[Cagey]

Orlando Food Not Bombs group feeds homeless people.

[mkjessup]

Sam Kinison was right:

"MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!"

And the professional bums always know where that is.

[Paradox]

Another U.S. City Outlaws Feeding Homeless People

Misleading headline of the day...

As a frequent visitor to Orlando, I am amazed that such a city could be relatively conservative. So many transients and tourists..

[Red Badger]

That one in pink behind the BABY CARRIAGE is not exactly starving..........

[the invisib1e hand]

"...that's the thing about WASPS. They love animals, but they hate people." --- Gordon Gecko [Michael Douglas], Wall Street

[RightWhale]

It applies to public property. Those who want to feed the homeless are free to do so on their own private property, but they are not the public and have no inherent right to even be on public land.

[synbad600]

How many people opposed to outlawing feeding the homeless actually live near these parks?

[nevergore]

There kinda like pigeons....

Don't feed them in the park or they will flock.....

[A message]

Nobody is stopping the Food Not Bombs organization from gathering the homeless and taking them to houses and apartments of the Food Not Bombs members and feeding them there.

[stylin19a]

Orlando is trying to keep charitable groups from feeding the homeless in downtown parks.

The headline absolutely stinks.

[lilylangtree]

Authorize more shelters away from the parks--would that help the homeless/transient problem?

[rawcatslyentist]

What about water??

They arrested a little girl just for trying to give a drink to a helpless individual in Fl.

[calex59]

Is this kind of like the don't feed the bears rule in Yellowstone?

[talleyman]

a formal declaration from the University of Central Florida's student senate...

Wow, that's just one notch below a UN resolution...

[Vaquero]

and when their through making laws preventing the feeding of the homeless...its time to stop people from feeding those other rats..the flying kind....the pidgeons.

[Deut28]

This is pure idiocy.

They outlawed a positive behaviour (feeding the homeless) to address a separate negative behaviour (the safety and sanitary issues).

Laws already exist to address the behaviours that directly result in safety and sanitation issues, they should be enforced. What should not happen is to criminalize a positive behaviour.

This is legislative fencing. You build fences that restrict neutral or positive behaviors in an effort to reduce the occurence of negative behaviours.

God said don't eat the fruit. When asked by the serpent, Eve said God told her not to eat the fruit, or even touch it. Eve fenced what God said.

[leda]

ping

[timestax]

I buy gift certificates from McDonalds to hand out to the homeless. If they don't want them, then too bad.