A guy I used to work with said when he was in the merchant Marine him and buddy had shore leave in San Pedro. They were
approached by a vagrant (read alcoholic bum) begging for money. They initially brushed him off but the bum persisted claiming he needed money to eat.
The guy telling me this said his buddy told the bum you just want something to drink. The bum said “well yeah that's right” so they took him to a liquor store and bought him 6 gallons of the cheapest high octane swill they could find
The vagrant was now a millionaire in his word and walked off happily carrying his score in a box, right down to a local park.
Awhile later a San Pedro cop pulled up and angrily demanded to know if they bought some wine for a panhandler. He read them the riot act and threatened to tune them up and arrest them if they did it again.
Turns out the guy went to a park and a lot of his new found friends showed up and they all started to drinking and getting rowdy then fighting. The cops showed up and a mini riot ensued with the cops running a bunch of the wino's in. Complete with them puking and sh***ng all over them selves in the back some of the PD’s cars. OOPS.