No way. I once gave a guy some fruit on my way home from work in Philly (his sign said he needed food) and he tossed it on the ground. Then a few weeks later, the news ran a big expose on the panhandlers, and my fruit dude was one they showed.... they showed what he does with the money for "food" Last I heard, Jack Daniels was not food.

Also, there's a famous case where a woman was panhandling in Atlantic City. She was there for years, talking about her poor starving children. They went to Princeton, thanks to the generousity of all the gamblers she told her sad tale to. She made a fortune begging on the boarwalk!