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Im just curious!
How did he end up getting that Mercedes to zip around America only with a $500 dollar Tax Return?
Really?
Who is going to Rent,Sale or whatever a shiny new Mercedes to a Homeless man with only $500????
I don't really care about the article except for how he got a "Brand- new" CL600 or SL600 with $500 dollars. Sounds like most homeless, he tells some tall tales.
He is lying. If you go to rent a high end car at Sixt, Hertz, or Avis... They have ALWAYS required a credit card with a hefty deposit on high end cars.
$500 dollar deposit at a dealer... Uh no... just don't buy it. Leasing on that car would require 6-7k at signing.
Only thing I can think of is he conned his way into letting them test the car out. I have done that, but they usually want it back the next day. Usually, not two days or long enough for a road trip. But if you are a recalcitrant vagrant what would you care? I suppose he could have sweet talked them into another day or two.
One of these types of guys managed to get $9,300 dollars out of my aunt and leave without a trace. That guy and this guy that college professor look. Probably is well educated and extremely versed in the art of BS... you just like college professors.
This guy took my aunt to the Redwoods and fed her all sorts of eastern mystic crap. Told her he needed money to start a..... some hippie thing and she bought it hook line and sinker.
Last edited by AndyAMG; 08-29-2014 at 04:07 PM..
Reason: vagrant tall tales...BS
I have never understood the lure of the homeless life, never understood how someone could "choose" it. The discomforts are quite extreme, and the dangers are not negligible. The homeless "by choice" must have no confidence in their own ability to be responsible and deal with the world. Or they must suffer from terminal laziness, or perhaps be mentally ill.
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Extreme laziness, mental illness (sometimes the laziness is from mental illness), inability to live by rental standards such as loud parties every night or vandalism of the apartment ..... or addiction to drugs so severe that they spend it on them rather than rent.
I remember one young guy saying to me (in an area of high rents) that "spending money on rent is like throwing it away!" He seemed like a party-dude type ..... there were a bunch of them living in the Arcata Forest growing pot, but I guess it didn't pay off well for him.
I have never understood the lure of the homeless life, never understood how someone could "choose" it. The discomforts are quite extreme, and the dangers are not negligible. The homeless "by choice" must have no confidence in their own ability to be responsible and deal with the world. Or they must suffer from terminal laziness, or perhaps be mentally ill.
Very few hard core, long term homeless grew up in stable homes that were free of physical/sexual/drug/alcohol abues and/or mental illness.
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