Recently, "beggars" of people with disabilities have appeared on the streets of Hong Kong, who earn money by broadcasting live singing and lying scooters broadcasting Buddhist scriptures. But in Hong Kong, it is illegal to beg to make money, so why do they risk breaking the law to earn this money? When someone chased them to the hotel where they were staying to find out, the person in charge of the hotel said angrily: Can't beggars stay in hotels? Taking in beggars to stay in hotels is doing good!
Easily earn hundreds of dollars every day
In Tseung Kwan O, there is a man in a fisherman's hat with knee pads on his legs, a Buddhist sutra playing in front of him, and a scooter next to him with a disabled man lying on it. Their dress attracted a lot of attention, and people on the street kept throwing money into bowls because of their pitiful appearance.
▲ The two of them are constantly begging on the street.
The next day, they ran to Tai Po (about 30 kilometers away) yesterday in Tseung Kwan O, where they still painted gourds and begged for a lot of money. After that, they were driven away by the police, and the disabled person on the scooter was transferred to a wheelchair, but in the wheelchair, he swept the vulnerability and weakness on the board, which was particularly vivid.
Later, a reporter from a program followed them and wanted to interview what kind of disease the disabled person in the wheelchair had? Where did it come from? Why do you choose to go to Hong Kong to ask for money? The man first responded: "Brittle bone disease, did not ask for money, did not make money." ”。
He was very resistant to the reporter's follow-up questions and said: "Don't shoot it, don't bother me, okay?" My life has become like this, and you still have to annoy me. And in order to avoid questioning, he chose to jump the subway door at the last moment when it closed, which can be called quite a thrilling scene.
▲ The other party denied begging and said that he had not made any money.
Unlike the disabled person above, who has been avoiding problems, another middle-aged man with crippled hands and feet in North Point has generously announced his social account to the outside world.
He claimed that his foot was broken by gas more than a decade ago, and recently chose to come to Hong Kong alone to play, staying at a hotel in Mong Kok, saying that in order to earn living expenses in Hong Kong, he chose to sell songs on the street, bluntly saying that he could earn hundreds of yuan a day.
▲ He said that he was disabled by a gas explosion more than ten years ago.
(Star Boy: These poor disabled people, taking advantage of everyone's sympathy, don't make less money a month!) ）
However, things may not be as simple as he described, when he went to Jordan after finishing the sale, suspected of meeting up with his companions, and walked into one of the buildings together.
How many people like them are there in this building?
Hit the base camp of the "Beggars Corps"
A reporter entered the building and asked the security guard if he knew the middle-aged man who was singing and had crippled hands and feet, and the security guard recognized it at a glance and said that there were 4 or 5 such disabled people in the building, some without hands and feet, and should make a living by begging. At 7 p.m. one day, many disabled people followed the person in charge into the building and were taken upstairs by the person in charge. One of them, his uncle, who had a broken foot and spoke Mandarin, also claimed that he had come to Hong Kong for a tour, and now on his fifth day, he would take his musical instruments to Causeway Bay, Central and other areas every day to perform.
▲ Uncle claimed to have come to Hong Kong for tourism and took the flute around to perform.
The hotel in this building, the room facilities are simple and dilapidated, the daily rent costs 280 Hong Kong dollars, as a customer to consult the check-in details, the hotel staff claims that the flow of people here is not complicated, and told everyone that the shortage of housing is tight, there is only one left. But when the customer was discovered to be a journalist, the employee immediately changed his words: "No one lives here."
▲The room rented for 280 Hong Kong dollars per day has very simple facilities.
However, it is not enough to listen to the words of the hotel, and other residents on the same floor have said that the hotel has a complicated flow of quality, referring to at least five disabled people who work as beggars staying in the hotel. However, as the other residents spoke, the person in charge of the hotel suddenly appeared, and the residents looked at him and said, "This bad guy is good and bad." ”
The reporter just asked the person in charge about the hotel, and the person in charge pointed his finger loudly and said: "I ask you now, can beggars live in housing?" You are so young now, you have to make sure that your son is not a beggar, you must do good! If you don't do good, you will have retribution immediately! You watch slowly, people are doing, heaven is watching! ”
So who is the person in charge of the hotel? I asked him, but he said indifferently: "I'm from this side, show him, do you understand?" You are all young and will not know if it will be safe! And when asked about the relationship between the hotel and the "beggars corps", the person in charge became more and more angry: "You are all young, don't do it like this, you will regret it when the retribution comes!" ”
▲ The person in charge of the hotel kept pointing his finger at people.
What is the relationship between the hotel and these begging disabled people? Why did the temper explode as soon as the person in charge was questioned? As of now, we don't know the answer.
However, Xingzi must remind everyone that begging in Hong Kong is illegal!
Under section 26A of the Summary Offences Ordinance (Cap. 228), it is an offence for a person to wander around, or to beg or receive alms in any public place, street or waterway, or to cause, procure or encourage any child to do so. On first or second conviction, a fine of HK$500 and imprisonment for one month; A third or subsequent conviction is punishable by a fine of HK$500 and imprisonment for 12 months.
▲Section 26A of the Summary Offences Ordinance (Cap. 228) (the "Ordinance"). (Electronic version of Hong Kong legislation)
Xing Tsai suggested: If you really encounter difficulties in Hong Kong, you can seek help from the police or social organizations, and do not do anything that violates the law.