A young pregnant mother with a little boy on a street in Bonita in San Diego, holding up a sign that says, 'Please help.' It's a heartbreaking scene that most people would be glad to hand out a bit of cash to help a struggling family.
Unfortunately, this particular scene unfolded to be some sort of scam when the young mother, after getting fistloads of cash from generous passers-by, was picked up by her boyfriend in nothing less than a new Mercedes Benz. Witnesses say the couple counted the money she collected from begging with her son as they drove off - and they didn't even put the little boy in a car seat.
The story doesn't end there because Melissa Smith, who uploaded a video of the panhandler online, saw the woman a few minutes later begging at a different location, and also receive a lot of money from sympathetic pedestrians.
