Another hobo fake vet in NYC
The New York Post has discovered another fake veteran hobo in Kensington, NY, on Long Island. He even fakes a missing arm like in the photo above. Robert McMahon is a 53-year-old who claims he was with the 2d Marine Division 72-73 while he was 15 years old. Here’s a photo of the miracle of your donations to him – he regrows his missing arm to count your cash;
They say McMahon is a menace with a rap sheet of 20 arrests, many for disorderly conduct and “fraudulent accosting” — legalspeak for scamming victims on the street. His most recent collar came on May 27, when 66th Precinct cops found him blocking traffic at Ocean Parkway and Beverly Road at 12:50 p.m.
He used to wheel him self around in a wheelchair with a leg tucked up under himself, but he’s miraculously regrown his leg. I’m not disputing the fact that there are some homeless veterans out there – it’s just that I’m pretty sure there are guys like this who’ve never spent a day in uniform and no one is all that willing to call them on it.
1AirCav69 dropped off this link yesterday in the comments and TSO emailed this link this morning.
Category: General Whackos
I haven’t seen anything since I stepped on that landmine back in vietcong. Yeah, my code name was Agent Orange, I was in the special forces unit, battalion, regiment, very hush hush.
Nothing a baseball bat wouldn’t cure.
Don’t mess with his “Right to Heal” his arm back.
R
Fastest healing arm recovery I’ve ever read about or seen actual photos of! Where’s Claymore when ya need a “I was there and remember it like yesterday” stories, lol!
Did he handwrite his name and US MC (ya, with a big space) on that BDU jacket? Neither tag the Marines ever used on a BDU and correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t Vietnam era BDU’s OD green, not camo?
Agent Orange, is that you? I remember you from Ding Dang Ping Pong I think…
….chasing Col. Wat Da Phuk I beleive…
Ooops.
Regrowing arm eh? Just like a cold blooded, dirt hugging, lizard regrowing it tail don’t ya think? 🙂
Yes Tanker, they were OD green, everything OD green exception was jungle fatigues I think, hell never had to wear those.
Somebody needs to get hold of those ID tags he’s wearing.
That guy would have had to be in awhile to get those cammies. The Army was still issuing OD green fatigues in ’74. Only the helmet cover was cammo as an issue item for everyone.
streetsweeper
The jungle fatigues were more of a tiger stripe too if my memory is correct…
There was a more traditional camouflage pattern for jungle fatigues, too. Your host models a set a few months after Saigon fell. It was the uniform of the 1/75th Rangers in the day. The 82d also wore them as a field uniform.
“The 82d also wore them as a field uniform.” this 91Bravo with 2/505, 3rd. bgd. 82nd. don’t remember anything but OD green. The ARVN unit (black tigers or something like that) we worked with had the tiger stripes.
There was the ERDL pattern; the Infantry Museum had a uniform on display at its old location. Years ago I picked up an unissued ERDL blouse at a thrift store for $2. A year or so later I was wearing it as a jacket at a flea market and had a collector offer me $50 on the spot for it. I wish BDU tops were as collectible; prior to joining the Army I was on a surplus/militaria kick. Before I shipped I started trying to sell my collection at the flea market. BDU trousers sell out quickly as they are popular for laborers and hunters. The blouses were impossible to even give away; I offered them for free when someone bought trousers and still met with rejection more times than not. Somewhere there is still a stash of unsold blouses. Maybe I should start offering them to bums instead, with a buy one get a permanent marker special. 🙂
Jonn,
The pattern still looks a little different but it’s hard to tell in a photo that is so old color wasn’t even invented yet!!
It took a long time for Mathew Brady to set up his camera that day, too.
In the early 1980s the Infantry started using the old Jungle Fatigues in place of the new BDUs, which sucked ****.
Oh- on a related note- a ‘judge’ in ‘california’ says the military can not DADT any more.
Old Tanker nails the Billy Ray Valentine reference. +1
I still have a pair of those hanging in my closet. 🙂
So, one day, back when I was young, fit, and on active duty, I was walking through DC with my family, and my then-junior-high-age daughter pointed out a guy with a “Viet Nam Homeless Vet” sign asking for money.
She was taken aback when I refused to give him anything. “Don’t military people take care of their own?” she asked.
My response: “Honey, if he was really in the military he would have learned a skill, or at least the self-sufficiency and tenacity, to never have to live like that.”
There were Army Cammies in Vietnam but few got to wear them. I rangled a set from a supply guy for some “VC/NVA” flags that were made in a bunker on the Korean Base Camp I was living. While eating in the officers mess at the 128th Assault Helo Co at Phu Loi, a Pathfinder wearing them came up and tried to get me kicked out of the officers mess. The chopper pilots stood their ground and I stayed. They looked like the ones Jonn is wearing but hard to tell. The “Tiger’s” were issued to LRRPS or stolen by LRRPS. It was their trade mark. The Marines had cammies but most of us all just wore the OD green ones. We always wondered why they didn’t issue all the cammies to atleast those of us in the field.
Honor and Courage
There IS NO 23rd Marine Division. And even if he were 23rd Marine Regiment, THEY DID NOT GO TO VIETNAM!!! I’m in he Army, and I know that, and the parts I didn’t know took all of five seconds to look up.
It makes me me utterly sick to my stomach that there are men out there that are doing shit like this
Most of these folks are actors, pure and simple. They’ll play you like a violin, if you let them. They start sizing you up the minute you look at them, and they’ve pegged you before you get close enough to speak. It’s uncanny how they know what’ll tug your heartstrings: one of their children is in trouble, their mama’s sick, their sister has been diagnosed with cancer. The big thing in our area is dogs — all of them have their sad-eyed, furry friend. You don’t see too many “vets” in our area; it’s the rough ‘n’ tumble, mountain-man look. They’re always polite; it’s “yes, ma’am” and “yes, sir” to everything. They are always moving through, going someplace else (as befits the big open spaces in the Northwest). Their signs are always very humble: “Need help — God Bless”, “Anything will help”, and “Need money for Bus Ticket” are probably the ones that are most popular.
I could go on and on, but the point here is: this is a lifestyle. That man knows what he’s doing, and all the others like him, too. He needs to be on a chaingang, pure and simple. At least there we’d be getting some work out of him.
The cammies this muthaf#cker is wearing are the heavier weight cammies that came out shortly before Grenada went down. They replaced the ripstop cammies. He has his cover bent like some inbred’s John Deere cap, which no Marine would ever do, and we never wrote our names or “US MC” on those uniforms. Name tags came along later on, but as you can tell easily, he is a fraud. Wonder if that is a crime now, with that F#ckstick Klintonista judge’s ruling?
This is just a white Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.
Love the “Ranger Roll.”
Nice touch.
They surround us.
PITT!