Jordan Taylor; phony panhandler
The folks at Hooligan Street Journal met this fellow, Jordan Taylor, panhandling on a corner in Montclair, California dressed in the old DCUs with a sign claiming that he is a veteran and he wants to be hired. And that God should bless you. The fellow who sat with him asked him some questions, but nothing to verify his service;
“I’m actually educated,” he tells me. I’m not surprised by the statement. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Restaurant Management from Johnson and Wales University in Denver. He also earned an Associate’s degree in Culinary Arts.
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We get into the subject of war. He’s anti-violence, and contrary to his current uniform, anti-military. With no love lost for his fellow soldiers, it’s simply his personal view. He signed up for the military because “it’s supposed to be a defensive peace force.” Unfortunately, Taylor quickly realized the U.S. military is a “violent aggravating force” overseas. He understands that war is occasionally necessary to prevent catastrophes, and references Hitler in WWII. But mostly, “It’s about money…money and resources.”
Taylor has never been gung-ho for violence, nor does he respect blood thirsty soldiers. He’s thankful that he never had to fire his weapon. “I’m actually squeamish around blood,” he admits.
Mighty nice of him to be peaceful, yet wearing an Army uniform. Well, Scotty decided to check him out and the NPRC says “Who?”
The interview continues and Jordan says that he picks up “between $150-$300 every 2-3 hours” from folks who think they’re contributing to a veteran. He claims that no homeless shelter will take him because he’s a substance abuser. So, see, he fits what folks expect from vets. Nice.
Category: Phony soldiers
A little help here. Substance abuser sounds so innocuous. Is he a coffee fiend? Easts too much celery? Tortures broccoli? Or does it mean he’s a drug addict? We’ve all come upon these clowns many times. They are shameless, irresponsible who would take money from women, children, and folks working hard paycheck to paycheck when there is absolutely no need whatsoever for their begging. None–not in this country. So, screw him.
Hey, don’t be too hard on us broccoli abusers. It’s a very hard addiction to beat. It took me 5 times in rehab to quit abusing broccoli. Now, I just kick tomatoes.
$150-300 every few hours? He sounds like a member of the “Professional Homeless Community” to me, that kind of money could pay for a nice apartment, but I’m sure it’s going into his lungs, up his nose, or into his vein, Fa’qheem!!
That’s more money than I make! And I own a house, a car, and a truck, with a wife and kid. Of course, I also don’t lie about shit I didn’t do, and generally try not to be a complete douchestain. Oh, and I also work for a living at an actual job.
Yeah, fuck this guy.
i hate people lime this. not because they are homeless or because they are addicted but because they create an impression with the general public that more of a percentage of veterans are losers than any other cross section of society. /*!**$&@^@*pos
Seems half the panhandlers on the off-ramps these days are “homeless vets”. Always fun to see them react when you offer them work rather than a hand full of cash.
Great. Just what I needed to start my day.
Fucktard.
Gee, who wouldn’t want a drug abusing and lying piece of shit working in their hotel kitchen?
Rangercook@hotmail.com is the bums e-mail address .
Just so you know, your getting sued. What kinda homo are you? Attacking a homeless person. Wow your quite the coward.
Your grammar is appalling.
You’re a disgusting, bigoted, homophobic bitch. How many people are you going to call “homo” for pointing out that this man is a liar? You clearly lack maturity.
Way to go Sam. Reviving a dead thread.
ZOMBIE ALERT….
As others have said…. “BRING IT…”
You. Will. FAIL.
Holy Dead Thread Batman!
You know, it’s nice that knobs like you revive these dusty posts from time to time. It helps us remember all the buffoonery of all these other knobs.
I thought this dude was making 50 bucks an hour parting unsuspecting citizens from their cash?
What I find the most puzzling about pan handlers in general is not the beggars themselves, but the dupes that actually give to these addicts or scam artist.
I don’t think that I have not seen some kind of expose done on pan handling by all the major news organizations. I have seen through out the years some kind of investigative reporting done on these leeches exposing them for what they are, yet you have a small majority that continually gives their hard earned money to them.
I have been in a few large cities where the beggars become just down right threatening if you don’t give to them and yes the majority have claimed military service to help win over the bleeding hearts.
I don’t give money to pan handlers either … well … I have made an exception a couple times for a guy that has a sign that reads:
Why Lie? I Just Need A Beer!!!
Best hobo sign I ever saw was on the foot bridge crossing the Vegas Strip between NYNY and MGM Grand: “Honestly, need money to pay for a whore.”
I have him 10 bucks.
I like the sign I bet you can’t hit me with a quarter… That’s at least earning your money there…
I saw a guy with that sign once, I almost went and got him a 6 pack!
That sign always gets a couple of bucks from me.
It’s tough on some people. Decent people reason that if someone is willing to belittle themselves and beg then they must truly be needy. Throw in God or a Bless You and many a decent person will give. Top it off with “Homeless Veteran” and, brother, you hit the case cow. It’s slime balls who know all of this and are more than willing to prey on the hearts and consciences of good people that deserve our wrath–and, whenever possible, a hearty F- You. I have been known to part with a few cents for an old drunk. He’s gotta look bad, smell bad, and cause people to cross the street to avoid him. THAT’S my kind of poor soul who gets my change.
Back when I was a Trucker, there were a few times I would give critters like him food instead of money, and they cussed at me for not handing them cash, thus my give-a-shitter reads “ZERO” every time I see someone like that!!
Came across a pan handler who was clean and sober, and wouldn’t take my cash. He asked for a bus ticket to go home to his sister, who was being treated for cancer.
I put him on a bus.
I encountered a lot of them when I was a cop. I always offered to buy them food or a cup of coffee. Never had any of them take me up on that offer though. I have given people bus fare a couple of times.
Fucking turd. Anyone in California sees this guy, I hope they administer the cunt punt of a lifetime.
I was recently taken to task by a couple of liberals because I refused to give money to any homeless person. One of those folks, a civilian posted a smarmy little sign that said, ‘One in four homeless men in the U.S. is a veteran.’ To which I replied, ‘Yeah, I’ve noticed they’re ALL veterans these days. When I ask them about their service, I don’t get a lot of straight answers.’
Bottom line: There are organizations to help real veterans who are in real trouble on our streets and it is to them I give my disposable income. I don’t give money to pan handling pieces of shit who were able to buy a uniform.
Did anyone read the source article? I just did. Wow. It starts off by describing his wrinkle free uniform and how his boots are “synched” up tight. I think the author went to school in Chicago, or might be a PHD. CAP LT. COL.
Anyway, from there the article spirals downward into the abyss of gullibility…with the occasional description of Jordan Taylor’s teeth. As “articles” go, it is probably the worst piece of shit I have read in recent memory (evidence blog notwithstanding).
75 to 100 bucks an hour!
I am moving to the left coast!
MCPO, you don’t have to move to the left coast. It happens here in the mid-west too. See below.
Master Chief…You took the words out of my mouth. I never made that much anytime in my career! Does anybody have a big piece of cardboard you aren’t using and a big black marker I could have?
I can loan you some, but I want a percentage of the take.
There’s a guy who does this same deal in a city about 30 miles from me here in Ohio. My son and I sat and watched him for about 2 hours a few months ago.
He sits in a grassy strip next to a stop light that lets people off of a strip mall with a Wal Mart (and several other named stores.) He holds a sign up that says, “Vietnam Vet, Need Money For Food. God Bless.”
We figure (at the rate of a dollar per donation) he raked in at least 300 dollars in two hours.
My son and I watched him long enough to follow him when he left. He folded up his sign, got up, and walked across the Wal Mart lot to a brand spanking new Dodge 1500 series 4 door, short-bed pickup truck, got in, and drove away.
We see him there every time we go over to that city to shop. If I wasn’t in a wheelchair I’d confront him. We did make a video, but we were so far away that an iPhone video is crap.
I used to live in the Rockville MD area and there was a group of panhandlers that worked Rockville Pike. I don’t remember if they were Vets or not but the local TV station interviewed them and did an investigation piece on them.
They’d panhandle out on the main highway, then at the end of the workday they’d walk some blocks to a new Cadillac Escalade and eventually they got one of the guys to fess up he made 60,000 to $70,000 a year panhandling.
Why do so many folks do it??…..BECAUSE THEY MAKE A SHITTON OF MONEY AND DON’T HAVE TO WORK!!
Something similar happened in Terre Haute, Indiana a few years back. Professional panhandlers would sit at the I70 exit ramp with their cardboard, “hungry veteran” signs. The state police investigated and found the group (IIRC there were 5 of them) were all driving brand new vehicles and were staying in suites at the Holiday Inn. They were all busted for fraud and eventually sent to prison.
I copy that 5 by 5 bro…. That happens in my town too…. The only difference is this POS was on the city bus braggin’ how in a years time he could get up to 1-2K a year off those, “Soft hearted saps who are so damned gullible”….. Made me wanna puke and throat punch this *@@hole….
Fucking phony asshole deserves a steel pipe on his fucking head…
VWP’s son.
Just out of curiosity, how did he obtain the social security number for the FOIA request? I’m only asking because it doesn’t seem too smart of him to provide it himself if he knows he’s a phony. But then again, these guys aren’t known for being rocket scientists.
$150 – $300 every 2-3 hours? The dude is making a helluva lot more than me working 8 hours a day for the Fed. I need to get me a Panhandling degree.
No kidding…going to go ahead and get myself some cardboard, pull out the old BDU’s and sit outside a train station somewhere.
150-300 every few hours? That would be upwards of 600 plus on a short day. Just a few good days in town and I could take the month off, all cash, no taxes….
How come all these guys are wearing BDU’s? Aren’t there any homeless Navy vet posers rocking the dungarees out there?
Hey, it’s LTC Bateman! (Hey, he said, he was coming home… what, it’s not?! But this guy sounds so much like him!)
These panhandlers are getting so lazy. Time was you could expect a good or entertaining story out of them. These days it’s just I’m a vet, gimme! This morning a man told me he needed money because he forgot to renew his EBT card and that he was a Viet Nam vet. I asked which unit. He replied, he wasn’t actually in Viet Nam, no, he said he went from Camp Pendleton to (his words) Tehran AFB, Spain. He went on to say it was a long story and that I didn’t want to hear it; that part he did get right.
Society’s to blame; we give without insisting panhandlers research their roles, whether it’s Torrejon AB or claiming the correct service branch. Anything less than true lies must be rejected out of hand.
I never give panhandlers money- not the “homeless vets”, anyways. I give them the VA HomeFront number, instead. They can do a lot more for the vet than my $1 can, and if they aren’t a vet then they don’t deserve my money anyways for lying.
Number is”
1-877-4AID-VET.
They have all kinds of programs for homeless/unemployed vets. if they really want help, it’s only a phone call away.
Phildo as a young man.
After receiving several e-mails about this Jordan turd, the blog printed a retraction. The writer was actually pretty humble and thankful to all who had exposed this clown.
http://hooliganstreetjournal.tumblr.com/post/87958485659/jordan-taylor
Panhandling is a ottage industry around here ( So Cali). The weather is so that most times of the year the bums can get by with very little worries about inclimate weather.
To top that off the liberal cockmongers would scream bloody murder if any type of vagrancy statutes were bought up.
In downtown San Diego you have bums that are constantly around the Court House, and they congregate in herds in certain areas of downtown. They fall into two categories, with usally a bit of cross over. Bat-shit crazy and Subtance abusers.
When I am feeling generous I will give them a burger, a bottle of water or a coffee.
When I worked in the shipyard there were a few guys who had been down that path. The only thing that stopped them was jail time and work programs. Even then some didn’t make it.
There was a radio talk show host that had a homeless advocate come on the air once and he said the absolute WORST thing you could do for a homeless person was give them money.
He had once did a “field research” on what being homeless was like in San Diego. It was supposed to be for only 3 days, but he spent a month doing it.
He hung out in the hillcreat section of the city and said he was broinging in 100-150 a day. This was about 12 years ago. The homeless had a system down pat. In the morning they would go get breakfast at a shelter and dinner in the evening. They could shower and get clean clothes a few times a week. Sometimes they would even have Rummage sales” with the clothing ad other items they were donated.
Where did the money go they collected? Meth, crack, pot, Alcohol and homeless prostitutes ( yeck).
The homeless advocate also said his group would often approach homeless and offer them a spot in a long term shelter in a program that would help them beat their addiction and get off the street. Most the time the bum would tell them no.
Homeless Prostitute: Chevyliar.
97% of people I meet, who claim SF, Ranger, SEAL,Force Recon etc. are phonies. 99% of the “homeless vet” claims, I find to be phonies as well.
Phonies are EVERYWHERE and I am not suffering from paranoia.
Alot of people on this guys hooligan blog read this and were mildly entertained or heartfelt. Motherfucker was in from 2004 to 12 and does not have ACUs?
I guarantee this clown is raking in that kind of dough taking manshots in his targethole.
Disgusting.
No shit, went to kindergarten with this douchenozzle. 30 years later, he’s recounting his army time with me, and telling me I’m going to hell for doing the “devil’s work”. Shocked but unsuprised to see him on here.
This douche nozzle still has a Gofundme page up, and has expanded his bull shit even more. Some assclown was just posting a link to it on WWP’s facebook page.
It’s the same clown Sam who is threatening to sue everyone. Who I am going to guess is really our pal Jordan.
Reported to gofundme as fraudulent.
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On Gofundme he posted what purports to be his DD214. If genuine, it reveals that he was discharged as a PFC before he completed his first enlistment (less than 3 years of service). It also shows that he has 1 year and 2 months of foreign service, all in Korea. He was a food service specialist. If the guy is chronically homeless and unemployed, it appears that his service has nothing to do with it. Rather, the reason for his homelessness and unemployment may be the same reason that his service was cut short.
For what it’s worth I believe the guy served. The Story he tells is credible. He was in Korea and the unit got sent to Iraq. He listed his unit, commanders, etc.
Looks like he got tossed, from the looks of him it was probably weight/PT.
I will grudgingly give him credit for not trying to embelish his service, however brief and unremarkable it was. He signed up, he deployed and he wasnt cut out for him.
It looks like him and some scumbag friends are trying to milk it.
Hes not a poser but he is a fucking loser.