Great
moments in bureaucratic excess: City officials in Hartford shut down barber
giving free haircuts in park
by Mark J. Perry
On May 14, I posed the question above on Twitter, and we now know that the
answer is: “About 30 days.”
An 82-year-old barber who has been giving free haircuts to the homeless in exchange for hugs for 25 years has been kicked out of a park by city health officials. Anthony “Joe the Barber” Cymerys has been a fixture every Wednesday for years at Bushnell Park, where he cuts hair and his friends hand out food to the needy.
But shortly after Cymerys set up shop this week, he said, health officials and police confronted him and his friends and told them they had to leave because they didn’t have permits.
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