Feeding Homeless people BANNED: Would YOU break this LAW??!!

I'd like to feed some sense back into this American government!

Love the avatar, btw :-)

Thank you bluerepublican and remember:

For Liberty :-)

I thought this was a joke. Completely ridiculous and insane rules.

Par the course for the modern United $tate$. Land of the sheep and home of the $lave.

This stuff almost makes me cry. Better be angry and do active campaigning though.

It is a catch 22. You want to help by giving them food. I have had them turn down the food and want money. So I give to organizations that have shelters that feed the homeless.

I've been fortunate enough to never have to worry about money. I have on quite a few occasions handed homeless people money, Several years ago, I gave these two homeless kids $400. I had noticed them before and felt terrible I didn't help them out before. The kids were in their late teens and the young girl was pregnant AND homeless. I was so surprised to see them again, I pulled over and walked towards them. They weren't asking for help or money but I knew what was going on. The young man refused at first being too proud, but I assured them it was ok to receive help from others. This was back in 2009. About 2 months after I first saw this couple, I received a phone call at my office from this young man willing to work for me doing ANYTHING for $5 an hour! He had no car, so I agreed to meet with him. after a wonderful meeting with both him and his wife-to-be for lunch, I agreed to hire both of them. I started them out each at $13 an hour knowing they really needed the money. After six months of working for me, I soon realized that these two had actually met in college and BOTH had recently graduated. they now are full time employees and are together making over $74,000 a year! I am so grateful that I came across this wonderful couple...........never judge a person whom appears to be down and out, you never know these days if it could be one of us walking those streets!

WOW. Great story!

Yes. What a ridiculous law. They act like people are "feeding the bears" or something.

At every available opportunity

ABSO-FREAK'N-LUTELY!

Yes I would. Especially with the fact that doing so falls under the "Good Samaritan Law" that Washington State adopted not too long ago. So if another, later law contradicts it, cops are S.O.L. :)) ...because it was never rescinded.

Let's face it..you might not even care bout them...but if aproached on the right day..you'll help out. it's hard to think that you've never given any assistance to the homeless..no matter what it is..and in this economy..there are some of us that will face living on the strets if we loose our jobs..or something just knocks us off our soapbox.

probably in the same states that give lemonade stands a hard time

I would feed appropriate food and it would be healthy/up to date, etc...

Especially if there's a kid as well.

While I don't encourage riding other people's charity as your method of survival, it's ridiculous that a small act of charity could land you behind bars.

That is a ridiculous law!

as to being homeless myself, i understand a lot more on this now. I mean you have different type of homeless people, but you do have those, that do not get food. And it is important to feed people no matter what. I think it is ridicilous that they are doing this. But you know why? Because they want money even from the homeless.
Im at a homeless shelter, and they keep hounding us to eat more because they get more donations. Have to do all of this stuff, just for money to be kept in the place and what not. Not really complaining but showing that they do make money off the homeless as well. Just sad though.

It's like when you feed wild animals...keep feeding them and they'll keep coming back....ok, that was horrible, and just a joke...but I couldn't resist XD

Honestly though, I care more about helping homeless animals than homeless people. Sorry, but that's just the truth. I know there are some people on the streets who truly struggled to stay off of them, but then there are lazy people....plus, there are people who are NOT homeless who will pose as homeless people and panhandle for extra spending money. Also have heard stories of people being later harassed by homeless people they have given money to. So I just don't. I would give them business cards and other job info though. I know a co-worker of mine once gave a homeless person a card with the info for the company we work for. I'm sure if he applied he could have gotten the job. They don't really drug test for anything or expect a lot of experience so....

Here's another stupid law - if someone is living under a bridge in unsanitary conditions, eating out of garbage cans what food they can find - what does it matter if the food I give them is FDA approved? No one likes to see people that are homeless but it's the same morons who make laws like this that are keeping people jobless. Wake up America!

In a heartbeat.

In a heart beat.

Undecided....It depends..on the situation. I won't go to jail for just anyone. But this is wrong in every sense of the word!
Oh so let's see...it's going to spread like wild fire that anyone feeding the homeless is going to get arrested? Ok, well you know what else is going to spread like wild fire? Dead bodies showing up more often.

Yes, I would. I'd probably work to get around it, like give the homeless person a McDonald's gift certificate or the like, which they couldn't do diddly about. I don't see how they can ban gifts, period. Giving a person food is a gift.

Good idea!

There's always a way to get around government stupidity, but I have no problem with civil disobedience in this case.

This is the result of the cancer of Liberal political correctness---or simply LIBERAL INSANITY. Welcome to their insane world.

Undecided my arse, where is the problem with feeding them. what you want to be like india and have the homeless dying of starvation on your streets. YOU GO GUYS. THATS THE AMERICAN SPIRIT NOW, ISNT IT. dont spend your money to help anyone out.. and you lot want to get on to us about us not wanting the illegal boatpeople. we at least give those farkers food and housing.

I am a sucker...:) and I have had some real experiences helping the needy and the greedy,but over the years I have gotten very cautious with who I help. I won't give money anymore, only food (unless God layed it on my heart to do it differently). Some really are hungry and downright needy,but the majority of them are chitbums looking for a handout for drugs etc...I don't smoke and I don't drink and I don't do drugs and I am not paying for somebody else to do all these things.

Charity is our own perogative... what the thought police are doing is attempting more governmental dependence

What SHE said!!

CHARITIES are objecting to individuals feeding the homeless? You need a permit to give a guy a chicken? It's a world gone mad.

Seems like these laws protect the few instead of the many.