Small town in New England.  This man has been walking the streets for perhaps the last decade always wearing the same leather jacket, filthy ripped clothes, and greasy bandana long hair and beard, muttering to himself continuously. He walks around town, miles every day in all kinds of weather. Ive seldom been in a position to offer him help but I found an opportunity recently..  I saw him a few days ago in a store and noticed his boots are absolutely falling apart.  The soles are almost completely fallen off.   As it happened, I had a new pair of large men's boots that my husband didn't  want, so I pulled up and got his attention and offered him the boots.  Paraphrasing the conversation we had, he turned them down because he said his boots were still comfortable and that his boots are specially made for him and shipped to him by Ellen Degeneres.  We had about a 5 minute, one sided conversation, he barely let me say two words, and half of what he said was unintelligible gibberish and he had lots to say about the sexy ladies of the miss universe pageant, various former world leaders,, and Gloria Estefon. but he politely declined the boots.  He accepted $5 and wished me a good day as I left.  Thinking about this today I think I have come up with a total crackpot plan to convince him to take the boots.  His current pair will become unusable very very soon.  It occurred to me that someone in town must have some idea where he lives or places he stays.  If I can find out where or find someone who knows, I'm thinking I could have the boots delivered to him and put Ellen Degeneres' name on the return address.  So my question is, is this a stupid half-baked idea?  Would he accept them that way?  Would this be potentially harmful or upsetting to him?  Any better ideas?  TIA!