The M&M Scam
A 13 year old kid came onto the E train and said the following:
Kid: Hi my name is *inaudible* I am raising money for my baseball team by selling these M&Ms.
-Train shakes a little as he tightens his bookbag
Kid: This money does not go into my pocket, I sell this for my team to raise money. Thank you very much.
The kid is well dressed, does look athletic enough to be on a baseball team and is walking through calmly. I see him collect a single dollar bill and think who the idiot was that gave this kid money.
This kid is not alone, there are hundreds like him hovering around public transportation hubs around the city. It makes me think that the beggar mafia is in town and these kids are some of the pawns. Either that or it’s individual kids picking up this wave of entrepreneurship on their own. Whatever the case, those motherfuckers aren’t going to sell me M&Ms by lying.
If they told me the truth, I’d definitely think about it.
they only have peanut m&m’s anyway
Indeed they do, maybe they’re selling rotten peanut M&M’s. Those kids are the shadiest individual group to come out of NYC since . . . I don’t know - these mofos are shady.
That’s funny. The ones on my line go out of their way to let you know that they are NOT selling for the basketball team, but to keep themselves off the street, etc. etc. Would you be more inclined to buy from my guys who are upfront about it?
Upfront like, “yeah, we use this money to get paid and then we have a group of mafia bosses to whom this money goes. We don’t go to school, we can’t play basketball that well, all we do is hustle, because you know, hustling is street and we are street and so yeah.”
Then I’d report them to the police.
Most of the ones I see (on the A/C) tell you they’re not selling for their team, but to have money in their pocket.
Hey, I actually used to do this in elementary school out in he suburbs as a fundraiser for my little league team. Are you guys sure these kids are really scumbags?