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silgryphon

2011-12-22 08:09:24 PM

South Park did it

phamwaa

2011-12-22 10:06:33 PM

MEGABUS!!!!111!!!

Galileo's Daughter

2011-12-22 10:10:37 PM

What, no Tri-Rail passes?

malaktaus

2011-12-22 10:11:18 PM

I don't entirely approve, but at least they aren't sending them to secret death camps like Giuliani did.

skinink

2011-12-22 10:13:11 PM

"The program won't cost taxpayers a dime. It's being paid for by the Florida Law Enforcement Trust Fund, which is money confiscated from criminals."

I'd like to know how many of those 'criminals' were convicted before the state decided they were going to take someone's money. Then I'd want to know why this confiscated money was not being used on other things in the first place besides trying to get rid of the homeless.

phrenicmonkey

2011-12-22 10:13:31 PM

Toronto was caught giving away one-way tickets to Hamilton when (then) Premier Harris downloaded Social Services from the Province. Weren't the poor suffering enough? The Hammer's the scooter capital of Canada now.

BalugaJoe

2011-12-22 10:13:34 PM

John Rambo.

EggSniper

2011-12-22 10:14:03 PM

/oblig

El Freak

2011-12-22 10:16:15 PM

Yes, I'm sure that will permanently solve the problem.

HelloMyNameIs

2011-12-22 10:16:54 PM

silgryphon: South Park did it

Oh f*&(@*&(@#& that, those decade-late copiers. Florida cities have been mad at each other at that for a while. Naples has been sending its homeless to Sarasota, and Sarasota to St. Pete. I've been a consultant for quite a while.

poxic

2011-12-22 10:17:08 PM

It happens everywhere, more or less. If a social worker has a client who mentions wanting to go to another city/state/province/anywhere, a free bus ticket will likely be produced. Shazam, one less case to manage.

Diogenes The Cynic

2011-12-22 10:21:51 PM

skinink: "The program won't cost taxpayers a dime. It's being paid for by the Florida Law Enforcement Trust Fund, which is money confiscated from criminals."
I'd like to know how many of those 'criminals' were convicted before the state decided they were going to take someone's money. Then I'd want to know why this confiscated money was not being used on other things in the first place besides trying to get rid of the homeless.

In a way, they are getting rid of the homeless.

And they probably did ~~stea~~l take the money legally through asset seizure.

McManus_brothers

2011-12-22 10:24:37 PM

Yes, keep them south of WPB, please.

/Lives north of Palm Beach County
//NIMBY

tb tibbles

2011-12-22 10:25:38 PM

Well if there are willing relations that will take care of them,that's cool. Greyhound therapy is basically dumping them there with no more support than a phone number to social services.

ghiabug99

2011-12-22 10:28:16 PM

Nugent said she'd be eligible for the program because she has several families members will to take care of her back home.
"I have three younger sisters, my grand children, my daughters and two of my sons," said Nugent.

Yet not one of her relatives has seen fit to buy her a bus ticket back in the last 5 years.

pjbreeze

2011-12-22 10:29:35 PM

That's a great way to not solve a problem. Just push the problem off to some place else.

shtychkn

2011-12-22 10:31:35 PM

EggSniper: [southparkstudios-intl.mtvnimages.com image 200x150]

/oblig

Came for south park ref.

captinhowdy3

2011-12-22 10:34:01 PM

who wrote this a 3ed grader out of school for Christmas vacation????

ProdigalSigh

2011-12-22 10:41:44 PM

FTA: So far, about 100 homeless people like Nugent have expressed interest in the program.

I don't think I can jump that many on my skateboard, it's too dangerous, I won't risk it!

flamingboard

2011-12-22 10:42:44 PM

"Screw the homeless. It's their own fault for being poor." - Every GOP candidate

redhook

2011-12-22 10:45:26 PM

phoenixdan

2011-12-22 10:49:59 PM

182

2011-12-22 10:53:06 PM

that's the typical florida response minus the bus ride.

duckpoopy

2011-12-22 10:53:33 PM

Send them out to the farking everglades in a meat vest. What are you gonna do, open a farking business you farking piece of shiat bum?

ole prophet

2011-12-22 10:57:22 PM

To be fair, New York City has been doing this for years.

Link

Ivo Shandor

2011-12-22 11:03:04 PM

phrenicmonkey: Toronto was caught giving away one-way tickets to Hamilton when (then) Premier Harris downloaded Social Services from the Province.

Ralph Klein had the same idea for Alberta's welfare program - a one-way bus ticket to Vancouver.

7th Son of a 7th Son

2011-12-22 11:05:23 PM

ghiabug99: Nugent said she'd be eligible for the program because she has several families members will to take care of her back home.
"I have three younger sisters, my grand children, my daughters and two of my sons," said Nugent.

Yet not one of her relatives has seen fit to buy her a bus ticket back in the last 5 years.

THIS. Exactly what I was thinking.

You Cant Explain That

2011-12-22 11:16:15 PM

skinink: "The program won't cost taxpayers a dime. It's being paid for by the Florida Law Enforcement Trust Fund, which is money confiscated from criminals."

I'd like to know how many of those 'criminals' were convicted before the state decided they were going to take someone's money. Then I'd want to know why this confiscated money was not being used on other things in the first place besides trying to get rid of the homeless.

The process of seizing these "criminals" assets I'm sure was cost free as well.

Anything ever confiscated should go right back to whoever funds the department in the first place.

MBooda

2011-12-22 11:26:28 PM

Wotta sensation. There they lie in their degradation.

/obscure? If not, tell me where it's from

brainiac-dumdum

2011-12-22 11:29:46 PM

skinink: "The program won't cost taxpayers a dime. It's being paid for by the Florida Law Enforcement Trust Fund, which is money confiscated from criminals."
I'd like to know how many of those 'criminals' were convicted before the state decided they were going to take someone's money. Then I'd want to know why this confiscated money was not being used on other things in the first place besides trying to get rid of the homeless.

A lot if times the person did not do anything illegal, let alone convicted of a crime, before assets are forfeitured.

The Forfeiture Racket (new window)

Mock26

2011-12-22 11:42:01 PM

I think it is a good idea. It is not like they are just shipping them out of the city, but are instead shipping them to family members who can help to take care of them. How is that a horrible thing?

Mrs. Beasley

2011-12-22 11:44:48 PM

Uh, no. They tried (and mostly DID) this in Colorado Springs two years ago when they cleaned out all the "camps" by Fountain Creek with a last-minute "Merry CHRIST-mas" Council vote to ban "camping" anywhere within the city limits. In the winter. During a snow storm. Local off-duty cops did the "clean up," destroying whatever personal property these people had. While there were a few homeless who actually had people waiting for them on the other end, the vast majority were just railroaded into taking a free bus ticket to nowhere (mostly New Mexico) and no one double-checked to see if there were friends or relatives waiting there.

Five men got off the bus somewhere between COS and Albuquerque (suffering from alcoholic dementia and other health issues) and, while looking for a warm place to "camp," froze to death by the side of the road.

I no longer live in the city called "The Vatican of the West," and this was one of the reasons I had to leave. There was MUCH more, but this was the proverbial camel's straw.

And, for the 10 awful years I had to live there, groups like Focus on the Family (and mega-church, New Life, home to man-and-meth addict, Ted Haggard) did absolute nothing for our homeless. But they sure had enough cash to introduce Amendment-2, Prop-48 (the first "personhood" amendment to attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade), and spending nearly $200K in California trying to stop Prop-H8.

So, Ft. Lauderdale has learned from the worst of the worst. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Merry Farking Christmas.

doglover

2011-12-22 11:57:58 PM

ParagonComplex

2011-12-22 11:59:15 PM

This seems shadier than the Redwoods. If they have people that will take care of them then why don't they come get them?

wallywam1

2011-12-23 12:10:11 AM

Mississippi Fun Bucks!

Mock26

2011-12-23 12:15:50 AM

Mrs. Beasley: Uh, no. They tried (and mostly DID) this in Colorado Springs two years ago when they cleaned out all the "camps" by Fountain Creek with a last-minute "Merry CHRIST-mas" Council vote to ban "camping" anywhere within the city limits. In the winter. During a snow storm. Local off-duty cops did the "clean up," destroying whatever personal property these people had. While there were a few homeless who actually had people waiting for them on the other end, the vast majority were just railroaded into taking a free bus ticket to nowhere (mostly New Mexico) and no one double-checked to see if there were friends or relatives waiting there.

Five men got off the bus somewhere between COS and Albuquerque (suffering from alcoholic dementia and other health issues) and, while looking for a warm place to "camp," froze to death by the side of the road.

I no longer live in the city called "The Vatican of the West," and this was one of the reasons I had to leave. There was MUCH more, but this was the proverbial camel's straw.

And, for the 10 awful years I had to live there, groups like Focus on the Family (and mega-church, New Life, home to man-and-meth addict, Ted Haggard) did absolute nothing for our homeless. But they sure had enough cash to introduce Amendment-2, Prop-48 (the first "personhood" amendment to attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade), and spending nearly $200K in California trying to stop Prop-H8.

So, Ft. Lauderdale has learned from the worst of the worst. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Merry Farking Christmas.

Fine. Now prove that Ft. Lauderdale is going to do a repeat of Colorado Springs. Go on. Prove it.

SevenizGud

2011-12-23 12:18:31 AM

Throw meals in along the rides and I'm there.

Farksteron

2011-12-23 12:22:33 AM

I bet the bus smells great!

Crabs_Can_Polevault

2011-12-23 12:30:47 AM

pjbreeze: That's a great way to not solve a problem. Just push the problem off to some place else.

I know you're being sarcastic, but that's really how they're thinking: if you can push the problem somewhere well out of the way, where you can't see it any more, then that's just as good as solving it, at a fraction of the cost.

It's the same way a lot of ideologues work around here: if they can tell the lie enough times without someone else bringing up the facts that disprove them, then that's just as good as telling the truth.

Goodfella

2011-12-23 12:52:13 AM

LA and Phoenix were doing this to eachother a lot back in the 1990's.

RanDomino

2011-12-23 01:01:20 AM

Why not just hire the Pied Piper? After all they're not even really human, right?

Mrs. Beasley

2011-12-23 02:23:23 AM

Mock26: Mrs. Beasley: Uh, no. They tried (and mostly DID) this in Colorado Springs two years ago when they cleaned out all the "camps" by Fountain Creek with a last-minute "Merry CHRIST-mas" Council vote to ban "camping" anywhere within the city limits. In the winter. During a snow storm. Local off-duty cops did the "clean up," destroying whatever personal property these people had. While there were a few homeless who actually had people waiting for them on the other end, the vast majority were just railroaded into taking a free bus ticket to nowhere (mostly New Mexico) and no one double-checked to see if there were friends or relatives waiting there.

Five men got off the bus somewhere between COS and Albuquerque (suffering from alcoholic dementia and other health issues) and, while looking for a warm place to "camp," froze to death by the side of the road.

I no longer live in the city called "The Vatican of the West," and this was one of the reasons I had to leave. There was MUCH more, but this was the proverbial camel's straw.

And, for the 10 awful years I had to live there, groups like Focus on the Family (and mega-church, New Life, home to man-and-meth addict, Ted Haggard) did absolute nothing for our homeless. But they sure had enough cash to introduce Amendment-2, Prop-48 (the first "personhood" amendment to attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade), and spending nearly $200K in California trying to stop Prop-H8.

So, Ft. Lauderdale has learned from the worst of the worst. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Merry Farking Christmas.

Fine. Now prove that Ft. Lauderdale is going to do a repeat of Colorado Springs. Go on. Prove it.

Sorry...don't do free research for liters. Especially Bible-thumping liters. :-/

Mock26

2011-12-23 03:09:00 AM

Mrs. Beasley: Mock26: Mrs. Beasley: Uh, no. They tried (and mostly DID) this in Colorado Springs two years ago when they cleaned out all the "camps" by Fountain Creek with a last-minute "Merry CHRIST-mas" Council vote to ban "camping" anywhere within the city limits. In the winter. During a snow storm. Local off-duty cops did the "clean up," destroying whatever personal property these people had. While there were a few homeless who actually had people waiting for them on the other end, the vast majority were just railroaded into taking a free bus ticket to nowhere (mostly New Mexico) and no one double-checked to see if there were friends or relatives waiting there.

Five men got off the bus somewhere between COS and Albuquerque (suffering from alcoholic dementia and other health issues) and, while looking for a warm place to "camp," froze to death by the side of the road.

I no longer live in the city called "The Vatican of the West," and this was one of the reasons I had to leave. There was MUCH more, but this was the proverbial camel's straw.

And, for the 10 awful years I had to live there, groups like Focus on the Family (and mega-church, New Life, home to man-and-meth addict, Ted Haggard) did absolute nothing for our homeless. But they sure had enough cash to introduce Amendment-2, Prop-48 (the first "personhood" amendment to attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade), and spending nearly $200K in California trying to stop Prop-H8.

So, Ft. Lauderdale has learned from the worst of the worst. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Merry Farking Christmas.

Fine. Now prove that Ft. Lauderdale is going to do a repeat of Colorado Springs. Go on. Prove it.

Sorry...don't do free research for liters. Especially Bible-thumping liters. :-/

"Look it up yourself," the tell-tale sign of the liar/bullshiat artist who has just been exposed as a fraud. You cannot back up your claim with a single shred of credible proof and instead of being mature enough to admit it you instead tell the other person to "go look it up yourself." Sorry, but it does not work that way. The onus is on You to back up Your claim. You might want to get an education, and while you are at it study up on logic.

As for being a bible-thumper, where in all of Hades do you get that from? Whatever the source it is about as credible as your specious claim, because I renounced the supposed god of the christian myth when I was 8 and turned to Odinism when I was 16.

NephilimNexus

2011-12-23 03:30:29 AM

"NIMBY" at it's most cliche.

groppet

2011-12-23 06:16:56 AM

When I was younger we had a little homeless problem. They hung out behind a 7-11 bugging everyone, sometimes even getting violent. One day they just disappeared. Someone told me the cops loaded them in a van and dropped them off at the DC/MD border.

your average maint. man

2011-12-23 07:24:47 AM

McManus_brothers: Yes, keep them south of WPB, please.

/Lives north of Palm Beach County
//NIMBY

Amen brother, and don't even think of pushing em' up here to Martin County

McManus_brothers

2011-12-23 08:24:21 AM

your average maint. man: McManus_brothers: Yes, keep them south of WPB, please.

/Lives north of Palm Beach County
//NIMBY

Amen brother, and don't even think of pushing em' up here to Martin County

Always nice to meet another local on Fark!

newton

2011-12-23 09:28:13 AM

Mr. Show also did it.

Mississippi Fun Bucks...

PraetorianXVIII

2011-12-23 11:07:33 AM

ole prophet: To be fair, New York City has been doing this for years.

Link

yeah I was going to say, didn't NYC do this with Giuliani before South Park did?

Mrs. Beasley

2011-12-23 01:10:45 PM

He said Odinism. ::snerk::

/hows that basement working out for 'ya?

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