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I am sure you get as much sex as a guy wearing three coats in the hot summer does, then again he prolly still has a hygiene edge..

actually, for the majority of the HOMELESS, it is "schizophrenic" and "off their meds"

Because libs see being free to shit on streets, and sleep on grates, as inherent rights, and better than being cared for by professionals.

Shady secret of the Shaky Lady (Beggar rakes in the cash, then heads home in a Lumina)
Toronto Sun ^ | By MIKE STROBEL

She wears a shabby red jacket. Her hair is grey and scraggly under a faded purple kerchief. A garbage bag covers her legs. People throw money on it.

Lots of people. Sometimes they line up.

"She got here about 11," says Const. Paul Stone, 50, on traffic duty at a construction site. "She started shaking as soon as she sat down. She's just rakin' it in now."

At Harvey's across the street, photographer Alex Urosevic and I do some figuring.

Thirty people in 15 minutes, Alex counts. Fifty in the time it takes me to eat a veggie burger and sip a coffee.

So, be very conservative and say 50 kind strangers an hour, a toonie each, five hours a day, five days a week.

That's $2,500 a week. Net. I mean, what's the overhead? How much do blue thermal pants and a garbage bag cost?

Several people in the area have told me she usually has two burly men keeping watch over her. Some think they're her sons.

If they're around, I can't spot them in the throngs.

"Please help me. I'm sick and poor. I will pray for you," says the cardboard sign around her neck.

I toss in a toonie. She gives me a toothless grin and croaks. The shaking is remarkable. How could you say no?

Shopkeepers and security staff say she has haunted Bloor between Yonge and Bay for at least a year.

"I was struck by her wretched appearance," says Agnes McKenna, 74, who lives nearby.

"I wondered, how could anybody be so heartless as to dump her on the street?

"A couple of weeks ago, coming home from a meeting, I see this woman suddenly get up, spry as a chicken. Her face becomes alive, she packs up her buggy and off she goes.

"Makes you feel like a fool, to be taken like that."

Toronto Police Const. Andrew Hassall once saw a woman so torn up about the Shaky Lady she bought her a $200 coat at The Bay. The beggar croaked her thanks, waited for the woman to leave, then threw out the coat. Hassall couldn't persuade the kind woman she'd been had.

The Shaky Lady is "the prima donna of this sort of thing," says Hassall. "She's been a thorn in our sides for years."

But the cops are stuck. Panhandling is legal.

For a while, I hide by the construction site behind the Shaky Lady. They are laying fibre-optic cable.

I can see each person approach the woman.

I see horror, pity. I see $10 bills, a few 20s. She tucks them under the bag. I think our income estimate is low.

At 4:30 p.m. she gets up, chucks the sisters' chicken fingers in the garbage and heads west on Bloor. There is no shaking. She moves faster and faster.

... I round the corner. A car, a Chevy Lumina, speeds in reverse.

A man drives, another sits in the back. The Shaky Lady, kerchief off, crouches in the passenger seat.

Caught without cover, I give chase. I can't read the plate. Alex is an alley away, trying to cut them off.

But the Lumina pulls out on Balmuto St., by the Uptown Theatre, then west on Bloor.

By the time I hail a cab and yell "follow that Lumina," it's gone.

Who knows where?

But I'm guessing it's not to a shelter for the homeless.

'Shaky Lady' panhandler disputes media report

Updated Tue. Mar. 12 2002 3:48 PM ET

CTV News Staff

An elderly Toronto panhandler known as the "Shaky Lady" held a press conference Monday at her Bay St. lawyer's office to dispute a media report alleging she rakes in thousands of dollars a week and lives in a comfortable apartment with her family.

The Toronto Sun reported last week that Margita Bangova, who claims to tremble because of a medical condition, collects about $2,500 a week by begging on a downtown street corner.

Bangova spoke through an interpreter at the press conference.

"She's saying that because she really suffers that when she was sitting on the street it was not comfortable and agreeable. Sometimes there was snow, wet, and so on. It was not a pleasure for her...sitting," the interpreter said.

Bangova normally wears ragged clothes and holds a sign reading "Please help me. I am poor. I will pray for you," while begging at the corner of Bloor and Yonge.

Speaking through her lawyer, Leonard Hochberg, Bangova said she panhandles to supplement her disability pension of $900 a month.

"It was reported that she made approximately $1,000 a day and that's really a wild exaggeration. She was making about $40 or $50 a day," said Hochberg.

But, a Sun writer said he recently watched her take in at least $500 in five hours and that Bangova's shaking quickly disappeared as she walked briskly to a waiting car at the end of the day.

Bangova lives with her son and his three children in a one-bedroom apartment with leather furniture, a big screen TV, and computer, according to media reports.

The Sun reported that Bangova hired Hochberg last summer to help her with a refugee claim.

Bangova is originally from Slovakia and was seen in a 1997 Czech documentary encouraging fellow Gypsies to follow her to Toronto, touting Canada as some sort of promised land.

After the film aired, hundreds of Gypsies from the Czech Republic reportedly swamped airlines trying to get tickets to Canada.

The Sun coverage has evoked a bitter backlash in Toronto. But, Hochberg said people were being too hard on his client and that she doesn't deserve it.

Hochberg refused to say who was paying his fees.

Bangova, who abandoned her corner when the story emerged, reportedly hasn't decided whether to return to panhandling.