I carry a knuckleduster, if anyone follows me to or from the cash machine they'll be getting fitted for false teeth in no time.
I think zero tolerance is generally needed in these places. ATMs in US are excuse for police to arrest people. In europe i like the have to go insdie stuff but in general here its a hassle... the thing is really beggers here are not true beggers they are all dodgy cos they all get the dole so can live if they very not A,b, or c addicted or worse just plain greedy spongers.
Whislt I agree on the ATM gougers and other in your face types. There are truly down to earth hard luck cases. The financial crash has created many of those, and they usually are the ones that can't even look you in the eye out of shame
Most ATMs now give £10 notes as a minimum What world are these people living in that they think they're going to get a £10 note?
Some of the rouges do fit a spy camera, and the camera is going to spy all your details and clone your card.
Just to qualify my viewpoint. I will always give a few bob to decent buskers and needies who DON'T ask for it
hence my "get the **** back!" comment Though just for privacy concerns, didn't think they'd have body cams Gougers are so high tech these days. Maybe RHC could get IT lessons in trade for the £10 they are begging for
There are some Eastern Europe people close to Oxford Circus Station begging. Some one wrote on their begging signs "For beer and drugs". I nearly laugh my head off.
I got asked for change last week - gave them a quid and they abused me for not giving them more The worst was last year when someone approached me and gave me some spiel about being autistic and needing money as he couldn't find his parents who were due to met him at the station. Gave him more than i'd usually give as a) autism's pretty close to home and b)I honestly believed him. Two weeks later he came up again and tried to do exactly the same thing. I wasn't even angry - just absolutely gutted that anyone could use that as a way to fleece people.. I agree with you though - there are some poor buggers that would truly make you weep
A couple of months ago my bank account was used for a few sizeable fraudulent transactions. Not sure how they got the details, whether it was through an ATM cloner or they get them online through a legit purchase I'd made. The bank's fraud people were very good and sorted it - they'd blocked the transactions anyway before they went through as they were very unusual - but it was a pain in the arse as it affected stuff like iTunes as they blocked my card and I had to get a new one
Some of them having some ****ing neck, those ones get me pretty irked, though I can have a feral streak when I want and the **** sense it. But I did have a chat with one guy once when I was a bit tipsy myself waiting on a bus, he didn't look ragged in the face, but his clothes were in tatters. Broke up with his wife, she took him to the cleaners, he got depressed, lost his job, ended up on the streets. He sounded well educated and said he was a some sort of letting agent or something. So yeah, there you have it, career family and then on the streets. I did give him a few bob, maybe his story wasn't entirely true but I could tell he was not on the streets drinking and taking drugs for years just by his face and I could see the shame he felt from his situation. Poor batard. It can happen anyone in the blink of an eye if say, you have no family members to put you up for example, we all take that for granted, someone would help us if we were down on our luck, but at 40, being an only child say, you are pretty much flying solo in those hard times and it's easy for the rest of us to forget that. In such a situation, a tenner is nothing to me, a pack of smokes, to him it was a hostel bed or some beer to get through a cold night. Familes have been sleeping in cars since the crash, that's ****ed up. Can't imagine even trying to manage that with my two kids and Mrs, it can break you
If you gave money to every fecker who asked you in this town each time you were out you'd be bankrupt by the end of the month
Some bastards opened account in my name, first with Barcleys and another with Halifax. I never in my life used Barcleys Bank before. They ran a debt of nearly £2000 on the credit card.It was when the statement came that I knew.I went to the Bank to complain and also my local police. With the Halifax one the debit card came to my address, I cancelled the account. They had not spend any thing on that. Sometime banks are not careful enough.
Happened to my wife a couple of years back, we had a call from the bank asking if we had been to New York over the weekend as our card certainly had.
