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Since July it has been illegal to hand out food to homeless people in public parks in Orlando and Las Vegas. This law was apparently passed to try and stop large groups of people congregating in communal areas and curb littler and crime. The Las Vegas branch of Food Not Bombs and the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada have filed suit against the city, claiming that the law stating that "the providing of food or meals to the indigent for free or for a nominal fee" is a crime, violates rights of free speech, assembly, religion, due process and equal protection. Violations of this law can result in fines of up to $1000 or 6 months in jail. In Orlando, a permit is required to feed a large group in any public park. Organisations are only allowed two permits per park per year, which makes it difficult to regularly provide food to people who need it. Las Vegas's spokesperson said that the aim of the law was to encourage homeless people to go to homeless service centres. I am concerned that homeless shelters are already overcrowded and struggling to account for the huge numbers of people visiting them, and that often sleeping rough is seen by the homeless as preferable to the conditions of the shelters, where they often get beaten up or have their posessions stolen. More cities are now also considering putting similar laws in place. |
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This is the type of law that most people (including the police) will totally ignore. Anyone who decides to feed a bunch of homeless people will do it regardless. |
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A radio station went round Las Vegas giving out food and drink to the homeless and they were fined for it. In Orlando they've found a loophole in the law (until it gets discovered) and they hold "picnics" to feed the homeless. They will ignore the law but I don't think they'll be able to escape being punished for it. Also If the homeless people are being moved along by the police, they won't be around as much for the public to have the oportunity to feed them |
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Yeah, it is the bone for a radio station or freelance orginization I guess. But theres other ways of helping the homeless to that they can invest their time/money in. "Give a man a fish" etc. But as for your average joe... that would have to be a dick of a cop to give you a fine for giving a homeless guy a sandwich or something... especially in the crowded metropolitan areas where the homeless tend to live, the cops usually have better things to do. |
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This is just Darwinism in action. These losers will starve to death, preventing their shitty genes being passed on to the next generation of scumbags. |
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yeah, but darwinism is more about being born into luxury these days than actually striving very much for it. |
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Being born into luxury is awesome. |
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its hardly darwinism if its down to luck |
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this law isn't actually gonna be taken seriously is it? |
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It's their own fault. |
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coincidentally, all bums are paedophiles. |
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of courrse it is. feeding people sleeping on the strreet is frrowned upon all overr the place. not just because it's considerred unsafe forr the homeless and they'd rratherr they went to the shelterrs but because the govt. doesn't want scrruffy trramps making the city looking awful. |
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crriminalising people forr giving them food seems ludicrrous to me though. |
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if you're ever in a good mood and feeling kind... foggeddabaaadit! |
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fucking controlled society, wtf is this bullshit!!! government fat cat mark foley gordon gekko wannabes cant feed their own people, and so the community want to help feed dem homless, and they make it illegal so they dont look bad??? MOTHA FUCKING FUCKS!!! |
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I hate the poor. |
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The problem with the homeless is it's a sign that the system is not working. Government is put in place to diplomatically rectify regulations so that there is always a path leading to more control. It has been thousands of years in which the Con has tried to rid the planet of spiritual heathens. These homeless are the last tribe amongs civilization living indigenously. The problem is that they don't pay taxes. And if you don't pay taxes you should starve. At least that's what I have gathered from my American life of privaledge/oppression.... |
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being born from Angelina Jolie would be pretty sweet... ...in a being born in luxury sorta way. think about it... |
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you'd be too young to remember the good parts... |
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why to hate poor people? |
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cause hes Chevy of course, no wonder mr.nutella ;) |
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Just kidding, I'm broke myself. |
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yeah i read about this a while ago. it's pretty shocking. totally against the principles of christianity which most americans hold so dear |
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i don;t hate poor people i don;t even pity them they don;t hafta work for the man or it;s all they do i wish that paragraph was a limerick |
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giving a shit is illegal too. |
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i like anti-abortionist pro-lifer protestors because they bring gigantically graphic forms of very graphic visual media graphically to the forefront when they could be feeding somebody |
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while it's pretty dumb, it's definitely not a US ban, these are city ordinances, local things, not national. |
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Regardless we have some dumb laws everywhere. This is just some more to add to the list. Kinda sad. |
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we need more laws -- that's how shit gets regulated -- that's how we, the people, finally obtain control |
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individualism, or rather, american individualism (the idea that you are 100% responsible for your own "destiny" (not in the mystical way, but in the "life you live and have led" kind of way) with the (in no way justified) assumption that all paths are equally open and accesible to all those born in "the free world." |
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oh, wait, I forgot the point individualism, as described before, overrules even christianity; it is what the ever wise "founding fathers" made for their great country. |
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I find it funny that dumpster diving is illegal. |
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That bum could sue you! |
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It's illegal in the UK for a taxi to start work without a massive bail of hay on the roof. Or something like that. |
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Well, give them guns, then. Arm the homeless! |
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Yes, I think it's that they're supposed to have have a hay bail in the boot. Something to do with feeding the horses in the days of horse and carts. There's a local law in some English town near the Welsh border that locals may shoot Welsh people with a bow and arrow. I can't see this "curing" the homeless problem. Most homeless people eat out of the bins at the back of restaurants, it's not like they'll starve as a result. In my experience, it's comparatively rare for homeless people to accept food (on the street, as opposed to at designated homeless shelters), they usually just want the money instead. |
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ah, but not in America! I remember talking to my mother about how restaurants in America were refusing food to the homeless and trying to get rid of them from the back alleys since there had been a spate of litigation from homeless people against restaurant owners due to illness caused by eating the restaurant's food from a bin. i had read a special on it in the times on sunday. it's really bizarre.. really warped and perverse. i can't see how any homeless person could've won such a lawsuit, but I believe restaurant owners started making it more and more difficult for homeless people to feed on their scraps because they generally didn't want the expense and headaches a lawsuit could entail. |
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This thead makes me hungry, im getting some pop-tarts |
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a homeless person shat outside my work 2 nights ago. |
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and when you say "shat" you mean "sat" or "shit" or both? |
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wanker yankees. |
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how do ppl here feel about aids-infested assholes? |
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i sex'em up |
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Shat, being the past tense of shit. Ex: "I took a shit," would become, "I shat." |
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Ive shat before |
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me2 |
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on the homeless? |
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no, cant say i have, although about a week ago, i gave the local homeless man a $10 spot, cause i was feeling really generous that day |
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i walk to work one day a guy tried to wave me over in front of a party store he was about 100 feet away so i told him i;m going to work but when i left work this kid was in the exact same spot he'd been waiting for me there for 8.3 hours.... didn't look local.. |
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trust me, its snickers the turd that satisfies |
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