BumMail

Okay, I'm sure there should be a fabulous solution to homelessness by now, but there's not -- at least not that I'm aware of. Sometimes when I walk down certain streets, I'm hit up for change from several different people, all within the same block -- i simply don't have enough change to go around, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Well, bums should have an alternative -- a second line of fire -- specifically, i'm thinking they could collect email addresses (and visible demographic information) which they can turn around and sell to an email aggregating company -- there's value in having the email address of "a female who is about x years old who lives in x area and appears to make a good amount of money..." etc. Now instead of just stopping at "spare any change?", they can proceed to "spare any change or your email address?"

Of course, there's plenty of room for fraud (people making up email addresses and/or bums making up people to put on a list) so they should probably be paid on a pay per performance basis -- a sizable bounty for a sale or qualified lead. Takes guerilla marketing to a new level...