Originally Posted by TheBrit

I was approached in the London underground inside a station by some guy who was clearly involved in some sort of horrific accident, he was missing his ears and all the skin on his face had been grafted from somewhere. He asked me if I could spare some change as he's a bit short and can't get home. Now, that's clearly bullshit as you can't get into the station without a ticket and because of the way the underground system works there is no logic in buying a ticket to get half the way then buying another ticket for the other half. In the end I gave him £5 ($10ish), as he was clearly having some sort of difficulty. I suppose some people don't like directly asking for charity and feel they have to make something up.
One thing I'll always like to see happen is this: At the end of the day, Starbucks, Nero etc. will all throw away their food. If someone organised a system by which 5 cars drove around London, picked up all the food they were going to throw away and then gave it to the homeless shelters or the homeless themselves, it would be a better system...