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Friday, July 21, 2006

FEED A COLD, STARVE A BUM

The ever-compassionate Drudge points out that Vegas has outlawed giving free food to the homeless.

Mayor Oscar Goodman, who has been a vocal advocate of cracking down on the homeless in city parks, dismissed questions about how marshals, who patrol city parks, will identify the homeless in order to enforce the ordinance, the violation of which would be a misdemeanor.

"Certain truths are self-evident," Goodman said. "You know who's homeless."

[...]

"The marshals will get specialized training on enforcement," Wolfson said. "If you bought a couple of burgers and wanted to give them out, you technically would be in violation, but you wouldn't be cited."

Nothing like having the Mayor and a City Councilman make your vagueness and discriminatory enforcement arguments for you.

If you've never been to Vegas in Summer, it's hard to imagine a shittier place to be homeless. I could barely stand the short walk from my suite to my limo, and most of that was inside the casino.



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