NEWPORT BEACH, California - Brian "Bino" McMann climbs into his sleeping bag next to a dumpster behind the Spaghetti Bender restaurant on West Coast Highway. It's just after midnight as Friday turns into Christmas Eve. His bedtime companion is Cookie...looks like the tiny mutt from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas." Soon, after a long day of begging for money from their rusty beach cruiser that pulled a creaky baby jogger stuffed with aluminum cans and other items, McMann and Cookie are asleep. Twelve hours earlier, at the start of their coastal journey in Dana Point, McMann's mouth went dry.... "I'm scared to death." After all, he's not used to living on the street [but is pretending to to see what it's like]. McMann, 50, is a married, well-paid homeowner in Huntington Beach who owns two rental properties (soon to be three). MoreMan fakes being homeless to help poor
Greg Hardesty (The Orange County Register, Dec. 26, 2011)
NEWPORT BEACH, California - Brian "Bino" McMann climbs into his sleeping bag next to a dumpster behind the Spaghetti Bender restaurant on West Coast Highway. It's just after midnight as Friday turns into Christmas Eve. His bedtime companion is Cookie...looks like the tiny mutt from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas." Soon, after a long day of begging for money from their rusty beach cruiser that pulled a creaky baby jogger stuffed with aluminum cans and other items, McMann and Cookie are asleep. Twelve hours earlier, at the start of their coastal journey in Dana Point, McMann's mouth went dry.... "I'm scared to death." After all, he's not used to living on the street [but is pretending to to see what it's like]. McMann, 50, is a married, well-paid homeowner in Huntington Beach who owns two rental properties (soon to be three). More
NEWPORT BEACH, California - Brian "Bino" McMann climbs into his sleeping bag next to a dumpster behind the Spaghetti Bender restaurant on West Coast Highway. It's just after midnight as Friday turns into Christmas Eve. His bedtime companion is Cookie...looks like the tiny mutt from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas." Soon, after a long day of begging for money from their rusty beach cruiser that pulled a creaky baby jogger stuffed with aluminum cans and other items, McMann and Cookie are asleep. Twelve hours earlier, at the start of their coastal journey in Dana Point, McMann's mouth went dry.... "I'm scared to death." After all, he's not used to living on the street [but is pretending to to see what it's like]. McMann, 50, is a married, well-paid homeowner in Huntington Beach who owns two rental properties (soon to be three). More