Sweet Deals from Homeless People
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My son is attending grad school in DC and yesterday he and his friends went down to a big Pride Parade - apparently, it was quite the party. However, at one point during the event, crowds of people started sprinting down the street and Twitter blew up with rumors of a nearby active shooting situation. Thankfully, it was a false alarm, but in the chaos and confusion, my son and his friends ran into a homeless looking dude running down the street with a full case of champagne, who offered it to my son and his friends right there on the spot for $25.
Apparently, it was decent champagne ($18 a bottle) and was quite the deal. They suspect the fellow must have won it at a lottery in the Pride event and was hard up for cash. Anyway, they took the case up to the roof top of one their apartments and finished watching the event from up there.
Have any of you gotten some killer deals from homeless people?
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Here is a story about the
Here is a story about the incident:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/commotion-capital-pride-parade-false-report-gu...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bucky Badger
No but I bought a carton of
No but I bought a carton of cigarettes for cheap from an Italian once
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sound and Vision
>>Have any of you gotten some
>>Have any of you gotten some killer deals from homeless people?
To be honest, no. Does StreetWise count?
One time, I was reading a book in Grant Park and some homeless guy wandered over and was gonna start jerking off. I told him very sternly to get the hell away from me and left.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: surjade
No but i gave away a half
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
Back in the 80's I got around
Back in the 80's I got around 20 John Coltrane LPs from some guy selling them out of a crate in on a sidewalk in Manhattan, NY for $2 each. I don't know if he was homeless, though.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead
How do you feel about buying
How do you feel about buying stolen property? (I am also curious about age bracket of those that are more comfortable with it...)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
>>>How do you feel about
>>>How do you feel about buying stolen property?
Depends on who got ripped off. Some corporate and state actors deserve it and get no sympathy. There are the Blackbeards and Robin Hoods of the world and that is cool by me. Glad the folks working over those entities can make a quick buck.
But my family and I have been the victims of property crime many times, and it sucks. Got my car ripped off twice in a span of two months and the bastards cleared out all my camping shit.. Found some of it a few months later at a garage sale run by some tweakers near my neighborhood and paid $20 to get my tent back I knew it was my tent, but couldn't confirm it until I got it home, unrolled it, and found the tell tale bent stakes. Called the cops, and surprisingly they took it seriously. Drove by the place later and the cops were swarming it.
So on a moral level, it really depends on who is doing the stealing and who is getting ripped off.