Disobedent Sausage Vendor

[Rosie the Riveter]

Sausage vendor ignores town order, gets pinched

By MIKE KALIL
New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent
16 hours, 58 minutes ago

DERRY – A sausage vendor who defied the town administrator's order not to station his business outside the transfer station was arrested yesterday on a criminal trespassing charge.

Police arrested Thom "T-Bird" Souhlaris, 51, of Derry when he stationed his sausage cart off the access road leading to the transfer station yesterday morning in protest of being told multiple times not to do so.

"A point had to be made, and I did what I had to do," Souhlaris said last night.

They took him away in a police cruiser and had his cart and truck towed from the premises. As the truck was being towed, one man driving in a van slowed down to say, "It's wrong."

Souhlaris expected to get arrested. When he stationed his cart there Wednesday, police arrived, told him to leave and warned him. He spent the whole day there Tuesday without any interference.

Souhlaris was released on $2,500 personal recognizance bail, Derry Police Lt. Barry Charewicz said. He'll be arraigned on the misdemeanor charge Feb. 19 in Derry District Court.



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[Bald Eagle]

Police are such weiners.

[kola]

Pigs like pork.

I am sure it was properly "destroyed."

oink if you hate for nazism.

kola

[Bald Eagle]

This story has soooooo much potential for an Anarchy in Your Head cartoon....

[Lloyd Danforth]

Police are such weiners.

And...Tubesteaks

[les nessman]

   Next the town administrator will be in Concord at he statehouse
to testify in a hearing when they try to enact an RSA against
"rogue sausage vendors on the streets of Derry". 

[Dave Ridley]

OK so it sounds like the central bad guy here is
Town Administrator Gary Stenhouse
Who should be more or less reachable at
(603) 432-6105

So I will probably call shortly to leave a message of displeasure,
I will video tape my end of the call, or turn it into an phone interview for the Ridley Report if given the chance.

Another person to complain to would be

Edward B. Garone
derry Chief of Police

By Mail:
Derry Police Department
1 Municipal Drive
Derry, NH 03038

By Phone:
603 - 432 - 6111

By Fax:
603 - 432 -6119

By Email:
general@derrynhpolice.com


Sent this to their email:

I read the article in the Union Leader. 

I intend no disrespect, but you should be ashamed of yourselves. it's arrests like this, and other victimless arrests, that turn the people against the police.

And maybe you deserve to have the people against you.

(my name and address and phone)

[Dave Ridley]

i just called and interviewed the town manager on tape for the ridley report.  stay tuned.

[kola]

Cool Dave!

and let them know all the women of the world are missing his sausage!

heehee

[David]

I likey the mans intestinal fortitude.   
The article said something about transfer station.  What is a transfer station? 

[TackleTheWorld]

the garbage dump

[Lloyd Danforth]

Many local dumps don't burn or landfill, but, have compactors for household trash and separate bins for recyclibles, all of which are trucked away. In Grafton that is where signatures are collected for proposed Warrant Articles on the two days it is open.

[J’raxis 270145]

Perhaps he'll run for office. His current profession certainly gives him plenty of the right experience.

[David]

Relevent topic.
Keene wants to 'regulate' the two or three outdoor vendors we have.  One is a taco truck. 
http://www.latimes.com/theguide/restaurants/la-oe-nguyen21apr21,0,6181417.story

From the Los Angeles Times
In defense of the great taco truck
L.A. County's getting tough on the mobile restaurants, and that's bad if you like to eat well.
By C. Thi Nguyen

April 21, 2008

All my best L.A. memories are about girls or taco trucks. There's something shockingly vivid about having great tacos out of a truck -- standing outside, wind in your hair, chowing down with all the homies, hipsters, off-duty cops, nurses, professors and homeless dudes. People are pretty cheerful around a taco truck; they smile, they talk. On a good night, the crowd around a taco truck is the closest thing we have to a unified Los Angeles soul.

Maybe it's because of what my friend, food theorist Kathy Shin, calls "the joy of festival food." It feels a bit like a party out there -- the mix of intense flavors, milling people, bright lights in the night. Or maybe it's the sense of camaraderie -- that nobody knows who you are or how much you make, you're all there in the heat or the cold for the same reason -- good food, for cheap. Or maybe it's just because some of the trucks offer the most gloriously energetic food in this city -- tacos that are like bullets of spiky, oniony happiness.

Which is why what the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has done terrifies me. On Wednesday, the supervisors passed a harsh set of regulations for unincorporated county areas. Parking a taco truck in one spot for longer than an hour is now punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or six months in jail, or both. Developers and restaurant owners, particularly in East L.A., are pushing for tougher enforcement too. These changes, say some truck owners, will probably put them out of business.

This is a cultural disaster. Forget the Getty -- it's the taco trucks, and their crowds, that are the true culture of L.A. Attacking the trucks is like New York going after its hot dog stands or Memphis banning barbecue pits.

And other than raw greed, I can't see any reason for it. Ron Mukai, an East L.A. developer, says the trucks are unfair competition, edging out the "legitimate brick-and-mortar businesses." But the county's 14,000 registered catering trucks seem just as legitimate as restaurants -- they're just providing a different service. Restaurants provide meals, and a table to eat them at, and walls to eat them within. Taco trucks provide food, pure and simple. They charge less because they're selling less.

And that's why I love taco trucks: They're the most efficient mechanism for converting cash into hot food. Some days, I've only got five bucks to spend, and I want every dime to go into high-quality food, not setting.

Los Angeles has always struck me as one of the most aesthetically democratic of cities. The beaches are public, half the museums are free and culinary glory is sold at every street corner for almost nothing. It's paradise for the impoverished food lover. So these new regulations don't just attack taco trucks, they hurt eaters, especially poor eaters. In a lot of places in town, it's the only meal you can get for three or four bucks. And in some places, it's a great meal for three or four bucks.

Taco trucks live and die by the quality of their food, so they tend to have, on average, better chow than full restaurants with the same type of food. And because trucks can move to where there are customers, there's higher turnover, and hence, fresher food. They meet a precise need for that large hunk of the marketplace that cares a lot about the food and not at all about the premises -- sort of like Amazon.com, but with pork. Which is why, I suppose, they're an economic threat.

They're good for Los Angeles too. The reason so many people think of L.A. as a community-less disaster of urban sprawl is the lifelessness of our sidewalks. Right now, in a lot of streets, the taco trucks are the only spots of humanity -- bright little oases of meat and cheer in the night.

So go out to your local taco truck and have a taco. Or, if you know the location of one of the few trucks that make them, have a cemitas poblanas, a Central Mexican sandwich of fried meat, fresh avocado slices, chipotle chile paste and Oaxacan string cheese. Or try an atole -- a hot, thick corn drink, spiked with sticks of cinnamon, best enjoyed on a cool night outside a taco truck. Put your paper plate down on the trunk of your car, lean back, take a breath of fresh air, sip your atole, and enjoy it while you can.

C. Thi Nguyen is a graduate student in philosophy at UCLA. He's also senior editor of Chow Digest at chowhound.com

[srqrebel]

Come to think of it, perhaps we should invite Mr. Souhlaris to the next Keene Freedom Fest, along with his illegal sausage vending operation