I for one would just give the money if people were dead honest...Why try and hoodwink peeps when all you've done is cut out all future possibilites of using the same Avenue again?  You live for today, you end up dying today!

The best I saw was a homeless white guy on a traffic-stalled Whitestone Bridge last summer.  An honest guy he was...He had a sign on his chest that read something like, "WHY LIE?  IT'S EXTREMELY HOT TODAY AND I'M TOO BROKE TO BUY MYSELF A CHILLED BEER." 

...I shelled out a dollar right away!