I live in a community known as a good place to go when you are living on the streets. We have the resident weirdo homeless, we have the down-on-their-luck families and we have the transient kids. I sometimes keep mcdonalds and taco bell bucks in my wallet and give them to homeless, and they are always very gratefully received. I've lived here a long time, and I know the regulars, and I know the look of the transients. I also know there are kids who come to downtown to beg as a lark. As a matter of fact, my own son has cadged for change downtown.

All that is to say that I know there are fakers, but I also know there are people who really need it. I think I have some chance of telling who is who. I think if I never gave a bit of coin to a beggar, it would be worse for me than it would be to give coin a few times when it wasn't really needed. Now, granted, I am much more likely to give money for a product or service (the people selling tamales or strawberries, for instance, or even a song), but sometimes, as a human being, you have to look at another human being asking for help, and for the tiny amount it costs you, just not say no.

This is an important topic, and I think that investigative reporting is good, but somehow, I can't bring myself to upvote this, because the story seems somewhat meanspirited.

she was a cute little tamale....

"to many sifters over the years"....

Yeah I remember back in 06', in the old days......

The question: Why. Most folks with a puter, have cable. Most folks that post CS vids, have no sense of humor to speak of of their own, not unlike the hosts of the most popular shows on CS,-NEWSFLASH!!YOU ARE JUST AS TALENTED!!! Merely dried husks, waiting to be filled with the tamale fixin's of coke-inspired, verbal masturbation-

Comedy Central on the sift, is a means by which to garner the cheap votes, with the regurgitated satire of the previous week's broadcast.

whatever happened to Tay TV....bring that back, it was way more interesting than Comedy Central.

Holly Tamales Batman! Sign me up.

Marmite-eating????!! And Ketchup on Pot Pies??!
Damn, yall' get too much sun! Down under the standards of what tastes good for snackin'!!!

Goat-boy here, should be talkin', had rat, snake, and possum, prob'ly dog and cat...(great tamales here), and the only veggie that won't go down, is a beet!! BLLLLECCHHCHH!
Vegimite!....for Shiva's sakes, take a multi-vitamin!!!.....sucks bein a no-cookin' bachelor, eh???..even worse, aif yer wife cooks that sheit!!