Quote Originally Posted by Tattoobradley View Post
Reading that choked me up, and I (embarrased to say now) am usually quite heartless to the homeless... You're a good man.
I don't think you really mean heartless to the homeless necessarily, but "heartless" to panhandlers. If that is what you mean, I don't really think you should be sorry. I was homeless at one point in my life. I slept under a bridge, took showers in a laundromat that I found that had them, and ate usually only once a day at a soup kitchen. I worked odd jobs when I could get them, but my health wouldn't always let me. One thing I can tell you I never did was panhandle. I borrowed money from a few people, but I was never one of the people on the street asking for spare change. I don't have much sympathy for them because there are ways to get help finding jobs etc., and almost every city with a population of over 15,000 has a soup kitchen where they can get food and clothing that has been donated by people. Panhandling just isn't necessary.

This by no means invalidates what Darrell has done. Indeed, it highlights it. I don't think these folks were coming up to him looking for a handout (if I read the post correctly), but rather he was moved by their plight and decided to give them a hand up. (And may the Gods bless him for it!)