December 09, 2021
Volume 51 - No. 49
By Friedrich Gomez
DATELINE: SAN DIEGO COUNTY. It is another beautiful Fall day in San Diego, during this month of December of 2021.
It is also the height of the Holiday Season.
Thanksgiving has passed and now the spirit of Christmas is in the air, along with charity and goodwill towards all. As you exit your car, you begin The Paper - 760.747.7119
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walking across the parking lot to the supermarket.
loved ones, in her shoes, and your spirit aches to no end.
You see a pregnant woman, a forlorn mother with an innocent child at her feet, and she’s holding a crude cardboard sign with simple black crayon lettering: PLEASE HELP US! GOD BLESS YOU!
It is soul-crushing, and you give as much hard cash as your heart begs of you.
Then, your whole worldview suddenly changes.
The scene torments you.
You imagine yourself, or your
You’re well aware that you’ll never forget what you’ve just seen.
Upon exiting the supermarket, feeling good about yourself, and pushing a shopping cart full of Christmas blessings, including a huge Butterball Tom turkey . . . you suddenly see a most surreal scene.
The homeless, impoverished, and abandoned pregnant woman, along with her young child – whom you cheerfully gave $60 – just entered a parked, late model luxury Mercedes Benz with a man at the wheel, both laughing as they count the money from panhandling, before finally driving off! Sadly, this sacrilegious scamming of the public is nothing new to San Diego County. Aside from our own region, it is now happening all over America,
Homeless Panhandlers? And Their Mercedes? Continued on Page 2