Worth a Cent

Have you ever been accosted by lying urban panhandlers using a child as a prop? Leaving a restaurant the other night, I was approached by a bedraggled white vagrant with a filthy child claiming to need "five dollars for a tow truck", which was a transparent falsehood. I would have bought the pair a meal if the adult had been the least bit honest, but I was not about to feed whatever his addiction is. I hope state social services addresses the welfare of the child who would be much better off as a ward of the state than as a tool for someone's attempt to scam passersby out of their earnings. I feel nothing but contempt for the man and am gravely concerned for the child.