wud u pick up homeless people on the street?

wud u pick homeless up or not?

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fei ku

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yesterday and today i saw that same guy stand on the street near the highway asked for help to give him a warm home he has been there for 2 days so far...i see all people ingore him and drive pass ....i do have soft heart and wanna to help him but same time afraid to pick up any stranger cuz never know if they are raper or something like that....sometime i felt like wanna to cry cuz hate to see anyone who left on the street being homeless....just wonder if anyone of u wud pick up a homeless and help them or ingore them?
 
Most locale prohibits by law and you can be arrested if you pick up stranger on street! It is UNWISE to do so, especially that your female. Deaf female around your age was picked up by a driver and got killed and dumped on the road out of country.
 
really?! i didnt know that u cud get arrest for pick the homeless up wow thanks for ur information :ty: ....yikes i felt bad for those female geez
 
You could do by let cop know about this.

fei ku said:
really?! i didnt know that u cud get arrest for pick the homeless up wow thanks for ur information :ty: ....yikes i felt bad for those female geez
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It depends on the circumstances. If I am with a friend, especially male, I have and will pick-up homeless. Often they don't need a ride - they need money or food - both of which I give as I can. I also work with the homeless through my church providing food, shelter, clothing and lay-counselling.
 
Honestly, I wont pick homeless people up since its very dangerous to doing that. BUT, if I see a homeless person same for maybe a week then I would call the police to let them know so they would help them out instead of us doing that. BUT I would give them the food only, not money because we never know what they will spend our money with? Food or drugs or what? You know? So, better idea to having police to help or just give them food thats it.
 
fei ku said:
really?! i didnt know that u cud get arrest for pick the homeless up wow thanks for ur information :ty: ....yikes i felt bad for those female geez
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yeah especially if giving a stranger a ride, it's called hitchhiking and it's completely illegal too.
 
I never will give a bum a ride or anything like that, but would just give him a dollar or afew quarters, though I dont think it'll leave him enough money to buy drugs but would proably just help him buy a drink, is all.

I seen alot of bums in the city where I'm close at, and even one in chapel hill where my friends and I went into town and a man on the bench was holding a box with coins in it and I toss some coins in when I got some change from buying something earlier and he grins at me saying something gibberish to me and I had no idea what he was talking about but ah well...bums can be very strange, yet it's never really wise to pick them up or give 'em a ride or home or anything like that. If they have a serious problem like that, the least they would do is just go to the services at church or homeless shelters and seek help or whatever like that.
 
I wouldn't pick up homeless people, I would just give them food. I refuse to give them money because they can try to save up to get drugs or whatever. Don't forget those addicted alcoholics who are homeless can buy a beer for a few bucks.
 
write down the shelters number or church.. give him.. 50 cents.. so he can made call..



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fei ku said:
i do have soft heart and wanna to help him but same time afraid to pick up any stranger cuz never know if they are raper or something like that....
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Chances are he already has a 'home', even if it's just a plot he's staked out on undeveloped land. If he's a professional homeless person, he's got a good tent, a bicycle, and a P.O. box to pick up his welfare check at. He's also got pretty decent medical and dental coverage through the county. If you really want to help the guy, give him enough money to get a couple of 40-ouncers of Steel Reserve. That's what he really wants. He's not looking for a home. He does not want to come live in your home. The very notion of doing that would creep him out to the very marrow of his bones. Feed him ethyl alcohol and he will love you forever.
 
Yes it is illegal to hitch hike in California but my husband and I did give a homeless guy (whose RV dropped dead on highway 101 somewhere near Big Sur) a ride to a gas station. We felt bad that everybody sped by him when he was trying to signal them down-- he just wanted a ride to gas station to refill his RV (well it was more of a camper on a "mini-truck"). We did give him a ride to there and back to gas up his RV but it turned o ut that his RV won't work at all so he was sort of begging us to drive us back to the gas station (because the RV was literally on the cliff and there is no house/resturants/whatever for next 5 miles) where there were people, stores, and TELEPHONES. We did drive him bac but the situation got worser when he kept begging us to take him to the next town (another 5 miles north) but I told my husband that I was getting impatient because we were supposed to go SOUTH back to home that night for Christmas Eve. (That is an another reason we decided to give that guy a ride-- it was the christmas mood that got us). We did give that guy many chances and he still wanted to go to next town so we said: "we are sorry but we are trying to go home. we did give you a gas tank (we did pay for his gas) and a ride to THIS town but we cannot do anymore. It has been three hours so far and we really need to go home. You will be fine in this town. Maybe you can ask somebody politely a ride to next townif it is ontheir way?" He didn't protest. he nodded and thanked us.

So it was not bad. That guy was an old person. He does have credit cards and medicaid and all that sutff, but still a homeless person (very raggedy clothes, smell a bit funky, and all that). LIke Lev said, this guy could be a professional homeless guy since he got a camper to sleep in where he can cook and what not (he did show us inside when he was trying to look for water because he thought maybe his radiator ran out of water which was the reason the RV won't start).
Nice fella. He did tell us his name but it was hard to understand so after having him repeat it five times, we gave up and just nodded: "OH, nice to meet you then."
 
Today, after school, at Minneapolis, I rode in the bus, I noticed a homeless man, it is in cold weather, it was 26 degress. Oh my gosh, it's first time to see a homeless during a cold weather. :-o :cold: But I seem few homeless during warm weather. By the way, I saw a man was holding his own hands with signs says something about help for money, or something what.

No, I won't be giving to homeless, it's likely to seem a scam money or a dangerous man. That safe without I giving a money to them who are homeless and I had been never give a fund through by the church.
Excuse me, I am sorry for off-topic: [I went to church at long time ago, but my families gave money for something else. And now, I really missed at my church. I wish I could go to church, because I don't have close by the deaf church or interpretation is available at my church. However at once time, my mother and I went to other church that have non-cerficated interpreter, but it seems okay with her signs--with my friend Ona.]
 
Levonian said:
Chances are he already has a 'home', even if it's just a plot he's staked out on undeveloped land. If he's a professional homeless person, he's got a good tent, a bicycle, and a P.O. box to pick up his welfare check at. He's also got pretty decent medical and dental coverage through the county. If you really want to help the guy, give him enough money to get a couple of 40-ouncers of Steel Reserve. That's what he really wants. He's not looking for a home. He does not want to come live in your home. The very notion of doing that would creep him out to the very marrow of his bones. Feed him ethyl alcohol and he will love you forever.
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:Owned: LMAO that made my nite reading that, lol. So true IMO though
 
Whenever the homeless people ask me for money, I always asked them if they want me to buy them food so they can eat. And if they said no but want
cash, I would not give them cash - knowing that they will use money for booze or drugs. I usually tell them "Sorry, I only buy food - not give cash"
 
Hmmm....That's tough question, umm I'm not sure if picking up a homeless person is safe thing to do, anything could happen, even I have children and I wouldn't want to put them in a harm way, so I might not because I've never done this before honestly and, I only give money to homeless people and that's it .....I must admit it does break my heart seeing homeless people out on the street in a cold, wet weather and not having any food etc....:(
 
no i won't give the homeless a ride.. or a home.

what if its scam? very interesting thing.. last year on 4th of july where many people went to taste of minn for fireworks, rides, food, etc.. you have to pay to go in.

i saw a guy requesting for money and is homeless.. then i saw someone gave them money.. then took off.. that guy came back in taste of minnesota.. and spend on rides, etc.. ironic
 
One night, my former friend and I were at Wendy's nearby my home and eating our dinner. The homeless man walked in and came to our table. I saw him and really alittle upset bec we were middle of eating. I told him to leave us alone, go away. He nodded and left Wendy's. I realized I made a mistake. I once was homeless myself when I was a kid. I ate my dinner then went up to the counter to order two hamburger, small french fries and small coffee along with mini milk and sugar. I went outside to search for him. I walked two blocks then around the corner, I saw him walking. I said to him "you were at Wendy's?" He said "Yes" I said "here's the food" He said "Oh bless you." I said "stay out of the trouble. Good night" with smile. He gave me hugs and kept saying bless you child. I smiled at him and walked back to Wendy's with huge smile.

It was the only one time I did that.
 
I vote no.

We were recommended to call police on homeless if we see them on the street because homeless people are not acceptance in my town. Police's job to take care of homeless people is bring them to social department...

We would not give them money because we know that they have roof and foods... they want money to buy boozes...
 
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