DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE MONEY! You should see Milwaukee, they are all over the place! I used to give whatever change I had in my pocket to these "sorry looking" people, but then I actually met one of them and started talking. He let me in on who he was and what he did for a living. This guy had a full time job, a wife, two kids, a house, 2 MERCEDES and he was college educated. People, HE BOUGHT THE MERCEDES WITH THE MONEY HE MADE PANHANDLING!!! He took me out and showed me his ride parked a few blocks away, nice car... I will never trust another one of them again, no matter how sorry they look. He told me that he met one or two out of the lot of them that was mentaly retarded and really couldn't make it in the real world. You want to know the reason he does this? He said it like this, "Because people are naive."
Sorry Auxilary, chances are that you were taken advantage of.