On my way home yesterday, it was raining. I noticed some children who were carrying a bucket and holding a rag. In the traffic stops, those children are quick to wipe the car windshield with a rag that is dipped in soapy water. And then another child would come with water in the bucket to rinse the soap on the windshield. The roads here, particularly the main roads, are being used for business. During a traffic stop in the main road, beggars would come near with an open palm, young and old beggars and mostly women carrying babies. There are also the vendors selling newspaper in the morning and in the afternoon they are selling bottled water, cigarettes and candies. Can you imagine a heavy traffic with those vendors and beggars?
@Corie Henson - not good is it, they must be desperately poor but an accident waiting to happen ............
I've seen it in big cities here but it's adults not children. I see a vet in a wheelchair next to a stop sign leaving a busy shopping plaza. He's there all the time and will salut each car as it pulls on the road. I'm surprised he hasn't been hit yet. The worst possible place to be collecting money. The only way I could give him anything is to stop my car and get out and walk over to him, backing up the exit out of the plaza. I don't understand why he doesn't move to a better location. Every time I see him, I think to myself that next time before I leave the plaza I'll park near him somewhere but I always forget.
Years ago, here in the U.S., a person would be waiting, near a stop sign or stop light, to either walk up or run up, to vehicles with window washing stuff and offer to wash the windshield for money. It was even depicted in a movie I've seen. This happened in big cities and may still be happening. Sometimes a person would just start doing a windshield without even asking........they knew that some folks would say "no thanks" and didn't want to hear that. Some areas of some cities still have people holding up signs, asking for money, at an intersection. Sometimes they would have a child with them or a dog, on a leash. We lived in one small town, right outside a big city, that, if law enforcement seen someone with a sign asking for money, which wasn't allowed by City Code, that person would be taken to the nearest PD Station and talked to. Not only is this dangerous to the people doing this "begging", but it sure doesn't help the way an area looks. Media is constantly telling the public not to give money to these folks, but to instead contribute money to a local Shelter. Unfortunately, a lot of the public feel guilty if they don't give a dollar or two to the person and others just don't care what the media says about doing this. We will give a dollar or two to a legit organization, like local Fire Department, during their Christmas Fireman's Boot thing, but that's it.