This is in response to your Sept. 29 story, “County settles campers case,” on the homeless people and their lawyer being awarded $250,000 by Clark County for throwing their belongings in a dumpster after they were given notice to move on. That amounted to $14,000 for each of the six plaintiffs, plus legal fees.
Now I can buy a sleeping bag for $39, a tent for $39, a cookstove for $39, and an air bed for $39. I can use the streets for a bathroom. I can use all the drugs and alcohol I want. And when they tell me to move on, all I have to do is disappear for a hour and let them throw my stuff in the dumpster and I will get reimbursed $14,000. I think I will come out of retirement and try this (it pays better than Social Security). Plus, I could get free shoes and food, an apartment and vouchers for a whole bunch of stuff. Why get a job? Get a tent!
