90-year-old Florida man charged for feeding homeless people - Polidicks

[QUOTE][IMG]http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/05/florida_feeding_homeless_arrests_elderly_ministers_nabbed_for_crime/screen_shot_20141105_at_2.18.43_pm.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.18.43_pm.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] [QUOTE][IMG][B](CNN)[/B] -- Arnold Abbott handed out four plates of food to homeless people in a South Florida park. Then police stopped the 90-year-old from serving up another bite. "An officer said, 'Drop that plate right now -- like I had a weapon,'" Abbott said. Abbott and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were charged for feeding the homeless in public on Sunday, the city's first crackdowns under a new ordinance banning public food sharing, CNN affiliate WPLG reported. Now they face possible jail time and a $500 fine, WPLG said. Despite some criticism from homeless advocates, city officials have vowed the new rules will be enforced. "Just because of media attention we don't stop enforcing the law. We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale," Mayor Jack Seiler told WPLG. He defended the law in an interview with the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. "I'm not satisfied with having a cycle of homeless in the city of Fort Lauderdale," Seiler said. "Providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive." But Abbott, who has been helping feed homeless people in the area through his Love Thy Neighbor nonprofit since 1991, said authorities are targeting the city's most vulnerable residents. "These are the poorest of the poor. They have nothing. They don't have a roof over their head," he said. "Who can turn them away?" Recently, the city has also passed an ordinance limiting the storage of personal property in public, WPLG said. Then came the restrictions for food sharing.[/IMG][/QUOTE] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/justice/florida-feeding-homeless-charges/index.html[/url] [url]http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/05/florida_feeding_homeless_arrests_elderly_ministers_nabbed_for_crime.html[/url]

[QUOTE] city's first crackdowns under a new ordinance banning public food sharing,[/QUOTE] I get the image of some girl coyly forking a meatball into her boyfriend's mouth at a cafe with a bunch of cops tackling the two right after

i think the real florida man of this situation is the dungo who made it illegal to share food in public

So you want to stop the cycle of homelessness by starving them? What geniuses. Obviously since they were getting free food, they were avoiding an easy and successful employment.

it's like they think homeless people are animals

[quote]the city's first crackdowns under a new ordinance banning public food sharing, CNN affiliate WPLG reported.[/quote] Really now? This isn't elementary school. I mean I could understand if the person has had a history of illness but just wow

Just bring the homeless indoors to feed them, then you won't have the problem of violating the shitty ordinance created by idiots. There's a homeless kitchen in Austin called Caritas that serves free meals to homeless and poor families which is downtown.

Yeah we have something like that here called Poverello House. They have solid, wood-built shelters (not that flappy tent stuff) for people to stay in, too.

So doesn't this make, like, every restaurant illegal? Aren't appetizers MEANT to be shared? And that's without going into what makes this really stupid. Next I expect them to draft up legislation that would let the state use homeless as tires for their cars.

bring back the death penalty for this sick filth

[QUOTE=BFG9000;46429716]I get the image of some girl coyly forking a meatball into her boyfriend's mouth at a cafe with a bunch of cops tackling the two right after[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Solo Wing;46430910]So doesn't this make, like, every restaurant illegal? Aren't appetizers MEANT to be shared? And that's without going into what makes this really stupid. Next I expect them to draft up legislation that would let the state use homeless as tires for their cars.[/QUOTE] Considering this is SH it shouldn't surprise me that nobody looked up what the new ordinance is but anyways It only bans public distribution of food, outdoors, within five hundred feet of a residential property. It doesn't ban sharing food, soup kitchens, food donations within churches or community centers, or just giving the homeless food away from where people live. Supposedly they were having problems with homeless people causing problems around peoples' homes, I don't know if I believe that but there's a little more to it than just banning food sharing.