Some of you may have run into this guy. The riverside slider, a beggar who wears several layers of clothes, slides along on a mechanics creeper, and pleads his case as cripple with Khmer and barang alike, was popped by the police a few weeks ago and forced to confess, strip and do calisthenics. All of course duly recorded for the public's enlightenment and titillation.
"Crippled" Beggar Busted, Forced to Dance
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Back in the days before camera phones..
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I read about this the day after he was taken in.
He wasn't actually arrested as begging is not a crime, however he was 're-educated' and sent of to the dreaded social affairs centre.
He has been begging since he was a child and used to lead his (blind or crippled) dad along the streets on a string as they begged for change.
An official interviewed for the Kampuchea Thmey article is quoted as saying that "this job of begging stems from laziness, nothing else"
http://kampucheathmey.com/2016/archives/846310
Crippled beggars who use these trolleys to move about are known as 'Human Turtles', another lazy fake was arrested a few days ago:
https://goo.gl/84YpRs
He wasn't actually arrested as begging is not a crime, however he was 're-educated' and sent of to the dreaded social affairs centre.
He has been begging since he was a child and used to lead his (blind or crippled) dad along the streets on a string as they begged for change.
An official interviewed for the Kampuchea Thmey article is quoted as saying that "this job of begging stems from laziness, nothing else"
http://kampucheathmey.com/2016/archives/846310
Crippled beggars who use these trolleys to move about are known as 'Human Turtles', another lazy fake was arrested a few days ago:
https://goo.gl/84YpRs
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Is it laziness? I’m not sure.
I couldn’t be arsed dragging myself around on a skateboard all day in this heat. I’d much rather work for a living.
Is it not just lack of other skills, or gumption?
I’d love to know how much he was making. Would he be getting more that the $180 per month that security guards will get for napping in a plastic chair all night?
I couldn’t be arsed dragging myself around on a skateboard all day in this heat. I’d much rather work for a living.
Is it not just lack of other skills, or gumption?
I’d love to know how much he was making. Would he be getting more that the $180 per month that security guards will get for napping in a plastic chair all night?
I only give small loy to obviously very old bastards (not the expat population) and never to just Khmer asking for money, especially kids. If I see some oldy picking up bottles I’ll give them some small loy and even kids doing the same job, they never ask for it.
I had a barang guy ask for “small change” at the Caltex whilst I had my window open on the car. “Fuck off” was the reply and he got shooed away by the security guy who tried to boot him up his scrawny arse but missed.
I often see him walking along Ekereach street from Vic Hill with a Dick Whittington style stick and bag over his shoulder containing what looks like rotten fruit (probably thrown at him). I’m amazed he’s still here.
I had a barang guy ask for “small change” at the Caltex whilst I had my window open on the car. “Fuck off” was the reply and he got shooed away by the security guy who tried to boot him up his scrawny arse but missed.
I often see him walking along Ekereach street from Vic Hill with a Dick Whittington style stick and bag over his shoulder containing what looks like rotten fruit (probably thrown at him). I’m amazed he’s still here.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
There's been an image on Facebook being shared that I noticed today.
A four year old scrap collector scavenger girl, dead and with serious facial damage bring cradled by her 6 year old sister who is screaming and crying with the limp body of her little sister in her arms.
The 4 year old walking, separated from her sister and mother who were infront or behind pushing the scrap cart, had been playing as the family walked along the road and was hit and dragged along on the tarmac by a car and killed. The car drove off and the older sister picked up her younger sister and hugged her as she died.
The Facebook caption ask why do we drive past such Cambodians and not help?
A four year old scrap collector scavenger girl, dead and with serious facial damage bring cradled by her 6 year old sister who is screaming and crying with the limp body of her little sister in her arms.
The 4 year old walking, separated from her sister and mother who were infront or behind pushing the scrap cart, had been playing as the family walked along the road and was hit and dragged along on the tarmac by a car and killed. The car drove off and the older sister picked up her younger sister and hugged her as she died.
The Facebook caption ask why do we drive past such Cambodians and not help?
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The Koreans Ajuma (old ladies) do this in Seoul and Pusan at the local markets when I was there in the 2000s. Whether this miserable old person learn dragging themselves on thhe ground in those car tyre. Whether it is copied from California to South Korea and all the way to SEA, I dont know. But ones in Seoul and Pusan pull in pretty good money esp from foreigners, the Koreans market sellers just provide them food. Some of them do genuinely needed help, but the welfare it non to existence in Cambodia. Going around begging you make good money on some days better than $140 a month on salary. Dont encourage it.hennessy wrote:Some of you may have run into this guy. The riverside slider, a beggar who wears several layers of clothes, slides along on a mechanics creeper, and pleads his case as cripple with Khmer and barang alike, was popped by the police a few weeks ago and forced to confess, strip and do calisthenics. All of course duly recorded for the public's enlightenment and titillation.
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