Panhandler Shane Warren Speegle Says He Made $60,000 A Year Begging On Street

No soup kitchen for this beggar. Shane Warren Speegle told Oklahoma City police he made $60,000 panhandling last year.

“Why would I go get a job?” he said to an officer who approached him earlier this month,according to KOCO.com.

Speegle, 45, carried a 4-foot-by-4-foot signrequesting money for travel and food at an Oklahoma City intersection, noted DigitalJournal.com. A cop warned him that he couldn’t panhandle without a license, but Speegle suggested that a $200 daily permit was within his means, KOCO.com reported.

This is why I will never give money to these people. They make easily three times or so as much as I do.

To all those people who told me I was wrong when I said they did it for a living and had to have permits for it?

I told you so.

24 July 2012 ·

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