Actually pan handling is quite a lucrative job, especially in tourist towns like mine. When I was younger I'd get 30-80 bucks a day for only a few hours work. We'd also intentionally blend in with people truly in need from a physical standpoint, so it'd be impossible to distinguish true need from scamming. The key is usually in the smell.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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