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Miami targeting good samaritans

I could have just as easily labeled this post “No good deed goes unpunished”, but the impact isn’t quite the same.  From South Flori-duh!:

A man who said he thought he was just helping a woman in need is accused of running an illegal taxi service.

Miami-Dade County’s Consumer Services Department has slapped Rosco O’Neil with $2,000 worth of fines, but O’Neil claims he is falsely accused.

“I ain’t running nothing illegal,” O’Neil said.

The 78-year-old said he was walking into a Winn-Dixie to get some groceries when he was approached by a woman who said she needed a ride.

“She asked me, ‘Do I do a service?’” O’Neil said. “I told her no. She said, ‘I need help getting home.’”

O’Neil told the woman if she was still there when he finished his shopping, he would give her a ride. She was, so he did.

As it turned out, the woman was an undercover employee with the consumer services department targeting people providing illegal taxi services.

“She said the reason she targeted him (is because) she saw him sitting in his car for a few minutes,” said Ellen Novodeletsky, O’Neil’s attorney. …

Moral of the story?  Don’t give elderly women on their feet a ride.  It’s not worth the hassle.

Look at the bright side: Miami must have finally solved its well-publicized drug, rape, murder, gang, and robbery problems and is looking for more stuff to safe its citizens from…right?

May 13, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | big government, Florida