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Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon [W:69]

Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

I worked for KFC when I was 14. We threw buckets of chicken away ever night at closing. The homeless shelter was a couple blocks away. I asked the manager if we could give the food to the homeless. He said absolutely not. I would be immediately fired if that chicken went anywhere but the dumpster. I asked if I could take it home and he said absolutely not. The liability is too high. I said I could buy that chicken 2 minutes before closing but after closing that chicken had to be thrown away. That is the rules. I used to put the bucket in a garbage bag and set it behind the dumpster and take it home when I left a few minutes after closing. I got caught and was fired.

Could you imagine how many homeless people could be fed perfectly good food thrown away every evening by restaurants and fast food places across this country. We are not even trying to help the homeless as a people. We are pathetic at best.

Yes, but he is 100% correct about the liability. Many restaurants resorted to locking the dumpsters. I don't know where or how long ago, but a homeless won a lawsuit for tainted food he ate from a dumpster. Sued the pants off the restaurant owner.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon




I guess the homeless arent part of the public. Its illegal to give another man food in public if he doesnt own a home. (and women and chldren) Hand another man a boritto on the way out of the convenience store and you might go to jail. Cities keep passing these laws and doesnt it just seem like exactly the opposite of human?


“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”- MLK

You know, a better solution would have been for these people to invite them into their homes for dinner.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

I started searching the several links on this topic. One reason is this park has had an outbreak of over 500 cases of hepatitis. The ban isn't against giving the homeless help, it is against doing it in public places. This makes sense if you do have a disease issue, and it keeps parents from taking their children to such places.

I suggest everyone just do the keyword search of "El Cajon," and read various commentaries of both sides, including videos. My first instinct was the city didn't want this to be a place where the homeless would be enticed to come to, increasing the homeless population. Now this may apply in the unspoken back rooms, but there is evidence the city believes it is in the right. One reason is there is the claim that there are already plenty of charity services serving the need.

I haven't touched on very many links yet, but I'm on the side of the city on this one.

It's rare for me to support the actions of a bureaucracy.

Here is one good link:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/lo...Critics-After-Homeless-Feeding-469645453.html
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

What bloody sociopath came up with the law that criminalized feeding the homeless?

Maybe the great-great grandchildren of the men who crafted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1950, which criminalized helping a slave escape from slavery.

Jury power effectively nullified that poor statute. Will the juries of El Cajon step up to render this one null?
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

San Diego is NOT a "liberal city". Too much military.

Its pretty on the outside with a crunchy conservative core.




The counties that make up San Diego all went for hillary. I disagree.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

I started searching the several links on this topic. One reason is this park has had an outbreak of over 500 cases of hepatitis. The ban isn't against giving the homeless help, it is against doing it in public places. This makes sense if you do have a disease issue, and it keeps parents from taking their children to such places.

I suggest everyone just do the keyword search of "El Cajon," and read various commentaries of both sides, including videos. My first instinct was the city didn't want this to be a place where the homeless would be enticed to come to, increasing the homeless population. Now this may apply in the unspoken back rooms, but there is evidence the city believes it is in the right. One reason is there is the claim that there are already plenty of charity services serving the need.

I haven't touched on very many links yet, but I'm on the side of the city on this one.

It's rare for me to support the actions of a bureaucracy.

Here is one good link:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/lo...Critics-After-Homeless-Feeding-469645453.html




The hep outbreak has to do with another liberal policy of banning plastic bags. Hobos poop in bags, the bags prevent the spread of hep A. no bags, they poop anywhere.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

What bloody sociopath came up with the law that criminalized feeding the homeless?


I get why its done, people may hand out food and then you have homeless congregating in the parks, or people's neighborhoods. I know, it sounds terrible, but places with populations of homeless people tend to be trashed. I lived in Denver and the parks where homeless hung out were always full of garbage, beer bottles, passed out drunk under trees. People don't want that in their neighborhoods. But its still prettty shiity
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Some of you right wingers really have such an unhealthy obsession with liberals. Liberals are poopyheads is about all you can muster up on most points. Take a look in the mirror and the horrible conditions that are just as prevalent in conservative areas as liberals.

Turn off fox news and you won't look like ignorant psychos
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Some of you right wingers really have such an unhealthy obsession with liberals. Liberals are poopyheads is about all you can muster up on most points. Take a look in the mirror and the horrible conditions that are just as prevalent in conservative areas as liberals.

Turn off fox news and you won't look like ignorant psychos



What an intelligent and insightful post. /facepalm
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

San Diego is NOT a "liberal city". Too much military.

Its pretty on the outside with a crunchy conservative core.

Those military don’t get to vote in local elections unless they were San Diego residents at the time of their enlistment. So they aren’t picking the politicians who are making the decisions.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

The hep outbreak has to do with another liberal policy of banning plastic bags. Hobos poop in bags, the bags prevent the spread of hep A. no bags, they poop anywhere.

LOL...

That wouldn't surprise me, though I doubt it is fact.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

What an intelligent and insightful post. /facepalm

Oh, and this is? I see you are still up to your completely pathetic trolling ways. Sad, thought you'd get a life by now
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

I worked for KFC when I was 14. We threw buckets of chicken away ever night at closing. The homeless shelter was a couple blocks away. I asked the manager if we could give the food to the homeless. He said absolutely not. I would be immediately fired if that chicken went anywhere but the dumpster. I asked if I could take it home and he said absolutely not. The liability is too high. I said I could buy that chicken 2 minutes before closing but after closing that chicken had to be thrown away. That is the rules. I used to put the bucket in a garbage bag and set it behind the dumpster and take it home when I left a few minutes after closing. I got caught and was fired.

Could you imagine how many homeless people could be fed perfectly good food thrown away every evening by restaurants and fast food places across this country. We are not even trying to help the homeless as a people. We are pathetic at best.

You can blame that on our 'sue happy' society.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

What an intelligent and insightful post. /facepalm

Oh, and this is? I see you are still up to your completely pathetic trolling ways. Sad, thought you'd get a life by now

Hey Rev, sounds like someone knows you, despite a very recent join date. Things that make you go hmmmm.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Hey Rev, sounds like someone knows you, despite a very recent join date. Things that make you go hmmmm.

Yeah, he trolled another forum I was on for a while. Still making the same unoriginal posts over and over again
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Yeah, he trolled another forum I was on for a while. Still making the same unoriginal posts over and over again

Uh huh.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Oh, and this is? I see you are still up to your completely pathetic trolling ways. Sad, thought you'd get a life by now



Don't you find it ironic to whine about trolling, when the only reason you are here is you got suspended for posting "discriminatory comments" at your home forum?
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

Hey Rev, sounds like someone knows you, despite a very recent join date. Things that make you go hmmmm.




I know the cat from Politicalhotwire.com He doesn't say much but whines about trolling nonstop.
 
Re: Over a dozen arrested for feeding homeless in El Cajon

I worked for KFC when I was 14. We threw buckets of chicken away ever night at closing. The homeless shelter was a couple blocks away. I asked the manager if we could give the food to the homeless. He said absolutely not. I would be immediately fired if that chicken went anywhere but the dumpster. I asked if I could take it home and he said absolutely not. The liability is too high. I said I could buy that chicken 2 minutes before closing but after closing that chicken had to be thrown away. That is the rules. I used to put the bucket in a garbage bag and set it behind the dumpster and take it home when I left a few minutes after closing. I got caught and was fired.

Could you imagine how many homeless people could be fed perfectly good food thrown away every evening by restaurants and fast food places across this country. We are not even trying to help the homeless as a people. We are pathetic at best.

Seral years ago somebody got si k off of donated food and sued.

So that was the end of that.
 
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