I've had some pretty unpleasant experiences with homeless people in Florida city parks. Honestly, I think the problem is partially that apparently everyone will stand up for rights of everyone to use public land, but actual organized, publically-funded space for homeless people is "communism" and is bad. Sorry, but 99% of homelessness is disgusting and shameful. Homeless people shouldn't be in a first world nation's city parks, period, and it's important for everyone to contribute to doing something rather than complain about it and make cheap PR. I support the fine in this case, but I also support better and more extensive use of taxpayer money to actually set up better management of this kind of thing - there's lots of good, working models for this around the world.
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