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Michigan Honda Dealership Calls Out Panhandler, Sign Goes Viral

Jer Staes Jer Staes Detroit, MI

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A car dealership in Brighton has heads turning in traditonal and social media around town thanks to a provocative sign that calls out a local panhandler.

Brighton Honda is at 8294 Grand River, near a busy intersection and close to the ramp for I-96.

The sign reads:

“Please do not give anything to this panhandler. We offered him a fulltime job at $10.00/HR. He said: ‘I make more a day than any of you’ and he did not want a job.”

The post below, by Morgan Rae Holt, has been shared more than 4,800 times.

UPDATE, 4:30 p.m.: According to WXYZ, the panhandler and his son have been arrested for disorderly conduct and vagrancy. The son apparently was “impeding traffic” and intoxicated.