Comments on: Panhandling http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686 babblings! Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Ferenc http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686#comment-82723 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:41:09 +0000 http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686#comment-82723 Of course it is ok. Once, as I and my best friend were sitting in an terrace in Budapest, a little gipsy girl walked to us begging. Before the waiter could have sent her away my friend gave her some money; I asked him why he had given it, he knew behind the corner the girl would hand it over to her parents and finally it goes to a criminal. He told me: it does not matter, if a small portion would remain at the girl it worths giving, she has a much worse life than we... Of course it is ok.
Once, as I and my best friend were sitting in an terrace in Budapest, a little gipsy girl walked to us begging. Before the waiter could have sent her away my friend gave her some money; I asked him why he had given it, he knew behind the corner the girl would hand it over to her parents and finally it goes to a criminal. He told me: it does not matter, if a small portion would remain at the girl it worths giving, she has a much worse life than we…

]]> by: julia http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686#comment-82722 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:22:41 +0000 http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686#comment-82722 Ferenc, I should put your comment in my FB to show my friends. Do you mind? Ferenc,

I should put your comment in my FB to show my friends. Do you mind?

]]> by: Ferenc http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686#comment-82720 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:34:51 +0000 http://okenglish.tw/modules/wordpress/?p=686#comment-82720 It is more than a profession, it is an enterprise. Some years ago Budapest was full of these beggars, they could not even speak Hungarian. The "business" works somehow like this: Someone goes out to the Rumanian countryside, or to the outskirts of middle sized cities (former industrial centers where whole districts have changed into slums), there he gathers families with children. These businessman take these families to bigger cities, keep them in crowded, hidden houses or flats, transport them every day to frequently visited places, and pick them up in the evening. The biggest part of the income goes to the "businessman". I think this is quite different from the Canadian situation, in Eastern Europe these people have no chance to chose, especially those children. It is more than a profession, it is an enterprise.

Some years ago Budapest was full of these beggars, they could not even speak Hungarian. The “business” works somehow like this:
Someone goes out to the Rumanian countryside, or to the outskirts of middle sized cities (former industrial centers where whole districts have changed into slums), there he gathers families with children. These businessman take these families to bigger cities, keep them in crowded, hidden houses or flats, transport them every day to frequently visited places, and pick them up in the evening. The biggest part of the income goes to the “businessman”.

I think this is quite different from the Canadian situation, in Eastern Europe these people have no chance to chose, especially those children.

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