If you take a heart attack and die in the park, do your survivors get a summons for prolonged horizontalism? And do they have to to produce the corpse in court as evidence? :-)

What? You're more docile than I am. I probably would have been arrested for laughing really loud... I even read this story with a huge grin on my face. "Sorry sir. Not allowed to law down in the park." Probably didn't help that the perp was a family man who was actually spending time with his children. Lucky he wasn't tazed for that.

I would assume they have vagrancy laws. Just encourage the homeless to move on when it becomes problematic. This is a dumb ordinance.

I would complain too-however, I would not whine. I would publicize that to the hilt. there's lots of bad ordinances that are passed in order to deal with the homeless population. I guess if you never want to have to see a homeless person in that town, you also can't have picnics in public parks

passing more ordinances and more rules means that decent, law abiding people are doing things illegal. I am not saying the homeless person who called is outside this category. Maybe it should be a no-camping kind of rule. This is probably a symptom of the broader economic conditions problem

If these folks disagree with the law then they should have stated what options there are. Why was this ordinance passed in the first place? How do we change it to avoid unintended consequences? They were just whining.

who can't put out a picnic blanket in the park??? you have been urban indoctrinated I think. In flyover, parks are supposed to utilized. That's why they have benches and lawns. and it used to be-a park officer was nowhere to be seen unless it was garbage pick up day. by the time I have grandkids, maybe they won't know what a "picnic" is?

I think these folks over reacted. If an officer told me that I would say okay and move on. She said it ruined their day. I think worse things happened to people that day. Get over it.

Clearly the homeless guy has gotten busted over this in the past and is set on ruining everyone else's day over this issue in an effort to get the law changed.