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Panhandler refuses man's offer of money for work. So man returns with his own sign — and panhandler loses it.

Ryan Bray  told WTVT-TV  he was in his vehicle recently at an intersection in Bradenton, Florida, when a panhandler approached him for cas...

Ryan Bray told WTVT-TV he was in his vehicle recently at an intersection in Bradenton, Florida, when a panhandler approached him for cash.
"He reached his arms inside my vehicle, resting them and said, 'Hey, do you have any money?' I said, 'No, but I have one better for you...'" Bray told the station.
Ryan BrayImage source: WTVT-TV video screenshot

Meaning Bray — who works for Bray Remodeling, his family's business — offered the panhandler work for money as opposed to a handout: $15 an hour to do yard work, WTVT said.

How did the panhandler react?

Bray told the station the panhandler didn't take too kindly to his offer.
"He said, 'Absolutely not,'" Bray recalled to WTVT. "Started getting belligerent and cursing."
He added to the station that the panhandler kicked his Jeep and told him to leave.

What did the man who made the offer do next?

So last week Bray returned to scene of the exchange — the intersection of 75th Street W and Manatee Avenue W — with a WTVT reporter in tow.
Bray held aloft his own sign to boot: "I offered him $15 an hour to do yard work for me and he refused. If we as a community stop paying them, they will leave our neighborhood."
Image source: WTVT-TV video screenshot

What's more, Bray identified the very panhandler who got angry at his offer to do work in exchange for money — and as before, the panhandler wasn't too happy. 
Image source: WTVT-TV video screenshot

WTVT said the transient confronted Bray, claiming he did nothing wrong. 


The station said the panhandler used foul language as Bray stood near — but still managed to get money from at least one driver.
"You can't shut me down, brother," the panhandler was heard saying after his panhandling victory.

Bray's resolve

Bray told WTVT if drivers stop handing cash through their cracked windows, panhandlers will leave.
"I can't have my 13-year-old daughter and my wife driving with their windows up and being berated the entire time if [panhandlers] don't get money," he noted to the station, adding that he hopes panhandlers will want a hand up more than a handout.
The Bradenton City Council is expected to bring up the topic of panhandling on Wednesday, WTVT said.

6 comments

  1. How about a boot in the a** as a down payment..

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  2. Lice covered bums in baggy pants.

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  3. Panhandlers make damn good money. One panhandler in my town who never got up off his ass but would spend his days waving at cars and telling everyone that God loves them was taken into custody by the cops a few years ago and had over $30K in cash and $5K in gift cards and 4 shopping carts full of god knows what. He was released and then went back to his regular spot. Then he moved.....and the last anyone heard from him was when he was ejected from his home next to a traffic signal box. He hasn't been back at his regular spot in months now...... Maybe they convinced him to get a job and buy a car with his stash and start living like a normal person....

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  4. Slaggard bum!!! This is why I no longer give a dime to any panhandlers. I have seen good-meaning People give a panhandler a sandwich and the a-hole throws it away in disgust. All he wanted was money for drugs.
    I can no longer have any compassion. Too many con artists.


    When I see a young Canadian, sitting on a corner bumming money, when just down the street are cranes on a hi-rise construction site, I just look at him with no favour. Some young Immigrant will gladly try to grab a job, while "Bummy" sits there getting Hemorrhoids.


    Shame on these kids with zero ambition except to con and steal and go down the shit-hole. I see lots of young Mexican and other young fellas working in construction. They have a future.

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  5. useless eaters.
    give them a bullet

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