Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
Last Updated : 2023-12-08 08:43:00
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 Today's Paper
The Central Bus Stand in Pettah is a crowded and busy place at any given time. In addition to passengers are waiting for buses, there are beggars operating in large numbers here. A beggar who often gets into buses in the evenings is a familiar sight to most passengers because he is dumb and acts out using his fingers to seek money for his meals.
A passenger who frequently visits Colombo was recently shocked when he saw a beggar get into his bus on a pair of crutches. This passenger identified the beggar as the dumb man and assumed he must have met with accident forcing him to use crutches. He took out a 20-rupee note sympathizing with the guy but just then the dumb beggar began to talk. “Look at what happened to me…” he started pleading with the gullible passengers. The bewildered passenger put back the 20-rupee note back into his pocket. (Batepola Wijayasiri – Dunagaha)
Beggar Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:58 PM
I am the bugger who acted as that beggar. I was doing research on how to beg and what happens when the people are given a true shock. Thanks for giving me publicity.
SAM Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:46 AM
He must be forgetting and remembering things during needed times like important people.
Jigsaw Jakson Sunday, 03 February 2019 06:01 PM
The moral of a famous story of the "frost bitten bird lying in a pile of warm cow excreta" comes to mind, keep your "moth shut".
Jigsaw Jakson Sunday, 03 February 2019 06:02 PM
The moral of a famous story of the "frost bitten bird lying in a pile of warm cow excreta" comes to mind, keep your "mouth shut".
Add comment
Comments will be edited (grammar, spelling and slang) and authorized at the discretion of Daily Mirror online. The website also has the right not to publish selected comments.
Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
At least one hundred thousand electricity consumers in Sri Lanka have been le
The Online Safety Bill gazetted on September 18 and tabled in Parliament by P
A cartoon of a politician removing the eyes off the common man caught the att
Eleven deaths within 36 hours. That is the alarming rate at which Sri Lanka
07 Dec 2023
07 Dec 2023
07 Dec 2023