This is why I wouldn't give a beggar a single penny

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Cops: Street beggars earn £73,000 a year

PROFESSIONAL beggars are earning the equivalent of £73,000 a year tax free, cops revealed yesterday.

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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."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...gars-have-day-jobs-and-earn-73000-a-year.html
 
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.
 
i know a lot of them beg as a business but its also so hard to say no sometimes.
 
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.

1379. Sahl bin Sa`d (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (PBUH) said to `Ali (May Allah be pleased with him), "By Allah, if a single person is guided by Allah through you, it will be better for you than a whole lot of red camels.''

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

1381. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.''
[Muslim].
 
Not only that it is morally wrong, what they do is hurting those who actually have to beg for their well-being.

I hate stuff like this, is there a law to punish them somehow?
 
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.

Misz_Muslimah said:
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
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Translation, please?

Peace
 
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

Inshallah You Understand It Now
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Santoku said:
After that they backed off quite quickly. I don't know if they were muslims but they used the name Allah a lot.
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You get more albanian christians than muslims and I think everyone says god as Allah in arabic
 
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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