These guys pretend to be deaf and leave these cards that teach the American Sign Language alphabet or a small, travel-sized package of tissues on the seat next to you hoping that in exchange you’ll make a donation. If you don’t bite, they come back around, scoop up their stuff and go to the next car. It’s actually much more tolerable than most other street hustles because you don’t have to listen to some junkie or nigger bellowing out some bullshit story and standing in front of you with their hand out talking about God to guilt you into falling prey to their scam. These guys just leave this stuff next to you for 30-60 seconds and if you don’t touch it and avoid eye contact, they take it and silently move on. This was big 30 years ago and I just started seeing it again like last year after a long absence.
coldsoak 0 points 2 months ago
This was already going on in the 1970's on the NYC subway, I remember it well.