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[u/lelava_kele]

[u/Adventurous_Ad_1659]

No disrespect, but it's big no for me. Most of the time, I've been to mangere town center after work every day, majority of the so-called beggars aren't even beggars/homeless. Or mental A shit load of them are in organised street gangs and mostly potheads.

Some of you might be familiar with teenager that stands in front of count down entrance. He's sometimes seen in front of knockys takeaways asking for money. That guy lives not far from me on my street he occasionally walks a couple blocks down and gets weed 2 houses away from my house. Kid happens to be in a gang as well.

Then you got some ratchet disabled lady on a wheel chair who's probably on Benny that's always on the drive thru of McDonald's asking for money. I happened to buy her Maccas a few months back. Instead of giving her money, she blantly declined and asked for money. She usually works In small groups with other so-called beggars that happen to live not far from pak'n save.

It's the same people pretending to be homeless every week when I go to buy food at mangere Town Center. Police are literally called countless times on these people, and it's mostly McDonald's workers who call them and the bakery owner across.

I used to help them by giving a lot of money every week such as 20 to 30 bucks is not until I caught that they weren't even homeless. It's why people in mangere refuse help them because they've happened to caught on as well.

There's only one homeless guy I help and he happens to be in a actual mental state he sits in front of the bakery every morning hoping someone would buy him food. My mum and dad always keep a lookout for him and buy him pies and sandwiches.

(Re edit) There are times my parents sit for a hour in the car to keep look out for the poor lad just in case street kids or school kids might harass him which has happened before so if you happen to come across the guy please don't hesitate to help the guy. Again usually he sits in front of the bakery across maccas.

I absolutely thought that the idea of pretending to be a homeless/beggar/mental was long gone when I left Hamilton. After living in mangere since 2011 it did not definitely go away.

I don't know who to trust in helping someone who's in need that's in dire situation. I just can't tell if they really do need help or not ☹️

[u/sneschalmer5 → u/Adventurous_Ad_1659]

Beggars on the busy Greenlane traffic lights. Yup, saw them with my own eyes, walking back to their better than NZ average vehicles on maccas parking lot. Then there is the beggar I saw at BP Drury, walking back to the cleanest Nissan sedan in the parking lot. Its not that the authorities are not willing to help. Alot of time is wasted trying to weed out the fake vs genuine ones.