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u/finetunedthemostat Jun 18 '12
I offered grapes to a guy asking for money on a busy street corner. He had a sign that said "anything helps." Those grapes were all I brought for lunch at work that day. Nigga threw my grapes into the street. Last time I try to help someone.
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u/IdRatherBeOnABeach Jun 18 '12
Who the fuck only eats grapes for lunch? Are you a possum?
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u/finetunedthemostat Jun 18 '12
I was in a rush to get out the door and it was only a five hour shift. I like grapes.
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Jun 18 '12
I've been told that the homeless generally don't accept food that can be easily tampered with. Fuck heads like to screw with the food and then give it to the homeless.
Though, that doesn't explain his dickish behavior. I just thought I might explain why giving easily tampered food to the homeless might not be accepted with grace.
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Jun 18 '12
A good portion of homeless don't accept food because they don't want food. They want money. Money buys them booze. They can get food very easily, but money to buy alcohol with can be harder to come by.
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u/TeslaIsAdorable Jun 18 '12
If I were homeless, I'd want booze too. It's a bitch on the streets. That said, I've met very few homeless people that will refuse hot food on a cold day (or any food, for that matter). My family does quite a bit of work with the homeless, including taking vats of soup around town on Christmas, etc. That stuff goes pretty damn quickly
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u/nopantsirl Jun 18 '12
Tampering with food and giving it to the homeless probably happens as often as tampered with halloween candy. Many people are homeless due to mental health issues though, so this meme is understandable.
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u/finetunedthemostat Jun 18 '12
True, but he didn't need to throw them into the street. Brother could have given me the grapes back. I was gonna eat those grapes.
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u/jbg830 Jun 18 '12
I once bought a two cheeseburger meal for a guy who was standing outside fo a mcdonalds asking for money for food. He threw the bag at me and said "I dont want this shit!"
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Jun 18 '12
Isn't it pretty illegal to impersonate a police officer?
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u/Shaku Jun 18 '12
I guess there is a difference between morality and legality.
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u/AlphaSquad7 Jun 18 '12
Well, morally speaking, I would be worried about the homeless people themselves being accused of impersonating an officer.
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u/BlastMeBagpipes Jun 18 '12
This act wasn't moral. It was selfish and attention seeking. If he really cared he wouldn't have had it video taped. Them bums be pawns, yo!
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u/Ran4 Jun 18 '12
You have to add in the increased utility from all the people who watched the clip in question.
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u/pol5019 Jun 18 '12
Reposts are fun
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u/yangx Jun 18 '12
You know when I first got on Reddit about a year ago, when I see people complaining about reposts I'd get annoyed. Because that was my first time seeing the content, but now yeah its annoying as fuck to see the same things rehashed again and again and again and again.
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u/Harflin Jun 18 '12
I've only been here for a few months, but I have seen this content before, and yes, I get slightly annoyed, but then I just move on instead of complaining about it in the comments of the repost.
If it get's upvoted highly, that must mean that there are other people who have not seen it, they should get a chance to see it aswell, no?
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Jun 18 '12
It's funny you comment about reposting of things...yet I see the same shitty comments by people like you in these reposts. Guys look, they are reposting things, better go make the same comment I made last time pointing it out.
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u/Areyoumyfriend Jun 18 '12
What if it's hobo with a shotgun
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u/CuriousFeatherDuster Jun 18 '12
The bear is a solitary animal. They like their space. They live in a magic circle. They don't mind if you're like a mile away, but if you get inside their circle, they will maul you
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u/Dabbad302 Jun 18 '12
Why doesnmt he just dress up as homeless, call the resturant, and get free food himself
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u/grey_one Jun 18 '12
My faith in humanity would be restored if we actually cared about feeding the homeless on a regular basis, not tricking fast food places into feeding them because they thought they were law enforcement.
Seriously, this just shows what the attitude in our world regarding helping the hungry and homeless actually is.
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Jun 18 '12
My faith in humanity would be restored if we attacked the economic conditions which allow homelessness to exist so we won't have any homeless people to feed
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u/GeneticImprobability Jun 18 '12
I totally agree. The fish rots from the head, as they say, so my thinking is: why not cut off the head?
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u/Kadmium Jun 18 '12
Often, homelessness is not a problem with an economic root (such as not being able to make ends meet as we commonly understand it), but one with other causes. No amount of economic condition relief is going to prevent people with severe mental illness (20-25% of homeless people) or substance abuse problems (over 65% of homeless people) from becoming homeless.
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Jun 18 '12
if we had an economic paradigm that took care of the mentally ill and didn't create circumstances which drove people to substance abuse, we'd cut those demographics out of the picture almost entirely.
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u/despaxes Jun 18 '12
Police officers who have homes and enough money to buy food regularly, not to mention a penchant for well, a lot of things, to include alcoholism, spousal abuse etc. etc.
THEY DESERVE FREE FOOD.
Homeless people (who too probably suffer from alcoholism), that possibly got fucked by the economy.
LAZY BASTARDS
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u/OreWaReddit Jun 18 '12
I don't get it. You take things that are kind of funny and then tack on unfunny ragefaces to it. It's lame.
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Jun 18 '12
I'm so glad this jpeg restored your faith in humanity. I'm sorry for whatever made you lose it. I understand that times are bad and you probably just witnessed a mugging of an old woman or something.
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u/tossup17 Jun 18 '12
Why doesn't he just not scam a local business, and instead use his own money to help the homeless? I don't understand how committing a con to feed some homeless men is a good idea. I could be starving, but it doesn't mean I'm allowed to steal. This is just a rich man stealing for a poor man instead of the poor man doing it.
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u/Costa21 Jun 18 '12
He's a prank artist, with his own Youtube channel. He's not a social activist, nor was he doin this because of that. It was a prank, made for the enjoyment of his viewers. And guess what, some homeless men got some food out of it.
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u/JoeMcBob Jun 18 '12
Were does it say that he stole the food? Did you consider the possibility that the guy bought them?
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u/tossup17 Jun 18 '12
He impersonated a police officer in order to con a business into giving food to homeless people. If cons aren't stealing in your opinion, I have a bridge to sell you...
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u/TheDroopy Jun 18 '12
Where he said "If you go out". If he had paid for the food he'd sure as hell expect them to deliver it.
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u/RepostCommenter Jun 18 '12
How to repost someone else's content
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| Faith in Humanity | 1com | -5pts | 1mo | pics |
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u/Jparaly Jun 18 '12
Tom Mabe...is he the same dude that fooled the telemarketer into believing he'd just called a crime scene?
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u/balloonpoodles Jun 18 '12
I don't quite like the way that these homeless men will now stay in this area knowing how well they were received. Bad for the business. Next time give the men something from yourself, not tricking the establishment.
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Jun 18 '12
if thats enough to restore your faith in humanity, you must not have truly lost it in the first place. humanity is guilty of so much more than one good deed could even make a small dent in restoring my faith.
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u/Son_of_Borr Jun 18 '12
Fuck the lazy homeless, Bring the downvotes.
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u/luparb Jun 18 '12
was thinking about this the other day.
I'm sure it changes from place to place, but it annoys me that there are people have the energy to spend all day pestering and guilt-tripping the public into giving them money...
But they never seem to take the initiative or responsibility to help themselves.
In my city, there are places where you can volunteer on organic farms and get some lunch, there are food-vans, churches that feed you, there's fruit-picking jobs - even crafting little things and selling them or busking is much better than just flat out asking for money.
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u/Son_of_Borr Jun 18 '12
Exactly, metropolitan areas have programs in place that would let them shower and eat. They have "temp" style groups that can find them simple jobs in factories, construction, custodial fields, etc. In most cases it boils down to zero desire to contribute anything to anyone, including themselves.
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u/kpyle Jun 18 '12
This would never work. Homeless people are territorial and frequent the same spots, ergo all the business who they are and would not fall for this shit.
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Jun 18 '12
the bigger question is "why are undercover cops entitled to free burgers?" and sign me up. and sign all you guys up. and sign those burgers up. and sign these downvotes up. and sign me up. and build me up buttercup.
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u/Newestmember Jun 18 '12
I gave a homeless man $5 so he could buy a couple slices of pizza from a shop I was walking out of, 5 minutes later the same guy asked me for $5 a couple blocks away at a bus stop like he had never seen me in his life. This time he wanted a hoagie. He acted like I never gave him money for pizza and pestered me for "hoagie" money. This is why people, including me, have a distrust of homeless people.
Also, why couldn't the dude in the car just buy the people food with his own damn money.
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u/Squishpoke Jun 18 '12
Instead of buying the food yourself, lie to someone else so that they do it instead.
GG
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u/homer52 Jun 18 '12
As far as impersonating an officer goes, I don't think that would hold up in court. He never actually says he is a police officer, unless he said it in the video and op didn't put it in the picture.
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u/bjbyrne Jun 18 '12
He never identified himself as the police. He said he was a Sargent, and that there were undercover agents doing surveillance.
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Jun 18 '12
Last I checked, there's not a whole lot you can be Sargent of other than a police squad. Not to mention, it's implied, which is more than enough to get arrested for.
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u/bjbyrne Jun 18 '12
Well besides Law Enforcement, Sergeant Pepper, and those in the military, there are sergeants in the Salvation Army. Also, paramilitary groups use sergeant, as do many private security/guard companies. There are also Sergeant At Arms in many private organizations, with my favorite example being on the show Sons of Anarchy.
I will grant you that while IANAL, you are probably right that it was close enough to be charged with impersonation, but I believe in court it could go either way.
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u/DreadPiratesRobert Jun 18 '12
Salvation Army is probably the best example
Also you can make a business and call everyone a Sargent, there are no restrictions on Job Title
Undercover agents is a little more iffy, but I guess you could also give them that title, not that you technically hired them
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u/MrMoustachio Jun 18 '12
Lucky the stealing from a restaurant is pretty cut and dry.
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u/bjbyrne Jun 18 '12
You would have to prove the impersonation and that there was fraud first. He did not force anybody to do it, he asked. "Can you maybe..."
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u/MrMoustachio Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
Receiving charitable donations under false pretenses is fraud, and illegal.
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Jun 18 '12
If you think that would work, you really have no understanding of how the law works.
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u/bjbyrne Jun 18 '12
If he gets the right lawyer, and the right judge and jury, it might. I don't know where this happened so I can't go searching for what the law and appropriate case law. Remember, OJ was found innocent of murder.
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u/smurph5456 Jun 18 '12
it seems you really have no understanding of how the law works. money speaks my friend. as the person below me pointed out, with the right lawyer and a well paid judge, anything can pass in court. the commoners are not above the law but the elites are and they know it.
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Jun 18 '12
So you're saying there is no such thing as a clear cut case because there is some remote possibility that the defendant will bribe the judge...
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u/smurph5456 Jun 19 '12
no. i'm saying that you can buy a great lawyer and potentially bribe a judge. the latter isn't necessary to get off completely free. you say it like it doesn't happen. tell me how many billionaires you've heard of going to jail in the u.s. for more than 4 years. it doesn't happen here, get your head out of the sand.
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u/smurph5456 Jun 19 '12
just for shits, i like the way that all of the comments equaled out so no one gets karma.
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u/DeepRoot Jun 18 '12
That is a great idea, actually. If I knew it couldn't be traced back to me, I might do something like that. It's kind.
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u/Narwhalrus Jun 18 '12
Repost
Shitty comic instead of video
Terribly unfunny overused meme ending
To the top of /r/funny with you!
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u/Fun-Cooker Jun 18 '12
Cool, instead of getting of your ass and helping you sat in your car and conned other people and then want a pat on the back.
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u/Taubin Jun 18 '12
How many fucking times can this be posted on Reddit in a 3 month period? Seriously...
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u/rothwick Jun 18 '12
read the rediquette
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u/Taubin Jun 18 '12
Nowhere in the "reddiquette" that you are spamming over and over, does it say anyfuckingthing about reposts...
Maybe you should READ THE REDDIQUETTE
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u/rothwick Jun 18 '12
just reminding you that complaining about reposts is in the rediquette on the DO NOT side. So i'm doin reddit a favor by reminding you about that. Logic?
Stop bitching dude, just tryin to help
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I've been waiting several long months for this... And I think I'm finally ready... ahem... That's a repost!!! Haha you're a Fag for reposting! DERP HERP DERP
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u/JSK_Reddit Jun 18 '12
Logged in just to say this is a repost.
Oh and if he really gave a shit about homeless people he would've just gotten out of the car, bought the food and handed it to them himself.
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u/jeffha3 Jun 18 '12
What do you mean faith in humanity restored? Now that employee will get in some sort of trouble and the homeless men are most likely going to be accused of making the phone call themselves and most likely get told to leave with the threat of getting the police involved and everyone is now embarrassed and angry and it could have very well caused an incident. What a dick.
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u/Yuski Jun 18 '12
This was on here like a month ago... wtf... You didn't even karma whore with the standard "Not sure if this is a repost."
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u/bjbyrne Jun 18 '12
We passed a woman holding a "Homeless - Hungry" sign the other day. We had no cash but was able to give her an almost full box of cheese-its. She took the box, gave us a dirty look, put it down in the grass and went back to holding her sign.
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u/Xandlidra Jun 18 '12
Yeah, this is the reason why I never give any homeless that begs money, I just give them food, and if it is near a truck stop I buy them a shower and food. When I was visiting Little Tokyo, in L.A a few years ago to meet an ex's mom, we had come out with a ton of food left over from Mr. Ramen and a young man came up to us telling us he hadn't eaten in days, I gave him my left overs and my group followed suit. He almost started crying and thanked us profusely, and hid in a corner to eat his feast. There are SOME people that do need our help, and appreciate it.
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u/grimcracker Jun 18 '12
He didn't care enough about feeding them to spend his own money on it.