哪些东西不能给流浪汉？
What's something you shouldn''t give to a homeless person?
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网友：我们以前会偶尔去看看那个流浪汉，确保他过得还好。有一年我们聊天的时候他突然说，“嘿，我得给你个东西。”我当时特兴奋，我以为他原来是个超级艺术家，给我们整了个大活让我们记住他。
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What's something you shouldn't give to a homeless person?
哪些东西不能给流浪汉？
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We used to check in on this homeless man occasionally to make sure he was doing okay. One year we were chatting and he says "hey, i have to give you something". I was excited, thinking maybe he's super artsy and made us something cool to remember him by.
我们以前会偶尔去看看那个流浪汉，确保他过得还好。有一年我们聊天的时候他突然说，“嘿，我得给你个东西。”我当时特兴奋，我以为他原来是个超级艺术家，给我们整了个大活让我们记住他。
然后他掀开了自己的军大衣，里面藏着一大扇生猪肉。“有人他妈把这一扇猪送给我了。他他妈觉得我能拿它干什么？我带着它到处走都要吐了。”
I would have taken it, cooked it up and returned it as a Pork and veggie roast.
要是我就会把它带走，拿回家做熟了，做成烤猪肉和蔬菜送给他。
Homeless dude realistically should’ve stolen a shopping cart… made a fire and used it as a grill of sorts. Gotta chop the pork up. Go get Macdonald’s bbq sauce. Find a non windy area. The metal grate on the shopping cart is key Tho. Perfect for a grill
那个流浪汉真的应该偷个购物车……生一堆火，然后拿购物车当烤架之类的。但是得先把猪肉切碎，然后去麦当劳整点烧烤酱。找一个没风的地方。但购物车上的金属格子是重点。很适合烧烤。
Yeah but then there's the risk of someone seeing and reporting him while he's cooking it because it's technically vandalism, arson, etc and whatever other crimes they can slap him with just because he's homeless and the system is fucked.
也行，但要是烤到半截被人发现了，可能就要被举报了，因为这是破坏公务，纵火，并且只要愿意他们还可以把各种各样别的罪行强加给他，只因为他是个流浪汉，并且这个体制也已经烂透了。
猪肉就算是在像样的厨房里也不好做，在一个自己弄的烧烤架上做反而可能会导致食物中毒。如果你无家可归，没有干净的水、食物、药物、洗手间或清洁自己的设施（用于清洁呕吐物或腹泻），那么食物中毒可能是非常糟糕的一种后果。
Yeah but if they charge him and he goes to jail, he’s got a home then so technically it’s better for him
没错，但如果他们起诉这个人把他送进监狱了，那他就有家了，所以这反而对他更好。
Canned food without pop tops or a can opener to go with it
别送没有拉环的罐头，或者不附赠开罐器。
Whatever they don’t want. I was gonna buy a homeless dude a nice back pack once but he didn’t want it because chances he will get robbed for it or stolen.
只要他们不想要，就不要送。我本来想给一个流浪汉买个不错的背包，但他不想要，因为他可能会被抢劫或是偷窃。
Same. I bought one regular in my neighbourhood a sleeping mat, sleeping bag, and a tarp. He sold them but he explained that if he hadn’t he would have likely been robbed. They are often targeted.
我也一样。我给社区里经常出现的一个流浪汉买了个睡袋、睡垫和防水布，他把这些卖了，但对我解释如果他不卖的话很可能就会被抢。他们经常成为抢劫的目标。
Don't just drop off food in to go containers near someone's tent. If you're bringing food, talk to them give it to them. Stacking up perishable food they can't manage or really throw away is only bringing mice to their living situation
不要随便把食物放到打包盒里放在某人的帐篷旁边。如果你想给点吃的，就跟他们当面说清楚然后送出去。让他们不能处理的易腐败的食物越积越多，或者扔掉的话，只会让他们生活的地方多出一群老鼠。
Really glad I read this comment because I’ve done exactly this more than once. Lesson learned, thank you.
我真的很开心自己能读到这篇评论，因为这种事情我做过不止一次。学到了，谢谢你。
This should be the top answer.
这应该是被顶到最上面的回答。
太多人想要做好事却不知道该怎么做好事，如果你是个接受了“帮助”的流浪汉，在那个想要帮你的人面前露出“呃其实……”的表情并不好。所以那些人经常只能笑纳食物，然后给它们找个好的归宿，就算他们自己不需要。但如果你把东西留在他们睡觉的地方，就会出问题。有时你可能几天都在外面不能回帐篷，所以害虫会发现这里不仅有吃的还有又软又暖和的舒服的地方。想象一下你回家之后发现有一帮老鼠在自家客厅上一坨丰盛的烂菜梆子上蹦迪的样子吧。一点也不好。
A frozen turkey.
一只冻火鸡。
（我有个朋友平时偶尔会把食物送给家附近的无家可归者那里。有一天有个无家可归者带着一只冻火鸡敲开了她的们。有人开着车跑到这片流浪汉聚集地，给这个女人送了一个冻火鸡。女人送到她家的时候说，“我寻思你有烤箱，说不定你能吃。他们觉得我能拿这个火鸡干什么？我只有购物车，又没有炉子。”）
As a kid, who was poor but fortunately not homeless, we used to get a bunch of donated turkeys every Thanksgiving. Freezer would be wall to wall turkeys and we would be eating turkey for dinner for what seemed like months. Thank God we are least had a freezer or no doubt much of it would have been wasted.
在我还小的时候，我家虽然很穷但至少不至于无家可归，那时我们每年感恩节都会收到别人捐赠的火鸡。冰箱冷冻柜里塞满了火鸡，我们几个月都得吃火鸡。谢天谢地当时我们起码还有个冷冻柜，不然好多火鸡肯定都要坏了。
人们总是会在感恩节捐火鸡，但是其余时候可能就忘了这回事了。但是吃几个月的火鸡起码也比什么都不吃强。
我很感谢那些在我小的时候能捐给我一些东西吃的人，因为如果没有他们的话我不知道自己现在会在哪里……可能就死了吧。
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Our grocury store used to donate turkeys every year for our christmas drive (about 200 families) but they would run into the issue of people not being able to store or cook them, or just not practical to give a turkey to a family of 1-3 people, so now they give $25 store specific, hand written gift cards for people to get whatever they need
我们这里的生鲜超市每年都会在圣诞节捐赠火鸡（大概200个家庭），但是他们会遇到有些人没办法储藏或烹饪，或者给1-3口的家庭送火鸡并不实际的问题。所以现在他们就改送面值25美元的店铺特定手写礼品卡了，那些人可以需要什么就买什么。
I hate turkey and used to get a coupon for a free turkey where I worked. Luckily the store would let me get a chicken instead. I would buy a hen about the same size as the coupon stated.
我讨厌火鸡，以前工作的地方我能领到免费火鸡券。幸运的是商店可以让我买一只鸡。我就会买一只跟券上规定的大小差不多的母鸡。
It's funny, when my dad worked and we were just kinda poor we would always eat chicken on Thanksgiving because we couldn't afford a turkey and the chicken was cheaper. It was only after we became dirt poor and relying more on food banks did we start having turkey
挺好笑的，在我爸爸还有工作，我家还只是有点穷的时候，我们家在感恩节只吃鸡肉，因为买不起火鸡，鸡肉更便宜。在我们穷到叮当乱响，只能靠食物银行吃饭的时候，我们才吃上了火鸡。
Ask them what they want. We had a homeless man, who walked around in a garbage bag, explain people kept giving him clothes and three times he had been attacked for them.
问问他们需要什么。我们曾经认识一个无家可归的人，他穿着个垃圾袋到处走，原因是人们经常送他衣服，但是他因为这些衣服三次被人袭击。
如果你不确定他们需要什么，那就先问问。
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Instead of cash, I asked a man what he wanted from the gas station and he asked for laundry detergent. We always think about food and shelter, which are fundamental. But hygiene is such a larger category of luxury that we take for granted.
我问过一个在加油站流浪的人，他除了现金还需要什么，他的答案是洗涤剂。我们总是会想食物和庇护所，这些确实是非常基础的需求。但是卫生也是很大的一项被我们视为理所当然的奢侈品。
Laundry detergent actually sells for a decent price outside of stores. Liquid and pod laundry detergents are some of the most stolen products and typically end up being sold through the black market.
洗涤剂事实上在商店之外也能卖出很不错的价格。洗衣液和洗衣凝珠是最经常被偷的商品，通常都会在黑市上卖掉。
mind explaining why?
可以解释一下原因吗？
because it’s expensive and everyone uses it. If you steal a $20 jug of detergent probably won’t have any trouble getting $10 for it
因为贵，并且所有人都要用。比如说你偷了一壶20美元的洗涤剂，那么转手卖个10美元不会有任何问题。
Laundry detergent is essentially black market cash. It's available everywhere, can be poured out in specific amounts, and has real use. It also has no serial number so it's impossible to track.
洗涤剂基本上就是黑市上的现金。到处都有，可以按照固定的量倒出来，并且有真正的用途。而且也没有序列号，所以不好追踪。
so one could call it money laundering?
所以我们可以管这种行为叫洗钱咯？
Its just something everyone needs but most don't want to pay high prices for. Its untraceable and security/police don't care for a $20 product. So thieves steal them, sell them, and do what they want with the money.
这就是一种所有人都需要，但绝大多数都懒得花高价钱买的东西。它无法追踪，并且安保人员和警察也不会在乎一件20美元的商品。所以小偷就会偷走，把它们卖了，然后把钱花在自己想花的地方。
Tbh this is gonna sound weird, but homemade food. It’s better to give already packaged, ready made food so that there isn’t any doubt that the food has been tampered with.
说实话我这个可能听起来有点怪，但不要送自己做的吃的。最好是做那种已经包装好的即食视频，所以他们不会有怀疑食物被动过手脚的必要。
Especially the ladies. My female cousin lives on the street on-and-off and has for years. I don't even want to talk about how many times someone tried to drug her with food that was either homemade or in a takeout container before she just stopped taking food from strangers. Though honestly I'm not sure it's better because now she has regular stories of people getting incredibly aggressive and threatening when she refuses to take unsealed food
尤其是女士。我有个女性的表亲几年来一直在街头住。我都懒得讲有多少次有人想要用自制的食物或是用打包盒装的食物把她毒倒，后来她根本就不再接受来自陌生人的食物了。说真的我不确定现在是不是更好，因为她经常跟我讲在她拒绝接受别人提供的没有包装的食物之后，有人会特别生气并且威胁她。
I know “drinks getting spiked in a club” is a very real thing but I never even thought this is something the homeless also have to deal with, holy fucking shit.
我知道“酒吧里的酒被下药”是真实存在的，但是我没想过无家可归的人也要考虑这种事情，我他妈草了。
About 12 years ago, a cafe in my hometown laced food with laxatives and handed it out to the homeless population. They then set up a camera outside the one public toilet in the area. I’m so glad that I left that place.
在12年前，我家乡的一家咖啡店往食物里放泻药，然后把食物分发给无家可归的人。他们之后还在那里的公厕里安装了摄像头。我很开心自己最终离开了那个地方。
Why would a cafe do that?
咖啡厅为什么要做这种事？
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Probably either because the employees are just fucking dicks or to somehow maybe get the homeless people to leave the specific spot.
因为要么那帮雇员就是一群啥比，要么就是想要让这群无家可归的人远离某个地方。
There was a time in my area that people were poisoning homeless via homemade sandwiches.
有一阵子我住的地方有人用自制的三明治给流浪汉下毒。
Someone in my local subreddit reported some asshat was giving out sandwiches with feces in them.
我所在的地方的reddit报告过有人往三明治里夹屎然后分发给流浪汉。
Food that needs to be cooked
那些需要烹饪才能吃的食物
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Also, food that requires a hard bite - many are in need of dental care.
还有，那些需要好牙口的食物——很多无家可归者牙齿状况都不好。
this! i offered a man a nature valley granola bar once, cause that was all i had, but he turned me down because he couldn't eat it. :(
对！我曾经给一个人送过天然山谷的燕麦棒，因为我手上只有那一个东西，但是他拒绝了，因为他吃不了。
Offered an apple once. He grinned and handed it back to me. He had only 3 teeth.
曾经送过一个苹果。他笑了笑，然后还了回来。他只有三颗牙。
This apple scenario also happened to me, so after I would buy a bunch of bananas and give them out along my walk home through east Vancouver. I'd also leave them like little smiles on parking meters, because potassium is sure to spark joy.
我也遇到过这个送苹果的情况，于是后来我就会买一串香蕉，然后在沿着东温哥华的回家路上把香蕉分发出去。我还会把香蕉留在停车计时器上，看起来就像个小笑脸一样，因为钾肯定能带来快乐。
We were in Atlanta on a long layover at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. A homeless guy came up and said he hadn't eaten in so long, his colostomy bag was empty... he lifted up his shirt and showed us. We weren't carrying cash, but my wife had a couple of bananas in her purse, which he was quite thankful for.
在2020年疫情开始的时候，我们被困在了亚特兰大。有个无家可归的人找过来跟我们说他已经有很久没吃过东西，以至于他的结肠造瘘袋都是空的……他掀起上衣给我们看了一眼。我们当时没带现金，但我老婆的包里有几根香蕉，他非常感激。
In the same vein, donate can openers to food banks if you can. And spices.
同样的，如果可以的话请给食物银行捐献一些开罐器。还有香料。
Donate cash to food banks if you can. They can buy food at wholesale prices which means more food to donate to the community.
请给食物银行捐献现金。他们可以用批发价购买食物，也就是说有更多的食物可以捐献给社区。
They can also spend it on what they need. If a local bakery just donated a bunch of bread they need to get rid of, it wouldn't really be beneficial to donate bread, for example. But the money may buy someone milk instead
他们还可以花在自己想要的地方。如果当地的烘焙店只是因为不想要就把面包捐给食物银行的话，那么其实捐这些面包并没什么帮助。但如果捐钱的话，钱却可以买点牛奶之类的。
My dad runs a food bank. Some are cutting off food donations simply because quite a few people unload expired/opened food they do not want
我爸爸就在运营一家食物银行。有些银行干脆就拒绝食物捐赠了，因为好多人会把他们不想要的过期的或是开封过的食物捐过来。
It's referred to as SWEDOW in relief organizations. Shit we don't want. When the tsunami hit Haiti, they couldn't get ships with food and water into their ports because they had ships full of used clothing there that no one would take. It got dumped on their beaches and stayed there for years. Things like old tattered blankets and used tea bags were sent. Someone has to ship, unload, sort, catalog, and dispose of or distribute that crap. Give money instead. Relief workers can buy things wholesale from local vendors for a fragment of the price. People get things they can actually use and it helps rebuild the local economy.
在慈善组织中，这种东西被称为SWEDOW.我们不想要的垃圾。在海地遭受海啸袭击的时候，他们没办法让装着食物和水的船开进港口，因为港口里全是装着没人想要的衣服的船。那些衣服就被倒在了沙滩上，在那里放了好几年。甚至有人会送发霉的老地毯和用过的茶包。有人需要运输，卸货，分类，记录并丢弃或分配这些垃圾。还不如送钱。慈善工作者可以用批发价从当地经销商购买东西。人们也能得到真的用得上的东西，这也对于重建当地经济有所帮助。
Honestly, food in general can be a problem. Not a lot of people have ways to store/carry/keep anything, and if too many people are giving food, they aren't going to be hungry enough to eat it.
说真的，食物总体来说就是个问题。不是所有人都有能力储藏/携带/留住东西的，如果太多人在捐食物的话，那么他们也吃不了。
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没错，如果你捐现金的话，可能有人会以你不认可的方式把这笔钱花出去。但是如果你把食物送给一个肚子不饿又不能保存食物的人，那么你其实并没有帮到什么忙。
来源：当过流浪汉。我想要的唯一的东西就是现金和袜子。
Mostly related, but I work at a homeless shelter and you would not believe some of the shit that comes through donations. Lingerie, beat up clothing and shoes, outdated appliances... If you want to donate, you can always call ahead and see if the shelter is looking for particular items. Seasonal clothing, hygiene items (NOT half used shampoo bottles) and new socks and underwear are always good ideas.
没错，我在一个无家可归者的庇护所工作，你不会相信他们都会通过捐赠渠道捐什么东西过来。女士内衣，破损的衣服和鞋，旧家电……如果你想要捐赠，你完全可以打个电话问问庇护所缺什么东西。当季的衣服，卫生用品（不是用了一半的洗发露瓶子），以及新袜子和新内裤永远都是好主意。
That reminds me of my time when I worked at a homeless center for mentally ill homeless and I was tasked with sorting out a box of dvd’s that were donated. 75% of the box was porn.
这让我想起了我在一个为精神障碍的无家可归者提供庇护的中心工作时的经历。我负责的是给一箱捐赠的DVD分类。箱子里有75%都是黄片。
im pretty sure most ppl who 'donate' stuff just have some junk that they don't want to throw away as its perfectly usable, but they have no use or space for.
我敢说很多“捐赠”东西的人只不过是有一些他们不想要的垃圾，或者一些完全可以用但自己不用或者没地方放的东西想要处理。
我觉得“这真的能帮到我捐的人的忙吗”肯定比不上“不要浪费东西”，并且在他们的眼里他们完全是圣人，因为他们允许让别人用自己的垃圾。
One man’s trash is another man’s wacking material.
一个人的垃圾，是另一个人的施法材料。
I've always thought that donations to shelters (or Goodwill) are just the average person's solution to an inability to part with an obxt by putting it in the trash. I believe my wife has hoarding tendencies; she once saved a broken Keurig coffee maker with the idea that someone would purchase it from Goodwill and proceed to fix it. Talk about a lack of compassion or understanding... giving people broken things that they must repair?!?
我一直都认为给庇护所（或慈善机构）捐东西，只不过是普通人在遇到无法把某件东西扔进垃圾桶的情况时的解决方案。我相信我的妻子有贮藏的倾向；她曾经把一个坏掉的Keurig咖啡机留了下来，因为她觉得有人会从慈善机构买下来，然后自己修好。这真的是缺乏同理心和共情……送别人一个他们必须自己修好才能用的坏东西？
I live next to a charity shop with a dumpster outside and there are constantly homeless people digging through it to find anything worth having. I feel like there must be a better system - somewhere people can just heap stuff and anyone can help themselves.
我住在一个慈善商店旁边，商店外边有个大垃圾箱，经常有无家可归的人在垃圾箱里翻来翻去，找一些值得拿走的东西。我觉得肯定有更好的体制——人们可以随便把东西丢在那里，所有人都可以自便。
My grandma once watched a homeless woman's bag of stuff break and the woman started crying. My grandma had one of those sturdy reusable grocery bags, she asked the women if she'd like the bag. Grandma gave her the bag and the women acted like she'd been given a million bucks. Sometimes it's the things we'd never expect that mean the world to the homeless.
我奶奶曾经见到过一个无家可归的女人用来装东西的包破了，然后女人留开始哭。我奶奶有那种很结实的可回收的购物袋，于是她就问了那个女人想不想要这个包。奶奶把那个包给了女人，女人就好像得到了一百万美元一样。有时就是一些我们完全想不到的东西，对于无家可归者来说和全世界一样重要。
I have a similar story. I was coming home from work, and a local homeless guy was begging at the train station I got off at. It was winter, and he was in a tee and shorts, one hand holding out his change cup, the other he was just bawling into. I myself was broke as hell (had a roof over my head and a job, but was just getting by). I also knew this bloke happened to be deaf and mute as I’d read his sign a few times before.
我也有类似的故事。我在下班回家的路上，当地有个流浪汉在我下车的火车站乞讨。当时是冬天，他还穿着T恤和短裤，一只手捧着零钱罐，另一只手蜷缩起来。我自己已经穷的要命了（虽然有住处和工作，但也只能勉强度日）。我也知道这个可怜人又聋又哑，因为我之前看见过几次他的字。
于是我小跑回家，走上阁楼，我知道自己有一个用不着的全新的睡袋（不记得为什么了），然后回到车站，跪到他面前吸引他的注意力。我不会手语，所以我只能把睡袋举到他的面前，给他打手势让他拿走。那哥们看了看我，看了看睡袋，又看了看我，然后用一个大大的熊抱抱住了我。我没有任何成本，但对他来说意义非常重大。
Apples, try softer foods.
苹果不行，送点更软的食物。
You know, I usually take an apple with me to work as an easy snack. On my commute, I usually pass several houseless folks. Typically, I offer them my apple since I usually don’t carry cash/change on me. I was surprised how many of them have refused because they physically don’t think they can bite into an apple without f*cking up their teeth/mouth. Really flabbergasted me at first, thinking a nice nutritious fruit would be a treat. Now I bring oranges and they are thrilled.
你知道，我经常会带个苹果当零食上班。在通勤的时候我通常会遇见几个无家可归的人。我一般会把自己的苹果送给他们，因为我通常不带零钱。让我惊讶的是很多人都拒绝了我，因为他们不觉得自己有能力在咬一口苹果的同时不把自己的牙给干烂。真的让我大吃一惊，我以为这种又好吃又有营养的食物会很棒。现在我带橘子了，他们很开心。
Laxatives. This homeless guy that used to live in a nearby bridge was given food that secretly had some sort of laxative in it. Needless to say, he became a lot more wary of free food afterwards. I don’t think they ever found out who the POS that did it was.
泻药。住在我家附近一座桥下的那个流浪汉有一次被人送了往里放了泻药的食物。用不着说，他以后对于免费的食物变得更有戒心了。他们好像最后也没发现是谁干了这种事。