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Crazy to me that they exempted him from the vagrancy laws. Like "Oh we can have one mysterious and entertaining vagrant".
by protocolture 1y ago
Crazy to me that they exempted him from the vagrancy laws. Like "Oh we can have one mysterious and entertaining vagrant".
- titanomachy 1y agoTen separate towns did so. And people left food for him, like Santa Claus. He must have meant something to them.
- oldpersonintx2 1y agoBecause he didn't scream at people, leave used needles in the street, or pass out in gutters.
- Y-bar 1y ago”Homed” people do those things, quite often, yet I have to se any anti-vacancy laws. It is telling that society regularly outlaws afflictions like homelessness or situations like vagrancy instead of targeting the specific instances of bad behaviour that ought to be the problem.
- that_guy_iain 1y agoWe outlaw homelessness because we don't want homeless people on the streets littering the place. The bad behaviours you want to be outlawed are in fact already outlawed. It's just super hard to catch and convict on those. While it's a lot easier to prove someone is sleeping rough.
- Y-bar 1y agoThat’s two major problems baked into one. First: We hide the symptoms behind a veneer of illegality which allows us to ignore the underlying causes. Second: We intentionally write laws which has a proportionally negative effect based on social and medical class of citizens. A class which is already facing hardships. ”The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
- astroflection 1y agoThere should be a majestic law that forbids both the rich and poor to use their position in public office to enrich themselves.
- foreigner 1y agoSimilar to Leslie Cochran in Austin.
- sidewndr46 1y agoWas that actually a thing? He passed away before I ever met him.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoWas what actually a thing? Leslie? Leslie was definitely a person who existed, who was a sort of local weirdo. I met him, once, probably have a photo I could dig out somewhere.
- hyperhello 1y ago"The law says no vagrants. We're allowed to have one."
- philistine 1y agoNo Homers Club
- tristor 1y agoIt mentions in his Wikipedia article that he had money although the source was unknown. The issue with vagrancy throughout history is not the vagrancy itself primarily, but the problems of theft and anti-social behaviors that go with it. Since this person had money, didn't steal, and seemed to mostly leave people alone, they weren't a problem and got an exemption because they were well known.
- protocolture 1y agoIf only they had thought to make anti social behaviours like theft a crime.