My first job in high school was mowing lawns, and the company I worked for did some restaurants by a freeway in a major city, and had for some time. I'll never forget when the boss told us about a time they were doing an extended landscape project at one of those restaurants some years prior which required them to be there all day, every day, for a week. He'd watch this bum begging by the freeway all day, and then go get into a nice BMW in a nearby parking lot in the evenings and drive off. I also remember reading or watching a story years ago about a journalist who had gone 'undercover' as a homeless person in some big city somewhere and was making $200 a *day*. Never give bums money.