beggar scams

kilua SG · 2006-12-07T20:02:17+00:00

nay i wasnt in a bad mood...... well i dont trust a beggar who has such an elaborate strategy to elicit sympathy Its because you havent seen it. Its quite s...

kilua SG

I was at taipei when i saw this poor beggar who lost his hand and was hitting his head against the ground many times.It must have been very painful i thought.

I felt the urge to give him some money but the shock left me repulsed.

I bought a oversized taiwanese chicken steak and sat by the fence to munch my food. After observing a while, i realised he was a fake. His head was moving up and down rapidily and it appears to be touching the ground when its not. At best
its touching gently on the ground.

He did attract a great deal of sympathy and many passerbys did donate to him. As the donation piled up, he kept the money leaving only 1 coin and repeated this cycle a few times. Maybe his loss of hand might be fake as well as it could be some fake comestic plaster.

FireIce SG

not in singapore rite?

hatemeifuwantto SG

cool i found a part time job for my holis
Twisted Evil

kilua SG

no... it was in taipei at the shilin market..

Ito_^ SG

pro. u can still buy steak and eat while watching show. Laughing

speaking of beggers, the tunnel after u walk out from jb checkpoint after woodlands checkpoint sometimes got beggers one. once, i saw this disabled begger-boy crawled up and down the stairs besides the escalator looking very pitiful. looking very ke lian.

MyPillowTalks SG

move ur food round and roud in front of him, then give him, then say good doggie Twisted Evil

maybe u can sit beside him and so the same thing Mr. Green

FireIce SG

in thailand, rumours say ppl kidnap kids and elderly
chop off their limbs and make them go beg on the streets

sand king SG

yar, thats why last time i dun dare go out alone...

alexkusu SG

actually, thats true

kidnapped kids frm msia, send to thai, chop limbs off and bash their heads in so they will have brain damage.

Happened to my mom's frend. Kid got kidnapped when going to toilet at an amusement park. For years, they cant find till one day they went thailand and saw this crippled beggar kid on the street. Have identical birthmarks, characteristics, etc to their son. Parents tried calling the son's name but he dosent recognise or unable to respond due to brain damage.

Y_Shun SG

sounds scary Confused

FireIce SG

http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=73795

Stooky SG

in sg u can find beggars at outside kwan yim temple along waterloo st... want to go beg money?... that area always packed...even on weekdays... lots of aunties uncles n tourists go pai pai Laughing

FireIce SG

they are baskers lah or at least they selling incense or flowers.....

ReinaTanaka SG

lol i dont think anyone with a normal mind would bang their head on the ground repeatedly bah.. i dont think thats a scam for faking that action

but that soab go and take the money and leave 1 coin. thats one basket.

no pride at all. going in the streets kneeling and like praying to the ppl

dahliamorie SG

Wah. I thought such things weren't real. So did they get their child back?

isosceles SG

As the donation piled up, he kept the money leaving only 1 coin and repeated this cycle a few times. Maybe his loss of hand might be fake as well as it could be some fake comestic plaster.

from what you said, i would infer that this begger kept the money away to prevent others fr taking them away from him . if he is really handicapped, he will be badly disadvantaged right.. and if pple seize his donations away, he wld be quite defenceless.

davidche SG

to view things objectively, there is nothing wrrong with knocking the head softly on the ground. neither is there anything wrong with keeping the money you ahve earned. You were probrably in a bad mood or a narrowmineed mood at that time...Still the begger might have been a true or fake. Dont jump to comclusions.

Pommes frites SG

haiz...even if the guy is a fake..i will still donate some money bah...so what if this beggar is a "fake" beggar? at least to my own consience, i know that i am helping some other people...i might not be that rich...but at least i know i can still afford to give some money to the poor people...

when i was in Bangkok last yr, i saw many young children begging...i guess the best way to help them is to buy food for them bah..

i even saw one lady br****feeding her young baby on the street.haiz... Sad Sad Sad Sad

mistyblue SG

Beggar scams compared to the Elite scams...

N0body SG

hi went to taipei last mth and saw this beggar also..outside jian tang mrt station next to shilin mkt.i dun think his handicapped is fake.
but anyway he quite pityful.me and my gf did donate anyway.tinking of the scene,my heart still go to him.....