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    This is not the best way to get people to give you money

    This is actually from about a week ago, and just thought of it now because of the transit threads.
    I was biking to TRAX and while I was waiting at a light a homeless vet approached me and asked if I had any spare change, and I answered, honestly, that no, I never carry cash... apparently that was the wrong answer.
    His response "F*ck you, you just don't care about vets you young inconsiderate prick. I have to live on the street because no one will feed me while young socialists like you sit comfortably on your fancy bikes never knowing what it means to risk you life for freedom."
    umm
    A few things, first I am medically ineligible to serve in the military so don't judge me for not serving when I have no choice, second, where the hell do you get off assuming my politics off of my choice to be cash free, and third, and what I told him "Sir, I donate to veterans groups and my father in law is a veteran, don't you dare assume what I care about"
    Last edited by smileyeagle1021; 10-02-2012, 03:11 PM.
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    He may not have been a veteran at all. This is a pretty common scam. Some bums even sport fake medals to garner sympathy.

    More information here: http://stolenvalor.com/

    Veteran or not, homeless or not, doesn't give him the privilege of acting like a prick.

    And thank you for donating to veterans groups, smiley.
    Last edited by Dytchdoctir; 10-02-2012, 09:17 AM.

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    • #3
      Quoth Dytchdoctir View Post

      And thank you for donating to veterans groups, smiley.
      I don't donate nearly as much as I should, but I know every little bit helps.

      Besides, I like veterans... especially my father in law, who granted never truly had his life in danger (well, no more so than you or I do on a daily basis), but he was responsible for making our combat troops lives a lot less in danger (you know those really cool videos of cruise missiles hitting within an inch of a little dot on a target back in Desert Storm, yeah, he was the guy who maintained the computers that made those cruise missile guidance systems work).
      If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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      • #4
        You can really rile up guys like that, veteran or not.

        "Oh yeah? I don't believe you're a vet. I'll come back and bring my sick dog and PROVE it to you."

        -or-

        "A veteran? Then where's your gun? Eh?"
        Why do they make Superglue but not Batglue?

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        • #5
          Second one has great potential to backfire. Fatally.

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          • #6
            Yeah ... I don't think I'd use that one.

            Love the first one, though.

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            • #7
              Reminds me of this woman I saw once in Indianapolis.

              After Hurricane Katrina, Indianapolis was one of the places refugees were brought to. They were housed on the grounds of the Indianapolis State Fair. The Red Cross, among other agencies, were providing food, clothing and temporary shelter.

              So one day I was downtown and I saw this woman holding a cardboard sign that said she was a Hurricane Katrina survivor. Need food, etc.

              Oh, really? My gut told me it was a scam. I'm sure any cop could have helped her make her way to the fairgrounds so she could get help. But it just seemed like a convenient lie to play on peoples' sympathies.
              "If you pray very hard, you can become a cat person." -Angela, "The Office"

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              • #8
                I had similar experience. It wasn't a vet though. The guy went off on me and called me a white fucking bitch. I looked at him and told him if he wanted money then get his grizzly Adams ass in the shower because he smells like fermented dog shit, and go apply for a job. But get some new cloths from the shelter first. And I walked away. He was either too stunned or drunk to say anything back.
                NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the customer

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                • #9
                  Quoth Dytchdoctir View Post
                  He may not have been a veteran at all. This is a pretty common scam. Some bums even sport fake medals to garner sympathy.

                  More information here: http://stolenvalor.com/

                  Veteran or not, homeless or not, doesn't give him the privilege of acting like a prick.

                  And thank you for donating to veterans groups, smiley.
                  i saw a recent video where Don Shipley pretty much lays the smackdown on a poser trying to claim he was a former SEAL.

                  Shipley himself really IS a former SEAL and is the man who maintains the infamous database list of *ALL* SEALs. Pretty much, if someone isn't on his database they were never a SEAL, no matter what bullshit story they come up with.

                  He's exposed quite a few fakers

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