Free range grandmother and occasional homeless outreach specialist Regan Benson held a homeless outreach event on Saturday in conjunction with Project 5280, in a park in Englewood, Colorado, in celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday.
The sparsely attended event was featured for two hours on Benson’s YouTube channel featuring one of the only actual organized homeless outreach gatherings Benson will hold this year.
Wild homeless outreach has taken a back seat to Benson’s other efforts, including exposing vast conspiracies against her involving the police forces of Denver, Sheridan and Englewood, Benson was back in action on Saturday, interacting with members of the community.
Volunteers from Project 5280 cooked smash burgers and offered attendees root beer floats, food plates and desserts while Benson walked around, handling little details of the event and running raffle drawings.
An ugly moment came when Benson was approached by an individual, who she kept out of site of her camera, approached her and asked if no one won a raffle for a bike lock if she could just give it to him. When she replied that she would not, he said that he would just go steal one.
Benson became enraged at the man, saying that his stealing items made things worse for everyone else in the long run. She would later recount the incident, stating that the man was well dressed and had a bicycle that seemed more expensive than anything she could afford.
Finances have become an issue for Benson, who had previously associated herself with wealth on a level more than middle class. She recently announced that she had to take “a third job” at nights in order to help pay for her legal representation in her on-going lawsuit against Englewood and her appeal of a conviction for doxing a police officer.
Benson also admitted that her attempts to crowd fund and use an Amazon wish list to provide items for the gathering had failed and that Project 5280 has stepped in at the last minute to supplement her supplies for the gathering.
At the same time, Benson announced that she would no longer be using Wal-Mart as a supplier following an incident on Friday night. Benson said that she had great difficulty in obtaining multiple last minute gift cards from the store.
She said that the incident was her last straw and that while she was frugal and that frugality often led her to shopping at Wal-Mart, she would no longer spend money with the chain based on her treatment on Friday night.
Other than the ugly incident with the person who said he would steal the bike locks from a local store, the event itself seemed to go well for the free-range grandmother. The event ended early due to rain in the area but was otherwise considered a successful gathering for all involved.
Benson is expected to livestream again later this week.
