Begging in nightclubs

Scanlas The 2nd

Do you think you could make much money if you decided to sit down in a corner begging passers by as they go to the bar? What other alternative locations could be prime real estate for the aspiring and innovative beggers?

I got the idea for a friend of mine a few years ago. We were in a trendy nightclub and he decides to sit down and puts out his two hands to gesturing do spare change, who walks by but none other than my brother, who I didnt realise was in the place, thinking this is funny and throws some change at him.

Well, we all knew this day would come. Threads on where the best places are to beg....

It's not beside an ATM anyway, what do those lads think we're gonna do, drop €50 into their cup!?

eth0

I thought this was going to be about begging for a roide. Thread disappoints

Pottler

Good one, the bouncers would probably give you a big tip, then a few more tips, followed by tossing you a bail out.

Fromthetrees

Bouncers. Lifting. Outside. Barred.

Can't see what else would happen.

oppenheimer1

The toilet. You should offer paper towels dry peoples hands, and sprays of cheap cologne though.

derfderf

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Do you think you could make much money if you decided to sit down in a corner begging passers by as they go to the bar? What other alternative locations could be prime real estate for the aspiring and innovative beggers?

If they brought deodorant and chewing gum with them and took donations in exchange for them it mightn't even seem like they're begging at all. They are though.

Ghandee

Bunch of drunk folk heading to the bar?

Be great spot if you were after ice cubes thrown at yer head, and beer mats flung in your direction.

Ask any poor sod that attends the bathrooms if they make much in an evening, and remember they are actually providing a service for money, begging its just that, begging for money, but giving nothing in return.

Can't see it working out too well tbh.

phasers

You're better off outside an arcade or next to a vending machine.

Scanlas The 2nd

Fromthetrees wrote: »

Bouncers. Lifting. Outside. Barred.

Can't see what else would happen.

What if you just stand against a wall with your hands out?

Grimebox

I always suspected After Hours had the lowest of the low frequenting it, now we have proof.

elefant

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What if you just stand against a wall with your hands out?

Who knows what could happen :eek:

later12

Not inside night clubs, but begging outside nightclubs is probably a good idea if you're homeless and need cash.

No offence, but you get a lot of bored, uninhibited, middle class kids hanging around outside nightclubs at 3am who are only too happy to unleash their, like, sense of like, charity"?"

I once played witness to a particularly cringeworthy exchange between an aquaintance and a homeless woman whom she handed a 5 euro note and told her she could come and live in the basement of her house if she "changed her ways".

yes, because it's really that easy to kick heroin and un-do 40 years of social deprivation... a 5 euro note and the promise of a Donnybrook pantry to live in.

Still, the homeless woman walked away 5 euro up; I know the girl meant well but I really do wonder how the world must look to homeless women like that who see these kids 20 years younger with absolutely no concept of reality or how difficult the homeless have it. I think most of us find it difficult to imagine how hard it must be to have no home to go to, lets not patronise them.

callaway92

It'd be too risky as some drunken fool would take offense to you and batter you.

mackg

later12 wrote: »

Not inside night clubs, but begging outside nightclubs is probably a good idea if you're homeless and need cash.

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Still, the homeless woman walked away 5 euro up; I know the girl meant well but I really do wonder how the world must look to homeless women like that who see these kids 20 years younger with absolutely no concept of reality or how difficult the homeless have it. I think most of us find it difficult to imagine how hard it must be to have no home to go to, lets not patronise them.

In the same vein I've seen a roughly twenty year old guy try to take a shit in the hat of a homeless man who was using it to beg, for every deluded well meaning drunk I reckon you'll get one dickhead so is the trade off worth it?

On another note, when I was young I was in church one day when a woman walked in, faced the alter and dropped to her knees before bowing numerous times. Then she stood up and went from pew to pew begging. Without doubt the most creative bit of begging I've seen. She got nothing in the end.

tempura

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

The toilet. You should offer paper towels dry peoples hands, and sprays of cheap cologne though.

Reminds me of this, easy money really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQc17gCSvI

RobbingBandit

A good tactic would be to ask for donations to the antivomitonyou fund. Make sure to eat garlic fries 1-2 hours before hand and drink lots of cheap booze too after all you want to turn a profit.

Mr.Crinklewood

Germany seem a soft touch.

Pottler

I've a better idea - you could buy a bunch of mangy old single stem roses and go around to every young lad with a bird-make him feel like he is a mean, stingy tool if he does not buy her a rose, and charge €5 for the pleasure - it's sure to be a winner as no fella wants to appear mean in front of a girl he's after.. I doubt if it's been tried before..might work in restaurants as well..

Mr Keek

When i was working in bars and night clubs, just after thr bar had closed and the staff went off for the staff drink whiles everyone is was being cleared by security, id always walk around the bars where the orders were taken, i'd always find a couple of fivers and droped Euros on the ground......,without fail, every night.