There used to be a morbidly obese woman who panhandled in Harvard Square with a sign that said "big people get hungry too." A friend of mine visited her house once. It was a nice, large, extremely valuable house (not a condo, not an apartment, a full house) a couple of blocks from where she panhandled, in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Cambridge.
Stuff like this is really unusual, but happens and it's a wet dream for the anti-welfare crew.
Hey I remember that woman in Harvard Square. She was BIG, like 300-350lbs. Too heavy to even stand up as she nagged passers by. How she could draw sympathy from anyone I've no clue, she really must have just completely pissed off about 1,000 people a day---walking further up the street around this time, you would see this silent, creepy powder-faced girl in a wedding dress holding out roses to everyone, standing on a box or something so she looked over 7 feet tall. Later I found out she is 1/2 the membership of possibly the most cliché untalented overrated "musical act" in Boston/Cambridge: The Dresden Dolls. Just as undeserving of your attention as the fat lady.
I hate these things because, much like false rape accusations, it takes a few sensational cases and uses it to dismiss an exponentially larger and more real problem. Five for evil.
