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Old 05-22-2014, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Daytona Beach police dismissed Wednesday more than $2,000 in fines levied against a Florida couple - and four of their friends - for feeding homeless people at a park, local authorities confirmed to NBC News.

"They've dropped all the charges. But we’re not going to stop feeding people around here. We’ve been doing that all along," said Debbie Jimenez, who, with her husband, Chico, was ticketed for trespassing and violating a local law that bars individuals from sharing food with homeless people in public places.

Florida Couple Cleared of All Fines for Feeding Homeless People - NBC News
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Old 05-22-2014, 07:28 PM
 
Location: Sarasota FL
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But now if they get a 'permit' from the city [read city gets revenue] the couple will be permitted to continue feeding the homeless. Pay for a piece of paper to do the same thing you've been doing.
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:39 PM
 
Location: Somewhere
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This is upsetting.
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:54 PM
 
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Now-a-days, you can give sex away for free but you cannot do the same with food. In my home state, it was illegal for grocery stores to donate leftover hot foods to the hungry. But, they could sell it (at a discount) or throw it into a dumpster.

Somewhere between 25% and 40% of all food produced in America each year is not eaten; that's at least 30 million tons of food waste, along with 300 - 500 million barrels of oil to produce the food (in 2013, 6.9 billion barrels of oil were consumed in the US).

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