2) if you're hungry why don't you eat your dog?
3) if I give you money do you promise to invest it wisely?
4) If you are broke, how can you afford to smoke?
5) Don't you get money from social security?
I apologise to genuine cases, but I have become very cynical towards the likes of beggars and Big Issue sellers. I know for a fact that our previous local Big Issue seller ran a car, and lived in a flat in an area most folk would dream of. His commute to "work" also involved a rather expensive return ferry trip (upon which his car also travelled).
Another one I knew had no home of his own, but lived with his girlfriend. She being from a criminal background had all of life's necessities back in the nineties, before everyone else - the huge flat screen TV, leather suite, best of carpets, and central heating running 24/7.
A sizeable percentage of them probably have a better income than me, so I won't be chucking my hard earned into their polystyrene cup (the contents of which are probably going to the nearest drug dealer) any time soon.