Good samaritan gang.

This guy was panhandling at the train stop, and was $4 short for a hostel. I told him, when he asked me, that I had nothing to give him.

Just then this family with seven people and two strollers surrounded him and asked him his story be told them whatever it was. They questioned him on his finances and his "plan" for fixing his situation. He was pretty upset at this point, but instead of anger it was embarrassment. I almost pitied him for the third degree this affluent family was giving him.

Satisfied with his answers, the patriarch of the family then pulled out a business card and $3 for bus fare, and told him he ran a hostel in SE and to take his card and get a night sleep, but he had to promise to start working on his plan tomorrow.
They then gathered up the family and roamed off as the guy folded up his sign and headed towards the bus stop.