Do you give money to homeless people?

[Belle of Pripyat]

Every time a homeless person approaches my parents asking for money for food, they offer to drive them to the nearest food place and get them lunch.

Your parents would allow a stranger to get in their car? That's as risky as picking up a hitchhiker, IMO. What if they plan to attack you with a knife? Instead, maybe they could offer to buy some food and bring it back?

 

[Brackets]

Your parents would allow a stranger to get in their car? That's as risky as picking up a hitchhiker, IMO. What if they plan to attack you with a knife? Instead, maybe they could offer to buy some food and bring it back?

maybe they're just not really paranoid and don't assume the worst of people

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

maybe they're just not really paranoid and don't assume the worst of people

It's not a safe world. Thousands of people have been killed while trying to do a good deed. It's wise to be cautious.

 

[Brackets]

It's not a safe world. Thousands of people have been killed while trying to do a good deed. It's wise to be cautious.

Yeah well obviously there's risks to everything you do, but I think it's nice that they go out of their way to help people like that, and it obviously hasn't harmed them so far.

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

Yeah well obviously there's risks to everything you do, but I think it's nice that they go out of their way to help people like that, and it obviously hasn't harmed them so far.

Yes, it is nice of them. However, it's equally nice (and much safer) to offer to buy and bring back some food for the person. That's all I meant. "Don't get in a car with strangers" has been drummed into my head my entire life...that, and watching "Unsolved Mysteries" since I was a child. LOL

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

No, but I want to invite one into my house, lol.

 

[padfoot6]

I do, but only if they're on the side of the road and I'm driving so that I can drive away if anything happens. They've always been nice and thankful though. The homeless where I live are often veterans and are missing limbs sometimes so I always feel bad for them.