Hayden Panettiere: Brother, Can You Spare A Fiver?
Hayden Panettiere is known as a champion of the beleaguered whales and was recently a hostess of a charity dinner to raise money for the Whaleman Group, but when it comes to sparing some of her own greenbacks for the people of the world…well, not so much. It seems when she was taking a break from the San Diego Comic-Con, a homeless guy approached her for some change and guess what happened?
While the Heroes cutie was outside taking a break, a homeless man approached her and asked for some change. When Hayden reached into her purse and realized the smallest bill she had was a twenty, she asked him if he could break it!
“When he said no, she apologized and assured him that she would find him later,” the source says.
Way to help protect your own species, Hayden.
I realize that when you visit/live in a large urban area, you’re going to be approached by people wanting money. Sometimes they are benign, sometimes it can get scary. But it seems like this wasn’t a frightening situation (besides, I’m sure she had “people” there). And if she didn’t want to give the guy money, she just had to say so. But would it have been such a hardship for her to spare a tiny bit of her stacks of money with someone less fortunate?
Isn’t asking a homeless person to break a twenty kind of like making change in the offering plate?
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I dislike anyone who gives money to beggars.
It just provokes them into bugging even more people and continuing to hang out on the streets, and not taking care of their own problems. If you want to “do the right thing”, then give to an organisation which helps the homeless. They’ll do it in the right way, not the easy way.
Comment by Gib — August 12, 2008 @ 3:04 pm