brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
Yeah, seen her around Brixton enough times. Ususally courteous enough to tell me to "Fuck off then" when I tell her I've seen it before, too...
"Assaulted" girl hanging by the cash machine at Tesco
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silentNate
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There used to be a bloke in a torn suit looking for money to Oxford as he had missed his train and needed another ticket. Worked the circuit around Clapham Junction station platforms, ran into him four times in a monthbrixtonvilla said:
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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silentNate said:There used to be a bloke in a torn suit looking for money to Oxford as he had missed his train and needed another ticket. Worked the circuit around Clapham Junction station platforms, ran into him four times in a month
Yeah I think I've seen him.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Cadmus said:
Blood Smack Hippy Cash Scam Woman.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
i know that one. what is i about south london that attracts these tpes?
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I'm sure she has a name. I bet its a real one, and I also bet that somewhere she has a family who have probably bitten their nails to the quick over her.
If you're worried about the people who do these things, then the answer's simple; don't give them any money. They have a drug dependency problem, and your best option in these circumstances is to be polite, but move on.
They're in a dreadful place.
I saw one of them as I came home in sub zero temperatures from East London earlier this evening. Folded up, on the floor in the entrance to the Old Street Tube, besuited in some dirty combat jacket, head down, hanging on for dear life. These drugs can degrade you to that level.
They'll do anything for their need; every cell in their body is screaming for them to get relief. They'll tell any lie, make any threat, cop any plea, to assuage their problem and the screaming need within.
I don't support it, don't sympathise with the things they've done to arrive there, can't go along with what they do, but my God, as I sit here, well fed, in a lovely warm home, with a functioning relationship, with no dependancies to speak of, I'm bloody glad I'm not them.
What divides me and mine from the blonde girl at the cash point? A few wrong choices, a bit less guidance from the people I love, a little less cash in my family when it mattered. No more.
Believe me, we - or people we love - could all be her, surprisingly easily.
And I can't help feeling a slight unease at my favourite 'discussion board' partaking in some sort of virtual pillory exercise. Thought we had a bit more to us than that.
You know her trick now, we all do, so respectfully, let's leave off.
Contradict me if you will.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I know her real name (I'm sure we are talking about the same girl). It's a very pretty one too.hendo said:
guy walking about with petrol can , " car ran out of petrol
can you borrow me some cash so i can get home"
hes asked me about 9 times now.
hanging around car park " can you give me some money
as i need to get my car out of car park, just found out
ive got no money"
" i need money to get bus home "
" ive just been robbed, need money to get home"
heard sooooooooo many , has turned me into a cynical
old man.
gave one guy burger just bought in mc donalds [ he asked
for cash for food ] he looked at burger swore threw burger
on floor... its when they knock at your front door when its
particualy not nice...
can you borrow me some cash so i can get home"
hes asked me about 9 times now.
hanging around car park " can you give me some money
as i need to get my car out of car park, just found out
ive got no money"
" i need money to get bus home "
" ive just been robbed, need money to get home"
heard sooooooooo many , has turned me into a cynical
old man.
gave one guy burger just bought in mc donalds [ he asked
for cash for food ] he looked at burger swore threw burger
on floor... its when they knock at your front door when its
particualy not nice...
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
I no longer answer my door if I am not expecting anyone due to a spate of scammers last year trying to get money using various excuses (no gas, need to take child to hospital as really ill - got sworn at when I offered to call an ambulance).
When the girl in Brixton tried the mugged story on me last year, I offered to take her to the police station or call the police and got very strongly verbally assulted when I wouldn't had over cash, following me to the tube and shouting at me
When the girl in Brixton tried the mugged story on me last year, I offered to take her to the police station or call the police and got very strongly verbally assulted when I wouldn't had over cash, following me to the tube and shouting at me
I thoroughly agree with hendo's post, but as he himself acknowledges, it probably WAS necessary to draw this scam to peoples' attention.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
If this is the same woman I think it is, I first saw her in Brixton back as far as 1998. Back then her "pitch" was not that she needed money, but that she'd just been beaten up and "just needed someone to talk to". Needless to say, I declined and walked on.
There used to be another pair who'd hang around the Tesco carpark, claiming their boss had abondoned them there and they needed money to get home. Imagine my surprise when, two weeks later, they apporached me again (not recognising me form last time) at the exact same spot with the exact same story. They're boss seemed to have abandoned them there yet again.
BTW, there's a new-ish bloke that hangs around Brixton, flailing and swinging his armas around to make it hard to get past him as he "asks" for cash. If you decline his request, he starts swearing shouting after you.
I have reched the stage now where I just won't talk to anyone who approaches me on the street (the times I've had to zigzag my way through Brixton high street is absurd). The subject of the conversation - however it starts out - invariably turns to the topic of a transfer of cash from you to them and I've heard it all before. Which is sad, because anyone in need will now most likely be ignored thanks to scams like these.
There used to be another pair who'd hang around the Tesco carpark, claiming their boss had abondoned them there and they needed money to get home. Imagine my surprise when, two weeks later, they apporached me again (not recognising me form last time) at the exact same spot with the exact same story. They're boss seemed to have abandoned them there yet again.
BTW, there's a new-ish bloke that hangs around Brixton, flailing and swinging his armas around to make it hard to get past him as he "asks" for cash. If you decline his request, he starts swearing shouting after you.
I have reched the stage now where I just won't talk to anyone who approaches me on the street (the times I've had to zigzag my way through Brixton high street is absurd). The subject of the conversation - however it starts out - invariably turns to the topic of a transfer of cash from you to them and I've heard it all before. Which is sad, because anyone in need will now most likely be ignored thanks to scams like these.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I like your post a lot Hendo, while I was reading the thread I kept thinking: but she does need help!!!
Is it really a scam when people have to go around making up stories to get a bit of cash so they can shoot up? No, it's not, it's just really sad.
The fact that she doesn't even remember who she's asked for money before just indicates how terrible her situation is and how badly she needs help.
At the end of the day we all have a choice on whether we give someone money or not... (apart from muggings, but that's a different story)
Is it really a scam when people have to go around making up stories to get a bit of cash so they can shoot up? No, it's not, it's just really sad.
The fact that she doesn't even remember who she's asked for money before just indicates how terrible her situation is and how badly she needs help.
At the end of the day we all have a choice on whether we give someone money or not... (apart from muggings, but that's a different story)
A few months back I had this guy knock on my door and tell me this story about how his mother was in hospital somewhere just out of London (Watford?) and he is desperate to go to see her (she might die!) and he can't afford the cab fare, and could he borrow some money.
I nearly gave him some, he was so convincing, but then I thought, I'm feeling like doing a REAL good deed for the day, my car is right here, so I say, no problem mate, that's such a sad story, I shall drive you right to the hospital myself.
And you know what, he backed off at this point and started wibbling on about how would he get back!
I didn't point out the inconsistency in his position (how would he have got back if I gave him the dosh?) but told him to do one, and shut the door.
I hate people who pull shit like this, because you know that due to their antics, one day you are more likely to fail to help someone who IS genuine.
Giles..
I nearly gave him some, he was so convincing, but then I thought, I'm feeling like doing a REAL good deed for the day, my car is right here, so I say, no problem mate, that's such a sad story, I shall drive you right to the hospital myself.
And you know what, he backed off at this point and started wibbling on about how would he get back!
I didn't point out the inconsistency in his position (how would he have got back if I gave him the dosh?) but told him to do one, and shut the door.
I hate people who pull shit like this, because you know that due to their antics, one day you are more likely to fail to help someone who IS genuine.
Giles..
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Hendo speak the truth. He wise man
Oula
Well-Known Member
I got scammed by this same woman. She wanted £8.80 coz she needed to get to Kent. She told me her boyfriend had beaten her up and she needed to pick her daughter up from school. Certain things did ring alarm bells. She said she had already been to the police station and I was surprized they would let her leave covered in blood. I offered to check out her wounds as a trained first aider but she refused. I didn't push that one too much as I had no gloves on me.
Despite all that she was so convincing and I kind of thought - well even if she is lying something bad has obviously happened to her. She's covered in dried blood. Slightly nasty thing was the reason I found the whole incident so upsetting and why I gave her the money was that a friend of mine had recently been hospitalised due to domestic violence. So it kind of hit home.
After I gave her the money I offered to wait for her bus with her but she declined. I realised I had probably been scammed and actually walked a different way the next couple of times so that I didn't have to see her asking other people, which I kind of knew she would be. Saw her for the first time since then last week outside the tube station asking someone else.
My mate got scammed in Herne Hill at about the same time by a different woman who asked for money coz her car was out of petrol and her bag had been nicked. He gave her a tenner and was totally convinced until she said 'I'm having such a bad day, my bag nicked, no petrol and I was raped last week" Might have been true but would you really tell a stranger. He said she didn't seem upset at all when she mentioned it.
Despite all that she was so convincing and I kind of thought - well even if she is lying something bad has obviously happened to her. She's covered in dried blood. Slightly nasty thing was the reason I found the whole incident so upsetting and why I gave her the money was that a friend of mine had recently been hospitalised due to domestic violence. So it kind of hit home.
After I gave her the money I offered to wait for her bus with her but she declined. I realised I had probably been scammed and actually walked a different way the next couple of times so that I didn't have to see her asking other people, which I kind of knew she would be. Saw her for the first time since then last week outside the tube station asking someone else.
My mate got scammed in Herne Hill at about the same time by a different woman who asked for money coz her car was out of petrol and her bag had been nicked. He gave her a tenner and was totally convinced until she said 'I'm having such a bad day, my bag nicked, no petrol and I was raped last week" Might have been true but would you really tell a stranger. He said she didn't seem upset at all when she mentioned it.
dont give anyone in the street money if you suspect they are using.
those St Mungo's posters on the tube are there for a reason.
re hendos post. he is spot on. these are someones kids, family etc.
i know from experience within my own family just how low heroin can make you go. its not them, its the drug
if you want to do something constructive with the money they try and scam off you - give it to organisations like mungos etc
those St Mungo's posters on the tube are there for a reason.
re hendos post. he is spot on. these are someones kids, family etc.
i know from experience within my own family just how low heroin can make you go. its not them, its the drug
if you want to do something constructive with the money they try and scam off you - give it to organisations like mungos etc
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
It's people can be in such a state from addiction that worries me, not being scammed.
I made friends of a sort with a person who had a drug problem and after advice from a user here would buy her food/mags/baccy rather than give money.
Twice I was asked for money for a hostel and it was a terrible dilemma wondering if your money would get the person off the street or go on drugs. Was I being scammed? Probably, but who gives a fuck?
Haven't seen the person for a long time now, hope everything is ok.
I made friends of a sort with a person who had a drug problem and after advice from a user here would buy her food/mags/baccy rather than give money.
Twice I was asked for money for a hostel and it was a terrible dilemma wondering if your money would get the person off the street or go on drugs. Was I being scammed? Probably, but who gives a fuck?
Haven't seen the person for a long time now, hope everything is ok.
Until recently she was buying smack off a bloke in my bloke. Until he got done for raping someone in the flat, that is.Crispy said:
Found her going cold turkey at the bottom of my stairs one morning.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Fantastic post hendo, you said what I was thinking.
I did give her some money once. It was pointed out to me afterwards that she wasn't being honest about her situation, and my reaction was pretty much that while I wouldn't want to be knowingly supporting anyone's drug habit, I didn't feel too bad about it - if she needed a fix that badly she'd get the money somehow, and I'd rather she scammed the cash off me than some of the worse alternatives that come to mind...
I did give her some money once. It was pointed out to me afterwards that she wasn't being honest about her situation, and my reaction was pretty much that while I wouldn't want to be knowingly supporting anyone's drug habit, I didn't feel too bad about it - if she needed a fix that badly she'd get the money somehow, and I'd rather she scammed the cash off me than some of the worse alternatives that come to mind...
