around here you will see card tables set up in front of some of the stores with some toothless criminal ghetto dweller from the city sitting behind a big sign that begs for money to help some obscure group for the poor.. he has an ammo box painted white with a slot and a lock on it... it is locked so that he can't steal from it.
The "charity" is from 400 miles away and they drop these minimum wage derelicts off and tell them that they will be watching them with binnoculars. I did look up the group that runs this scam and.. they are legit as far as being "non profit" but they pay most of that money out to the "officers" of the "charity"... they pretend to be a local group.
lazs