a public defender

If anyone in Florida is reading this, get the word out to these guys to try this.. If I lived in Florida I’d buy them the paint and tell them this myself.

I’m thinking now that if the state of Florida is forcing him to call the bridge his home, I think that he should try to make ‘his home’ as comfortable and livable as he can. Warmer weather is coming and it is going to get awfully hot under the bridge with no power for air conditioning or fans. So, it wouldn’t help a whole lot, but if he could paint the ‘roof’ of his house (pavement on top of the bridge) with some light colored paint (maybe neon green, lemon yellow, florescent orange, some shade of pink, or a pukey color of green/blue/yellow (whatever color puke is)). The light colored paint would reflect the sun’s rays and help to keep it a little cooler under the bridge. To do the painting, he probably wouldn’t have any money to buy the proper supplies like a big brush or roller, so he could just casually ’sling’ the paint out of the bucket onto the pavement. It wouldn’t cover the area very well that way and he’d probably run out of paint pretty quick. So, he’d have to go find another bucket or two of whatever light colored paint that he could find and continue this process until he finally had the ‘roof’ of his ‘home’ adapted to help keep him cool.

I feel certain that when enough motorists tried to cross the bridge and encountered the wild display of colors all over a portion of the bridge they would be calling into the radio, TV, police stations, and maybe City Hall to find out why the bridge had been painted in such wild colors. Enough people would be calling in to find out what happened that I believe the situation would make the evening news. Of course the police and news people would eventually probably suspect that the guys living under the bridge might have had something to do with it. When this SO guy is finally confronted and asked why he did it, he could tell them the truth by saying “The state of Florida is forcing me to live under this bridge. I wish that I didn’t have to live here, and I tried to get the Judge to let me go back to jail, but he said that my ‘home’ is under this bridge. Well, it’s going to get pretty hot ‘in my home’ when summer gets here so I thought I would try to make ‘my home’ as comfortable and cool as I can. I thought that if I was to paint ‘my roof’ with a light colored paint to reflect the sun’s hot rays that I could stay a little cooler. Since no one will hire me and I am currently unemployed with very little money, I had to use whatever paint that I could find. I’m sorry if I didn’t do a real good job, but if I had been able to get a job and the laws made it possible for guys like me to find decent housing, I wouldn’t have had to try to fix up the place that I’m living in now!

I’m pretty sure this guy would eventually end up having to pay for the paint damage to the bridge and would probably have to go to jail. But, that’s what he wanted in the first place. If he couldn’t afford to pay for damages to the bridge, they’d probably make him stay in jail a little longer. I don’t see how the court system could say that he committed another sex offense and therefore violated his parole, but I suppose that ANY kind of crime would wind up being a parole violation. However, hopefully his actions would get enough public attention so that people might begin to realize what these current laws are doing to people. Then, they might begin to see the ridiculousness of the laws and demand that they be changed.
Anyhow, I feel that something needs to be done to get the public’s attention so that they can begin to see what SOs have to live with every day.