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Cost of replacement when they get picked up for vagrancy? |
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Twitching eyelids are not a may-be but a must-have to make them realistic. Also need some kind of pseudo-suppressed breathing. |
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It's baked, actually. In my country, one of the charity organisations put out a little girl mannequin/statue holding a coin box. (It's probably a homeless children or handicapped children organisation.) And it worked quite well, and took in more donations than before. |
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[Aerythes], is there a system of electronical mannequins programmed to blink their eyes.. your country? Maybe they even raise their hands when someone comes to them?.. ^__^ It's fun. |
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Real homeless people would take the buckets. |
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There are organised crime groups who drop off real people at strategic places. Complete with drugged kids, painted on sores, and missing limbs. - |
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[Inyuki], nope, no blinking or raising hands. It's just a cute lil girl statue. I think, if the statue is made too real-looking, complete with movements, it might turned out scarey instead of cute. :) |
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As it is, an image of a needy lil girl is enough to persuade people (even cynical stone-hearted ones like me ^_^; ) to donate some spare change. |
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I'm not sure if he's still there, but there used to be a dog that would hang out in Seattle Center begging for money. He was a very well trained dog since he would sit politely next to his money collection bucket wearing a banadana and dark glasses. I assume the owner was hanging out nearby and would occasionally reward the dog, but I didn't stay around long enough to find out. |
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