PROFESSIONAL beggars are earning the equivalent of £73,000 a year tax free, cops revealed yesterday.
Officers have found some coining in around £200 a night - even though they have jobs.
An operation to crack down on street scroungers discovered NONE of them was homeless and they were using the cash to supplement their salary or add to benefit payments.
One woman even admitted she begged at night after work so she could buy a new kitchen for her flat.
Police in Leicester arrested 20 beggars last month. None was homeless.
Sergeant Adrian Underwood said: "A lot of well-intentioned people see someone begging and think they are deserving causes.
"Would they give them money if they knew that person had just come out of a flat, was receiving benefits and had food in the larder?"
Toni Soni, head of hostel services at Leicester City Council, said previous operations by his authority had found no beggars were living on the streets.
He added: "There are people who are actually professional beggars who are doing it to make a living."
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
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I don't think they are Muslims.
Some are. I don't understand a word they are saying....they don't leave until I give them money. >_>
I was looking at myself talking to myself and I realized this conversation...I was having with myself looking at myself was a conversation with myself that I needed to have with myself.
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
I remember when I was 14 going shopping in Nottingham City Centre. Some tramp came and asked me for some money. I said no and received aload of f-ing and blinding and then he ended it with "I'll f-in knock you out." Not a penny from me.
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i know a lot of them beg as a business but its also so hard to say no sometimes.
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Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and expiate from us our evil deeds, and make us die (in the state of righteousness) along with Al-Abrar
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
Its really sad to see people like that in the streets, i mean if they educated and taught themselves something when they were young and in school, they wouldnt have to beg to get basics.
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Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
Greetings,
It's very difficult to tell if someone is genuinely in need or if they're one of these con-artists mentioned in the article.
format_quote Originally Posted by Misz_Muslimah
Derz Baree Ppl In Da Wrld Dat Actullay Need Moneyy 4 Stuff Lyk Food, Water N Shelter N Den Derz Deze Type Of Ppl Whoo R Beggin Even Though Dey Have Moneyy
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
Theres Loads Of People In The World That Actually Need Money For Stuff Like Food, Water and Shelter And Then Theres These Types Of People Who Are Begging Even Though They Have Money
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
This makes me feel so stupid, last year this old pakistani lady came upto me and my friend not begging us but asking us to help her cos she had no bus fair to get home and she'd just seen us walking away from the cash machine.
Me and my friend gave her bus fair cos we thought she genuinely needed it and the fact that she was quite old made us feel sorry for her. Now I wonder if she really needed it. oh my stupidity
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
I gave a tramp an apple once. Whether he was really that poor or not, he got a nice fruit, and I got rid of something I didn't particularly want to eat on that particular day. Win-win.
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You used to get a load of them round Soho, Albanians from the way they dressed. You give money to one and the rest swarm you, very threatening, they had my sister backed into a doorway, fortunately I was there and got her out and only hit one who tried to pick my pocket. Three years in Egypt give you a gift for feeling fingers dipping into your pocket.
After that they backed off quite quickly. I don't know if they were muslims but they used the name Allah a lot.
Re: This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny
Yeah, my friend in Saudi told me lots of the Pakistanis who beg in da Haram are hired by rich Arabs specially 2 beg for them, I don't know if it's true!
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