the train as well)

then the next day he was doing the exact same thing with exact same line, hell he didn't even recognize me.

anyway, don't give out money anymore. unless i feel they have an honest and compelling reason.
 
I used to get some chav scumbags asking me for money every day whilst walking home from college, without fail. "Oi mate yer got fifteh pee so I can yewse the fone like innit?".

Grrr.
 
I'm 50-50 on this to be honest, sometimes I'll give them 20p or something, but never more than that. I travel a lot by train and I know the feeling when you get to the station without your debit card and are 10p short of a train ticket! But you instantly get a sense of the person, your brain is very quick at stuff like that (must be part of our nature). You look at watches, trainers, clothing, accent, posture, confidence etc...

A normal person will be exceptionally apologetic for asking you for money in the first place, whilst not appearing desperate.

Trust your instincts IMO.

Davem
 
I wouldn't have given him anything, too hard to tell wether people are genuine or not.

Not long ago a guy dressed like a builder came outside my office, asked if I could sort him out tenner or so for petrol as his van died on him which was just down the road. He offered to give me his phone to look after, I gave him £4 (the only changed I had) and he said he would come back in a few minutes - never came back :mad:
 
woot a phone for 4 quid bargain :)


just go all alpha on them ffs boot them in the ovaries filthy beggar scum :)
 
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