Originally Posted By: JimPghPA
BTW, the local pizza shop was robbed twice within the last thirty days. The last time being yesterday. As I drove past that shop today one of the local police cars was parked in the seldom used section of that shops parking lot. Sure that shop probably will not be robbed as long as the manned police car is there, but sooner or later there will be requirements where that car can no longer stay there. And after the police no longer are staying there sooner or later it will be robbed again.
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My dad use to say don't ever give a bum money because you don't know if he will spend it on food or booze. So I use to carry a $5 McDonnalds gift card to give anyone begging. But now days, I will not converse, or stop to face anyone begging, because you never know if they may be looking for an opportunity to pull out a counselled weapon be it a gun or a knife, and you never know that if they were to try something that they may still harm someone even if they get all that person has.
Last week a small car pulled into a local grocery store parking lot and a man in a suit got out and popped the hood. As I walked by to go from my car into the store he asked if I had any oil with me. He said that he and his wife were traveling ministers and he only had three dollars on him and that they had hit something that came off of a truck and their vehicle was now leaking oil. The front of his car did look scuffed up and the air dam on the front was hanging down disconnected on one side. I was not about to show him where i carried my cash, and just kept my hand on the top of trigger of one of the less than two years old extra large can of Whoop-As(censored) mace that I carry in my pockets, and said NO I am sorry sir I can't help you, I suggest you contact the local church, and I walked away.
I did not know that person form Adam, and there was something fishy about the whole thing, including the suit he wore and the way he drove up and popped that hood, like he had done this before. I have helped out strangers who were stranded before several times, but you have to cover your assets first, and then if it is safe help out anyone in need.
Later I saw him on his cell phone still standing in front of that car.
Update: Today I stopped at a different grocery store, as I walked in I notices the hood up on a white vehicle, but did not stop or pay much attention to it. I did a little shopping and when I come out the same guy is standing behind my car telling the same hard luck story to two men who are stopped and listing to him, and obviously tying to figure him out. And the same woman was sitting again in the front passengers of the same car. I unlock my car with the key fob and as I walk towards my car I say to the two men listing to this con man, "that is the same story he told me a week ago (i could not remember the exact date) only it was in front of (and I told them the name of the other grocery store).
The two men who previously were listing to this con man kinda smirked and then they walked towards the store. The con man was taken by surprise and turned to go back to his vehicle, but as he walked towards it said a few things to me as he tried to keep his composure.
I went to another place after that and when driving away spotted a police car on the side of the road, and not being in a hurry, told the officer about the con mans previous and current location. The officer then drove off towards that current location.
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I will stop and help out people in need of help, and have done so several times, including one recent time over a month ago where I had to go home to get something to get them going, but there is a difference between people who are legitimately trying to make ends meet and running into mechanical problems, and people who are just out to take advantage of anyone they can. And when you can tell the difference between the two, there ain't no way the con guy is going to get anything from me.
BTW, the con man was in a small late model white Cadillac.
The one I had to first go home and get something was a stranded mother with kids over a month ago was in an old beat up paint job SUV with too small of a battery and cheap dirty top post battery terminals, and her friend who was unsuccessfully trying to get her vehicle to start was in an old beat up paint job truck with too small of a battery and cheap dirty top post battery terminals. After I got her vehicle going the friend (maybe her husband, I don't know) offers me five bucks, and I told him "keep it and put it towards a new battery, you are going to need it".
It so happened that both of these cases involved people who are not of the same race as I, but I would have played those situations the same regardless of weather they were of the same race as I or not. It is not about a persons race, it is about what is really going on.
