Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Back in my younger days after I first moved to vegas----I knew a panhandler who would go into casino where I worked. He would pull out wads of cash to gamble with---he easily even back then made well over $80,000 a year pandhandling and all of it was untaxed.
Back in my younger days, I drove a cab for a while (this was before Uber). One of my regular customers was a guy who spent all day on a traffic median, panhandling for money. My instructions for picking him up were very specific: I had to meet him on the far side of the drug store on the corner of his intersection, where he wouldn't be visible to passing traffic as he got into the cab. Then I drove him to his home in a nice, middle-class neighborhood and would have to approach his house down the service alley and drop him at his back gate, so his neighbors wouldn't see him in his "panhandler" costume.
I'm not even kidding here.