My home town regulated soup kitchens the same way they regulated adult entertainment which, upon reading the document about zoning and restrictions, seems perfectly reasonable. Once you look at the city zoning however you realize there’s no single location within city limit that fits the criteria set. It’s legal for you to run one, there’s just no place you’re allowed to put it.
Those require registering. The kitchens are so overwhelmed (and there are some really shitty people) so they have to make sure you’re not just using the food bank for an easy meal ticket and taking food out of the mouths of people who genuinely can’t afford it. Some shitty people started going around to all the local food banks and collecting from all of them, then reselling what they had been given. Basically just straight up fraud.
To combat that, the kitchens started taking ID from the people who use it, and notifying all of the other kitchens that John Smith, DOB 01/01/1990 just got food. So when that same John Smith shows up at a kitchen across town 20 minutes later, they know he’s a scammer. Churches do the same with their philanthropy; They’ll often give out gift cards or canned food to the homeless, but it requires registering because some shitty people ruined it. They started hitting all of the local churches, to resell the gift cards.
It is shit like this that makes me go WTF and just sadder for humanity. I did not know they took id’s though. I worked at a couple in the US and did not see them take an ID. Now a food bank I have and worked with people who were scamming them. I only used them twice in my life when I was a broke out of work college student and don’t really think I would be here to say thanks to them i would not be alive today.
Isn’t that called the food bank or soup kitchens?
Sure, when they exist. They don’t always. They’re sometimes even penalized or limited by certain laws.
I live in the states. I you being a troll or are you serious because if your serious that is completely fucked up
My home town regulated soup kitchens the same way they regulated adult entertainment which, upon reading the document about zoning and restrictions, seems perfectly reasonable. Once you look at the city zoning however you realize there’s no single location within city limit that fits the criteria set. It’s legal for you to run one, there’s just no place you’re allowed to put it.
The country that hates the poors extra hard.
Those require registering. The kitchens are so overwhelmed (and there are some really shitty people) so they have to make sure you’re not just using the food bank for an easy meal ticket and taking food out of the mouths of people who genuinely can’t afford it. Some shitty people started going around to all the local food banks and collecting from all of them, then reselling what they had been given. Basically just straight up fraud.
To combat that, the kitchens started taking ID from the people who use it, and notifying all of the other kitchens that John Smith, DOB 01/01/1990 just got food. So when that same John Smith shows up at a kitchen across town 20 minutes later, they know he’s a scammer. Churches do the same with their philanthropy; They’ll often give out gift cards or canned food to the homeless, but it requires registering because some shitty people ruined it. They started hitting all of the local churches, to resell the gift cards.
It is shit like this that makes me go WTF and just sadder for humanity. I did not know they took id’s though. I worked at a couple in the US and did not see them take an ID. Now a food bank I have and worked with people who were scamming them. I only used them twice in my life when I was a broke out of work college student and don’t really think I would be here to say thanks to them i would not be alive today.
Last time I went to a soup kitchen, they took my ID and made a file on me.