This is why I resist the temptation to ever toss the vagabond leeches even a nickel. It's just a waste of money and only enables and encourages their choice to be filthy panhandling bums and a drain on society.
This well-intentioned (but naive) officer parted with a Franklin to "help" gutter trash. A hundred bucks that would have made a real difference in bringing lost heathens to Jesus Christ, had it been left in the tithing plate on Sunday. Yet he gambled that his benevolance would make a difference. He might as well have flushed his money down the toilet.
Right, "hidden" at the hock shop for twenty bucks worth of rock or black tar smack. But it gets worse.
Friends, never under any circumstances give the bums one cent of your hard-earned money. Homelessness is a choice for lazy freeloaders with chemical dependancies. The only gift that will make any difference at all is if they will accept Jesus, not money.
In Christ
On Nov. 14, NYPD officer Lawrence DePrimo, who was on counterterrorism duty in Times Square, saw Hillman without shoes sitting on 42nd Street. DePrimo, 25, left and then returned with a pair of $100 boots he bought at a nearby Skechers store, knelt down and gave them to Hillman.
The homeless man who was photographed being given a pair of boots by a New York City police officer in Times Square on a bitterly cold night last month was spotted on the Upper West Side on Sunday. And he was once again barefoot.
"Those shoes are hidden," Jeffrey Hillman, the 54-year-old homeless man, told the New York Times. "They are worth a lot of money—I could lose my life."
"Those shoes are hidden," Jeffrey Hillman, the 54-year-old homeless man, told the New York Times. "They are worth a lot of money—I could lose my life."
"I was put on YouTube," he told the paper. "I was put on everything without permission. What do I get? This went around the world, and I want a piece of the pie."
In Christ
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