A beggar who pretends to be homeless and disabled, actually earns $1 thousand over the weekend by kindly citizens, — said the chief of police of Abilene, Texas, Stan Standridge. Every Saturday and Sunday, he in his wheelchair and begs at the intersection of Hwy 83/84 & FM 707.
According to Standridge, warm-hearted passers-by, worrying about the «homeless handicapped», called the police with a request to check if he was okay. The squad for the homeless quickly find out the details about the impoverished. Says the chief of police, it turned out that the man is not homeless he has a house in South Abilene. Moreover, the wheelchair «beggar» is also not necessary, it is perfectly running. The police chief claims that pseudo-disabled person earns $1,000 over the weekend at the crossroads, where he brought the car. About this homeless man he told police.
The chief of police is sure that stretched out the car window $5 does not solve the problem.
«Now imagine that the dollars that you donate could help public organizations to remove the homeless from the streets. If you want to do charity work, be engaged. This is a private matter. But it’s time to move from charity to philanthropy to solve the issue with the homeless in the area,» he wrote on Facebook.
Under the chief there are a lot of reviews where users have questioned that RJ photo, which appeared in the material KTXS — pretending to be disabled. Many write that know him, say that he really has no home and called a great guy. There are those who believe that the chief of police have embellished this story to draw attention to homelessness.
The TV station found a homeless man named RJ at this intersection on Wednesday, but he claimed that really is homeless disabled and hardly able to earn even $6. He can hardly walk and can’t work. According to a homeless man, begging his only source of livelihood. But, after a post on Facebook, the man called the deceiver.
«If I could get a job, believe me, I would have done so. People call me a loser, called a deceiver,» said RJ.
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Journalists contacted a non-profit organization Love and Care Ministries, which confirmed that attempts to make RJ to work was unsuccessful due to his disability.
The chief of police, explaining the contradictions that have arisen after the publication of material said that was referring to another homeless guy and his post is not about a particular person but about the issue in General.
He said he personally saw the beggar out of the cab at the intersection, and has no reason not to believe his officers, who found and interviewed the alleged homeless disabled.
«We know how much he earns, where he lives. I personally saw how it is planted»
He called to donate money for a nonprofit.
