Fake beggar earns £23,000 a year

Heyman_2

Clearly I'm in the wrong game -

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100902/tuk-phoney-beggar-earned-23-000-a-year-p-107bc4a.html

'A court heard yesterday how Daniel Terry, 31, dressed up as a tramp and raked in £50 on a weekday and up to £100 on weekends in Lincoln, whilst claiming £80 a week of incapacity benefits.With his £4,000-a-year benefits, the fake beggar made a total income of £27,000 - more than the average nurse, teacher or soldier.'


How disgusting and the worst thing is, it's the tip of the iceberg. We went to Dublin a few years back and it's terrible over there, as well as the locals we had Eastern European women sitting in gutters with newborn babies begging for money wearing better clothes and shoes than me or the missus!!!
:mad:

PasturesNew

Lots of beggars are pro-beggars ... they get round the corner and into their smart cars and drive home to their warm, lovely house, until tomorrow when they're out begging again.

I'd have done it years ago if I'd had the b4lls.

Exocet

May I suggest that anyone who is tempted by this takes a couple of days off work and gives it a go? After all, it sounds so simple, and so lucrative. Put on some old clothes and go begging.

Please let us know how you get on.

Heyman_2

Some of the beggars in Dublin would sit on Halfpenny Bridge with their hoodies on covering their faces and a small paper cup outstretched for money - I walked past one and looked back to see he was sitting on his backpack with a book on top, presumably to read on his 'lunch break'!

The only money I would pay would be to see them getting a beating in the back of a Police Van!

Exocet

Heyman wrote: »

The only money I would pay would be to see them getting a beating in the back of a Police Van!

Good grief.

Loopgames

Oh for goodness sakes - I am more shocked at the idea of someone being expected to live on £4k per year. No wonder he went out and begged.

arby

why? i had a great time at uni on £4k a year. this paid for all living expenses and social life. this was only a few years ago and i believe the current student loan is only a tiny bit over £4k a year

phil_b_2

I'd still rather work for a living instead of sit in the pi$$ing rain and cold, groveling to random folk on the street.

Maybe they would have just spent their change on a pack of fags, a beer or fatty burger anyway. So if you think about it, he is actually saving the world.

geri1965_2

Because of the area I work in, I've become pretty adept at recognising the difference between genuine homeless people and junkies looking for money for a fix (that's not to say there aren't some who are both). I don't give money to people begging because I got my purse snatched off me once by someone asking for spare change, but if I see what I call a genuine old-style tramp then I might give them a quid or two.

robin_banks

Heyman wrote: »

Clearly I'm in the wrong game -

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100902/tuk-phoney-beggar-earned-23-000-a-year-p-107bc4a.html

'A court heard yesterday how Daniel Terry, 31, dressed up as a tramp and raked in £50 on a weekday and up to £100 on weekends in Lincoln, whilst claiming £80 a week of incapacity benefits.With his £4,000-a-year benefits, the fake beggar made a total income of £27,000 - more than the average nurse, teacher or soldier.'


How disgusting and the worst thing is, it's the tip of the iceberg. We went to Dublin a few years back and it's terrible over there, as well as the locals we had Eastern European women sitting in gutters with newborn babies begging for money wearing better clothes and shoes than me or the missus!!!
:mad:

It's a completely hypothetical and therefore untrue figure.

Neilhmtn

Heyman wrote: »

'A court heard yesterday how Daniel Terry, 31, dressed up as a tramp and raked in £50 on a weekday and up to £100 on weekends in Lincoln, whilst claiming £80 a week of incapacity benefits.With his £4,000-a-year benefits, the fake beggar made a total income of £27,000 - more than the average nurse, teacher or soldier.'

Even if he made the maximum amount on weekdays and at weekends as described above, for an entire year, and including the incapacity benefit, it still doesn't come to £27,000 per annum.

Sensationalist newspaper arithmetic fail, again.