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Q: So many retarded people here with signs on their necks... self-inflicted?
Have you seen these people? They hang out at bus and train stations, and have a sign hanging around their necks... "disabled since birth, difficult for parents to care for me, please give anything"
And they seem to have lots of fresh head wounds all over their heads... I even saw one guy get on a bus and throw a huge pity parade for himself, saying he was retarded and disabled. He got on the floor singing, crying, and drooling all over himself. Almost everyone on the bus gave him money, but I refused.
An old lady was crying and glared at me for not helping him. Feeling a little guilty, I gave him a few yuan. And what happens next? The son of a bitch stood up, stopped trying to look retarded, stopped drooling, and finally looked normal. Then he got off the bus! Son of a bitch! That's the last time I ever helped a beggar here.
A lot of people seem to disable themselves on purpose here... Impossible arm and leg configurations (twisted on purpose), fresh head wounds, dents in skulls in weird and random positions, etc.
Man, everything you've described thus far I've seen at one time or another. Self-inflicted wounds, leg configurations twisted etc., This is strange I thought it was just me seeing this stuff, but I guess I'm not alone. I just saw a twisted leg configuration today. Still boggles my mind!
There could be a business reason for it. If you are a beggar on the street, the more miserable you look the more you make (well, that is a guess)
If you are one of those guys who exploit the homeless, have them beg and you score their earnings, then it makes sense to rough them up a bit each day (and that is a guess too)
You know, sometimes there are those poor, ugly ladies with a baby in their arms begging for a dime, right?
I used to see the same bunch of beggars in Beijing's sanlitun (almost always the same dream team from 2006 to present days), and there were was that one lady with a baby in her arms.
Now, I remember, during my first year in Beijing, that people told me not to give them money because there was some shady business going on, but I still gave them a yuan or two every once in a while.
It all changed the day I saw the lady with the baby talk to a man in a black, expensive car, then hand her a baby, before receiving a new one. And then the disabled ones also went to seethe man, turn by turn.
"Oooooooh, that's what they meant by shady business"
From then onward, I decided I'd stop giving the mafia my money. You'd think they would stop asking money from a person they see a few times a week for years that never gives them anything, but no.
Also, that old lady's baby hasn't grown up a bit in 6 years (I know "why", obviously). Chinese babies are weird, right?
Then there was that old, thin, annoying man. That guy, wow, he was just too much to handle.
I've NEVER given him ANYTHING. Never. And yet, every time I went out, I'd see him from far away ask money from people who wouldn't give them, then he'd just move on. But every time, EVERY SINGLE TIME he'd see me, he would come, say "hellooooooo" and shake his bowl a little. No matter how many times I'd say "No" or "Go away" or just try to ignore him and turn my back, he would stay next to me and keep saying "hellooooooo" while grabbing and pulling my arms for at least a good 10 min.
One day me and some classmates were just out of class, talking in front of the school in a small circle, and Good ol' Grampa "hello" came to us. He did his usual gig of staying and pulling our shirts while using his catchphrase, despite the girls screaming and people telling him to go away, with insults in Chinese and all that. He didn't budge. What a stud.
So one of my friend got tired of it and just said "If I give you a yuan, will you please go away?". The beggar said "Ok". My friend gave him a yuan. The man went away. To the person next to my friend.
I got a lot more stories about sanlitun's (begging) Dream Team, if anyone's interested?
Hulk:
I'd love to hear them. Saw an old guy in Guangzhou's railway station who was the same way. He kept bugging me and pulling on my jacket. I yelled at him, "BACK THE PUCK OFF," and then told my wife to tell him to leave us alone, or I'd disable him for real. He got the idea. That pucker didn't have a single thing wrong with him. He was able to run and walk better than most people his age.
In the States, I almost got knifed by a guy whom I did not give anything.....
Hulk:
That's when I go Concealed-Carry Hulk and let him breathe through a new hole in his head.
GuilinRaf:
Because of the unit I belonged to, I was actually required to carry a weapon. It was only two years later that I also got my private license.
When I move back to the US, I will again get a concealed carry license. Since I prefer revolver over automatics, the new laws regulating clip capacity would not affect me.
Lets face it, if you need more than six bullets, you are already up the creek!!!!
.357 snub nose, easy to conceal for those who are "vertically challenged" and packs a powerful punch! Oh, and two speed loaders do not hurt!!!!
