The man may be mentally ill, that's why he's just sitting there not actively panhandling.
It's sad. You can't tell the fakers from the truly needy. A co-worker gave a woman and her children some money as they stood near a bus-stop so they could have money to get home.
The next week, the woman was sitting next to my co-worker friend at the manicurist shop.
An ex-boyfriend gave $20 to a guy begging for money. HIs wife and their broken down car was sitting right there and they needed to gather enough money to make repairs so he could make his new job in Little town, USA.
Two weeks later, my ex-boyfriend ran across the same guy begging money and telling the same story at a gas station.
My ex only gave him $10 this time. When I asked why, he replied that he thought the guy was a good actor and he should reward performance artists.
A woman approached me at a drive through ATM. Very dangerous thing to do, begging money for her and her infant to take a taxi across town because it was so hot (Texas has brutally hot summers). I could see the bundle in her arms, but no face. I had a feeling it wasn't an infant, just a bunch of rags or a doll at best. I didn't give her anything.