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What a cheeky beggar
Joker Ian Wilson told last night how he dishes out fake Å�20 notes to street beggars – with directions to their nearest JOBCENTRE.
Cheeky Ian hands out the toy cash which he folds up to cover the photocopied maps. And as homeless charities branded his antics "cruel", fed-up Ian vowed to keep up his campaign against cadging. He said: "Why sit on a cold street in winter holding up a piece of cardboard saying they are homeless when they could be looking for a job? They get all these benefits and yet they still have the cheek to just sit there in the street and beg for more money. They are happy to harass us and ask us for money so I thought I would give them a taste of their own medicine.”
Drugs
"If these people really wanted they could get up off their backsides and get a job." He added: "This has nothing to do with homelessness but it does have to do with buying drugs. I have no animosity to anyone. I’m merely making a helpful suggestion to them."
Ian, of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, refused to give his age but admitted he took early retirement from his career as a childcare worker. The dad-of-one gave out a wad of notes, maps and well-meaning advice in Glasgow and Paisley over the festive period. He bought the "Sponge Bob Christmas Bank" cash from the famous Barras market. Ian added: "I must have handed out more than 20. Relatives and friends have not disagreed with me. It was purely a protest about these folk. Some of them, I’ve been told, can make over Å�30 in a day. This is about our culture of having decent, hard-working folk paying for this lot who harass us and hang about our streets.”
Ian told how one beggar complained to a passing police patrol over his prank. He said: "The officers told me I had better watch out because handing out the notes might get me into bother.
Funny
"The more we talked about why I was doing it the more they saw the funny side." But homeless charity Shelter insisted begging is a "national shame". Head of policy Gavin Corbett said: "This seems a pretty cruel trick to play." A spokesman for homelessness group Crisis said: "Very few people choose homelessness, it can happen to anyone for a variety of reasons. They need support not hostility." Strathclyde Police last night said Ian had not committed any offence and his actions were being treated as someone innocently handing out flyers.
source: The Sun
joker – mókamester
to dish out – osztogat
fake – hamis, nem igazi
beggar – kéregető, koldus
jobcentre – munkaügyi központ
cheeky – csintalan
to hand out – kioszt
toy cash – játékpénz
to fold up – összehajtogat
to brand – megbélyegez, valaminek minősít
antics – fura viselkedés
cruel – kegyetlen
fed-up – elege van
to vow to – esküszik, megesküszik
cadging – kunyerálás
benefit – itt: segély
to have the cheek to – van pofája (valamit csinálni)
to beg for – könyörög valamiért
to harass – zaklat, molesztál
to get up off one’s backsides – felemeli a hátsóját (hogy csináljon valamit)
animosity – ellenségeskedés, gyűlölet
merely – csupán, pusztán
retirement – nyugdíjba vonulás
a wad of – egy halom, egy rakás
purely – tisztán, pusztán
folk – népség
to complain – panaszkodik
police petrol – rendőr járőr
prank – csíny, átverés
to insist to – ragaszkodik valamihez
trick – trükk, tréfa
hostility – ellenségeskedés
to commit an offence – elkövet egy szabálysértést
innocently – ártatlanul
flyer – szórólap
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