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Art Dealer Sues Homeless Men »

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A high-end antique dealer on the Upper East Side is suing four unnamed homeless people for $1 million on the grounds that they've driven away customers by loitering on the sidewalk in "old, warn, and unsanitary clothing and cardboard boxes and old blankets which they convert into sleeping accommodations."

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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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perkonis
Jan. 17, 2007, 7:38 p.m.
That's far and away one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. If they were really loitering and harassing people, it seems the cops would be a better choice. This smells like a PR stunt to me.
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mozzer
Jan. 18, 2007, 2:11 a.m.
Get these guys another shopping cart. 1 million is an awful lot of emtpy beer cans! Start selling those empties!
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mbkijb
Jan. 18, 2007, 6:51 a.m.
If he was that "high end" of an art dealer, he has money, so don't you think he could be benevolent enough to help them find shelter, or be nice enough to try to help them some other way? AND.... how the hell are homeless people going to pay anyhow???????? Perhaps that is why they are homeless in the first place... Shame on America for ignoring and avoiding the homeless problem-- let's keep playing wargames in other countries and ignore the blights in America. Surely there are solutions out there- somewhere. Oh, let's let the big corporations get off on humungous tax breaks while the poor and mentally ill sleep in cardboard boxes. The disparity is disgusting. Just my humble opinion.
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Mintyfunk
Jan. 18, 2007, 3:13 p.m.
I kinda like the 'unnamed' part. Kinda hard to sue people you can't identify....