News of the Weird
May 17, 2007 at 8:56 pm by Amber Robinson in Not-lantaAwesome! In March three homeless men were awarded $10,000 each in a settlement with the city of Las Vegas, because they were arrested in November for violating a since-repealed ordinance. The men had been cited for “illegally†sleeping within 500 feet of public urine or feces (a restriction the city thought would drive the homeless to isolated parts of town to relieve themselves and/or to sleep). (In December, New York City panhandler Eddie Wise won $100,000 from the city when a judge ruled he had been illegally arrested 27 times under a law that had been ruled unconstitutional in 1992.)
© 2007 Chuck Shepherd
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