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Wino & Gold Jersey Drive

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 5:41 a.m.

Jacob Katel This summer, the Miami New Times and the Cleveland Scene teamed up to collect Northeast Ohio's unwanted LeBron James jerseys and other merchandise... 1/13

Jacob Katel ...for distribution to the local homeless. 2/13

Jacob Katel We served pierogies Clevelands favorite food and distributed the bounty in what we call the Unofficial Subtropical Skid Row (USSR), the homeless-crowded streets a few blocks west of the Miami Heat's American Airlines Arena. 3/13

Jacob Katel Husband and wife Clarence Jones and Lisa White got matching home jerseys. 4/13

Jacob Katel David Scott tried to time his entrance for the cameras: "I can roll my chair up, and just give me my jersey." 5/13

Jacob Katel In total, we gave out 105 items stuff groups like the Miami Coalition for the Homeless and the Homeless Trust refused to accept due to "politics." 6/13

Jacob Katel Some of the jerseys still had price tags attached, and were once purchased for $60 or more. 7/13

Jacob Katel WPLG's Glenna Milberg showed up. 8/13

Jacob Katel After a forty-five minute hand-out session that bordered on frenzy, we ran out of jerseys. 9/13

Jacob Katel Then we hit the dregs of the T-shirts. So we drove around Miami, distributing the rest of our collection. 10/13

Jacob Katel We made a stop at the county jail, where we gave a cheery vagrant a LeBron T-shirt to replace his government-issued scrubs. 11/13

Jacob Katel And we ended up in Coconut Grove, where we bequeathed our collection's crown jewelthe "LeAfghan" to a man calling himself Departee Hardee, shown here with buddy Michael Chaver. 12/13

Jacob Katel Hardee threatened to do something lewd to the LeAfghan but youll have to read the feature. 13/13

Wino & Gold Jersey Drive

After Miami snubbed Cleveland's offer to send unwanted LeBron James Cavaliers merchandise to give to the city's homeless, New Times, with the help of Cleveland Scene, stepped in and offered to distribute the items. Read the feature story, "Bum Wrap," here.

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