@@dimyell so much shit retail workers have to deal with. It's insane. Why I try to be respectful to them. Cause I use to be one myself and know what kind of shit they deal with daily.
She literally got hit with the “ma’am this is a McDonald’s drive thru”. Apparently we need to start giving crisis intervention training to these workers cause they’re always getting caught up in the middle of a felony in progress.
I think quite a few companies/corporations include training to prevent scamming, Walmart being a pretty big example. Unfortunately, many still slip through the cracks and I've heard of many cases of successful scams on places where training is provided. Common sense is the best tool to work against it.
It definitely has that effect on me. I live in a big city that's expensive where panhandling pays a lot more than minimum wage so I'm suspicious of everyone.
Yeah this is the worst part of it I think, when I was little (like 11yo) I gave money to a beggar while out with my mom and she got angry at me and explained that the man was just a scammer. Haven't done anything like that since, because now everytime I see someone like that I immediately assume the worst.
Yep. And many of the comments say how she couldn't possibly be homeless coz her hair & clothes are clean. I'm homeless and care for myself. I can show you my pic on Instagram, you'd never think I'm either disabled to the point of wishing to die every night, nor that I'm sleeping in my 20yo car entire Rona just to be near my dying Mom (all apartments here are above my SSDI earnings + all landlords require you to make 3 times the monthly rent, and NO ONE on disability can do that. HUD/Sec8 is hard to come by, I've been on every list for years now). I hope she spends that money gotten from trusty kind people on medication. That's all.
Strangers have given me money and food so many times. I think it was because I never asked, I just looked pathetic without realizing it. One lady gave me 80 bucks when I was alone in a cafe around Christmas and had an argument with my mom on the phone. People kept thinking I was blind because I'm autistic and walk with a cane (I would correct them though when possible). Although I've been homeless, I usually had somewhere to live, but it was often unbearable to hang out there, so I used to spend a lot of time wandering the streets dragging my possessions behind me.
@@bananawitchcraft Are you doing okay now? Do you have all you need? During 2020 fires in my area, two friends from Twitch sent me money without me asking. I cried for days. They didn't know it at the time, but that money allowed me to house my very ill mother in a motel instead of on the floor at the local fire shelter center. She couldn't even get on the floor if you paid her. Another lady also from Twitch crocheted me a pillow, and yet another sent a book + a little care package that warmed my heart no end. I've never met any of them irl, but it doesn't matter.. i consider them friends and sisters. They'll be getting presents this Christmas, if I can only manage to drive to post office. I'm determined to somehow repay their kindness, no matter if it's 2yrz later. Just wish I could buy them something like a vacation, but it's gonna be much, much smaller scale gifts.
In the UK we’re told not to give the homeless money but offer to buy them food/water instead. I think for the most part it’s to prevent donations being used for drugs, but I’ve never considered until now that it could also prevent this.
Honestly I don't care if someone would use the cash I gave them to buy drugs. Obviously it's bad to be addicted to drugs, but addiction recovery is complex, long, and difficult especially when you're dealing with the stress of being homeless. A small single donation probably isnt going to a big difference for them either way for recovery in the long term, so if they bought drugs with the money and it helped them get a night or a few hours of peace or easing their pain, I still feel I've done a good thing. I was also generally taught to offer to buy food or water instead of money too, but I just don't care what they do with it (......as long as they're actually in need, looking at you lady). If they really need it and are desperate, whatever they spend it on is going to be helpful for them whether that's physically, mentally, etc. Socks/underwear are a desperately needed item so if you aren't comfortable giving out money maybe you could buy and keep some in the car or in your bag to offer. I used to also carry about individually prepackaged granola, protein bars etc but I know a lot of homeless people don't trust being given food like that because there's awful horrible people out there who've deliberately poisoned food and drinks they gave out to the homeless to hurt and kill them just because they're homeless :(
Dunno if youve ever spent a winters night sat out on the street but it fucking sucks. Trust me, most homeless would rather a bottle of cheap alcohol or a spliff than food and water. Also like the other commenter said, clothes, underwear and blankets
The worst thing about this is that they take the money from the real homeless people who often aren't as manipulative and good at talking as these sociopaths are.
Scammers who fool people through logic are terrible people, but scammers who prey on the kindness of others are the worst kind of scum on this planet. Truly disgusting that anyone would think to do something like this. Props to the two lads exposing her despite her threats of murder.
I actually dont feel much for the homeless. I will do whatever i could do to stay off the street. I would murder people if needed. If our society is so flawed we are unable to help those who either cant work wich i wouldent be suprised if we are i would do watever i could to make a point that things need to be changed, i will strap myself with explosives and explode a place that denied my employment. However people are animals, literally, and despite our allmighty intelligence we fail to truly ever use it. Simple beasts do shitty things cuz they cannot process logic. Humanity cannot process logic correctly and act on sins aka desires. Greed and Sloth go hand in hand quite nicely. If som1 can do it and even THINK they can get away with it they will do it. People are out for themselves even when not.
Maybe if he gave him enough money he could've unlocked the secret good (but evil) ending where he manages to start an MLM company with the money given and offers to make charlie an early adopter.
I've been homeless a few times, and never felt that panhandling was a valuable use of my time. That said, I do find it annoying when people think having a cellphone, or a car, or "non homeless looking clothes" means you're trying to scam people. Living in a car is still a pretty rough spot to be in. It's also not like you just go trade in all your old stuff at the homeless store in exchange for a shopping cart and tattered clothes.
@@CircusFoxxo this lady is clearly not what op is talking about. The way she instantly got mad and ran off shows she doesn’t want to get caught.. If she was living in her car or something she’d probably say that..
that's a late model car, so her networth was at least 20k. she can't be homeless because you don't panhandle when you become homeless with relativity high networth.
Story time with Spoot: I was doing a lot of hard drugs at the age of 19, lost my friends, family and finally my place to live. I ended up homeless in Connecticut in late march (VERY cold). So I asked a friend to take a road trip with me to Georgia. I stayed in GA to live on the Appalachian Trail when he headed back to CT. I had minimal supplies no money and no choice I just had to make it work. Sitting outside places I would stop to rest at, people would make conversation and ask me about my trip so far. I would explain my situation honestly, but never once held a sign, asked for money, or even insinuated that I needed help. Simply said "ah just taking a lonesome venture to get clean and start new. Figuring things out as I go." Maybe it was because I was visibly young or maybe it was the fact I had in interesting story but people would come out of the store with bags of food and supplies to just hand to me and say "good luck, stay safe". Many people handed me cash on top of the things they bought. Many times I was holding back tears as these people not only helped me through these hard times, they sympathized and gave me advice and directions or info on good places to stay and clean up. Stranger hospitality is very very real and I quite literally might not be here to type this if it wasn't for the kindness of strangers. It breaks my heart into a million pieces to see people taking advantage of that kindness. I'm in a much better position now. I'm 25 and found work in pro hockey so anytime I see someone down on their luck I give what I can. I wont stop giving even though there's a chance that person is like this lady and I stress to all of you to please keep giving and don't let this effect that. Most people out there really truly relish that dollar or two.
I'm glad you're doing better, friend, and this message you shared is very true. There are very rotten people in this world, but there are people that just genuinely need help. Keep on fighting, boss.
Thank you for sharing your story, Spoot! I have shared mine somewhere here too .. current homeless due to disabilities & dying Mom.. I'm sleeping in a 20yo car & need an expensive surgery. I look just as "normal" and clean as her, but never would do what she's doing. Not even in war did we scam people.. we helped each other, and that's how most of us survived. (Bosnia, 90s. I was 14 when it started, 17 when we came to US and i had to start working, driving and being head of the family). From civil engineer to homeless just coz of illness i did nothing to bring on. But I still give, still drive other homeless in my city to thrift stores.. some are mean to each other, some are generous to a fault. Last night i couldn't get myself a drink or food, so I gave a homeless friend (whom i met by chasing him around thinking he's a thief, lol) some $ and tried to let him keep the change. He wouldn't. I insisted. Just as he was leaving, he tosses something into my car & drives off. It was the rest of the money I gave him & asked him to keep (coz at this moment his need is greater than mine, at least until the 3rd). He only bought himself a pack of cigs. That's all he'd accept, and I know for a fact he doesn't even have enough to fill up his gas tank.. which he used to get me the vitamin water I wanted. There's bad apples in every group of people wherever you look... including houseless. But there's also heart, integrity and conscience in many of us. I've had 2 homes in my life, now that's a car. I'm still the same person, with all the same principles, ethics and morals. Don't be fast to judge, you never know what someone is going through (houseless or not). If you give, give from the heart not expecting anything in return. People like this scammer woman are gonna regret it (i sound like dharman, lmao). I just say let it be on them if they scam me. My intention was pure. I give when i can and don't ask what they'll buy with it. Look at every big charity, and the money distribution of theirs. Directors get SOOOOO much, while a very little percentage goes to help those in need. This one woman cannot possibly scam more than they do, but we don't talk about that.
My grandma does this. It's infuriating and me and my parents are all embarrassed and angry but we live in different countries and we can't stop her. She was arrested, released and went right back to doing that. She's also a pathological liar and has always acted in a rather bizarre way. I have bipolar and since it's hereditary, we've all been assuming she has it too. It's so sad, and my mom tried so hard to get her to get her meds but she just won't. It's so damn frustrating seeing this happen.
Not sure if you'll see this, but baker acting her is a viable option I lost my biological folks in June of 99 to a murder suicide My dad had bipolar and just lost it He wasn't on meds Id get your Gramma some help before something happens Hope y'all are all good now bro
Even better, if you baker act her, you can delegate the expensive costs to her Whether it's being held against her will and forced to take medication, or the 20,000$ cost to stay there for 3 days, she will get help, whether she wants it or not. Cheers dude, good luck
@@GraveMemoriesThat is an insane amount of consequences to put on a woman who seems legitimately ill. Why would you want someone like that to get stuck with a $20,000 debt?
back in 2012, i worked at chick-fil-a, and my heart broke when my manager told a woman standing at the end of the drive-thru with her baby that she had to leave. customers had been giving her money or buying her sandwiches, and i was working drive-thru and was the one who told him about it. i felt really guilty as i watched him tell her that she had to leave the premises. and then she stepped into her modern mercedes and drove off.
You really had me in the first half- but I had a similar thing happen to me. A houseless man approached our window when I worked at McDonald’s, and he was asking if we had any leftover food. Since I was new, I went in and asked a manager and I was told to not give him anything (assuming that he’d keep coming back for more), and it really upset me. We waste so much food already, so to see hungry people being denied cheap scraps made me hold an even deeper resentment to establishments like McDonald’s altogether.
Oof this one hit hard. I was homeless 13 days on a winter season, finding food and shelter was like paradise, but I never had the balls to beg for money. Seeing this really struck the nerve
was homeless for a year it was me, my 4 siblings, and parents all cooped up in a car and we were able to find a place to park in a church parking lot. the struggle is real
I was homeless for 4 years. I never had the courage to ask for help or money, although i have been close, my pride and self worth never let me do it. I truly dont understand how someone can fake such a horrible situation. Money is the only answer i have and that still doesnt make sense to be. Money really has a grip on this world. Its sad
Things are prob not quite the way they seem. She is clearly mentally I’ll or something to be panhandling. It’s not much better than working at McDonald’s. Calling her a scammer because she has a car also isn’t the same as having a home. Many homeless people have cars. Many have even have jobs . And the level of mental disability she has clearly must be debilitating. Charlie’s narrative here comes from ignorance. This woman prob can’t hold a job.
I’m currently homeless (in a women’s shelter, fleeing from Domestic Violence) with my four little girls. This lady is actively making people in my situation (or worse situations) have a harder time seeking and finding help. I’m still searching for a place to live right now. Then on to a job hunt. None of this is easy for me, but for her to steal people’s money with these lies so easily, is heartbreaking and infuriating. 💔 Edit: Thank you to all you’ve given me warm wishes, hearing your encouraging words has given me back some hope. I’m just getting to the point where I can admit to others what it was like. So your kindness is greatly appreciated. Thank you so very much. ❤️ To those who call me a bad mom, that I must be on drugs, that I should have known better, that I’m lazy for watching some TH-cam videos to pass some time (even though you all are here too? I can have some breaks as well?), you are all so off base. I hope you never face hard times and hear such spiteful and downright ignorant words thrown at you. Obviously the DV was gradual, I was working before and not “leeching” off my ex, not everyone who needs help is a drug or alcohol user (that kind of thinking just makes it harder for people in hard times, just like the lady in this video), and… I couldn’t get out for myself, but I got out for my children. Best wishes to everyone. Please spread positivity, not hate. ❤️
I've nearly lost my home because of unforeseen expenses coming up back to back. Just the worst timing ever. Begging for help financially to make rent was the most humiliating experience I've gone through yet... I don't know how people can do this everyday and go home feeling okay with themselves.
I like to believe that most if not all beggar are drug addicts and that people who lose their house for any others reasons have access to some kind of ressources and charity so that they don't have ti beg for money in the street
@@Wakanda4bigmama Let me tell you, it's tough. Almost every resource requires you to have children. Which, of course, children should be taken care of. But people without children have a hard time finding help.
You also need to be a domestic abuse victim, on drugs/alcohol, be crippled in some way, be mentally challanged, and a few other things! So people thinking theres all kinds of programs out there for anyone on hard times is laughable!
@@tiegan7158 whatever it is, I never was good at math lol. All I know is that Charlie gave this homeless guy a whole paycheck ($400 or more) and he unlocked the secret dialogue💀
Don't let scammers discourage you from giving to those in need. If the concern is great that you are being scammed, invest in little gift packages to give instead of cash. Water, socks, a blanket, a coat if it is cold, and some food. That really could be that person's life line for a bit.
Socks and underwear are such a big need. Speaking from experience, we are now 5 months off the streets but man, we could never have enough pairs of socks.
yea the vast majority of people are not going to be scammers or anything, a few liars shouldn't stop you from giving to those in need when you have the ability to give
i bought hand warmers (little packets you rub in your hands that get warm) earlier this year and i wanna give them out as it gets colder, that’s another thing to add to the list!
This is such a great comment and I love that everyone is adding to it (especially the tampons/pads and hand warmers). Also some gloves, knit caps, canned food that has pop-top lids (and a can opener), easily eaten and stored food, and maybe a backpack. And if you have some extra funds, a charging station can be huge for someone living on the streets. I'm not suggesting you go buy a car load, but if there's a local unhoused person that you know who could use one, it could be a huge blessing.
I knew a good homeless man named Shawn he was a nice dude but sadly all good thing must come to an end sense later on he died apparently he had something in his arm that spread up to the heart and he had a heart attack to this day I still visit the bench he sat on. Rest in peace Shawn
Similar thing happened for me. I used to work at a Dunkin’ Donuts store near the subway. Right outside our store, a homeless man would sit on a crate between our store and the subway everyday asking for money. I’d always give him a dollar or two before I entered the store to start my shift. I’d also give him a cup of water and free coffee and donuts whenever he asked. He was always grateful for what I gave him. During my last few months there, he stopped coming at his spot and I assumed something bad happened to him. I’d sometimes look out the windows from the store to see if he was there or not. He really liked glazed donuts and liked his coffee with milk and sugar
I have a similar story, my Dad actually knows multiple homeless people, I remember this one time, we were stuck in a traffic jam, and this one homeless guy actually got on the road and started directing traffic and he was actually doing a pretty good job, my Dad then pulled up to him and the homeless guy recognized my Dad, they talked for a while before my Dad went on his way, another homeless guy my Dad knows, I'm acquainted with him too, is this guy we give our leftovers to, I don't know what he does with the food that's gone bad, but he takes that as well
She's deliberately bringing random people into this because that's a good tactic to use to get the cameramen to stop filming. Having other people who don't have the full information to defend her or not want to be filmed themselves.
@@TheNamesAllison ok? So is she in the right?? Just because this wenches precious “FeELiNgs” were hurt doesn’t mean she can randomly steal from genuinely nice and kind hearted people
I remember being 16 and going to Walmart by myself and this woman was crying outside and had a small baby on her shoulder and I asked her what was wrong. She claimed she didn't have any money for baby food and she was frantic and hysterical, begging for someone to help her feed her baby. I went straight in, got cash back on a drink and gave her $20. She hugged me, said thank you, and hopped in an Escalade. I was so pissed I didn't even feel anything.
@@whatdoyoucallanalligatorin9174 I've chatted with "homeless" people many times that try and give me food 🤦♂️ they have a bag of sandwiches and food they can't even eat that people give them. In South East London the majority of people begging aren't homeless. They're heroin addicts who do it because it's lucrative. If people stopped giving them cash it might actually incentivise them to try to get some help
Growing up I was always taught "never give homeless people money, if you want to help them, give them something to eat." It's a much better way of doing things, sometimes homeless people are struggling with addiction and sometimes they aren't even homeless. Giving them food means at least they can eat.
I was taught this too, my dad bought a homeless man a whole bag of food and drinks during Christmas because he saw the man sitting Infront of the store every time he went to the store, the man was so appreciative he started crying, and a month after that our car broke down near the store and the same man came to help push our car to a parking spot as thanks. Homeless people are some of the kindest most appreciative people I've ever met, they do not act like this woman.
@@theonering2966 this is bad advice though. I’d rather risk giving someone drug money than risk someone go hungry because I thought they might buy drugs. Plus there are plenty of other reasons why someone might just need a few extra bucks
@@fishwoz17 that is why you go into the store with them and buy food for them, instead of just handing them money. Then they get to eat *and* don't waste your hard earned money on drugs.
This drives me crazy cause I worked in a heavily homeless area and I could very easily figure out who is homeless and who isn't (most of the time). The amount of scammers out there drives me nuts
As somebody who is currently homeless and watching this from a shelter Im glad in 4 days I'll be down in San Antonio Texas for basic training getting the next step of this journey Im on called life. I have panhandled, I have struggled, I have endured and now Im glad to finally better myself and my situation.
don't pay for hoes or brand new cars after the first check, there are some people out there who can zero in on specifically fresh enlists from a mile away
Good luck, you’re going to do great. My partner did the same thing, is out of the Air Force now, he was gone 9 months (basic and tech school) got out, got his bachelor’s in biotech, and works for Pfizer now making more than he ever hoped. The future is as bright as you want to make it.
Ayo, stick to that route I’m active Air Force right now The only thing that makes it hard there is the people around you, so do your best to help them succeed with you! Hope to serve alongside you!
@@TruthInLove330 I honestly didn't know that was a bible verse to be honest, just know that greed can make people do shitty things. Meaningless? His anger would suggest otherwise. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. He gave to a man who he thought he was helping a great deal, when he found out that he was only helping a small bit, when he found out he had been lied to he was hurt and sad, betrayed. It reflects well on Charlie, with or without a love of G-d, because he was willing to give what he could to someone he saw as having a greater need, even if the man didn't have a great need, the act of giving is something people can respect. That's something that people notice and endear him to them because there is a greater chance of survival though kindness than crulty. Anyway, it seems to be something that should be nurtured despite the oppisite actions of others.
Holy crap you're generous. You're in university and giving this guy $100+ a week. Like I've given homeless people some change but $20 at a time sounds crazy to me. These days I'll usually just give homeless people food if I can. Bought a guy asking for money at a Tim Hortons a bagel and coffee and he seemed very thankful for it.
There was (not sure if still is) a woman in Toronto who pretended to be homeless. She apparently managed to get herself the nicest apartment in the city from it all too. I’m sometimes amazed by the lengths people will go, to not work.
As a person who is disabled with a Neuromuscular disease it infuriates me when people pretend to be in need or are pretending to be sick/disabled. This goes for all scamming crap where people lie and cheat to get a quick buck. It’s totally disgraceful.
Damn, Charlie... I’m sorry that happened to you. I was homeless for a long time after I got home from Iraq, but I’m not anymore because of the VA. Any veteran who tells you they’re homeless has options for getting out of the situation and being housed. It’s a program called HUD VASH (VA Supported Housing) the VA will pay up to $625/month for your rent, along with a utilities allowance check at the beginning of every month. This program has no time limits whatsoever, so a veteran can be in it for as long as they need the assistance. During your time in the program, they will assign an employment specialist to assist you in finding a permanent job to provide steady income for you. Any veteran who remains homeless is doing so either because they were dishonorably discharged and lost their VA benefits or is refusing to meet the requirements of the program (no alcohol in the household, no drugs/paraphernalia, no criminal activity of any kind, etc. Not unreasonable requirements. If you encounter a veteran that is homeless, direct them to the nearest VA facility, do NOT give them monetary assistance at all.
this lady was obviously scamming, but y’all please keep in mind that a lot of homeless people actually do have jobs and will appear to have “normal” lives but are living out of their cars and public access restrooms/washrooms. it’s not always as simple as “you have a car so clearly you’re not homeless”
rubber tramps are a majority of homeless people in my experience, they're just more functional than train hoppers, bicycle hobos or homebums so they're invisible to the public's eye. Way more likely to be the kind of homeless to have a gym membership for showers and a steady job, but still show up to church lunches and get the stink eye. I used to think badly of them, too, because they didn't look like they had it as bad as I did. They didn't, but it's not a competition. Gatekeeping is everywhere lol. If you see a panhandler get into a car they're not necessarily a scammer, they're just not as pathetic looking as the rest of us.
Lot of the ones that live by the library near me go to the labor center or are wicked disabled and gets the disability check but can't afford rent consistently
Very important point, I was thinking the same. Also the age/quality of the car isn't a good indicator, it could have been donated or they could have fallen on hard times after buying it. Just because they are homeless now doesn't mean they were 2 years ago. Hanging onto a good quality car when you don't have a home can be the difference between life or death.
I was homeless from February to July of this year ended up losing 15-20 pounds but the worst part was not being able to shower. Thankfully I'm in a much better place now. There are people who are legitimately in desperate need of help and I too am filled with absolute disgust when I see people pan handling who are genuinely not homeless, using up the generosity and taking money away from the people who really need it. I never pan handled or asked for anything but if somebody had come up and given me a sandwich or anything I would have broken down in tears. Always offer food instead of money because the fakes won't want that kind of generosity.
Yep, every time I’ve offered the food I have on me to someone “sooo hungry” they immediately turned it down in disgust and asked for restaurant food ($6 a slice pie) or money for “food”
My grandpa once bought a meal from a fast food place for someone who claimed to be homeless and they threw the food back at him inside his truck and told him they wanted money not food. I can’t even make this shit up
As someone who grew up dealing with homelessness this is one of the worst acts of greed I’ve ever seen, people legitimately have no sense of reality sometimes.
I’ve always been told growing up asking someone if they want food is a somewhat good way to really see if they’re homeless or not. If not most will refuse food and ask for money
Almost 20 years ago my mom got stopped by one of these guys in a parking lot and he said that he was diabetic and needed money. She didn’t have cash and offered a ginger ale for sugar and this guy took it and immediately threw it on the ground. Your comment just reminded me of it lol
@@Dirk_Strider It's really unfortunate how little most people know about diabetes. You're exactly right. Insulin is extemeeeeeeeeely expensive and like you said sugar/carbs just raise blood sugar, which would make the problem worse. I see why he would feel frustrated. If he's type one like me, he could be close to death. Type 1 diabetics need insulin to live just as much as we need food & water. Without it we just drop dead in a few days, no joke it's wild that so few seem to know how bad of a disease it is
I'm also in central Florida, and no one here really cares. I went on a walk to the store yesterday, and it was extremely windy, and there were fallen trees everywhere. Despite that, there was still traffic, and all the stores were still open. Floridians are next level.
this still happens in this area, they have multiple shifts of people panhandling on the street, and you can see the "shift changes" it really upsets me how these people make all the legitimate people on hard times seem untrustworthy.
I remember documentaries about this in the 90's, then the 2000's, etc etc. Being a professional homeless person is a legitimate career path for some people. There are so many scams out there it is hard to keep up with them all. It is sad because there are people that need help. My strategy I follow and advice I give to most people is never get money involved. I have bought homeless people meals, given them food, water, hygiene supplies, but never money.
tbh, as someone who’s mother was homeless through my teen years, i would challenge you to possibly rethink that mindset a little bit. i understand why and buying usable goods instead is totally fine and all, but just wanted to give an alternate perspective: my mother was very lucky to get some money from many kind people, and she built up that cash and used it to do her laundry for her job interview and, a while later after getting the job, pay her first down payment on her apartment! for a lot of people, cash means they can get themselves a cheap hotel room, a hot meal, laundry, medicine, etc., but i also understand it also can mean the salary of a professional scammer in places where that happens. there’s absolutely nothing wrong with what you’re doing or even why you’re doing it, though, just wanted to pass on an experience that made me personally change my mind!
@@heavenwaits I completely understand. As I said, there are definitely people out there that need help. I'm just saying be aware, be cautious and whether you intend to give money or not. Just offer to buy them something over straight cash, see how they act.
@@heavenwaits Objectively speaking cash MUST be part of a welfare plan, otherwise it's impossible for the recipient to actually progress in life and become self sustaining. However there are many scammers around and not giving cash is just the easiest way to filter them out. So personally I would probably never give cash, as only institutions with vetting capacity could check if the welfare case is legitimate or not.
My eyes were opened by two experiences. One was when my grandma showed me how people in the city had been fakers. The second was in winter, where there was an obviously homeless man who was not pan handling. My stepmother bought him hot food and a hot coco. The man burst into happy tears and thanked her. Since those experiences, I now offer food instead of cash, and that is how I've learned to pick out the fakers. The fakers almost never accept the offer of food. I actually had a faker scoff at me because I offered to buy them a meal and then they said only cash would help them.
Panhandlers can make a lot. I remember growing up really poor and not having money for basic things like rent, food, or school supplies. Churches would donate food boxes to us sometimes which absolutely saved our lives during the rough months. My single mother was working as a server and would rarely be home I had to raise myself for the most part. Thankfully her boyfriend at the time used to be homeless and he panhandled one time to help us not be evicted. One day of doing this he made around $700. I’m so thankful to the generous people who helped us, it’s disgusting people are less trusting now because of how common these scams are.
She had a legitimate cover story as it’s possible to be newly homeless and still have a car. It all kinda fell through with her story contradicting her sign.
like Charlie said, my favorite thing is the employees just being so bewildered and confused 😆 all jokes aside, this shit makes me so mad. my girlfriend was homeless off and on for a lot of her 20s (before I met her) and has a lot of trauma because of it and the fact that these people just can go home at the end of the day and hang up their homelessness hat is beyond words.
Yeah I knew a guy years back that pan handled even though he had a home. Dude was a total loser, glad I haven't seen him in ages. I hope he got his shit together though for his sake.
It's a law of nature that if there is a public incident, a fast food employee must be caused some irritation. So she did the right thing, taking the issue to a McDonald's employee for adjudication.
My mother and I have dealt with similar situations, some dude got 10$ from my mom and she watched him for about 20-30mins cause he was asking for enough money to get water and food, man goes in the gas station and comes out with beers. So, clearly not hurting much for money. Our way of figuring out who is who, typically but doesn't always work, is asking if they'd like something to eat rather than money. I was getting gas myself after stopping to get pizza, the only cash I had was spare change from getting the food and this older gentleman wanders up and asks for enough change to get himself a hotdog cause what he had was too little. Flagged him down after getting gas and offered him the biggest slice of pizza I could manage to convince him to take (these were Xxl slices, like four regular pieces in one), then went back to my car and waited a bit cause I was doing something on my phone, but I remember looking up and seeing him come out with a bottle of water to have with the pizza. My heart still goes out to him and I wish I knew where he went, hope the best for him.
When I first moved to Cleveland i quickly realized how many people were scamming all over the streets and saying they were “homeless” I would ride the same bus that a lot of them did and noticed they got off around 6-7 every day to go to their homes lol.
This is the kind of stuff that rly bothers me. I was homeless and on the street for four years. And because I had a job still, people assumed I was scamming because I had to ask for help still. People like this make it harder for the people that rly need the help. Because it’s hard to tell the difference from the fakes to the people that needed it, when someone who’s willing to help comes across someone that scams them, you can’t blame them for wanting to label everyone as a scammer. It just really really sucks for the people that need it.
a homeless woman was begging for money, and she had a baby straddled to her. My sister felt bad, but we didn't have any small bills so she gave the lady some change. the lady got pissed and threw the coins all over our car :D
She's the kind of person who probably had everything handed to her as a kid and everyone probably helped her with everything now she just expects that everyone is going to help her with everything
I live in a pretty rich area, there are a bunch of people who used to do minimum wage jobs that I see on the street corners nowadays, I had a conversation with one who used to be a friend and his takaway was basically "I can work my ass off for $12 an hour or I can sit and look pitiful and if one of the rich tourists tosses me a $20 each hour and I make more then when I was breaking my back" it was a real shock to me, and it shows a lot of what can cause this, the hopelessness of minimum wage jobs, the fact that the gap between rich and poor is so huge that an hours wage for someone at the low end means nothing to someone wealthy, it really sucks. I would never do something like this but when he told me about the value proposition I doubted myself if I wanted to go back to that burger flipping job for (at the time) $12 an hour or if I should just join this asshole sitting on a street corner and make more money on average. $15 an hour for these minimum wage jobs is better then it was, but not enough. frankly we need to address the minimum wage.
I love that the employee is like "ma'am I just work here, what do you want me to do", like sure they could call the cops but can't stop people from filming
I almost fell for a scam in 2021, I was working a shit factory job, 40 hours a week for $16 an hour plus a little overtime. I was wanting something different and found a listing for a data entry job for a medical company. I did an interview online and everything, was told that I needed a new iPhone, MacBook and some printer but that if I would do the iPhone they would get the computer and printer to me and do payments or whatever. I went and got a new iPhone and everything but then they were saying it needed a special program on it and wanted me to send it to them to put it on there then they’d send it back. That’s when I realized it was bullshit and I’m still pissed it took that long but they were pretty damn convincing. They were definitely top tier scammers, no telling how many phones people sent them.
There’s a women in my town that’s nown for pretending to be disabled. She will ask people to pay her a taxi or drive her around. My mom was victim to this scam and she decided to bring the lady to her destination. She aperently couldn’t walk but the second my mom got out of the car she was gone. My mom later confronted the scammer in public but she was very agressif. The point is there will always be some scammers/not honest people and just watch out.
Charlie, i am sorry that this had happened to you. hopefully not all people are like this. i know homelessness is a big problem and have even been homeless in the past when i was growing up...if anyone is without a home here i hope you can catch a break!
I was homeless for a bit in my youth being an idiot and getting addicted to heroin. I once hung out with a traveller vagrant and we put a sign up and pan handled. My ego felt shattered , I could not be in a good mood. He had done it a bunch of times and felt no qualms. In Vancouver not many people give to homeless on the street because we all know it goes to drugs. I can't imagine the kind of person who can pan handle like this...
I was homeless earlier this year. I tried one morning to panhandle. I couldn’t manage an hour, it was so humiliating, I just couldn’t. I’m in a low rent motel now and that’s miles above trying to panhandle. Maybe people who took theater in high school can pull it off, I sure could not.
I used to see a guy near my local Walmart who had a bad limp and asked for money all the time. I worked in the area though and noticed he was only out in nice weather. Watching him more I eventually saw him after his begging was done. Limp totally gone and getting into a nice car. People like them ruin it for people genuinely in need.
I'm on disability, and with the way my health is I'll probably be on it for the rest of my life. It took a long time to come to terms with needing it, and I still feel so horribly ashamed sometimes. The thought of taking money from people directly makes me nauseous. Can't imagine what the thought processes of people like this is. Seeing how she was able to run so easily, like I haven't been able to since I was like fourteen, I felt dead inside. Altogether very disheartening
Bit of a coincidence for me to come across your comment today of all days. I was having lunch with my brother earlier today and we discussed how I haven't been able to work for a couple of years due to some pretty severe health problems, and he was really encouraging me to start applying for disability because otherwise I probably would end up on the street. It's something I've definitely thought about before, but the thought of taking money that I feel I didn't earn makes me physically ill, especially when there are a lot of people out there who need it more than I do. I've just been holding out hope that things will improve and I'll find another option, but at the same time I know that I've been really fortunate already to have gone for so long without work and not already be out on my ass. It's just a really damn tough pill to swallow, because I truly want to be someone who contributes to society and not takes from it... I really hope that people like the woman in the video never have to experience what it's actually like to be hard up without options and to be physically unable to control your own destiny, even though you actually would do anything just to be able to get out and do an honest day's work.
Please don't feel ashamed! There's no reason to. The whole reason we have these programs is because most of us want to support you. If our money can go towards people who really need it, that's fantastic! There's no reason to feel bad, please keep this in mind and enjoy life to the best of your ability.
This isn't a homeless person scamming incident, but it is still a scamming incident. I work at a McDonald's here in California and there have been times where someone would come in through the drive thru, order a bunch of food and then as soon as he pays for it, will immediately change his mind and ask for a refund. That's not the worst part, if we're not paying attention, he'll hide the bigger bills such as $20s and then proceed to tell us that we didn't give him the correct amount of money. By that point we have to get a manager involved so they can count the drawer only to realize that we did give him the correct amount of money for a full refund. Mind you this guy ordered close to $90 worth of food.
She looks too healthy. She demonstrates a proper running form and is dressed all athletic, with no tearing of her clothes or dirt, a cute hat and all. Does not look like the homeless folks in my city.
fr, i thought this too^ she looks like she’s about to go pick her kids up from karate class or smth. if ur gonna act homeless at least dress the part lady
After a while, they WERE harassing her. However, she was NOT being restrained from leaving at any time. She just did not want to get recorded getting into the nice, almost new car.....
This is true, of course. It isn't always easy to keep this in mind in the face of this sort of injustice. God does weigh intent in the equation. So should we. We should also consider outcomes and adjust accordingly, since we're imperfect.
What I like best is that when you said "She threw a missile" I used to think she was throwing actual missiles too until I read up on it. The only reason that sounds plausible to us is because we have lived in Florida for so long and have seen so many crazy stories.
@@ElectricBoogaloo dude I've noticed a nice handful of fakers here in Amherst Virginia. They'll park their car like a half mile away, and then at the end of the day, walk back to it and drive home. There are about 9 or 10 of them now.
I remember once when I was homeless, I would stand in the median of a busy street with a sign. Now my clothes weren't all dirty and stuff cause fortunately i had friends who would let me do laundry once in a while. This one lady got all mad saying i wasnt homeless and that i was a fake. It hurt me cause at the time i was sleeping on a dirty mattress that i had found in an alley next to a dumpster. Then one day, while im waking up in the morning, i heard someone walking up to my little clubhouse that i had made with cardboard boxes. The person pulls the tarp i used to cover everything aside and it turns out to he the lady that called me a fake. When she saw me she started to cry. She apologized and tried to give me 100 bucks. I didn't want to take it though cause i felt she was only giving it to me cause she felt bad. I didnt feel like it was genuine. After this interaction though she would stop by every other day and bring me food. She would apologize everytime for what she said and would say a prayer for me before she left and always tried to give me money, begging me to take it. I finally took it one time but as i did i told her, "next time you see someone who claims to be homeless, try to give them the benefit of the doubt. You don't know how hard they are struggling even if they are dressed like they aren't." Im not homeless anymore and I work at a Starbucks. I still see that lady every now and then and when she leaves she always leaves me a 10 dollar tip and says she is proud of me for getting off the streets.
When I lived in Cleveland I learned that if someone asks you for money the first thing you do is check their shoes. Nobody is panhandling all day in some old messed up kicks with holes in them unless they have to. Met a guy at a bus stop once who really put on an act, had crazy hair, a ripped shirt, and even drooled on my friend a little bit. Looked down and what do I see, new Nikes. My dude gets an A for his performance but an F in the costume department.
I’m disabled and experienced homelessness throughout my life, shit like this lady just takes away from real people suffering and makes us look bad when we actually are asking for real deal help. I’ve been without my wheelchair for over a year now and barely have been able to raise enough for a new one and I only need 2,000. Seeing frauds make thousands and thousands kills me.
This is actually very common where I live in Brazil. People even fake having a broken leg or some other injurie. Most of them make this a job and have better apartments than lots of people who gave money to them. It's truly ridiculous. And they ask specifically for money... there was this time a lady bought coffee and a sandwich for a guy, and he threw the coffee on her legs, I remember she screamed because it burned her.
Já ouvi falar de gente pegando "emprestado" o filho dos outros, vizinho, parente, pra ir pedir esmola no farol com eles do lado. Se tiver criança no colo eu não dou 1 centavo, se não tiver 99% de chance de não dar também
I grew up in a trailer park, and all my jobs have been mostly shitty retail and fast-food stuff. Almost all the vehicles I've ever drove were junkers that I bought under a grand with the help of car-savvy parents. My most high-paying job was my most recent; a stocking position that I was very, very good at, but had to quit because no one in my household has a vehicle that's capable of safely traversing the interstate highway, and I'm currently jobless while living with my mother and brother as I approach middle-age. It's because I'm well-aquatinted with poverty and bad situations that I've always forked over a twenty *cough*get that genocidal maniac off of our money *cough* to those with a sign at the side of the road if I had it. Seeing that 'homeless person' get into a car that freaking nice just makes me feel . . . violent.
4:40 :[ i feel you, i learnt a similar lesson, when my parents were looking for work, and they would take sandwiches with them on the long walks through the city canvasing. I was with them when my mother kindly gave half our food to this poor homeless kid/teenager and his dog, and went to turn back to give them some money when she saw him feeding all the food to his dog, not even splitting it. The rule learnt was, if you want to be nice to a homeless person, you offer to take them to get food, instead of giving them money, if they refuse they must not be after money for food.
Don’t offer to take them anywhere; that’s how people end up killed. You give them a gift card or something that they can’t use anywhere but where the gift card is meant to be used.
That lady driving the 2014 car is very obviously the child that always ran to mommy when things didn’t go her way. So she immediately tried to find an authority figure to tattle to.
I wonder how she’s doing after these 5 years. I bet she is actually homeless now. Who would hire her? Thank you Charlie for keeping this story alive. Nobody should ever get away with this. Arrested or not. This deserves life long consequence.
I'd still hope for the possibility of redemption here. If she wholeheartedly changes her ways, I see no reason for her to suffer for the rest of her life. If not, well... I hope she gets what she deserves.
My parent always told me to never give a suspect homeless person money because you never know where it’s going to go but to instead get the a drink like water or coffee and some food.
Because of stories like your first one, I have a rule: ONLY give panhandlers/beggars food or water. If they're actually homeless or in need, that food or water will really help them out, but if they aren't, you didn't put money towards their addictions or scams. Keep some shelf stable granola bars or something in the car, easy to hand out and nothing that can melt.
Why the fuck would you even give them anything? We all have to work for our living and they somehow don't? Not your fault they were too weak to adapt, you're not their daddy.
Sadly, I don't think this is helpful anymore. I've heard stories of homeless people receiving glass sandwiches and poisoned water. Because of this I bet many of them refuse to take these things. Right now I only give out items that cannot be resealed, like cans of sparkling water (the only water I could find in a can not a bottle).
that's what me and my parents used to do! on our way to a martial arts class that we used to have there was this guy with a sign and we'd make an extra egg and cheese sandwich for him, since we used to eat those for breakfast in the car anyway
As a person who was homeless up until 5 months ago, the first reply is true. We've had people give some... Shady food. And drinks, especially as a woman, because who knows if it was tampered with and I'd be roofied and followed... But what I can tell you is canned foods, gas station/fast food gift cards (if you worry they'll pawn it for drugs, get low amounts that'll be good for one or two meals). Also, SOCKS. And boxers for men, any clothes really. homeless people go through those like they're disposable. Cannot stress that enough. We used to get too many toothbrushes lol, so that's usually not needed. Just chiming in on behalf of the homeless people who really do need help. I wouldn't give homeless people money either because I know where it's going 99% of the time, but everyone deserves to have their basic necessities, even addicts.
Apart from the real homeless I did encounter I also came across the grifters. There was one, always stinking of booze and ripened human filth that hugged the streets to aggressively ask for money. He once took seat across me in the bus and started talking to me, about prostitutes no less, that he liked to visit whenever he had some extra cash. It was disgusting. I had hardly reached adulthood and was still looking like a minor at the time.
Saw a dude panhandling at Walmart years ago. One day I saw him walking home. He lived by my mom. lol Next time I saw him I made a sign and stood in front of him calling him out. At the very bottom, "Got any beer?" Someone actually gave me money. Then I just gave it to someone else. A different time I shoved a pillow under my shirt and held a sign saying "Pregnant. Need Booze". The faces I got were amazing. One dude stopped to take a pic. lolol
There are people who are lose their house and have to live out of their cars. I'm guessing that's what happened to this woman and now she's on the streets off her medication harassing the city.
The fact that she tattled to the McDonalds drive thru workers is complete comedy. That was the best form of authority she could think of lmao
Sorry!
If I worked there. I would have told her to leave me the fuck alone lol
@@bdbd1390 for real. Retail workers don't deserve this.
They're certainly more qualified in most things than her.
@@dimyell so much shit retail workers have to deal with. It's insane. Why I try to be respectful to them. Cause I use to be one myself and know what kind of shit they deal with daily.
She literally got hit with the “ma’am this is a McDonald’s drive thru”. Apparently we need to start giving crisis intervention training to these workers cause they’re always getting caught up in the middle of a felony in progress.
dude fuck this is probably true tbh....
We do get that type of training at Publix.
I think quite a few companies/corporations include training to prevent scamming, Walmart being a pretty big example. Unfortunately, many still slip through the cracks and I've heard of many cases of successful scams on places where training is provided. Common sense is the best tool to work against it.
@@ポスターピクセル well yeah Publix is a pharmacy right? (sorry if thats false i don't have Publix in my area)
@@ocdemon8999 It's a grocery store with a pharmacy department.
This is not only infuriating because of the obvious reasons but also because it makes people reluctant to help legitimate people that need it
It definitely has that effect on me. I live in a big city that's expensive where panhandling pays a lot more than minimum wage so I'm suspicious of everyone.
Yeah this is the worst part of it I think, when I was little (like 11yo) I gave money to a beggar while out with my mom and she got angry at me and explained that the man was just a scammer. Haven't done anything like that since, because now everytime I see someone like that I immediately assume the worst.
Yep. And many of the comments say how she couldn't possibly be homeless coz her hair & clothes are clean. I'm homeless and care for myself. I can show you my pic on Instagram, you'd never think I'm either disabled to the point of wishing to die every night, nor that I'm sleeping in my 20yo car entire Rona just to be near my dying Mom (all apartments here are above my SSDI earnings + all landlords require you to make 3 times the monthly rent, and NO ONE on disability can do that. HUD/Sec8 is hard to come by, I've been on every list for years now).
I hope she spends that money gotten from trusty kind people on medication. That's all.
Strangers have given me money and food so many times. I think it was because I never asked, I just looked pathetic without realizing it. One lady gave me 80 bucks when I was alone in a cafe around Christmas and had an argument with my mom on the phone. People kept thinking I was blind because I'm autistic and walk with a cane (I would correct them though when possible). Although I've been homeless, I usually had somewhere to live, but it was often unbearable to hang out there, so I used to spend a lot of time wandering the streets dragging my possessions behind me.
@@bananawitchcraft
Are you doing okay now? Do you have all you need?
During 2020 fires in my area, two friends from Twitch sent me money without me asking. I cried for days. They didn't know it at the time, but that money allowed me to house my very ill mother in a motel instead of on the floor at the local fire shelter center. She couldn't even get on the floor if you paid her.
Another lady also from Twitch crocheted me a pillow, and yet another sent a book + a little care package that warmed my heart no end.
I've never met any of them irl, but it doesn't matter.. i consider them friends and sisters.
They'll be getting presents this Christmas, if I can only manage to drive to post office. I'm determined to somehow repay their kindness, no matter if it's 2yrz later. Just wish I could buy them something like a vacation, but it's gonna be much, much smaller scale gifts.
In the UK we’re told not to give the homeless money but offer to buy them food/water instead. I think for the most part it’s to prevent donations being used for drugs, but I’ve never considered until now that it could also prevent this.
So are we in my country
@@johnklugh8008 But we cannot guarantee that all of them are being honest and are actually homeless
Honestly I don't care if someone would use the cash I gave them to buy drugs. Obviously it's bad to be addicted to drugs, but addiction recovery is complex, long, and difficult especially when you're dealing with the stress of being homeless. A small single donation probably isnt going to a big difference for them either way for recovery in the long term, so if they bought drugs with the money and it helped them get a night or a few hours of peace or easing their pain, I still feel I've done a good thing.
I was also generally taught to offer to buy food or water instead of money too, but I just don't care what they do with it (......as long as they're actually in need, looking at you lady). If they really need it and are desperate, whatever they spend it on is going to be helpful for them whether that's physically, mentally, etc.
Socks/underwear are a desperately needed item so if you aren't comfortable giving out money maybe you could buy and keep some in the car or in your bag to offer. I used to also carry about individually prepackaged granola, protein bars etc but I know a lot of homeless people don't trust being given food like that because there's awful horrible people out there who've deliberately poisoned food and drinks they gave out to the homeless to hurt and kill them just because they're homeless :(
@@johnklugh8008making them live longer so they can get a job at maccas or something
Dunno if youve ever spent a winters night sat out on the street but it fucking sucks. Trust me, most homeless would rather a bottle of cheap alcohol or a spliff than food and water.
Also like the other commenter said, clothes, underwear and blankets
People that fake being homeless should be inprisoned for scamming
@AutismoGamer you know 600 a month isn’t enough to live on right?
@UCVYui8Z7jvQigpLzEb2f68Q bruh
@AutismoGamer if they did they wouldn't be homeless
Dude I’m better than this niɡɡer ☠️
@UCVYui8Z7jvQigpLzEb2f68Q this is by far the worst bot I’ve seen. Pure eye assault.
The way this lady searches the parking lot for someone to validate her, like its a Skyrim fetch quest is hysterical.
That or the thief and the hunter random encounter
She forgot how to fast travel
@@The_Faithful_One Enemies were nearby.
"It would've been less painful if i found out I was adopted" that alone really captured how hurt and bamboozled Charlie must've been
no shit
TH-cam allows that?
tf with these borderline racist comments
these bots are so annoying and racist. What the heck TH-cam
@@logicandemma8474 These bots are getting crazy.
The worst thing about this is that they take the money from the real homeless people who often aren't as manipulative and good at talking as these sociopaths are.
Scammers who fool people through logic are terrible people, but scammers who prey on the kindness of others are the worst kind of scum on this planet. Truly disgusting that anyone would think to do something like this. Props to the two lads exposing her despite her threats of murder.
I actually dont feel much for the homeless. I will do whatever i could do to stay off the street. I would murder people if needed. If our society is so flawed we are unable to help those who either cant work wich i wouldent be suprised if we are i would do watever i could to make a point that things need to be changed, i will strap myself with explosives and explode a place that denied my employment. However people are animals, literally, and despite our allmighty intelligence we fail to truly ever use it. Simple beasts do shitty things cuz they cannot process logic. Humanity cannot process logic correctly and act on sins aka desires. Greed and Sloth go hand in hand quite nicely. If som1 can do it and even THINK they can get away with it they will do it. People are out for themselves even when not.
Other than murderers and rapists and druggers and drug dealers and gold diggers, you're right.
@@MohammedAli-ix4dw drug dealers are WAY better than any of the others lmao but yeah
@@heavenwaits you think a heroin dealer is better than a gold digger?
@@walter9240 OH i missed that. okay nevermind gold diggers and drug dealers are BOTH better
Charlie, do not be disheartened, you simply had to give him enough cash to unlock his secret dialogue option.
Maybe if he gave him enough money he could've unlocked the secret good (but evil) ending where he manages to start an MLM company with the money given and offers to make charlie an early adopter.
Like straight out of an EA game… 😂
@@JayJay5244 a few more installments and he wouldve unlocked the next dlc
He really did too lmao
Just like oblivion *npc music*
I've been homeless a few times, and never felt that panhandling was a valuable use of my time. That said, I do find it annoying when people think having a cellphone, or a car, or "non homeless looking clothes" means you're trying to scam people. Living in a car is still a pretty rough spot to be in. It's also not like you just go trade in all your old stuff at the homeless store in exchange for a shopping cart and tattered clothes.
Yeah these people are straight up harassing this lady, even if she is scamming
@@CircusFoxxo she's pretending to be homeless when there's a actual homeless people starving right now
@@CircusFoxxo this lady is clearly not what op is talking about. The way she instantly got mad and ran off shows she doesn’t want to get caught.. If she was living in her car or something she’d probably say that..
@@KingOfGaymes I mean there's also a bunch of strange dudes harassing her so-
that's a late model car, so her networth was at least 20k. she can't be homeless because you don't panhandle when you become homeless with relativity high networth.
Story time with Spoot: I was doing a lot of hard drugs at the age of 19, lost my friends, family and finally my place to live. I ended up homeless in Connecticut in late march (VERY cold). So I asked a friend to take a road trip with me to Georgia. I stayed in GA to live on the Appalachian Trail when he headed back to CT. I had minimal supplies no money and no choice I just had to make it work. Sitting outside places I would stop to rest at, people would make conversation and ask me about my trip so far. I would explain my situation honestly, but never once held a sign, asked for money, or even insinuated that I needed help. Simply said "ah just taking a lonesome venture to get clean and start new. Figuring things out as I go." Maybe it was because I was visibly young or maybe it was the fact I had in interesting story but people would come out of the store with bags of food and supplies to just hand to me and say "good luck, stay safe". Many people handed me cash on top of the things they bought. Many times I was holding back tears as these people not only helped me through these hard times, they sympathized and gave me advice and directions or info on good places to stay and clean up. Stranger hospitality is very very real and I quite literally might not be here to type this if it wasn't for the kindness of strangers. It breaks my heart into a million pieces to see people taking advantage of that kindness. I'm in a much better position now. I'm 25 and found work in pro hockey so anytime I see someone down on their luck I give what I can. I wont stop giving even though there's a chance that person is like this lady and I stress to all of you to please keep giving and don't let this effect that. Most people out there really truly relish that dollar or two.
I’m glad your here right now, you seem a lot stronger than I would be in that situation
I'm glad you're doing better, friend, and this message you shared is very true. There are very rotten people in this world, but there are people that just genuinely need help. Keep on fighting, boss.
Almost cried this is too wholesome, glad you are here to tell
Thank you for sharing your story, Spoot! I have shared mine somewhere here too .. current homeless due to disabilities & dying Mom.. I'm sleeping in a 20yo car & need an expensive surgery. I look just as "normal" and clean as her, but never would do what she's doing. Not even in war did we scam people.. we helped each other, and that's how most of us survived. (Bosnia, 90s. I was 14 when it started, 17 when we came to US and i had to start working, driving and being head of the family). From civil engineer to homeless just coz of illness i did nothing to bring on. But I still give, still drive other homeless in my city to thrift stores.. some are mean to each other, some are generous to a fault. Last night i couldn't get myself a drink or food, so I gave a homeless friend (whom i met by chasing him around thinking he's a thief, lol) some $ and tried to let him keep the change. He wouldn't. I insisted. Just as he was leaving, he tosses something into my car & drives off. It was the rest of the money I gave him & asked him to keep (coz at this moment his need is greater than mine, at least until the 3rd). He only bought himself a pack of cigs. That's all he'd accept, and I know for a fact he doesn't even have enough to fill up his gas tank.. which he used to get me the vitamin water I wanted. There's bad apples in every group of people wherever you look... including houseless. But there's also heart, integrity and conscience in many of us. I've had 2 homes in my life, now that's a car. I'm still the same person, with all the same principles, ethics and morals.
Don't be fast to judge, you never know what someone is going through (houseless or not). If you give, give from the heart not expecting anything in return. People like this scammer woman are gonna regret it (i sound like dharman, lmao). I just say let it be on them if they scam me. My intention was pure. I give when i can and don't ask what they'll buy with it. Look at every big charity, and the money distribution of theirs. Directors get SOOOOO much, while a very little percentage goes to help those in need. This one woman cannot possibly scam more than they do, but we don't talk about that.
Thank you Spoot, that was a heartwarming story time.
My grandma does this. It's infuriating and me and my parents are all embarrassed and angry but we live in different countries and we can't stop her. She was arrested, released and went right back to doing that. She's also a pathological liar and has always acted in a rather bizarre way. I have bipolar and since it's hereditary, we've all been assuming she has it too. It's so sad, and my mom tried so hard to get her to get her meds but she just won't. It's so damn frustrating seeing this happen.
Not sure if you'll see this, but baker acting her is a viable option
I lost my biological folks in June of 99 to a murder suicide
My dad had bipolar and just lost it
He wasn't on meds
Id get your Gramma some help before something happens
Hope y'all are all good now bro
Even better, if you baker act her, you can delegate the expensive costs to her
Whether it's being held against her will and forced to take medication, or the 20,000$ cost to stay there for 3 days, she will get help, whether she wants it or not.
Cheers dude, good luck
@@GraveMemoriesThat is an insane amount of consequences to put on a woman who seems legitimately ill. Why would you want someone like that to get stuck with a $20,000 debt?
She’s in a different country.
Comprehension is important
back in 2012, i worked at chick-fil-a, and my heart broke when my manager told a woman standing at the end of the drive-thru with her baby that she had to leave. customers had been giving her money or buying her sandwiches, and i was working drive-thru and was the one who told him about it. i felt really guilty as i watched him tell her that she had to leave the premises.
and then she stepped into her modern mercedes and drove off.
You really had me in the first half- but I had a similar thing happen to me. A houseless man approached our window when I worked at McDonald’s, and he was asking if we had any leftover food. Since I was new, I went in and asked a manager and I was told to not give him anything (assuming that he’d keep coming back for more), and it really upset me. We waste so much food already, so to see hungry people being denied cheap scraps made me hold an even deeper resentment to establishments like McDonald’s altogether.
@@Moon_Child_Mari this happens mostly so they "avoid" lawsuits of homeless people pretending they got sick from the scraps so they get some free bucks
💀💀
Sigma woman be like
yikes 😤
Oof this one hit hard. I was homeless 13 days on a winter season, finding food and shelter was like paradise, but I never had the balls to beg for money. Seeing this really struck the nerve
was homeless for a year it was me, my 4 siblings, and parents all cooped up in a car and we were able to find a place to park in a church parking lot. the struggle is real
I was in shitty shelter and tent for eight weeks and didnt beg either
@@rebjr6615 I hear you bro. I hope you and your family is alright now. At least we know how rough life can be
@@LighterAMV yeah that was like 5 years ago now im in university for computer science so we up 👍 good luck to u too
@@philldewitt8809 yeah and when I see sh*t like this it really makes me mad...
I was homeless for 4 years. I never had the courage to ask for help or money, although i have been close, my pride and self worth never let me do it. I truly dont understand how someone can fake such a horrible situation. Money is the only answer i have and that still doesnt make sense to be. Money really has a grip on this world. Its sad
7:30, actually just a "ma'am this is McDonald's" moment
Things are prob not quite the way they seem. She is clearly mentally I’ll or something to be panhandling. It’s not much better than working at McDonald’s. Calling her a scammer because she has a car also isn’t the same as having a home. Many homeless people have cars. Many have even have jobs . And the level of mental disability she has clearly must be debilitating. Charlie’s narrative here comes from ignorance. This woman prob can’t hold a job.
It really sucks that some people do this. I'm glad you could get out of the homeless slump though!
Good job getting a place or at least getting out of that situation
Yep.. the world has its share of shitty people
I’m currently homeless (in a women’s shelter, fleeing from Domestic Violence) with my four little girls. This lady is actively making people in my situation (or worse situations) have a harder time seeking and finding help. I’m still searching for a place to live right now. Then on to a job hunt. None of this is easy for me, but for her to steal people’s money with these lies so easily, is heartbreaking and infuriating. 💔
Edit: Thank you to all you’ve given me warm wishes, hearing your encouraging words has given me back some hope. I’m just getting to the point where I can admit to others what it was like. So your kindness is greatly appreciated. Thank you so very much. ❤️
To those who call me a bad mom, that I must be on drugs, that I should have known better, that I’m lazy for watching some TH-cam videos to pass some time (even though you all are here too? I can have some breaks as well?), you are all so off base. I hope you never face hard times and hear such spiteful and downright ignorant words thrown at you. Obviously the DV was gradual, I was working before and not “leeching” off my ex, not everyone who needs help is a drug or alcohol user (that kind of thinking just makes it harder for people in hard times, just like the lady in this video), and… I couldn’t get out for myself, but I got out for my children.
Best wishes to everyone. Please spread positivity, not hate. ❤️
Yeah mam def it is 💔
im glad you made it out of your past situation, at least youre safe now.
i hope things start to turn out better for you and your girls
I wish you the best of luck ma'am! o7
May your days get better❤
good luck with life
I've nearly lost my home because of unforeseen expenses coming up back to back. Just the worst timing ever. Begging for help financially to make rent was the most humiliating experience I've gone through yet... I don't know how people can do this everyday and go home feeling okay with themselves.
We need more evil and hate in this world.
I like to believe that most if not all beggar are drug addicts and that people who lose their house for any others reasons have access to some kind of ressources and charity so that they don't have ti beg for money in the street
@@Wakanda4bigmama Let me tell you, it's tough. Almost every resource requires you to have children. Which, of course, children should be taken care of. But people without children have a hard time finding help.
You also need to be a domestic abuse victim, on drugs/alcohol, be crippled in some way, be mentally challanged, and a few other things! So people thinking theres all kinds of programs out there for anyone on hard times is laughable!
@@mage1439 interesting, I can only presume that there's also more resources available if you happen to be a women
I can feel Charlie's volcanic rage subtly boiling under the monotone
ME ENCANTA FOLAR Y EYACUULLAR EN LA NOVIA DE Penguinz0 PORQUE SUBO BANGERS!! 😂👌 (translate pls)
people say watched pots don't boil, but charlie is a special case in here.
@@davidthecommenter I've never heard anyone say that before but that's a cool expression, I'm using that from now on
It’s always the quiet ones that go nuts when they finally snap.
@@davidthecommenter I watched a pot until it boiled. 😈
If Charlie was giving that “homeless man” $20 a day for a whole month that’s a total of $600, dang
I think he did say 20 a day monday through friday so ya cant count the weekends and stuff
frl charlie got that fat wallet
@@mariepayann that's still around 500 dollars blown in one month which is wild
It would be $400.
$20 x 5 = $100 a week
So $400 a month
@@tiegan7158 whatever it is, I never was good at math lol. All I know is that Charlie gave this homeless guy a whole paycheck ($400 or more) and he unlocked the secret dialogue💀
Don't let scammers discourage you from giving to those in need. If the concern is great that you are being scammed, invest in little gift packages to give instead of cash. Water, socks, a blanket, a coat if it is cold, and some food. That really could be that person's life line for a bit.
Socks and underwear are such a big need. Speaking from experience, we are now 5 months off the streets but man, we could never have enough pairs of socks.
yea the vast majority of people are not going to be scammers or anything, a few liars shouldn't stop you from giving to those in need when you have the ability to give
i bought hand warmers (little packets you rub in your hands that get warm) earlier this year and i wanna give them out as it gets colder, that’s another thing to add to the list!
This is such a great comment and I love that everyone is adding to it (especially the tampons/pads and hand warmers). Also some gloves, knit caps, canned food that has pop-top lids (and a can opener), easily eaten and stored food, and maybe a backpack. And if you have some extra funds, a charging station can be huge for someone living on the streets. I'm not suggesting you go buy a car load, but if there's a local unhoused person that you know who could use one, it could be a huge blessing.
Sanitary products for women, as well. That’s often forgotten about by people giving items instead of cash.
7:40 their face is the definition of “I don’t get paid enough for this shit.” Lmfao 😭💀✋🏻
I knew a good homeless man named Shawn he was a nice dude but sadly all good thing must come to an end sense later on he died apparently he had something in his arm that spread up to the heart and he had a heart attack to this day I still visit the bench he sat on. Rest in peace Shawn
Sad to hear that
Similar thing happened for me. I used to work at a Dunkin’ Donuts store near the subway. Right outside our store, a homeless man would sit on a crate between our store and the subway everyday asking for money. I’d always give him a dollar or two before I entered the store to start my shift. I’d also give him a cup of water and free coffee and donuts whenever he asked. He was always grateful for what I gave him. During my last few months there, he stopped coming at his spot and I assumed something bad happened to him. I’d sometimes look out the windows from the store to see if he was there or not. He really liked glazed donuts and liked his coffee with milk and sugar
@@ichangedmyusernamebecausei2551 you’re a good person and I respect that
@@FazedSoul I'd love to know what your username used to be. Please
I have a similar story, my Dad actually knows multiple homeless people, I remember this one time, we were stuck in a traffic jam, and this one homeless guy actually got on the road and started directing traffic and he was actually doing a pretty good job, my Dad then pulled up to him and the homeless guy recognized my Dad, they talked for a while before my Dad went on his way, another homeless guy my Dad knows, I'm acquainted with him too, is this guy we give our leftovers to, I don't know what he does with the food that's gone bad, but he takes that as well
She's deliberately bringing random people into this because that's a good tactic to use to get the cameramen to stop filming. Having other people who don't have the full information to defend her or not want to be filmed themselves.
She is a sneaky con, so of course she knows all the tactics..
People can film whenever and whatever they want whilst they are on public property.
She doesn't want them to film her getting in the car and driving away
@@TheNamesAllison ok? So is she in the right?? Just because this wenches precious “FeELiNgs” were hurt doesn’t mean she can randomly steal from genuinely nice and kind hearted people
@@Avgpyromaniac bro im pretty sure OPs not defending her just speculating lmao
I remember being 16 and going to Walmart by myself and this woman was crying outside and had a small baby on her shoulder and I asked her what was wrong. She claimed she didn't have any money for baby food and she was frantic and hysterical, begging for someone to help her feed her baby. I went straight in, got cash back on a drink and gave her $20. She hugged me, said thank you, and hopped in an Escalade. I was so pissed I didn't even feel anything.
Time to vandalize some property👌
I dont see how people don't feel an overwhelming amount of embarrassment from scamming someone so openly. My shame would paralyze me
thats why you ONLY give homeless people food/items directly. never money. It's sad but the only way
just dont give people money...
@@whatdoyoucallanalligatorin9174 I've chatted with "homeless" people many times that try and give me food 🤦♂️ they have a bag of sandwiches and food they can't even eat that people give them. In South East London the majority of people begging aren't homeless. They're heroin addicts who do it because it's lucrative. If people stopped giving them cash it might actually incentivise them to try to get some help
As someone who was homeless this is why no one will help the people who are truly struggling it’s truly disgusting to see people faking being homeless
Growing up I was always taught "never give homeless people money, if you want to help them, give them something to eat." It's a much better way of doing things, sometimes homeless people are struggling with addiction and sometimes they aren't even homeless. Giving them food means at least they can eat.
I was taught this too, my dad bought a homeless man a whole bag of food and drinks during Christmas because he saw the man sitting Infront of the store every time he went to the store, the man was so appreciative he started crying, and a month after that our car broke down near the store and the same man came to help push our car to a parking spot as thanks. Homeless people are some of the kindest most appreciative people I've ever met, they do not act like this woman.
@@dumbclown ok not all the time they are kind, I almost got kidnapped by one as a kid but usually they are nice. 99.9 percent of the time
You can also ask what they need and buy it
@@theonering2966 this is bad advice though. I’d rather risk giving someone drug money than risk someone go hungry because I thought they might buy drugs. Plus there are plenty of other reasons why someone might just need a few extra bucks
@@fishwoz17 that is why you go into the store with them and buy food for them, instead of just handing them money. Then they get to eat *and* don't waste your hard earned money on drugs.
you have a great heart Charlie. dont let the few bad apples spoil the bunch most are truelly in need.
This drives me crazy cause I worked in a heavily homeless area and I could very easily figure out who is homeless and who isn't (most of the time). The amount of scammers out there drives me nuts
I love the fact that Charlie has now incorporated the word "goober" into his vocabulary
Nice outfit GOOBER
CAP AND WHER
Oh God
Now?
I have too personally. Goober is so poweful.
my dad told me that, even if your giving a fake homeless person money, your still helping someone out, even if they dont deserve it.
🤦🏻♀️
I'm more of the mind that it's on their conscious.
@@deedeedee9310 exactly, you are FACE palming, not BRAIN palming, because you cant "palm" what you don't have, they are telling the truth.
As somebody who is currently homeless and watching this from a shelter Im glad in 4 days I'll be down in San Antonio Texas for basic training getting the next step of this journey Im on called life. I have panhandled, I have struggled, I have endured and now Im glad to finally better myself and my situation.
Prayers and good luck!!
Serve your contract then GTFO. Get the money, pick an mos you can use in the real world. Get all the benefits you can and jet.
don't pay for hoes or brand new cars after the first check, there are some people out there who can zero in on specifically fresh enlists from a mile away
Good luck, you’re going to do great. My partner did the same thing, is out of the Air Force now, he was gone 9 months (basic and tech school) got out, got his bachelor’s in biotech, and works for Pfizer now making more than he ever hoped. The future is as bright as you want to make it.
Ayo, stick to that route
I’m active Air Force right now
The only thing that makes it hard there is the people around you, so do your best to help them succeed with you!
Hope to serve alongside you!
I'm from Australia and this has happened to me in Richmond,Australia and I found it really angry
"The love of money is the root of all evil."
You are a very giving, kind, person Charlie. Don't let anyone take that away from you.
Well he doesn't love God anyway so it really doesn't matter. Everything Charlie does is meaningless to his existence.
@UCJfPtRszZ3gG6YI2U85gvaw 🥱
@@imbetterlol1670yawn
@@TruthInLove330 I honestly didn't know that was a bible verse to be honest, just know that greed can make people do shitty things.
Meaningless? His anger would suggest otherwise. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. He gave to a man who he thought he was helping a great deal, when he found out that he was only helping a small bit, when he found out he had been lied to he was hurt and sad, betrayed.
It reflects well on Charlie, with or without a love of G-d, because he was willing to give what he could to someone he saw as having a greater need, even if the man didn't have a great need, the act of giving is something people can respect. That's something that people notice and endear him to them because there is a greater chance of survival though kindness than crulty.
Anyway, it seems to be something that should be nurtured despite the oppisite actions of others.
Better yet, don’t give that part of yourself away
Holy crap you're generous. You're in university and giving this guy $100+ a week. Like I've given homeless people some change but $20 at a time sounds crazy to me. These days I'll usually just give homeless people food if I can. Bought a guy asking for money at a Tim Hortons a bagel and coffee and he seemed very thankful for it.
I dont give anyone anything. Nobody helps me so fuck em.
Charlie comes from money, but at least he’s generous with it
Tim Hortons food? You might as well have slapped him in the face
@@fake_7106 Does he actually? What does his parents do?
Canada homeless are different
There was (not sure if still is) a woman in Toronto who pretended to be homeless. She apparently managed to get herself the nicest apartment in the city from it all too. I’m sometimes amazed by the lengths people will go, to not work.
she looks so bewildered after hearing that people are actually homeless
As a person who is disabled with a Neuromuscular disease it infuriates me when people pretend to be in need or are pretending to be sick/disabled. This goes for all scamming crap where people lie and cheat to get a quick buck. It’s totally disgraceful.
Damn, Charlie... I’m sorry that happened to you. I was homeless for a long time after I got home from Iraq, but I’m not anymore because of the VA. Any veteran who tells you they’re homeless has options for getting out of the situation and being housed. It’s a program called HUD VASH (VA Supported Housing) the VA will pay up to $625/month for your rent, along with a utilities allowance check at the beginning of every month. This program has no time limits whatsoever, so a veteran can be in it for as long as they need the assistance. During your time in the program, they will assign an employment specialist to assist you in finding a permanent job to provide steady income for you. Any veteran who remains homeless is doing so either because they were dishonorably discharged and lost their VA benefits or is refusing to meet the requirements of the program (no alcohol in the household, no drugs/paraphernalia, no criminal activity of any kind, etc. Not unreasonable requirements. If you encounter a veteran that is homeless, direct them to the nearest VA facility, do NOT give them monetary assistance at all.
My parents always tell me give them food not money
this lady was obviously scamming, but y’all please keep in mind that a lot of homeless people actually do have jobs and will appear to have “normal” lives but are living out of their cars and public access restrooms/washrooms. it’s not always as simple as “you have a car so clearly you’re not homeless”
rubber tramps are a majority of homeless people in my experience, they're just more functional than train hoppers, bicycle hobos or homebums so they're invisible to the public's eye. Way more likely to be the kind of homeless to have a gym membership for showers and a steady job, but still show up to church lunches and get the stink eye. I used to think badly of them, too, because they didn't look like they had it as bad as I did. They didn't, but it's not a competition. Gatekeeping is everywhere lol.
If you see a panhandler get into a car they're not necessarily a scammer, they're just not as pathetic looking as the rest of us.
Lot of the ones that live by the library near me go to the labor center or are wicked disabled and gets the disability check but can't afford rent consistently
Very important point, I was thinking the same. Also the age/quality of the car isn't a good indicator, it could have been donated or they could have fallen on hard times after buying it. Just because they are homeless now doesn't mean they were 2 years ago. Hanging onto a good quality car when you don't have a home can be the difference between life or death.
Unfortunately, the majority of panhandlers are not homeless
@UCrVahl3CWFMUhsa-DT1d95w read the reply left immediately before you and maybe you’ll reconsider
I was homeless from February to July of this year ended up losing 15-20 pounds but the worst part was not being able to shower. Thankfully I'm in a much better place now. There are people who are legitimately in desperate need of help and I too am filled with absolute disgust when I see people pan handling who are genuinely not homeless, using up the generosity and taking money away from the people who really need it. I never pan handled or asked for anything but if somebody had come up and given me a sandwich or anything I would have broken down in tears. Always offer food instead of money because the fakes won't want that kind of generosity.
Yep, every time I’ve offered the food I have on me to someone “sooo hungry” they immediately turned it down in disgust and asked for restaurant food ($6 a slice pie) or money for “food”
My grandpa once bought a meal from a fast food place for someone who claimed to be homeless and they threw the food back at him inside his truck and told him they wanted money not food. I can’t even make this shit up
As someone who grew up dealing with homelessness this is one of the worst acts of greed I’ve ever seen, people legitimately have no sense of reality sometimes.
I remember giving a homeless dude £10 when I was a teenager, saw him the next day leaving his house while riding the bus to school.
That pisses me off
I remember giving a homeless man some money and then seeing him go to the corner store to buy cigarettes
LOL
We need more evil and hate in this world.
@@Vaultboythefightingmachine That’s what causes these people to be hateful and evil in the first place..
I’ve always been told growing up asking someone if they want food is a somewhat good way to really see if they’re homeless or not. If not most will refuse food and ask for money
Almost 20 years ago my mom got stopped by one of these guys in a parking lot and he said that he was diabetic and needed money. She didn’t have cash and offered a ginger ale for sugar and this guy took it and immediately threw it on the ground. Your comment just reminded me of it lol
Homeless people need other items than food
@@Amber-jb8su He could have needed money for insulin, in which case drinking sugar could kill him.
@@Dirk_Strider It's really unfortunate how little most people know about diabetes. You're exactly right. Insulin is extemeeeeeeeeely expensive and like you said sugar/carbs just raise blood sugar, which would make the problem worse. I see why he would feel frustrated. If he's type one like me, he could be close to death. Type 1 diabetics need insulin to live just as much as we need food & water. Without it we just drop dead in a few days, no joke it's wild that so few seem to know how bad of a disease it is
@@Amber-jb8su happy birthday to the ground!
The fact that Charlie still uploads when a literal hurricane hit his state is crazy
Considering he did a 10 hour stream the day of the hurricane shows the true Floridian energy. Man even has a backup generator in-case.
The storm wasnt that bad in my area of FL, just power loss in some areas
Tampa wasn't hit too hard
I'm also in central Florida, and no one here really cares. I went on a walk to the store yesterday, and it was extremely windy, and there were fallen trees everywhere. Despite that, there was still traffic, and all the stores were still open. Floridians are next level.
What else is he supposed to do? Hole up in his basement and cry till it goes away?
this still happens in this area, they have multiple shifts of people panhandling on the street, and you can see the "shift changes" it really upsets me how these people make all the legitimate people on hard times seem untrustworthy.
I remember documentaries about this in the 90's, then the 2000's, etc etc. Being a professional homeless person is a legitimate career path for some people. There are so many scams out there it is hard to keep up with them all.
It is sad because there are people that need help. My strategy I follow and advice I give to most people is never get money involved. I have bought homeless people meals, given them food, water, hygiene supplies, but never money.
tbh, as someone who’s mother was homeless through my teen years, i would challenge you to possibly rethink that mindset a little bit. i understand why and buying usable goods instead is totally fine and all, but just wanted to give an alternate perspective:
my mother was very lucky to get some money from many kind people, and she built up that cash and used it to do her laundry for her job interview and, a while later after getting the job, pay her first down payment on her apartment! for a lot of people, cash means they can get themselves a cheap hotel room, a hot meal, laundry, medicine, etc., but i also understand it also can mean the salary of a professional scammer in places where that happens.
there’s absolutely nothing wrong with what you’re doing or even why you’re doing it, though, just wanted to pass on an experience that made me personally change my mind!
@@heavenwaits I completely understand. As I said, there are definitely people out there that need help. I'm just saying be aware, be cautious and whether you intend to give money or not. Just offer to buy them something over straight cash, see how they act.
Check out recent studies on the success of giving homeless cash vs just meeting needs.
@@heavenwaits Objectively speaking cash MUST be part of a welfare plan, otherwise it's impossible for the recipient to actually progress in life and become self sustaining.
However there are many scammers around and not giving cash is just the easiest way to filter them out. So personally I would probably never give cash, as only institutions with vetting capacity could check if the welfare case is legitimate or not.
My eyes were opened by two experiences. One was when my grandma showed me how people in the city had been fakers. The second was in winter, where there was an obviously homeless man who was not pan handling. My stepmother bought him hot food and a hot coco. The man burst into happy tears and thanked her. Since those experiences, I now offer food instead of cash, and that is how I've learned to pick out the fakers. The fakers almost never accept the offer of food. I actually had a faker scoff at me because I offered to buy them a meal and then they said only cash would help them.
Panhandlers can make a lot. I remember growing up really poor and not having money for basic things like rent, food, or school supplies. Churches would donate food boxes to us sometimes which absolutely saved our lives during the rough months. My single mother was working as a server and would rarely be home I had to raise myself for the most part. Thankfully her boyfriend at the time used to be homeless and he panhandled one time to help us not be evicted. One day of doing this he made around $700. I’m so thankful to the generous people who helped us, it’s disgusting people are less trusting now because of how common these scams are.
She had a legitimate cover story as it’s possible to be newly homeless and still have a car. It all kinda fell through with her story contradicting her sign.
like Charlie said, my favorite thing is the employees just being so bewildered and confused 😆 all jokes aside, this shit makes me so mad. my girlfriend was homeless off and on for a lot of her 20s (before I met her) and has a lot of trauma because of it and the fact that these people just can go home at the end of the day and hang up their homelessness hat is beyond words.
Hopefully she doesn't know what smegma tastes like
@@shainshartershwate7421 🤢creep
Yeah I knew a guy years back that pan handled even though he had a home. Dude was a total loser, glad I haven't seen him in ages. I hope he got his shit together though for his sake.
It's a law of nature that if there is a public incident, a fast food employee must be caused some irritation. So she did the right thing, taking the issue to a McDonald's employee for adjudication.
My mother and I have dealt with similar situations, some dude got 10$ from my mom and she watched him for about 20-30mins cause he was asking for enough money to get water and food, man goes in the gas station and comes out with beers. So, clearly not hurting much for money.
Our way of figuring out who is who, typically but doesn't always work, is asking if they'd like something to eat rather than money.
I was getting gas myself after stopping to get pizza, the only cash I had was spare change from getting the food and this older gentleman wanders up and asks for enough change to get himself a hotdog cause what he had was too little. Flagged him down after getting gas and offered him the biggest slice of pizza I could manage to convince him to take (these were Xxl slices, like four regular pieces in one), then went back to my car and waited a bit cause I was doing something on my phone, but I remember looking up and seeing him come out with a bottle of water to have with the pizza.
My heart still goes out to him and I wish I knew where he went, hope the best for him.
The “I train while you sleep shirt” while scamming homelessness is crazy 😭
When I first moved to Cleveland i quickly realized how many people were scamming all over the streets and saying they were “homeless” I would ride the same bus that a lot of them did and noticed they got off around 6-7 every day to go to their homes lol.
This is the kind of stuff that rly bothers me. I was homeless and on the street for four years. And because I had a job still, people assumed I was scamming because I had to ask for help still. People like this make it harder for the people that rly need the help. Because it’s hard to tell the difference from the fakes to the people that needed it, when someone who’s willing to help comes across someone that scams them, you can’t blame them for wanting to label everyone as a scammer. It just really really sucks for the people that need it.
12:24 LMFAO i shouldnt have laughed this hard at this 😭😭😭
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a homeless woman was begging for money, and she had a baby straddled to her. My sister felt bad, but we didn't have any small bills so she gave the lady some change. the lady got pissed and threw the coins all over our car :D
She's the kind of person who probably had everything handed to her as a kid and everyone probably helped her with everything now she just expects that everyone is going to help her with everything
I live in a pretty rich area, there are a bunch of people who used to do minimum wage jobs that I see on the street corners nowadays, I had a conversation with one who used to be a friend and his takaway was basically "I can work my ass off for $12 an hour or I can sit and look pitiful and if one of the rich tourists tosses me a $20 each hour and I make more then when I was breaking my back" it was a real shock to me, and it shows a lot of what can cause this, the hopelessness of minimum wage jobs, the fact that the gap between rich and poor is so huge that an hours wage for someone at the low end means nothing to someone wealthy, it really sucks. I would never do something like this but when he told me about the value proposition I doubted myself if I wanted to go back to that burger flipping job for (at the time) $12 an hour or if I should just join this asshole sitting on a street corner and make more money on average. $15 an hour for these minimum wage jobs is better then it was, but not enough. frankly we need to address the minimum wage.
I love that the employee is like "ma'am I just work here, what do you want me to do", like sure they could call the cops but can't stop people from filming
I almost fell for a scam in 2021, I was working a shit factory job, 40 hours a week for $16 an hour plus a little overtime. I was wanting something different and found a listing for a data entry job for a medical company. I did an interview online and everything, was told that I needed a new iPhone, MacBook and some printer but that if I would do the iPhone they would get the computer and printer to me and do payments or whatever. I went and got a new iPhone and everything but then they were saying it needed a special program on it and wanted me to send it to them to put it on there then they’d send it back. That’s when I realized it was bullshit and I’m still pissed it took that long but they were pretty damn convincing. They were definitely top tier scammers, no telling how many phones people sent them.
I love how she goes to the McDonald’s drivethru window as if she’s running up to tell the teacher on someone
There’s a women in my town that’s nown for pretending to be disabled. She will ask people to pay her a taxi or drive her around. My mom was victim to this scam and she decided to bring the lady to her destination. She aperently couldn’t walk but the second my mom got out of the car she was gone. My mom later confronted the scammer in public but she was very agressif. The point is there will always be some scammers/not honest people and just watch out.
Charlie, i am sorry that this had happened to you. hopefully not all people are like this. i know homelessness is a big problem and have even been homeless in the past when i was growing up...if anyone is without a home here i hope you can catch a break!
We need more evil and hate in this world.
@@Vaultboythefightingmachine seems like you need more father figures in your world
@@mkge7415 W
Goin through it now... Thank you. 💖
I was homeless for a bit in my youth being an idiot and getting addicted to heroin. I once hung out with a traveller vagrant and we put a sign up and pan handled. My ego felt shattered , I could not be in a good mood. He had done it a bunch of times and felt no qualms. In Vancouver not many people give to homeless on the street because we all know it goes to drugs.
I can't imagine the kind of person who can pan handle like this...
I was homeless earlier this year. I tried one morning to panhandle. I couldn’t manage an hour, it was so humiliating, I just couldn’t. I’m in a low rent motel now and that’s miles above trying to panhandle. Maybe people who took theater in high school can pull it off, I sure could not.
I used to see a guy near my local Walmart who had a bad limp and asked for money all the time. I worked in the area though and noticed he was only out in nice weather. Watching him more I eventually saw him after his begging was done. Limp totally gone and getting into a nice car. People like them ruin it for people genuinely in need.
I'm on disability, and with the way my health is I'll probably be on it for the rest of my life. It took a long time to come to terms with needing it, and I still feel so horribly ashamed sometimes. The thought of taking money from people directly makes me nauseous. Can't imagine what the thought processes of people like this is. Seeing how she was able to run so easily, like I haven't been able to since I was like fourteen, I felt dead inside. Altogether very disheartening
I'm right there with you.
Bit of a coincidence for me to come across your comment today of all days. I was having lunch with my brother earlier today and we discussed how I haven't been able to work for a couple of years due to some pretty severe health problems, and he was really encouraging me to start applying for disability because otherwise I probably would end up on the street. It's something I've definitely thought about before, but the thought of taking money that I feel I didn't earn makes me physically ill, especially when there are a lot of people out there who need it more than I do. I've just been holding out hope that things will improve and I'll find another option, but at the same time I know that I've been really fortunate already to have gone for so long without work and not already be out on my ass. It's just a really damn tough pill to swallow, because I truly want to be someone who contributes to society and not takes from it... I really hope that people like the woman in the video never have to experience what it's actually like to be hard up without options and to be physically unable to control your own destiny, even though you actually would do anything just to be able to get out and do an honest day's work.
Please don't feel ashamed! There's no reason to. The whole reason we have these programs is because most of us want to support you. If our money can go towards people who really need it, that's fantastic! There's no reason to feel bad, please keep this in mind and enjoy life to the best of your ability.
@@pizzlerot2730 you don't need a job to contribute to society. be kind and spread love, thats all that people need especially in hard times like this.
This isn't a homeless person scamming incident, but it is still a scamming incident. I work at a McDonald's here in California and there have been times where someone would come in through the drive thru, order a bunch of food and then as soon as he pays for it, will immediately change his mind and ask for a refund. That's not the worst part, if we're not paying attention, he'll hide the bigger bills such as $20s and then proceed to tell us that we didn't give him the correct amount of money. By that point we have to get a manager involved so they can count the drawer only to realize that we did give him the correct amount of money for a full refund. Mind you this guy ordered close to $90 worth of food.
There's so many of these 'panhandlers' in my town that I'm convinced there are more of them than there are actual homeless
We need more evil and hate in this world.
She looks too healthy. She demonstrates a proper running form and is dressed all athletic, with no tearing of her clothes or dirt, a cute hat and all. Does not look like the homeless folks in my city.
You'd think a professional beggar would have prearranged a fake disability.
I guess narcissism can be a personality disorder.
fr, i thought this too^ she looks like she’s about to go pick her kids up from karate class or smth. if ur gonna act homeless at least dress the part lady
Not to mention wearing a t shirt that subtly insults the people donating money to her 😭
After a while, they WERE harassing her. However, she was NOT being restrained from leaving at any time.
She just did not want to get recorded getting into the nice, almost new car.....
Even if it was wasted, you did a good thing in the attempt to help that guy.
This is true, of course. It isn't always easy to keep this in mind in the face of this sort of injustice.
God does weigh intent in the equation. So should we. We should also consider outcomes and adjust accordingly, since we're imperfect.
Her going to the random mcdonalds to try and get them involved is both funny but I feel so bad for the poor workers who had to deal with her.
Damn I was legit homeless for a few months this year & couldn’t even begin to think about asking for money from people on the streets..
Lol right you do everything you can to appear "normal"
it happened to me too & as close as i wanted to ask. I never did
So you weren’t really struggling.
@@derpstick5467 For sure, the homeless guy isn’t really struggling
We need more evil and hate in this world.
What I like best is that when you said "She threw a missile" I used to think she was throwing actual missiles too until I read up on it. The only reason that sounds plausible to us is because we have lived in Florida for so long and have seen so many crazy stories.
I don't help anyone anymore, can't trust people, I only look after my partner and direct family.
As someone that lives in Virginia, I have witnessed a lot of people that are faking being homeless
which part of va?
@@sammymarrco2 Virginia beach
@@ElectricBoogaloo dude I've noticed a nice handful of fakers here in Amherst Virginia. They'll park their car like a half mile away, and then at the end of the day, walk back to it and drive home. There are about 9 or 10 of them now.
@@ElectricBoogaloo that tent city is full of scammers
sold so much weed there lmao
This is the most useless comment
I remember once when I was homeless, I would stand in the median of a busy street with a sign. Now my clothes weren't all dirty and stuff cause fortunately i had friends who would let me do laundry once in a while. This one lady got all mad saying i wasnt homeless and that i was a fake. It hurt me cause at the time i was sleeping on a dirty mattress that i had found in an alley next to a dumpster. Then one day, while im waking up in the morning, i heard someone walking up to my little clubhouse that i had made with cardboard boxes. The person pulls the tarp i used to cover everything aside and it turns out to he the lady that called me a fake. When she saw me she started to cry. She apologized and tried to give me 100 bucks. I didn't want to take it though cause i felt she was only giving it to me cause she felt bad. I didnt feel like it was genuine. After this interaction though she would stop by every other day and bring me food. She would apologize everytime for what she said and would say a prayer for me before she left and always tried to give me money, begging me to take it. I finally took it one time but as i did i told her, "next time you see someone who claims to be homeless, try to give them the benefit of the doubt. You don't know how hard they are struggling even if they are dressed like they aren't." Im not homeless anymore and I work at a Starbucks. I still see that lady every now and then and when she leaves she always leaves me a 10 dollar tip and says she is proud of me for getting off the streets.
When I lived in Cleveland I learned that if someone asks you for money the first thing you do is check their shoes. Nobody is panhandling all day in some old messed up kicks with holes in them unless they have to. Met a guy at a bus stop once who really put on an act, had crazy hair, a ripped shirt, and even drooled on my friend a little bit. Looked down and what do I see, new Nikes. My dude gets an A for his performance but an F in the costume department.
Remember, Charlie gave a "homeless"man money, while wearing a Psychonauts cd around his neck, doing card tricks and then breakdancing.
link?
@@amberhawksong Charlie has mentioned all of those in previous videos.
@@dr.3998 Ok but idk that video, that's why I want the link so I can watch Charlie being a goober.
I’m disabled and experienced homelessness throughout my life, shit like this lady just takes away from real people suffering and makes us look bad when we actually are asking for real deal help. I’ve been without my wheelchair for over a year now and barely have been able to raise enough for a new one and I only need 2,000. Seeing frauds make thousands and thousands kills me.
This is actually very common where I live in Brazil. People even fake having a broken leg or some other injurie. Most of them make this a job and have better apartments than lots of people who gave money to them. It's truly ridiculous.
And they ask specifically for money... there was this time a lady bought coffee and a sandwich for a guy, and he threw the coffee on her legs, I remember she screamed because it burned her.
Brazil is indeed a sad place
Já ouvi falar de gente pegando "emprestado" o filho dos outros, vizinho, parente, pra ir pedir esmola no farol com eles do lado. Se tiver criança no colo eu não dou 1 centavo, se não tiver 99% de chance de não dar também
I grew up in a trailer park, and all my jobs have been mostly shitty retail and fast-food stuff. Almost all the vehicles I've ever drove were junkers that I bought under a grand with the help of car-savvy parents. My most high-paying job was my most recent; a stocking position that I was very, very good at, but had to quit because no one in my household has a vehicle that's capable of safely traversing the interstate highway, and I'm currently jobless while living with my mother and brother as I approach middle-age.
It's because I'm well-aquatinted with poverty and bad situations that I've always forked over a twenty *cough*get that genocidal maniac off of our money *cough* to those with a sign at the side of the road if I had it. Seeing that 'homeless person' get into a car that freaking nice just makes me feel . . . violent.
see, the way I avoid giving homeless people money, but also helping them out is just offering to buy them food or something to drink.
4:40 :[ i feel you, i learnt a similar lesson, when my parents were looking for work, and they would take sandwiches with them on the long walks through the city canvasing. I was with them when my mother kindly gave half our food to this poor homeless kid/teenager and his dog, and went to turn back to give them some money when she saw him feeding all the food to his dog, not even splitting it.
The rule learnt was, if you want to be nice to a homeless person, you offer to take them to get food, instead of giving them money, if they refuse they must not be after money for food.
Don’t offer to take them anywhere; that’s how people end up killed. You give them a gift card or something that they can’t use anywhere but where the gift card is meant to be used.
That lady driving the 2014 car is very obviously the child that always ran to mommy when things didn’t go her way. So she immediately tried to find an authority figure to tattle to.
I feel bad if the person Charlie gave money to just made a joke abt owning an expensive apartment
"This guy had used me like a fuckin' fleshlight" Lmao. Charlie always has the best analogies
I wonder how she’s doing after these 5 years. I bet she is actually homeless now. Who would hire her?
Thank you Charlie for keeping this story alive. Nobody should ever get away with this. Arrested or not. This deserves life long consequence.
I'd still hope for the possibility of redemption here. If she wholeheartedly changes her ways, I see no reason for her to suffer for the rest of her life. If not, well... I hope she gets what she deserves.
My parent always told me to never give a suspect homeless person money because you never know where it’s going to go but to instead get the a drink like water or coffee and some food.
Because of stories like your first one, I have a rule: ONLY give panhandlers/beggars food or water. If they're actually homeless or in need, that food or water will really help them out, but if they aren't, you didn't put money towards their addictions or scams.
Keep some shelf stable granola bars or something in the car, easy to hand out and nothing that can melt.
Why the fuck would you even give them anything? We all have to work for our living and they somehow don't? Not your fault they were too weak to adapt, you're not their daddy.
Sadly, I don't think this is helpful anymore. I've heard stories of homeless people receiving glass sandwiches and poisoned water. Because of this I bet many of them refuse to take these things. Right now I only give out items that cannot be resealed, like cans of sparkling water (the only water I could find in a can not a bottle).
that's what me and my parents used to do! on our way to a martial arts class that we used to have there was this guy with a sign and we'd make an extra egg and cheese sandwich for him, since we used to eat those for breakfast in the car anyway
I hope you never face actual hardship because all I'm doing is waggling a granola bar in your face.
As a person who was homeless up until 5 months ago, the first reply is true. We've had people give some... Shady food. And drinks, especially as a woman, because who knows if it was tampered with and I'd be roofied and followed... But what I can tell you is canned foods, gas station/fast food gift cards (if you worry they'll pawn it for drugs, get low amounts that'll be good for one or two meals). Also, SOCKS. And boxers for men, any clothes really. homeless people go through those like they're disposable. Cannot stress that enough. We used to get too many toothbrushes lol, so that's usually not needed. Just chiming in on behalf of the homeless people who really do need help. I wouldn't give homeless people money either because I know where it's going 99% of the time, but everyone deserves to have their basic necessities, even addicts.
Apart from the real homeless I did encounter I also came across the grifters. There was one, always stinking of booze and ripened human filth that hugged the streets to aggressively ask for money. He once took seat across me in the bus and started talking to me, about prostitutes no less, that he liked to visit whenever he had some extra cash. It was disgusting. I had hardly reached adulthood and was still looking like a minor at the time.
1:50 Can we get much higher
So high
Oh the misery
Saw a dude panhandling at Walmart years ago. One day I saw him walking home. He lived by my mom. lol
Next time I saw him I made a sign and stood in front of him calling him out. At the very bottom, "Got any beer?"
Someone actually gave me money. Then I just gave it to someone else.
A different time I shoved a pillow under my shirt and held a sign saying "Pregnant. Need Booze". The faces I got were amazing. One dude stopped to take a pic. lolol
That’d be a fun story to make a video about! Do you reckon there’s more “lighthearted” 911 calls about things like this?
@@creacher00 I wonder if I could find the pictures... I know I have one of them on some old computer.
I am getting some funny 911 calls together.
I'm starving and gonna be on the streets in two weeks. What a cute story.... gonna unfollow your channel...
There are people who are lose their house and have to live out of their cars. I'm guessing that's what happened to this woman and now she's on the streets off her medication harassing the city.
The randomness of the missile charge had me rolling 😂
she feels like an NPC in morrowind. i half expected her to just start going "YOU N'WAH"