Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal Subject: Spare-changing for charity Message-ID: <993@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:31:09 EST Article-I.D.: opus.993 Posted: Wed Dec 19 03:31:09 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 01:37:51 EST References: <1008@teddy.UUCP> <305@ll1.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.misc:7159 net.legal:1129 Following on about not being allowed to ring bells 8 hours on end outside a store... > At least that's better than what's happened in Cleveland. > (and a few other places from what I hear.) Some mall owners are not > letting the Salvation Army in the mall or on mall property AT ALL!!! > The reason, they claim, is if they let the S.A. solicit, they would > have to let any and all organizations solicit on their property, or > else be sued! There are, however, several "brave" malls, and you > can just guess who will get my business if I can help it. Not to congratulate some of the shopkeepers for hiding behind a somewhat flaky legalese defense, but this really puts it in perspective: Just what IS different among the Salvation Army, any off-the-wall religious cult, and a bum spare-changing you? Perhaps only tradition. There certainly are some annoying similarities: A technique to get your attention by irritation. (Clang clang clang clang...for as long as you can hear it is NOT musical or joyous by any common standard.) No idea what a contribution is really going for. No idea how much of the contribution is actually going to the end project, as opposed to administration of the charity. (Frankly, I find that the bum on the corner at least as reasonable a recipient by the usual standards that I'm told to apply when judging a charity...but then I don't follow those standards anyway:-) -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.