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hey prolijo, you are on the money as ever any-way i have tried all angle's with giving money..late nite,the little beggar K*D's,the old, young women with off spring,i gave change......you know what,every-time,as soon as i was out the door of presidente heading up the hill,i was there new atm,please.please senor,now at this time,i had no change,dosn't matter...you can go into the shop for change senor.............now i give small coin's from time to time.......guess what,i have been handed them back as not enough.......now i had the american junkie With the sob story"calling me'ass-hole" Last trip"For not listening to his begging script...................i wouldn't sit at the new's cafe street-side anymore for the same reason,the view alway's interrupted by the pleading and peddling..........

I have policy of almost never giving money.
Only when I see an old and or crippled person that is not begging
and I can see that a little help would really help.
The others I will only buy them food at a soda
that I pay for personally.

If you give money to any street begger and any others see you do it
there radar goe's up and they all sceam there's a GIVER and
THEY ALL come-a-runnin.....
You end up a "marked" man that evey time they see you they will be in your pocket....

I really hate how the little basturds hound you when you leave the D.R. w/ a Chica in tow.. They know a lot of guy's are most vulnerable then..

Be strong my friends it may be hard but I believe it is the right thing to do.
Alway's Nucknfuts

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[quote]I really hate how the little basturds hound you when you leave the D.R. w/ a Chica in tow.. They know a lot of guy's are most vulnerable then.. [/quote]

Damn Nucknfuts, it must be a bitch running in those heels.

ok

I think giveing money to beggers is like feeding pigeons in a park if you just give a little ,there will be alot of birds there. If you give nothing sooner or later the birds go away and find bread some where else. I would rather go to a restrauant and buy some food and see the K*ds eat it would make me feel better than thinking that they give it all to there parents who are back at the home place waiting for there prodigies to come home,only to feed them who know's what.

Just my 500 colons worth... and by the way I think I will keep them too...

If those phuckers really bother you, pay the Hugo Boss Shoe Shine Guy or one of the Black Musicians to be your body guard.....

Believe it or not, even beggers have an unwritten code of ethics that only one Begger to a Gringo at a time

This is true,

The Hugo Boss guy is Jose.
You should see all the knife and broken bottle scars
in his neck and back.
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He has some stories to tell.
And you can get a good shoe shine to-boot ....
He is an O.K. guy..
Just eiking(sp) out a living the best way he knows...
Just Nucknfuts

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Don't believe everything you think ............

Begging is just too easy to make money for alot of people. One early morning in front of the bus terminal in nyc, I was standing by the door drinking a cup of coffee. Within five minutes someone threw a handful of change in my coffee . You should of seen the look on his face when I called him an *sshole and poured my coffee out. After thinking about it for a minute I knew I needed to get back home to shower and shave after an all nighter in the city. Some people are born to give.

bamajeff

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I definatley agree with you guys about not encouraging the beggars. But the reason I give them change is I hate carrying around change in my pocket and those colones are some big honking coins.

TorontoGuy,

Just a suggestion, leave the coins for your maid...

At least she is working hard to make an honest colone.

You are only "promoting" the beggers to continue...

Just a thought, Nucknfuts

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Don't believe everything you think ............

holy crap. after all these trips, I was finally acosted by the burned boy two days ago... I stuck to my no-beggars policy but the sight of that little guy has really phucked with my mind lately... I really hope I don't see him again.

Bombero...I felt so bad that I bought him a new Lexus. He keeps it parked around the corner.

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My life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming...." MAN....WHAT A RIDE!!!!"

In most other respects, I thought the Pres was a great place to stay on my last trip. But having to deal with the whole aggressive street scene in the gulch on an almost constant basis was just too big a pain in the ass. This time I voted with my feet - and am very much enjoying my stay at the friendly, comfortable, and still very conveniently located Sportsmen's Lodge.

I brought this thread back specifically for Senor Prolijo's 2nd post. If anything, there's more misery now in the world. But is the beggar problem still as bad or maybe worse now in the Gulch and around the News Cafe/ the Prez?

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"Amen, brother"-ED