Homeless Man Speaks

TONY
“Well now I owe the government $150.”

PHILIP
“OK, I’ll take the bait. What happened?”

TONY
“I got three tickets from the cops yesterday.”

PHILIP
“How come?”

TONY
“Get this; I got one for asking someone if I could hit them up for a buck and then I got one for panhandling near a vehicle and then I got this other one. But you gotta know the best thing … you know the one for panhandling near a vehicle … you know what the vehicle was? I’ll tell you. It was the cop car that the cop who gave me the ticket was riding in. Top that, if you know what I mean.

This entry was posted on March 9, 2009 at 6:14 pm and is filed under homelessness.

Tags: bait, begging, catch-22, complain, cops, infraction, panhandling, police, rule of 3, three, tickets