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Title: The American dream....
Post by: Nakhui on January 12, 2004, 03:38:29 PM
A man who lived on a golf course for 40 years was told to leave because some golfers complained that he scared them.
Bethel, 55, first showed up at the golf course after he ran away from home in 1963. He collected and resold stray golf balls, used the club's showers and toilets at night and slept in a sheltered area on the course that housed the showers.

"This course became my job and, later, my home," he said.

For the last nine years, he had been joined by his wife Francis, 43. They have since relocated to a space under a nearby bridge.

"What have I done to deserve this?" Bethel asked.

Bethel now gets chased away by the staff when he tries to collect balls. And the restrooms are locked at night.

"It's a huge dilemma," said Carlos McKeon, manager of Miami-Dade County Golf Operations. "We used to cast a benign eye on Kenny. But when a few golfers complained that he's trespassing and it's against the law, we had to get him off."

Bethel turned down a job in course maintenance because he wanted to be self-employed, McKeon said.

Golfers who had become accustomed to seeing Bethel on the course were surprised by his banishment.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/01/12/golf.squatter.ap/index.html

I want a job like that! And the guy was married too!
Title: The American dream....
Post by: Gunslinger on January 12, 2004, 04:40:09 PM
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Bethel turned down a job in course maintenance because he wanted to be self-employed, McKeon said.


Yet another example of the homless CHOOSING to be homless
Title: The American dream....
Post by: midnight Target on January 12, 2004, 05:55:12 PM
Dam republican whistle blowers.... well they can't be democrats, they belong to a country club fer crise sakes.
Title: The American dream....
Post by: Nefarious on January 12, 2004, 07:10:15 PM
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
Yet another example of the homless CHOOSING to be homless


Or Maybe a case of Mental instability.
Title: The American dream....
Post by: lazs2 on January 13, 2004, 08:39:07 AM
being crazy doesn't give you any right to tresspass.

lazs
Title: The American dream....
Post by: gofaster on January 13, 2004, 09:58:36 AM
The guy is homeless.  He was neither a member nor an employee of the club.  Therefore, he was an uninvited nuisance who's time had run out.  A golf course is not a charity.

They offered him a job.  He turned it down.  See ya.
Title: The American dream....
Post by: Eagler on January 13, 2004, 10:41:29 AM
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Dam republican whistle blowers.... well they can't be democrats, they belong to a country club fer crise sakes.


probably dems as it is a public course :)

http://co.miami-dade.fl.us/parks/Parks/palmetto_golf.htm

poor kenny, he might have to get a job and pay taxes like the rest of us..