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Fort Lauderdale’s law against feeding the homeless still isn’t America’s dumbest

Plus: Who’s taken away on European arrest warrants, and the figures on payday loans and sandwiches

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

States of criminality

A 90-year-old Florida man feeding the homeless was arrested under a Fort Lauderdale law which makes it illegal to share food with members of the public. Other laws from the ‘Land of the Free’:
— In Indiana you can be arrested for statutory rape if you are caught driving a car with a passenger under the age of 18 who is not wearing socks and shoes.

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