Homelessness and street begging Reviews

I was a stubborn teen-ager. I thought I knew it all! I didn't want to listen to anybody else, I listened to me! and me only, I'd stay out late drinking with people from bad crowds, I'd take drugs, I'd usually end up in the arms of some young scally, drunk and in a mess, unaware of the consequences of my actions, gradually ...

The area I am from you rarely see homeless people - up to a couple of years ago there were none, visible on the streets anyway. During the past year or so ive noticed 4 big issue sellers, all men between the ages of 30 - 50 and one other man who must be around 60, he's always drunk and is often found passed out in various places. This man I ...

I have read quite a few ops on this subject and thought it was time that I gave my own thoughts in more than just comments on other members' posts. I am not offering answers because I don't have any. Only the wish that with an advance in attitudes from those of the fortunate majority, there may be hope out there somewhere. The ...

Having travelled around the country in a caravan for a number of years, going to festivals and moving with other travellers, I'd like to tell you of some of the homeless people and professional beggars I have met. When I was younger I lived in a caravan and have only been living in a house for 5 years, having settled in the midlands. ...

This is an issue that will, I’m sure, provoke much debate. I have never been homeless. I say this because I’m sure that the most balanced opinion you will find on this subject would be someone who has experienced homelessness and also had to deal with beggars. I am not in such a desperate situation that I would beg. I have ...

toughie!!!!!!!!!!! - Advantages: helps them to buy food - Disadvantages: helps them to buy drugs

Street corners and lying on the floor in damp boring old Blackburn. Being looked at becuase they are all raggy and very smelly. Well this is the state I see many people who are beggers in Blackburn. I feel very ashamed that we, Britain, can allow others who are our own to be allowed to live in such a state. Ok fair enough we may not be related to ...

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Beggars we see them everywhere especially in major cities and town's they are a real nuicense when you are trying to get cash from a cash point or even when trying to travel to work in the mornings either by street or by train. Yes as I would say the majority of people would say I can't stand them and to some people they can even ...

I reside in the small Welsh town of Aberystwyth. For such a rural abckwater, one would think that any real down-and-outs would be quickly found help for. It's my opinion that the vast majority of "beggars" we see on the streets are not truly down-and-out. One beggar I have seen getting into a luxury sports car to return home ...

This issue of begging is a tough one.I live in Glasgow and it is very bad. You cant go to the shops for toilet roll without being asked for some spare change. I wouldnt mind except that two minutes later,just across the road, someone else asks you the same thing.If i gave money to every begger i came across i would have none for myself. I work ...

England and Wales today have a population density of over 800 people to the square mile. Leaving aside such island city-states as Singapore and Hong Kong, we now equal Holland as the most densely populated country in the world. As a result, the concrete mixers work non-stop expanding every city, every country town and hundreds of villages ...

I always count my blessings when i see a "real" homeless person on the street.And yes i do help them.(By real homeless i mean someone who has no-where to live,not beggers who do it and have a home also.) But i don`t give them money,i buy them lunch and if they have a dog i buy a can of dog food also.Or a warm blanket,and i chat ...

When I was 16 I had a row with my mum and left home. I thought I'd go and by my own place and wouldn't have to put up with her moaning. I set off at night packing a single back pack. I had money (about £50 in my bank account - which I thought was enough). Sadly I was wrong the first night was easy, I wondered around a bit, went to a shop, ...

Look out the window of almost any shop on Franklin Street, and chances are you will see one or more persons lying on benches with their belongings or begging for change. As a customer, you have the chance to leave and go about your way. But the owners and managers of most Franklin Street establishments deal very closely with the effects ...

There are three types of beggers: 1. honest, hard working people who are down on their luck, or lost their job, and have know family and friend support. 2. Mentally ill people who can't support themselves 3. Lazy pigs, who want eveyone to do everything for them, and take from others, and then complain about there ...

To anyone I'm about to offend, I apologise, but I have no sympathy for beggars. Homeless, yes, beggars, no. My reason for this is that I've been homeless myself, and at no point in my two years on the streets did I feel the need to beg, take drugs, commit any crime, or get drunk. Now I admit that had I not had the help I did, I ...

It may seem hard to understand but most people are only a few months away from being homeless themselves. If you suddenly lost your job and partner the debtors close in and away you go, the way the Benefits Agency is set up now you need to be just about homeless before they think of acting. So where do the people on our streets ...

Today it seems to be an ever growing sight, in many a town or a city you'll come across homeless people, scrimping and begging to make enough money for something to eat and a drink. What bugs me is the number of people that abuse the system. I myself never give money to the homeless, simply because you never seem to know where it ...

I would consider myself fairly well travelled, particularly in the UK, and every city I've visited has something in common: homelessness. I've never been in that situation myself, so I'm not claiming to know what it's like to have to beg for money on the streets. I don't know what it feels like, but there's a ...