Houston PD Tickets A Homeless Vet For ‘Molesting’ A Garbage Can For Food

[The Straight Story]

Now that the crime rate has declined in Houston, the cops there apparently don’t have enough to do.

In fact, it’s quiet enough in that dusty Texas town that their big bust last week was nailing a guy for a crime so heinous the statute against it has been on the books since 1942:

You CANNOT “molest a garbage can” in Houston, Texas.

That’s right. Scavenge through a big bin and you’re going down, brother. Well, you’re at least going to get a ticket. And last Thursday night that’s exactly what happened to James Kelly. The hungry, homeless Navy vet was ticketed by Houston PD for wanton disregard of the garbage molesting law after he was found rummaging through a trash bin in search of food, rumored to be a donut.

Dear God, mother, dial 911 and hide the kids in the bathroom!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/16/houston-pd-tickets-a-homeless-vet-for-molesting-a-garbage-can-for-food-video/

[niyad]

1. must have really changed since once being known as the murder capital of the US

[malthaussen]

2. They don't want you to have a home,

... they don't want you to have a job, but they will arrest you for going through the garbage. Sounds about right.

Hell, in some places they put friggin' locks on the Dumpsters.

-- Mal

[Trillo]

3. Yet banksters rummaging through our wallets is A-okay. NT

[Aerows]

4. Hide your kids, Hide your wives and Hide you husbands, too

because they molesting everybody's garbage cans up in here.

[talkingmime]

5. I wouldn't even know HOW to molest a garbage can.

[Major Nikon]

7. First, you have to gain its trust

[talkingmime]

15. LOL! What, by dropping a bag of used kitty litter in it?

[The Straight Story]

10. Well, whatever you do, don't hold a door open for the trash can

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Look for the wet spot.

[talkingmime]

16. (In my best Jar Jar Binks voice) - "How WOOOOOD!"

[IDemo]

17. You can find vulnerable garbage cans in your neighborhood on TrashBook n/t

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

6. Is this to support "Private Prisons"? n/t

[Smilo]

8. The officer who did this needs to take a look in the mirror

and ask himself what he would do if he was hungry and homeless?

Where has humanity gone?

Let's facilitate the secession of Texas now - we can partition a little for those Texans who are Dems and don't want to move to another state, but the rest they should go and rot.

[Aristus]

9. I'm sure God will forgive the cop, but at the Gates of Heaven,

I hope God reminds him: "I was hungry, and you did not feed Me."

[Android3.14]

11. Dusty?

Houston is on a swamp. I lived there 30 years ago and it is muggy, sweaty, wet and awful. Dusty? Dusty would have been nice compared to the sticky grossness that is Houston.
Just sayin'.
And "molesting a garbage can" is not a part of a statute as far as I can find. the original Houston Chronicle article from which the author cribbed the alternet crap piece mentions nothing about molesting a garbage can.
That all being said, it is simply awful the police arrested the guy for dumpster diving for food. The thing that bothers me is what passes for journalism in the minds of people on both sides of the political spectrum.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Does molesting a dumpster count?

I used to molest the dumpsters behind the florist for the flowers they threw out that were perfectly fine, I was only 20 at the time but they we perfectly good flowers and I was rescuing them IMO.

Love, Peace and Shelter. lmsp

[OneGrassRoot]

14. holy shit n/t

[Omaha Steve]

18. I was going to post this

No idea how I missed this post when it was made.

[markiv]

19. all the flag bumper stckers on SUVs in 2002 did not fool me

i knew that after it was over and the soldiers were used up, they would be spat out

same as they always do

it never changes

[woo me with science]

20. Garbage cans *are* people, my friend. nt