Posted on 06/10/2005 1:58:53 PM PDT by MRMEAN
Panhandlers are uniting to defend their right to beg for change in a class-action suit claiming they've been wrongly arrested in violation of their constitutional rights. The lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court alleges panhandlers who are begging peacefully are routinely arrested and prosecuted despite a federal judge's 1992 ruling that declared the city law behind these arrests was unconstitutional.
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I once gave $20 to a Jamaican guy in New York City who played kettle drums in Times Square. At first I thought he was just plain "good," but I was amazed to see that he could play any tune that any random passerby requested. It's one thing to hear someone like that play "Yankee Doodle Dandee" or "Mary Had a Little Lamb" -- those folks are a dime a dozen -- but there must have been several hundred people gathered around him when people realized that this guy could play requests that included the theme song from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Rossini's "William Tell Overture," "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, and a number of scores from Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto."
Shop stewart Barny Arughhhh.
LOL
Complete with Josh White psychadelic light show ???
"What happened with your Dad?"
He was ok, just got his car smashed up.
"Well of course he caused an auto accident! He was blind for Pete's sake!! Have you no pity?"
LOL! I was expecting one like that!
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