At least they're trying....

[Rumpy Tunanator]

Homeless Challenge Public Drinking Law

Forget trying to get a job, these guys have their priorities straight.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - If the rich and powerful can drink in a public park in the weeks before next year's Super Bowl, why can't the homeless do it now? That is the question the lawyer for three homeless men is raising in a court challenge over their arrest for drinking in a park that will be part of a designated party zone before the Super Bowl.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news...LS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040615/1621701747.htm

 

[mendelman]

ahhhhh.....this makes me feel good inside (really!)

I'm glad to see the disenfrancished of our population fighting the "Man", especially through the legal system (it's more legitimate)

 

[BKM]

Well, given the good possibility that many of the manly Superbowl Fans will be piloting a gigantic pickup truck or Stupid Useless Vehicle immediately after their game/alefest, the Superbowl fans may indeed be a GREATER threat to the public than a few soused bums

I know where I would feel safer.

 

[Super Amputee Cat]

Stupid Useless Vehicle.

Actually it's kind of too bad they are not called SAVs. For Suburban Assault Vehicle.

 

[BKM]

Actually it's kind of too bad they are not called SAVs. For Suburban Assault Vehicle.

I have a very colorful coworker who had an SAV. It was an ancient, decrepit Suburban with chipped and faded paint and taped on bumpers. His crazy (and I man CRAZY) wife/ex-wife put sugar in the gas tank. Not even an SAV can survive that

 

[Gedunker]

The College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State had a Winnebago that they had outfitted for charettes. We used to call it the Urban Assault Vehicle ;-)

 

[Budgie]

Urban Assault Vehicle ;-)

Was it an EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle? I saw one of those in STRIPES !!!!

I wish I were a loofa.

 

[Planderella]

ahhhhh.....this makes me feel good inside (really!)

I'm glad to see the disenfrancished of our population fighting the "Man", especially through the legal system (it's more legitimate)

I agree. Their argument is valid.

 

[plannerkat]

As a resident of Jacksonville, I'm quite curious to see how this turns out. The Super Bowl "entertainment zone" has also been criticized by the pastor of a 25,000 member downtown church based on the fact that, and I quote, "you can't reason with 10,000 people drunk on rot-gut alcohol." In a city of this size, there are woefully few places to get a real drink downtown. Yep, Jacksonville is the largest small town in the U.S. :-\

 

[BKM]

As a resident of Jacksonville, I'm quite curious to see how this turns out. The Super Bowl "entertainment zone" has also been criticized by the pastor of a 25,000 member downtown church based on the fact that, and I quote, "you can't reason with 10,000 people drunk on rot-gut alcohol." In a city of this size, there are woefully few places to get a real drink downtown. Yep, Jacksonville is the largest small town in the U.S. :-\

A 25,000 member church? It sounds like a militia to me

 

[mike gurnee]

A 25,000 member church?

It is the South, you all.

 

[Rumpy Tunanator]

and I quote, "you can't reason with 10,000 people drunk on rot-gut alcohol."

And you can't reason with religious fanatics either.

 

[Michele Zone]

And you can't reason with religious fanatics either.

AMEN to that. I don't miss The Bible Belt where I grew up. :-D