>>>>If I understand your basic premise, it's that you breaking the law is different than someone else breaking the law. If that's not it, please explain clearly what it is.
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>>>This is a waste of time for both of us. No more, please.
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>>Hey, no need to evade this. Even if there was a law on the books out there, there are so many mitigating circumstances (for one, nobody seemed to care to enforce it, then you weren't caught, you weren't the only one, it's only a misdemeanor, it's upstate NY and you're in NC, and there's probably a statute of limitations, and they can't stretch the jurisdiction to Mongolia no matter what) that you shouldn't worry at all. Nobody is going to prosecute you.
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>>You only have to confess that it is possible that you may have broken the law (nobody checked whether one exists yet, so this is all still hypothetical) about a hundred times or so. All summer, you said? That's about a hundred nights.
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>So you equate a citizen of this country sleeping in a park in this country with an illegal immigrant?

Since I started this subthread, guess I should comment. Jay asserted that he dealt with his (temporary) poverty without breaking any laws and that therefore, he has no sympathy for poor people who enter this country illegally. I suspect he did break the law to solve his own problem, and perhaps should think harder about finding some sympathy for the others.

And, fwiw, I have mixed feelings about vagrancy laws.

Tamar