This heart-rending story and photo is taken from http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080424_1.htm
##Each morning, the grandpas and the grandmas showed up at dawn to queue up for copies of the free newspapers. Sometimes, they beg passer-by's to procure copies for them. On the day before yesterday, our reporter went to several distribution points to check. Out of ten copies, three would fall into the hands of this army of newspaper collectors.
According to one grandma, "Some free newspapers can be had without entering the MTR system. Sometimes, there are no workers watching the newspapers and I can take as many as I want." Many of these grandpas and grandmas took a copy, and then went to the end of the queue to line up again for another copy. They did so repeatedly until all the newspapers have been distributed.

Meanwhile, at the Olympic MTR station, another group of grandpas and grandmas were imploring passengers to bring the free newspapers to them. "Brother, can you help by bringing me some free newspapers from over there?" Whenever a passenger was about to come out, the grandpas and grandmas would beseech him. Most passengers are sympathetic to these old folks, and they turn around and fetch copies of the free newspapers on the stand inside the station.

The grandpas and grandmas will also check the public housing estates and private malls to look for undistributed free newspapers. They even take the free English-language newspapers there. Anyway, they are not going to pass on any opportunity to seize free newspapers.

Over two days of observation at Olympic Station, the reporter saw that the grandma named Ah Mui was the hardest working among all the grandpas and grandmas present. She stood in line to wait for the free newspapers, she begged passengers to bring her copies and she even checked the garbage bins for free newspapers. Since she does not have the physical strength to carry the load, she uses a pushcart. By working non-stop, she gets the biggest number of free newspapers.

At 830am, most of the free newspapers have been distributed. At the recycling center, the worker weighed her load and found that it weighted more than 20 kilograms. At HKD 0.13 per kilogram, Ah Mui earned more than HKD 20 on this day (at an hourly wage of HKD 10). She smiled and said: "I don't make a lot of money. I worked hard and I only got twenty something dollars. It is enough for a breakfast meal. I'll treat this like a birthday present."
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