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yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be a huge organized crime syndicates

unplural

I don't deny that there's a possibility of a central location tho for some reason I always assumed it was just some kids who wanted to make pocket money

No, dude.

what about the breakdancing kids

are they also working for the mob

That old secret platform at the edge of Grand Central that was built for FDR? Filled with peanut M&Ms.

Haha

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5213468&page=1

One of the groups I investigated gave the children 40 cents for each $2.50 candy they sold. The bars wholesaled for 35 cents, so the crew leaders made a tasty profit.

They sell sweets, but bite in deep enough and you will taste the truth.

REAL NEW YORKERS DONT BUY CANDY FROM KIDS MWA AH AHA AH

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Breakdancing kids IDK -- they seem much more ragtag and there's nothing standardized that I notice.

the mob copyrights certain breakdancing moves, such as the flip the hat from your shoe onto your head

the mob also runs a ring of overly earnest hippieish 20-somethings with belt-clip amps covering dylan

one time (in the bay area) I heard 3 different buskers do 'knocking on heavens door' in one day

I think people like that one cause you don't have to remember very many lyrics, also cause if you want to 'take it to the next level' you can knock on your guitar when you say 'knock knock knocking'

favorite subway denizen is this african preacher with a long spiel about the perils of hell should one not accept jesus christ as one's lord and savior. he has fantastic intonation.

you WILL go to hell

part of the jesus mob, i guess

one time i saw this crazy subway preacher mid sermon get all offend and say 'you all dont listen to me anyway fine then im just not gonna share the lords word w/you anymore' and sit down in a huff as if we were gonna feel bad and ask him keep preaching again, it was v funny

hahaha

calling him favorite seems cruel but i'll never forget the legless amputee beggar pushing himself thru subway car singing "amazing grace" and then abruptly seguing into "do ya think i'm sexy." dude could actually sing too.

thinking about the candy-bar kids makes me wonder: do yo guys ever buy books etc from street vendors

a man singing sam cooke's "a change is going to come" on the train yesterday made me shed actual tears.

ya but it's kinda cynical for him to use 'change' like that

sometimes I'll hear people singing on the subway and think "he/she learned to sing in church" and this always chokes me up

theres a guy on the a/c line sometimes who sells dvds and hes got great patter, "forecast outside: miserable. forecast inside: $3 dvds" or something

haha there are a lot of change-is-gonna-come singers groups on the trains lately. I guess word is out about it making white people choke up.

one of my favorite subway dudes was the metrocard holder dude: "It's the NEW metrocard holder. Slides in, slides out, only a dollar."

my favorite ever candy seller spiel (an older guy, not the not-selling-for-no-basketball-team kids) was somthing like, "God told me not to rob, steal, or sell drugs. God told me sell peanut M&Ms. He said, 'White people love peanut M&Ms. And they got money.' So far he's been right."

lol

funny cause god told me they love weed

ppl haven't openly sold weed on the subway since Dinkins days, man, u kidz shoulda been here then

^^last car on the train amirite

bet it was beat

fyi if you're in asia all the panhandlers have handlers

no reason to think NYC would be different! ^_^

I don't really care though if you choose to sell candy on a train that's fine I'll buy your peanunt M&Ms

dunno dayo if you bite in deep enough and you will taste the truth

er minus 'and'

I guess the kids are probably making the equivalent of after-payroll-tax minimum wage and it's probably more fun than mcdonalds, but

I mean on one hand it's relative to their other options, but on the other hand it's the same SYSTEM that MAKES those welch's fruit snacks that leaves them with no options

yeah those welch's fruit snacks, who the hell is gonna buy that? that's really what I don't get about this scheme

if this were a well oiled machine they would be selling cheetos instead

they must be like the absolute cheapest thing you can get in bulk

guys which is the better airport to fly into: laguardia or jfk? convenience-wise

maybe the syndicate bought a single box of those at the start of the scheme and they've just been trying to get rid of them for years

I dunno why you would be grudging these kids just because they're organized. maybe because this is AMERICA where we SHOULDN'T GIVE HANDOUTS because everybody must WORK for their LIVELIHOOD

staying in brooklyn

jfk

awes, thanks

I mean CONGRATULATIONS for seeing the BIG PICTURE and having CLEAR EYES about NOT GETTING SWINDLED

where in brooklyn -- lga might be better if you're in wburg or greenpoint