However, if it's organised begging they get nowt.
by that do you mean busking?
AS i give money to them, but not the ones who just sit going, "change please"
However, if it's organised begging they get nowt.
vagabonds.
I can't stand them Belfast is plagued by a few familys of Romanian beggers, all you get out of them is "big issue, please, please, big issue" or they pretend to play a recordian(sp)? Nearly ever street has one of them on it, hanging around bus stops, restaurants, cash points or charity shops.
I can't stand them Belfast is plagued by a few familys of Romanian beggers, all you get out of them is "big issue, please, please, big issue" or they pretend to play a recordian(sp)? Nearly ever street has one of them on it, hanging around bus stops, restaurants, cash points or charity shops.
I love nothing better than when walking past, putting my hand into my pocket pull out some change and reply to there "Big issue chant" no thank you.
by that do you mean busking?
I ignore them on the streets but have a Direct Decbit with Shelter, thus giving money to an organisation that provides accomodation to homeless people. This way I can do my bit for homeless people knowing it isn't going to get spent on booze or fags and is actually going to a genuine homeless person.
Can you house me?
No. We do not provide accommodation
Shelter provide information, not accomodation. Try checking their website. In fact, since you're too lazy to, I'll do it:
http://england.shelter.org.uk/advice/advice-3984.cfm#wipLive-25654-2
As for claiming benefits while homeless - you can do this, but I doubt £45 a week will pay for 7 days worth of B&B...about two nights, around here. Thats without considering food..
Did you watch the news investigation on them a few months ago? I think it was run by Stephen Nolan. They are part of an organised group and have ringleaders in charge of them. They come up form Dublin and Drogheda on the train every morning with their ring leader who sends them out to beg. At the end of the day they all meet up and catch the last train back down to Dublin. My uncle commutes on the train and often sees them on their way back to Dublin sitting at the tables counting their money out - often hundreds of pounds each.
If they're pulling in over a hundred quid a day, tax free, they're not that ****ing poor.
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I'm talking to a donator.
Can you house me?
No. We do not provide accommodation
Those gits get on my ****, its got to the point where theres one against a wall and one on the other side of the footpath..almost like the tunnel of beggary. Plenty of them going down castle street, sometimes they dont even say big issue just "please please".
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yeah and i'm talking about the shelter quote
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beggers no, buskers...occasionally
They don't want help. They want a handout.