Comments on: What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas, Unless You Feed the Homeless. Then, You Go To Jail.

By: Garfield

Garfield — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:01:06 +0000

Vegas needs to do something besides shuffle these people around and bust up their shanty towns. I didnt mind giving out a dollar or two a day on my way to/from work

By: Colin Moore

Colin Moore — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:12:12 +0000

Please do not feed the homeless?
Shame on you Uncle Sam!!
Whatever happened to common decency and compassion?

By: TheOtherJordan

TheOtherJordan — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:06:27 +0000

Funny, that comment about putting the tourist up on a pedestal. In Hawaii it is much the same thing with very little in the way of support, shelter, or services. The homeless got kicked out of the parks, the streets, and now there are many living on the west side of O’ahu. I think a lot of it has to do with tourism and a lot of it also has to do with the nimbys. So what happens? Make a new batch of rules stating it’s illegal to be in the park after a certain time, make new bus benches with these stupid little dividers so they can’t be used to lie down on, make it everybody’s problem by putting it on the news and then do nothing. Do nothing until it gets to be a big enough problem for someone to complain about again.

By: Uncle Dave

Uncle Dave — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:01:39 +0000

#10: There are stories of people who busted out here in Vegas and ended up not leaving. Many become homeless for a while. This could be crap, but I think one future casino owner supposedly started like this.

#11 joshua: you might want to modify your screen name to something else. How about NotTheOtherJoshua?

By: franky

franky — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:20:46 +0000

On sundays I go feed the homeless in the park with my grand parents.

By: AB CD

AB CD — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:19:53 +0000

Cities do this all the time, only usually they hide it behind eminent domain laws using phrases like ‘urban blight’ and ‘community development.’

By: joshua

joshua — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:04:08 +0000

comment #8 is from the *other* Joshua. Not the 23 y/o one in California/Arizona and is a conservative……lol

By: OmarTheAlien

OmarTheAlien — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:45:55 +0000

There is a mindset that places the almighty tourist on a pedestal (and by extension the dollar) and they must be shielded from such ugliness as vagrants, junk yards or even unkempt residential areas. Vegas undoubtably carries this to an extreme do the fact that their tourists come well heeled and the plan is to separate the guest and his/her money and send them on their way, poorer but no wiser. Of course, some of these “homeless” are probably former guests who, after their fleecing, lacked the means to return home. In which case, Vegas deserves them.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:03:09 +0000

Everyone in Vegas, dress poorly and conglomerate around EVERY G** ****ED PARK you can find in protest! Prove that they can’t tell the homeless from the well-to-do by their own ignorant definition! This is an outrage!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:10:06 +0000

I just moved from vegas to the Dallas area. I was amazed when i moved here and there wasnt herds of homeless people on most streetcorners and bus stops. Vegas needs to do something besides shuffle these people around and bust up their shanty towns. I didnt mind giving out a dollar or two a day on my way to/from work, but i’ll say, it is nice NOT being hit up in every parking lot and traffic light for change for once.

By: Smartalix

Smartalix — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:00:46 +0000

The answer is simple: Boycott Vegas.

Oh, never mind. It will never happen.

By: RonD

RonD — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:47:42 +0000

“It means they can discriminate based on the way people look,” Lichtenstein said.

Gasp.. oh no! Not PROFILING!

I agree, punishing those trying to help is idiotic.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:17:28 +0000

That law defining a homeless person is so vague and unenforcable I wonder if it was meant to placate some rich, complaining voters and then be thrown out of court. jh

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:49:12 +0000

Vegas should establish an official shelter, What with all the money they’re raking in, then encourage the public to volunteer and donate. Yeesh… apparently “up” is “down” in the law-making realm. I guess that’s what happens when your head’s stuffed up your a**. Things must get quite confusing.

By: Todd Henkel

Todd Henkel — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:51:58 +0000

I personally dislike the fact that a soup kitchen near my office attracts some of the craziest and wacked out people in town. The men scare the women in our building and the women have been downright scary…

But to put in place a law to prevent such charity work is outrageous. Definitely “sin city”…