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[Ashim]

Nice gift, but the need to lie about it?

Yeh, seems to have been done for entertainment purposes.
Just tell the guy that there had been a collection for him and give him the money.
Just maybe, because of the 'lie' there will be more 'likes', the video will become more popular and as a result more individuals will feel inclined or motivated to engage in similar acts of charity.

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I am standing in line at a Tool concert in San Francisco (right now). A young man was sitting with his guitar playing several Tool songs. He had a sign stating something to the effect of he had traveled 2,000 miles hitch hiking so he could see Tool in concert for the first time, and needed to raise enough money for a scalped ticket or someone to give him one. I was skeptical at first, but after listening to him talk to several people in the crowd for more than an hour, I quickly realized his story was legitimate. My heart started crying out to him as he wasn't getting hardly any donations and it seemed hopeless. I wished I had purchased an extra ticket or magically had an extra one in my wallet.

I was nearly overwhelmed with emotion when the man behind me pulled out an extra ticket and handed it to him. It was a beautiful, magical moment.

Happened to me and my family at the scottish open a few years ago at Loch Lomond. I was broke and was depending on my mother to pay for the 3 quite expensive tickets ( over 40 pound each), when a stranger caught my eye and handed me complementary tickets that he no longer required.
Really made our day!