On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just watched a video on the Salvation Army's desperate work with
> homeless and rather hopeless kids in Sydney - along with a class of ninth
> grade students - so I found this rather...obnoxious. Yes there's a bloody
> good chance that they really are, if you can't tell the difference you
> aren't looking very closely and....just and.
> Andrew Fildes
>
I'm not saying that I don't help. I'm just saying that I've seen ones that
were not-so-obvious scams. There's a little newspaper called StreetWise
that's published for the homeless and disadvantaged to sell - I'll usually
buy a copy of that from a vendor, and don't have a problem with doing what
Ken suggested - donating to an organization that verifies who they're
helping. It just gets a bit scary at times - I'm not really sure how to
tell the ones who are simply homeless from the ones who also have
potentially violent mental illnesses.
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Paul Braun WD9GCO
Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
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