Hasta La Gadget!

When Adam, a 13-year-old Swedish boy, was assigned to create a street-art project, he decided to use it as an opportunity to devise a social experiment. The innovative seventh grader built a “beggar” out of supplies he had around the house, placed him on a number of street corners in Gothenburg and waited to see how passersby would react, he told The Huffington Post.

Most people just walked by and “tried hard not to look at the beggar,” Adam said in his email. After a few hours, the homeless man had earned a little more than $1 and Adam gave the money away to an actual person without shelter.

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