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(Local10) Florida City evicts sex offenders living under bridge because they couldn't find housing that wasn't 2500 feet away from schools. Maybe they should move to state parks instead?   (local10.com) divider line 223
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Anagrammer 2008-02-03 11:08:05 PM  
Maybe subby should proofread instead?

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:08:09 PM  
they should try garbage dumps

 
3ntropy 2008-02-03 11:08:37 PM  
my head assplode subby

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:09:25 PM  
Of course, these clumsy laws are written by these guys around election time:

faculty.seattlecolleges.com

 
00spy 2008-02-03 11:10:44 PM  
Hang every one of them.

 
Alexander Nevsky 2008-02-03 11:11:32 PM  
Anagrammer: Maybe subby should proofread instead?

Your housing isn't 2500 feet away schools?

/not subby

 
GotBandwagon 2008-02-03 11:11:33 PM  
Damn those 2500 feet away schools!

 
mr_zero [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:12:08 PM  
Maybe they should try killing themselves.

 
Bored Horde 2008-02-03 11:12:17 PM  
If the term "Sex Offender" wasn't so useless as to include people who have done incredibly dangerous acts like mooning a passing car with a minor in it, or urinating in public...

 
accelleron 2008-02-03 11:12:48 PM  
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2979325

And I'm sure I've heard the story before of the sex offender unable to find housing. Are we doing this for the children, or are we being creative about tar and feathering people? Because the original tar and feathering was better than severely restricting their movement, posting their personal info online, and waiting for their deaths to make the news. More humane, too.

 
farkwell 2008-02-03 11:13:04 PM  
hey, don't be bad at subby. he submitted this FROM A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER.

 
BitwiseShift 2008-02-03 11:14:04 PM  
Try the US Senate

 
RockIsDead 2008-02-03 11:14:07 PM  
Every generation of society needs its witches to burn.

Human nature.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:14:24 PM  
Leave those poor farks alone. Your kid is more likely to get molested by his uncle than any of these hapless bastards.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:14:31 PM  
Bored Horde: If the term "Sex Offender" wasn't so useless as to include people who have done incredibly dangerous acts like mooning a passing car with a minor in it, or urinating in public...

well, according to the genius a few posts up, all of these offenders should be executed. if we want to be tough on crime, we can't keep making such logical distinctions like the seriousness of a crime now can we?

 
Nuclear Monk 2008-02-03 11:15:21 PM  
THey should just go diddle some more kids so they can go back to the comfort of prison with regular meals, a bed, and a roof over their heads.

 
evilstein 2008-02-03 11:15:22 PM  
accelleron: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2979325

And I'm sure I've heard the story before of the sex offender unable to find housing. Are we doing this for the children, or are we being creative about tar and feathering people? Because the original tar and feathering was better than severely restricting their movement, posting their personal info online, and waiting for their deaths to make the news. More humane, too.


Actually what's been happening is that they simply disappear and nobody knows where they are or what kids they're diddling.

Overbearing surveillance hasn't solved that problem at all. The criminals simply disappear into society. Fortunately the powers that be are becoming more aware of the problems that they've caused.

 
ShavedApe 2008-02-03 11:15:27 PM  
Boo Farking Hoo?

 
Postal Penguin 2008-02-03 11:15:30 PM  
I think that should read "was 2500 feet away"

 
acsaustin 2008-02-03 11:16:00 PM  
um WHAT!!

http://www.local10.com/news/15118787/detail.html

Link in same article

"DaCosta is not a sex offender but was ordered to live by the same rules as a condition of his parole. Police call him an habitual offender and he has a long record including grand theft charges, arson and burglary assault, to name a few.

Because he was order to live by the same rules as sex offenders he can't stay at his parents' house at night because there's a school bus stop nearby. But he's allowed to be there during the day and he usually is."

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:16:06 PM  
BitwiseShift: Try the US Senate

why? the senate already has more than its fair share of creeps, perverts, crooks, and douchebags.

 
Quantum Apostrophe 2008-02-03 11:16:40 PM  
Bah, they should get a job as a teacher.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:17:52 PM  
acsaustin: um WHAT!!

http://www.local10.com/news/15118787/detail.html

Link in same article

"DaCosta is not a sex offender but was ordered to live by the same rules as a condition of his parole. Police call him an habitual offender and he has a long record including grand theft charges, arson and burglary assault, to name a few.

Because he was order to live by the same rules as sex offenders he can't stay at his parents' house at night because there's a school bus stop nearby. But he's allowed to be there during the day and he usually is."


it's florida (america's wang). florida is the wannabe texas when it comes to being tough on crime.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:18:51 PM  
Quantum Apostrophe: Bah, they should get a job as a teacher.

there are women living under that bridge

 
Oldiron_79 2008-02-03 11:19:01 PM  
Tie a mill stone around their necks and toss them into the ocean, its what Jeebus would do.

 
nobozo 2008-02-03 11:20:27 PM  
How about the metric sex offenders?

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:20:38 PM  
Bucky Katt: Quantum Apostrophe: Bah, they should get a job as a teacher.

there are women living under that bridge?


FTFM

 
azevilgenius 2008-02-03 11:21:34 PM  
So the end of the article has some asshat saying "This is the government that created homelessness"

So... it's the government's fault that these worthless beings couldn't keep their hands (or other parts) to themselves and the courts wonderfully showed justice and these scums went to jail and now have felony charges thus making them considerably unemployable unless they do collection for Aaron's RTO and thus have no money and no place to live?

Was this genuis implying something other than what I eloquently mocked?

 
Fraggler [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:26:05 PM  
Serious question: do these laws let people be grandfathered into their homes? For example, if an offender is already living in a property greater than x ft. from any school and a new school is built less than x ft. away, does he have to move?

 
Freezy Peak 2008-02-03 11:26:56 PM  
The Army is always looking for new recruits.

 
mikeandeichmann 2008-02-03 11:29:33 PM  
I can't believe there are still people out there that think the label "sex offender" means anything. Seriously...there are people in this thread calling for the death of people who have committed crimes including public urination, indecent exposure (a very shaky concept), and having sex with a 17 year old.

fark you all, you ignorant enablers. Here's the problem with this little scorched earth campaign against sex offenders you support: the more you ostracize these people and the harder you make it for them to adapt to regular life, the less incentive they have to not commit a crime. Christ, how much worse can prison be than getting evicted from a farking bridge??? And guess what? Once these guys realize that they have no incentive not to go to prison, they're more willing to commit a crime to get back there. Pop quiz: if a sex offender decides prison is preferable to a life of vagrancy and near-starvation, what crime do you think they're going to commit to get back to prison? All you do with these stupid laws is encourage sex offenders to reoffend.

Seriously, it's like people shut off their mind when it comes to sex offenses.

 
acsaustin 2008-02-03 11:30:04 PM  
Serious question: do these laws let people be grandfathered into their homes? For example, if an offender is already living in a property greater than x ft. from any school and a new school is built less than x ft. away, does he or she have to move?


FTFY

 
Partisan 2008-02-03 11:30:15 PM  
Jesus.

These people are being evicted from under a bridge. What a wonderful system. How do these "x feet from a school/church/bus stop/etc." laws jive with the Constitution?

 
rajuncajun1369 2008-02-03 11:32:19 PM  
mr_zero: Maybe they should try killing themselves.

/I hope you have not been able to succesfully breed.

 
mikeandeichmann 2008-02-03 11:33:22 PM  
Fraggler: Serious question: do these laws let people be grandfathered into their homes? For example, if an offender is already living in a property greater than x ft. from any school and a new school is built less than x ft. away, does he have to move?

In at least some cases, yes. There have been stories in the past of this happening.

It's an American tragedy that people support this witch hunt.

 
dangelder 2008-02-03 11:33:22 PM  
I'm living under a bridge right now, so I'm really hoping to find some food soon.

 
SwallowTheKnife 2008-02-03 11:35:45 PM  
Partisan: Jesus.

These people are being evicted from under a bridge. What a wonderful system. How do these "x feet from a school/church/bus stop/etc." laws jive with the Constitution?


Someone owns this land under the bridge. Therefore, it's private property. If I owned land with a bridge on it and a bunch of sex offenders were squatting there I'd probably tell them to 'vamoose'

 
Bored Horde 2008-02-03 11:36:18 PM  
azevilgenius: So the end of the article has some asshat saying "This is the government that created homelessness"

So... it's the government's fault that these worthless beings couldn't keep their hands (or other parts) to themselves and the courts wonderfully showed justice and these scums went to jail and now have felony charges thus making them considerably unemployable unless they do collection for Aaron's RTO and thus have no money and no place to live?

Was this genuis implying something other than what I eloquently mocked?


I suppose you giggle a little, maybe get a little aroused at the thought of all the prison rape and beatings these people suffered?

Its probably a nervous arousal. You aren't really capable of dealing with the fact that you get your jollies off human misery and suffering. What you do know is that these people are scum, irregardless of the situation that preceded their enrollment on the Sex Offender list. These child-rapists, these women-molesters, these ignorant savages who don't deserve to enjoy basic human dignities like a roof or a semblance of privacy.

It's not like people can be enrolled on the list for being sexually active 16-year olds in a normal, loving relationship. It's not like a drunken night at the age of 21 can lead to a Sex Offender charge if an uptight cop catches you peeing on a wall.

Every single one of these people deserves to be castigated from society, to have their particulars continually available on the internet, to have restrictions placed on their location of residence such that they have to move 300 miles form a major metropolitan area, and to live out the rest of their lives knowing that the only work they can possibly do which will reward them with any decent wage is illegal.

I'm sure that the thought that the entire treatment of "sex offenders" in the United States creates a large criminal underclass that is hardened in Prison and forged in the fires of self-righteous anger from bystanders like yourself has crossed your mind, and the balance favours making sure that all these criminal scum are hunted like Animals.

Do you campaign to have them chemically castrated as well? Perhaps simply sterilized?

How far from simply executing every person who cops a feel while drunk do you lie on the spectrum?

 
D-O-single_G 2008-02-03 11:36:31 PM  
These guys are some serious douche bags to be sure, but making them homeless is only going to make them untraceable to authorities. Untraceable sex offenders are the worst kind of sex offenders. You republican jihadists should use your brains sometimes.

 
fanbladesaresharp 2008-02-03 11:37:07 PM  
Bucky Katt: Of course, these clumsy laws are written by these guys around election time:

given the situation I'm NOT in, if I were, I'd probably cut someone's arm off just so I could go to that PMITA place for my 3 hots and a cot. Desperation is a fugly thing if they want to and keep shoveling the homeless around. They're going to snap sometime.

Shiat. Make a deal with them: keep the taggers and dealers out from the corners and under bridges and you can stay. Just jump in the river once in a while and clean up. Soap is cheap. Helps when you want to come back into society.

 
Captain Darling 2008-02-03 11:38:37 PM  
There's no stupidity like local government crusader stupidity.

 
mr_zero [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:39:23 PM  
I hope you have not been able to succesfully breed.

I was not making the statement about public urinaters or streakers or children that had sex in high school, I was speaking to the child molester portion of the sex offender group.

BTW I have bred and my children are stellar.

 
fezziwig 2008-02-03 11:39:51 PM  
I don't think anyone is using Alcatraz. Let's give them that, a box of vegetable seeds and gardening tools.

Problem solved.

Of course this adversly affects my zombie survival plan. But I can work around it.

 
rajuncajun1369 2008-02-03 11:41:04 PM  
You shouldn't turn theese guys into criminals when they get out by zoning them out of areas. Eventually they will zone alcoholics from liquer stores, crackheads from crackzones, lawyers from anywhere.

 
Weji Atreides 2008-02-03 11:42:23 PM  
I could have sworn that there was an article and discussion exactly like this a few months ago....

/Wont somebody think of the children!!!!
// I lol'd

 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:42:28 PM  
While it isn't desirable for sex offenders, especially those who have offended against children, to live near where children congregate (schools, city parks, etc.), it's equally undesirable to pass laws that in effect make it even harder to keep track of said offenders. Most are on parole or probation, but it's difficult to keep track of them if they are being refused housing & are living on the streets, often moving from one place to another. If these offenders have no set place to live, it's nigh onto impossible to keep track of them & lessen the chance of them reoffending.

 
Man On Pink Corner [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 11:44:31 PM  
It's OK to beat pedos, they don't have any feelings

 
farkingatwork 2008-02-03 11:45:20 PM  
RockIsDead: Every generation of society needs its witches to burn.

Human nature.


Now if only it could be reversed, and you burn those who are claiming that the others are witches. I think that might solve a lot of problems :)

 
Bored Horde 2008-02-03 11:45:41 PM  
mr_zero: I hope you have not been able to succesfully breed.

I was not making the statement about public urinaters or streakers or children that had sex in high school, I was speaking to the child molester portion of the sex offender group.

BTW I have bred and my children are stellar.


Your position on that Pedophiles can't help but be sexually attracted to children?

If society judges that someone is unfit to reside in the general public, they should take responsibility for them, housing and feeding them decently. Many people are held against their will in Psychiatric Hospitals, it strikes me that holding a Pedophile in an institution would be much more humane and cost-effective then having a team of police and parole officers ensuring compliance with increasingly complex and demanding legislation.

 
cerejaninja 2008-02-03 11:45:56 PM  
farkwell
hey, don't be bad at subby. he submitted this FROM A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER.


Classic! I was watching that last week :)

 
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