Do you give to panhandlers?

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70. Here in Stockholm, almost all panhandlers we encounter are part of criminal Roma gangs.

Their handlers (almost always men) make the women sit out year-round, even in the dead of winter. and beg for cash or e-payments (Swish, etc), then take all the money at the end of their 'shift'.

We have offered to buy them some food real time, and they always (dozens and dozens of times now) refuse.

We have personally stopped the male handlers from physically hurting them before.

Our first year here in Sweden, in 2018, at the bottom of the rulltrappa (escalator) in one of the Östermalmstorg tunnelbana's entrances, the one on Grev Turegatan (we were living in the Stureplan area of central Stockholm at that time as we waited for our Södermalm townhouse we bought to close)......

here is the entrance as it looked then (the entire area is in the process of being vastly upgraded):

..........we physically got involved with a little fucking bellend (a Roma as well of course) who was punching one of the panhandler Roma women in the face (another women nearby who spoke English said he was screaming at the victim about stealing some of the money she made).

My wife ended up sweep-kicking him off his feet after he pulled a knife and we both kicked him in the face and torso (wifey also got in a kick to his jacobs, lol) multiple times after I stamped the knife out of of his hand and kicked it away whilst he was on the ground (we both have some martial arts training, and my wife also has military training). He fucked with the wrong bishes, lol.

The coppers arrested him nearly instantly as someone else had called them over (we did not know that at the time). We testified against him in court as well. He was convicted, received a year and half or so in jail, and then was deported back to Romania (where the vast majority come from, due to the EU freedom of movement that kicked in for Romania and Bulgaria on January 1, 2014), plus he was banned for life from Sweden.

That was our only real (not counting pushing away away blokes on the lash who play grab-arse with us in clubs, grrrrr) physical altercation we have been in here the entire time, thank fuck.

It was not nice AT ALL, and the Roma woman we tried to help spit on my wife, said (the other women mentioned above translated this as well) we were interfering in personal business and that we had fucked her over, that she would be beaten by the other men now.

We no longer (obviously!) get involved with the Roma criminal gang beggars at all. It's a lose-lose situation.