Well what exactly are they going to do? Take them to jail? If I was homeless I'd do something to go to jail just to be inside and get 3 meals. Watch how quickly police quit enforcing this. After putting a couple in your car that haven't bathed in weeks, and taking care of them in jail you'd be done too.

It's sad that there a people that are homeless with real mental problems, and physical conditions preventing them from working. Even MCDONALDs will not hire you if your teeth are all rotten, and you can't take showers weekly. What are they to do? and then there are those that take advantage of peoples kindness.

February 9, 2004 - The Business of Begging
Fox6 On Your Side reporter Ronda Robinson spent a month on the streets to see if Birmingham panhandlers are as needy as they want you to believe. The men she shadowed were not homeless, and one was even receiving disability compensation. One panhandler told her he could make $30-40 an hour. Panhandling an average 20-hour workweek, he's making at least $28,000 a year, tax-free. Fox6 On Your Side suggests making donations to your local homeless shelter instead of falling prey to the business of begging.