Like ******* monsters?

No, be thankful he didn't start a "soup kitchen" in there his homeless friends.

He did, but it ain't tomato sauce, if you know what I mean !

39- Talk about special sauce. I bet his name was Mike, too.

He didn't give a meal. He had his meal stolen. Big difference. Being homeless isn't an excuse for breaking the law. If he wants a bright side to this, he should be happy for giving the homeless man a warm, temporary home... in a jail cell.

You sir are a very sad and uncompassionate person. I just hope that one day you will be in such dire straits that you will not know where you’re going to sleep or when your next meal will be. Let’s hope then that you will meet then with someone who will have the same generous heart as you do.

I am compassionate. I give change to the homeless whenever I can. However, I don't believe that being homeless is an excuse for damaging property and stealing. If that's the way you feel, I hope someone reading this comment finds out where you live, dresses like a homeless person, and robs you blind. There's a line, and this guy crossed it. He's a criminal, simple as that. Unless you're fighting against an unfair law or trying to push some important change to society, there's no excuse for breaking the law. Even then, there's never, ever an excuse for damaging property. He belongs in prison. At the very least, in prison, he'll have a warm place to stay and he'll be fed.

This is the comment that got thumbs down? -.- This generation I swear...

I will probably get thumbed down, too. But seriously, this is the only comment I actually agree with. I can't wrap my head around making an excuse for someone to ruin property.

As someone going into the field of substance abuse, I feel the need to speak up. Honestly, was the leftover pasta really that important to you? You don't know what this homeless man's life is like -- it is obviously difficult for him to get food, and for those who say giving a homeless person money is bad because they'll spend it on drugs/alcohol, that is true. But it is because if they don't get the drug, they'll experience terrible withdrawal symptoms that can make them physically sick or kill them. I'm not condoning breaking the law either, but people like this do things they normally wouldn't if they were not mentally ill. OP, sucks that your pasta got stolen, but I think you can have a little more sympathy for a mentally ill homeless man. You didn't need that pasta to survive if you had the money to go out to dinner and a movie.

65, my husband and I are having money issues. But to keep life from being anymore stressful, we both save and pitch in for at least one date night during a month. I cannot afford someone breaking my car. You can't use the reason of him going out as him being well off. Now I'm not saying that the hobo should control himself IF he was actually crazy, but I volunteered at a homeless shelter and I would love to see more people actually use shelters. If we let this guy off the hook, let's just expect more break-ins. And it might escalate to breaking into homes, but be thankful that you can afford a home, can't get mad someone is trying to live off of you!

65: I fail to see how you got that the homeless man was mentally ill out of this. If he was coherent enough to break into a car to get to pasta, then I doubt he has any form of disabilities. Besides. it's the widow more than it is the pasta. If you went out to your car to find that someone had broken your $500 window to get $15 worth of food, I doubt you would be as sympathetic.

If you are stupid enough to become an addict, that is YOUR problem. It is not the OP's job to feed a homeless person and addictions are not an excuse to break the law. That's the problem with you junkies; you bitch and whine that it's not your fault, it's your addiction. **** you. You made yourself an addict, therefore your condition is your fault. I didn't shove that needle into your vein; YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF. Why should I pay for it? Why do you expect me to? The perils of drug addiction have been well-documented for **** knows how many years and yet idiots continue to experiment and get hooked despite a million warnings that this will happen. What the ****? Do you think you're special and won't become addicted like everyone else? Take some ******* responsibility for youself and admit that your addiction is a direct result of your own actions and your own stupidity and stop whining that society owes you. Drug addiction is the one thing that I have ZERO sympathy for because it is completely avoidable and completely self-inflicted. Someone offers you drugs. You say NO! You have a prescription. You follow the directions on the bottle. There. That wasn't hard, was it? But NOOOO, despite the world pounding it into your brain that DRUGS ARE BAD you still try them, get hooked and cry about it. Assholes.

How did we get that this person was a drug addict? Too many assumptions. While I agree that what the person did was wrong, not all homeless are drug addicts. There are also a lot (too fricking many) homeless veterans out there. Show a little compassion (though not for this guys act).

70- what about those that get addicted to pain meds? You can follow the directions and still get addicted to some prescription drugs. Sleep meds for insomniacs can become addicting. My aunt was addicted to sleep meds for a year because she couldn't sleep without them,she followed the directions. Some meds are addicting even if you use them right

just a bit angry aren't we?

70 -- we went over this in my class. People try drugs to numb emotional pain/trauma, then get addicted. They know the dangers. They are just hurting in a non-physical way that's difficult to treat. And yes, I am making assumptions about the homeless man beig mentally ill and/or a drug addict of some kind because the vast majority are. Also, I would be upset about the window but I wouldn't be seeing red over it if someone was desperate enough to risk injury for food. But maybe my empathy for people like that is coming through because that's the field I want to go into.

Don't give a **** WHY someone is an addict. Don't give a **** that they have problems. Everyone has problems. I was abused like crazy as a kid and it never even occurred to me that the solution was to do drugs to 'numb the pain.' Even as a child I knew the solution was to survive, get a good education and get out and be responsible for myself. Duh. We waste millions of dollars trying to straighten out dumb asses who took drugs instead of actually trying to solve their problems. That money could be spent on something worthwhile, say, cancer research. This doesn't even include the fact that so much crime is drug-related. If dumb ***** didn't use this crap, they wouldn't need to steal to pay for it, the market would dry up and the drug lords would be out of business. Just think of how much better a world this would be if everyone who was offered a drug just said "NO." Crime would be way down. All kinds of money would be available for worthier ventures than getting morons off of heroin that they knew was illegal and addictive when they stuck the needle in their arms for the first time. The bleeding heart dipshits who feel sorry for these assholes would have the opportunity to help people who actually deserve it, like the disabled, instead of wasting their time and pity on junkies.

*gags*