Chinese in Wheelchairs Arrested for Begging in Bangkok

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Re: Chinese in Wheelchairs Arrested for Begging in Bangkok

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This is a different twist on the same theme but in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/vict ... 524d9.html

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Re: Chinese in Wheelchairs Arrested for Begging in Bangkok

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clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2019 3:42 pm This is a different twist on the same theme but in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/vict ... 524d9.html

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And Melbourne has its fake nuns too, so probably has those fake monks as well.
Melbourne Today reporter Fred Zhang told The Age he saw a Chinese beggar woman two weeks ago who he believed to had posed as a Buddhist nun on Swanston Street in 2018, selling trinkets for money.

Mr Zhang said he remembered her because the first time he saw her she was wearing a hat made only for Buddhist nuns. The same hat caught his eye again a year later, when he saw it on a woman bowing and begging for money on the corner of Queen and Collins Street.
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Re: Chinese in Wheelchairs Arrested for Begging in Bangkok

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Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:28 am
Captain wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:14 am
KHCHINATD wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:56 am The Chinese government has severely cracked down on begging in subway stations or other crowded places
Well it is good to know that they have appointed a Beggar Control Committee, but what do you suppose they mean when they said the beggars exchanged any small coins they received at convenience stores?
What it says. They take their sack-loads of coins at the end of the day and exchange them for notes. :dm: Be interesting to know how much they were making.
Back when I lived in Bongcock, there was an old guy with swollen legs who sat on a particular corner that I walked by nearly every evening. I always gave him a five-baht coin and passed by. One night, just as I reached this corner, this very talkative (krazy) expat that I knew appeared and started talking to me
blah blah blah.

Anyway, as I patiently listened to this guy for about 15 minutes, I watched while the beggar guy raked it in. All these Thai passed by and gave him 20- baht, 50-baht, maybe even 100-baht.notes. It seemed like he collected nearly 500 baht in those few minutes. Then there was a lull in the action, so he grabbed the money out of his hat, took out his fat wallet and stuck all his recent gains in with the rest.

Needless to say, I never gave him any more money after that.
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