Corners

[aggienaut]

   At an intersection today I saw a bum with a bum-sign begging for money, and next to him was one of those guys getting paid to wave around a ridiculous sign for Quiznos or something.
   This of course made me wonder, couldn't they pay the bum to wave the sign around? (Well obv he probably didn't come in for a job interview or however they find those people who have little enough self respect to do that, but I mean IN THEORY). And then this raised another question -- or was the bum making more money per hour than the sign guy??
   Cause I mean, the sign guy is probably making a minimum wage of $7 something an hour. The bum would only need probably 14 cars an hour to hand him their pocket change to beat or surpass that, and it seems pretty doable with all the cars coming off the offramp and stopping at hte red light there.


Picture of the Day - Circular Edition! - I realized this would have been the most appropriate picture of the day to go along with the circle discussion:

October 2006 -- I make a circular picture as the only way to crop distractions out of the upper and lower left corners while preserving the middle.
Pictured: Alexandra Chesnokova & Bailey Heidenkova

Comments

[tribalw0lf.livejournal.com]

It's hard these days to tell who really needs help from the people who pretending to need help to scam people.

nice pic. The kitteh does not look happy to be wearing a shirt.

Lolcat?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Haha he got used to it eventually. It was funny he eventually would walk around wearing it like it ain't no thang.



Add your own lolcat cation. :D

Re: Lolcat?

[tribalw0lf.livejournal.com]

He gave in to humans?! I don't think our kitteh would be happy if we put clothes on him. I'm going to post a pic of him on my lj. Take a look...

Re: Lolcat?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Eventually we wore him down haha. But we werent' tormenting him just for our own amusement -- he had some kind of sore on his back he kept licking so it wasn't healing, so we had to prevent him from irritating it. Hence the shirt. (: I think he liked it better than the conehead!

Re: Lolcat?

[tribalw0lf.livejournal.com]

oh okay. =) Take a look at the picture of our master. =P I posted the pic.

Re: Lolcat?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hahaha nice.

Reminds me of stuffonmycat.com

[wildcelticrose.livejournal.com]

"Bumvertising" was a huge controversy here a few years ago...

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/240452_bumvertising13.html

Bumvertizing.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hmm just read the article and I utterly fail to see what people are against it about. Demeaning? Yes it's unfortunate that they've been reducing to begging and that is certainly demeaning, but paying them to carry advertisements isn't any MORE demeaning. If anything I think it makes them look a little MORE professional and worth something than if all they had was a filthy peice of cardboard.

Re: Bumvertizing.

[wildcelticrose.livejournal.com]

I didn't get it either...

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

Man, you and the babes. I can hardly keep up.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

;D

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

Oh man...I shouldn't have commented here. They might get onto you!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Exactly. (: I have no comment at this time about any history I may or may not have with my ex Kristy's best friend Sashie (pictured). (:O

[deza.livejournal.com]

When I was working in DC several years ago, I made friends with the guy who was always camped out in front of *$s every afternoon. He told me that he set up outside the Post Office in the mornings, then moved to the Capitol Hill *$s for the early afternoon, then called it a day and went home before rush hour really kicked in. He was pulling down about $45-50K a year, paid no income tax and owned a small condo in Alexandria. I told him I was obviously in the wrong line of work.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah I've heard similar stories about panhandlers in Berkeley driving home at the end of the day in nice cars to their nice pads.

what is *$s ?

[deza.livejournal.com]

Starbucks. ;)

*$

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ahh I see what you did there. (:

Re: *$

[deza.livejournal.com]

I'm in a librarian email list where we end up typing that out a lot, so it just made sense to go for shorthand.

Re: *$

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. You know your business has reached a high level of cultural significance when there is a SYMBOL for it. (:

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

My story is similar to one posted above.
Chicago has a huge number of people begging on the streets. And wouldn't you know it, a few weeks ago one of the local newspapers did a story about beggars and found out one in particular was pulling down over three hundred dollars a day, tax free. He knew where to beg, the best time of the day, and the best rap. He was also and idiot and allowed his picture to be printed in the paper, although he refused to give his name. Nevertheless, someone recognized him, called the IRS, and now he's in BIG trouble.

[heethen-crone.livejournal.com]

We haven't had as many street beggers as in the past. I think they passed a law that you can't pan handle on corners or something. Occasionally, you'll see one but they don't stay long in one spot. There was a big stink a few years back about some guy bragging that he was making like 50k a year begging on this one off ramp. His picture got circulated and someone got pissed off and took a few shots at him. He never came back and no one ever sat at that off ramp again. I mean people work for a living and this f*^k is getting 50k to stand on a street corner and beg?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah shenanigans. As I rule I don't give them money but if I happen to have some kind of food item at hand I'll give it to them.

[memeworrywort.livejournal.com]

PBR, hell yea!

PBR!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I don't drink macro lager, but PBR is actually one of the highest rated macro lagers on beeradvocate.com. Soundly beating Coors, Budweiser, Miller, Corona, etc. And several of my friends who DO drink macro lager swear by it.

(:

[selucius.livejournal.com]

I believe you answered your own question. The bum is making way more than minimum wage out there panhandling.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

I saw a story on CNN a couple weeks ago about a site that did pay a bum to hold a sign for them. Then it turned into a mission to get donations to improve his life:

http://www.ascendgence.com/pimpthisbum/index.aspx

[robertlyon.livejournal.com]

I saw this bum once who had a sign that said "I'm not going to lie this is going to booze." I thought it was pretty funny.

[holy.livejournal.com]

hallo! this is hymn aka cetta. we're friends on that account and i'd love for us to be friends on my new account. please add me! i've already taken the liberty of adding you first. i really enjoy your posts, even though i don't comment that much on them, i still read them. i enjoy your pictures too. thank you so much. :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hey sorry it took almost a year for me to respond to this. For whatever reason I missed the comment the first time! Adding!