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90-Year-Old Serial Feeder of the Homeless Arnold Abbott Re-Arrested in Florida

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I blogged the other day about 90-year-old Arnold Abbott and a couple of ministers being arrested in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, for violating a city ordinance barring feeding the homeless in public.

Everything law and order types say is true: you let these criminals out on the street, they are just going go commit more crimes, as the Daily Mail reports that Abbott did it again, and was arrested again.

Mayor Jack Seiler, the Mail reports: 

told Local 10, 'Mr. Abbott has decided that he doesn't think these individuals should have to have any interaction with government, that they should be fed in the parks. We disagree.'

Again, Reason's sadly large archives of stories about people arrested for feeding the homeless, and this Reason TV video about Philadelphia's war on this sort of charity: