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Food Not Bombs member arrested at Lake Eola for first time since 2007

Right when we were marveling at how long it had been since a member of Food Not Bombs was last put in handcuffs, the Orlando Weekly writes, Orlando?s senior anarchist Ben Markeson called to notify us that he had finally received the honor of leaving a food-sharing at Lake Eola Park in a police squad car.

Markeson was charged with resisting an officer without violence after inserting himself into a discussion about parking between city police officer Noah Pruitt and another Food Not Bombs volunteer. The issue was exactly what is allowed -- parking, stopping or standing -- in a sidewalk-lined circle which, as the Weekly observes, seems to encourage, well, stopping and standing.

I have to include here my own quote: ?I wonder what the circle is for, then ? maybe to drive around for the fun of it, to make the kids in the backseat dizzy??

Read the Weekly report here.

Full post as published by the 13th juror on December 18, 2010 (boomark / email).