[jimmydean]

(CBS) The Skinny is Joel Roberts' take on the top news of the day and the best of the Internet.

Feeding the homeless. Now there's an uncontroversial topic you'd think everyone could agree on. Right?

Guess again.

According to USA Today, several cities around the country are cracking down on charities that provide meals to the poor.

Orlando, Las Vegas, Dallas and Wilmington, N.C., are among the municipalities that have adopted rules restricting food distribution to certain parts of town, forcing charities to get permits or limiting the number of free meals they can provide.

The restrictions have prompted challenges and protests. In Las Vegas, a federal judge blocked a law banning food giveaways in city parks. In Dallas, two ministries have sued the city, arguing that the limits are a violation of religious freedom.

City officials defend their actions, saying they were prompted by complaints about crime and food safety.

"A lot of the merchants said, 'We feel uncomfortable when you have all these homeless being fed downtown when we're trying to attract tourists,' " Dewey Harris, the director of Wilmington's Community Services Department, said.

Homeless advocates say the cities just want to make things tougher on the homeless so they'll go elsewhere.

"They think that by not feeding people, it will make the homeless people leave," Michael Stoops of the National Coalition for the Homeless said.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Give it a few months...by that time the upper echelon neighborhoods will start to smell the dead, rotting corpses from downtown...

 

[MikeD]

If you feed them, they lose their natural fear of the rich.

I store all my food in ABS plastic "homeless barrels" slung over high wires and lightposts far from my residence. You can see them gathering beneath, sniffing the air and trying to reach them, but the can't get to the food. Maintains the natural order.

 

[Zark]

If you feed them, they lose their natural fear of the rich.

I store all my food in ABS plastic "homeless barrels" slung over high wires and lightposts far from my residence. You can see them gathering beneath, sniffing the air and trying to reach them, but the can't get to the food. Maintains the natural order.

Thanks for the new sig, classic!

 

[MikeD]

Thanks for the new sig, classic!

Still not as funny as Pat Benetar. I really have no recollection of what I said to/about that girl, only that it involved something about a plastic coat hanger...but I recall the laughter...ah, yes...the laughter.

Oh, for the days of acutal riding and having fun.

 

[LordOpie]

Fvcking homeless are always stealing my pickinic baskets!

 

[$tinkle]

feeding the homeless.

but the article sez: "According to USA Today, several cities around the country are cracking down on charities that provide meals to the poor."

not all poor are homeless, and not all homeless are poor. but all homeless have some degree of mental illness. isn't it more imperative they be treated, to include round-the-clock observation? besides, the more they are fed, the more likely you are to find poop in the tracks of dept store escalators and library urinals.

also this: "A lot of the merchants said, 'We feel uncomfortable when you have all these homeless being fed downtown when we're trying to attract tourists,' "

i forget: are you allowed to use black powder on tourists, or are they bow only?

 

[MikeD]

i forget: are you allowed to use black powder on tourists, or are they bow only?

Trapping is actually preferred, although considered barbaric. But it's just too easy.

 

[Westy]

On my last trip to Chicago I found it quite representative of the US that most of the homeless I saw were overweight.

 

[$tinkle]

On my last trip to Chicago I found it quite representative of the US that most of the homeless I saw were overweight.

maybe pork & beans should only be available for those who have a bmi of <20, and the rest get indian food.

either way, they shouldn't get food that smells better than them.

 

[MikeD]

maybe pork & beans should only be available for those who have a bmi of <20, and the rest get indian food.
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I could get pretty damned fat on naan and paneer and coconut-milk pistachio curries.

It's the heat and dysentery that keeps the pounds off, not the food...

 

[jimmydean]

I could get pretty damned fat on naan and paneer and coconut-milk pistachio curries.

It's the heat and dysentery that keeps the pounds off, not the food...

So all the homeless should move to AZ and be given dysentery. Problem solved.

 

[LordOpie]

So all the homeless should move to AZ and be given dysentery. Problem solved.

that's a pretty sh1tty solution.

 

[$tinkle]

how do they get fat w/out teeth - chicken fried steak in a blender?

 

[moff_quigley]

that's a pretty sh1tty solution.

BWAHAHAHAHA!