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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember the story about "Joe the Barber? The guy who cut hair for the homeless?
Remember the story about Joe the Barber? http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022853785
Well,...
US man who cuts hair for homeless for the price of a hug is kicked out of park
Dave Collins / The Associated Press
June 13, 2013
HARTFORD, Conn. - A man who has been giving free haircuts to the homeless in exchange for hugs for 25 years has been kicked out of a park by city health officials.
Anthony "Joe the Barber" Cymerys has been a fixture every Wednesday for years at Bushnell Park, where he cuts hair and his friends hand out food to the needy.
But shortly after the 82-year-old Cymerys set up shop this week, he said, health officials and police confronted him and his friends and told them they had to leave because they didn't have permits.
"I thought it was a drug raid, honest to God," Cymerys said. "It was the peanut gallery on TV where everyone was watching."
Read more @ http://www.timescolonist.com/news/world/us-man-who-cuts-hair-for-homeless-for-the-price-of-a-hug-is-kicked-out-of-park-1.320708
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Remember the story about "Joe the Barber? The guy who cut hair for the homeless? (Original Post)
Lady Freedom Returns
Jun 2013
OP
I think that it was the original story that might have lead to this.
Lady Freedom Returns
Jun 2013
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lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)1. Let no good deed go unpunished.
It never fails.
OMFG
Some rat fuck RWingnut blew the whistle no doubt.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)3. I think that it was the original story that might have lead to this.
The Chamber of Commerce may have seen it and started to look into it. Seeing it as a business killer, they got the City to move.
Sadly, it happens all the time.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)2. Thanks for posting..I read the former post too.
What a neat guy "Joe" is, but the bastards that kicked him out have hearts of stone.
K&R
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)4. Shameful.
Wtf?