Location: Power Plant, Baltimore, MD
Rating: Honorable Mention
Description: Pop quiz time!
Q: The following four people are eating dinner at a restaurant, who picks up the bill:
A. The tooth fairy.
B. Santa Claus.
C. The hopelessly addicted junkie with a funny sign who will inject any money you give them into their eyeballs the second you walk away.
D. The homeless person just a little down on their luck so they made a funny sign to get money until they’re back on their feet.
Answer: C. Why you ask? BECAUSE THE OTHER THREE ARE FUCKING FIGMENTS OF YOUR IMAGINATION!!
OK, I’ll be the first to admit that mentally ill people end up on American city streets without being addicted to drugs, but the guy talking to God in front of the RoFo is too busy collecting biblical treasure from the dumpster to make witty signs and sit in populated tourist traps asking for money. If you really want to help someone who needs it and not just contribute to someone’s drug habit, start throwing away schizophrenia meds, but keep your change to yourself.