The Issue: Scammers, like shoeless beggar Jeffrey Hillman, who take handouts they don’t need or deserve.
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The Post’s coverage of the shoeless, supposedly homeless man who was given a pair of shoes and socks by that kindhearted cop months ago, reaffirmed my belief that you can’t give these scammers anything (“A Nation Suckered,” Michael Walsh, PostOpinion, March 28).
I used to tell my son, before he became a cop, to stop giving to anyone who came up to us while walking the streets, because they were scammers.
They weren’t handicapped or missing limbs, so why give? That still didn’t stop my kindhearted son.
This scammer, Jeffrey Hillman, has an apartment, has his utility bills paid for by a preacher and has 30 pairs of shoes.
Joe Sanchez
Manhattan
What idiot openly counts money on a subway train? If he gets robbed, he’ll sob and be a more pathetic “victim” than he was when the cop gave him shoes.
It must be meaningless to him, because he can easily get more.
I’d like to live rent-free like him and have money to burn.
If he receives government handouts in addition to his scamming largesse, he’d be doing quite all right.
People like him are the reason I never give to panhandlers on the train or anywhere else.
Ray Hackinson
Ozone Park
Bogus beggar Hillman provides a New York grifter’s twist on the adage: “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.”
Give a man a pair of boots, and he’ll walk all over you.
Ray Arroyo
Westwood, NJ