I saw some new ones today. A guy standing on the corner of 183 & Anderson had several and was rotating them while he walked. Here are some of the ones I remember:

Family Killed By Ninjas.
Saving for Karate Lessons.

Why live in a $200,000 home when you can live under a $2,000,000 bridge.

Got Road Rage?
Yell at a homeless guy for .50 cents OBO

He had about 3 more, but the light turned green. I probably would have given him some money, on account of his originality, but I didnt have any cash.

My wife saw the other day:

I was living on the edge and I fell off

Whats the funniest/most innovative bum you have ever seen.

Man, those are creative. I guess I just don't see enough homeless people because I've never seen any signs that good. All I ever see are "Will Work for Food" and things that make you feel like you're going to hell if you don't give.

I saw a very honest homeless man the other day. The sign read, "I'm not going to lie, I just want some money for beer." So I gave the guy 2 bucks for being honest

Oh man, the bums in Austin are creative as hell.

And on a side note, I NEVER see one with a sign that says "will work" for anything.

"I won't eat you."

I haven't seen the "will work" sign in a while.

I saw guy with "Wife is pregnant, need $$ for bus ticket home" at parmer and 35 for about 4 months straight

My son saw a one legged homeless guy at the Y in Oak Hill with a sign that said "on my last leg"... he was gonna give him something for creativity, but didn't have any cash!

I think it's so sad when Ninjas go bad killing family members and leaving the remaining family members homeless.

America really needs to address the Ninja problem in this country and quit worrying about terrorism.

I saw a man in Temple last week that was raking in the money at a red light..his sign was Temple sux and I am trying to get out as fast as possible!

Apparently everyone fighting the construction traffic was agreeing with him.

I always knew that realultimatepower guy would lose it one day.

Dang, theres a guy at Richmond/Fountainview area in H-Town thats got the Ninjas Killed my Family sign. I thought he was original.

He also has "Why lie I need a beer" with a flap that comes down when he catches someones attention that says "& a hooker." He probably stole that one too.

Where do they get the black marker to write on the sign?

Homeless people network very well, I saw a "Family Killed by Ninjas" sign yesterday, too.

i love homeless people. they are funny.

and taste like chicken

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If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long...a real homeless person is too hungry to be funny

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Why live in a $200,000 home when you can live under a $2,000,000 bridge.

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this guy was at parmer and mopac few months ago over by Fry's... didnt see him rotating any others.

have you austinites seen the guy that talks to some imaginary person?? ive seen him at braker and lamar, and down by ben white and congress

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that all clever homeless signs originated in Austin. We are the undisputed bum capital. They come to Austin from other places to get training. Then they are released into the other metro's of Texas with sign in hand.

I think my bum has the copyright on the ninja sign.

AgSoccer - did he resemble this guy?

Please, somebody post the pic of the bum holding up the sign that says, "I need money for beer."

i freakin hate austin...

i was at spiderhouse off guadalupe (behind i love video, close to my old high school Hyde Park) closer to the start of summer, and when we were leaving, i could see some vagabond black guy coming up behind me in the rearview mirror (its like 1AM when we're leaving) and so i give the nonchalant door lock to avoid a rape / AIDS / hapatitis from a used needle, and he makes a beeline over to my car, and my friends dont pull out onto guadalupe from in front of me until its too late to get away and cars were coming so i was blocked in, so he stands right outside my window and i crack it like a quarter of an inch and he goes on and on with some sob story about how he worked all day and didnt have any money and was hungry and he wanted to wash my car so he could get something to eat (pretty sure he just wanted crack money) so i was like "uuhh ok heres a dollar" and he proceeded to explain to me that he was around there a lot (not sure why, i guess as a warning for me to never go back... maybe he thought id wanna come hang out or something) so i frickin took off...

those guys are even worse than the freakin bums. they walk right up and just ask for the cash. dont even give u the option to ignore em.




edit: yes he may have lol.. they all do. i was going home from church this past sunday on braker headed west and i was passing a neighborhood and i saw him arguing with two gangster kids who got a cop to get rid of him. fun times

[This message has been edited by AgSoccer2007 (edited 8/16/2005 8:28p).]

that wreminds me of that move bruce almighty
those were original signs i can' remember the signs tho

i'm from austin so i have seen lots. although, like agsoccer the one i really remember was when i was at spiderhouse. this guy came up to me and my friends. but he didn't outright ask for money. i think he was just drunk off his ass and wanted ppl to talk to. he started going on and on about the gas station nearby selling horses. and how beautiful my friends eyes were. i only got worried when he kept reaching towards his back pocket and i saw something shiny. of course, my mind was racing with: it's a knife/gun! but it was probably a flask. never saw it though.


i can't think of a funny sign but i did see a woman pretending she was pregnant. i saw her from far away with her "belly" then she ran off and came back holding something in her arms screaming that she had the baby and needed money