SIGNERS, Homeless Roadside Panhandlers Speak For Themselves

These are the stories of a group of "SIGNERS" who panhandle for change on the interstate on ramp in the University district in Seattle. This video was produced by http://www.PangealityProductions.com
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[lynxx2]

Why are they not offering to DO something for the handout? A rag and a bottle of Windex is the difference between self-respect and mooching.

[freesk8]

Sorry, man, SOME of them ARE fat. I've seen 'em. You can see fat on a man's FACE.

And why do you have to be so insulting? Is it because you can not prove that all beggars are skinny or malnourished?

How can you possibly compare a starving African to an American homeless dude?

What the heck is a koo? If you mean "coup" then I agree with you. I hate GW Bush.

[bluemountaindrivepae]

No respect for begging drunken bums. Half of homeless people have drug or alcohol problems.

[deckard165]

The majority of these bums do need money for food so I give them a dollar. Yes there are a few that use it for drugs but most of them are truly needy and could use some spare change to eat.

[BenJaminTunes]

It's really difficult to approach people who ask me for money. I just feel like they will not use the money that I give them for food or something helpful. I just want to take them to a restaurant and fill them and take them to a store and get them something that can aid them. Meds, gloves, whatever can help. But I'm just too freaking lazy to go and do it. Then I feel like a selfish tool bag. I get the feeling that's many people's cases as well. Kinda makes you think doesn't it?

[wpniabbc]

Well try to work for a living and help yourself. There are many shelters out there that can help.

[mooneepondskid]

They have lattes because they work..if 12 million illegals can find jobs that pay a better wage then begging why can't these people?.. Even stacking shelves in a warehouse for 6 bucks an hour makes more money then begging.

[freesk8]

@765tony I'd have them go to non-profit, non-governmental shelters and soup kitchens and food banks. I admit that I would steal to save my own life, but then I would come back and pay the store back when I could afford it. Perhaps you should consider that?

[pineapple1969]

The whole lot of them are dropouts who do not want to contribute to society. The time they put into panhandling should go to finding a job. I know some of them look like they have addictions to drugs or alcohol. I wish they would use some of that free cash to get a hair cut and shave.

[SuperBullshit69]

women give more money because they are statistically giving away someonelse's money-or suffer guilt having lived so comfortably on someone else's dollar

[w3tua]

I agree fully. I have offered jobs to perfectly healthy looking people who refuse.

The assmunch around 1:40 saying that military people don't give him anything........they give WAY more than that useless bum.

[2bornot2b1984]

They should make signing illegal.

The vast majority of these people qualify for very REAL public assistance with food and shelter.

Signing causes society as a whole to become more and more callous and desensitized to poverty and human crisis.

People signing on the street are reducing the overall compassion of society which will not help the signers in the long run.

Also, a vast majority of these signers use drugs or alcohol. They would have to quit that to get state or federal assistance.