SDPD gives man a ticket for distributing bottled water to homeless people

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Support Growing For 'Water Man'
David Ross Cited For Providing Water In Public

http://www.10news.com/news/9761690/detail.html

There's a survey about it which you can vote in on that same page.

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1. does the place even have ice cream trucks?

i mean come on, what if water from last nights rain slid off your car as you drove there? would that count as distributing a drink from a vehical?

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2. That's a tough poll - "Do you think police should have cited Ross?"

On the one hand, the law, while understandable in certain cases, is a bit ridiculous in this one, so "No". On the other hand, the police are charged with upholding the law as written, silly or not (yeah, I know there are boatloads of dumb laws that aren't enforced), so it could also be "Yes"

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3. The poll hasn't been heavily freeped yet

Only 28 of the 298 people who have voted so far said "yes".

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4. In the words of Lil' John:

"WHAAAT?!"

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5. san diego police are pretty rough when it comes to the homeless

a friend of mine was down in san diego earlier this year - a young homeless traveling type kid - and he was sitting on the sidewalk when the cops rolled up on him. he was smoking a cigarette and they told him to stand up and drop his cigarette, which he did, and then they gave him a ticket for littering his cigarette, and then ran his name and found a 2 year old unpaid ticket so arrested him for it and he was stuck in jail for 4 days.

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6. That's really sad and disgusting.