DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 73-year-old man is banned from a Florida beach after a parent complained that he was handing out business cards that read, "Sugardaddy seeking his sugarbaby." 
 
 While police didn't arrest Richard Basaraba, Volusia County Beach Safety Capt. Tammy Marris said he's been told to stay off the beach and walkovers for six months for violating an ordinance that prohibits soliciting on the beach. 
 
 Basaraba told The Daytona Beach News-Journal he's "devastated" by what he considers an overreaction by officials. He said he wasn't trying to entice anyone into doing anything illegal when he handed a business card out to a group of girls on Daytona Beach on Saturday. 
 
 But the mother of a 16-year-old girl complained to authorities after her daughter told her about the incident. The girl told officials the man handed her 18-year-old friend the business card while they were at the beach. It featured a picture of a younger woman sitting on the lap of an older man wearing a business suit. Printed on the card were an email address and the accompanying text: "Ask me about your monthly allowance." 
 
 Basaraba told the newspaper he's been careful not to hand the cards, which he recently ordered, to anyone under 18. 
 
 A beach patrol report says Basaraba told the 16-year-old that she should contact him when she's 18. 
 
 The ban is a trespass order and Marris said someone who violates such an order can be arrested for trespassing. Basaraba wasn't arrested because police didn't see him handing out the business cards. 
 
 "I'm really upset about it," Basaraba said. "This really knocked me for a loop." He said recently bought a T-shirt that reads "Accepting application 4A sugar baby," which has also proved to be a "conversation starter." 
 
 "I've had women stop me and say, 'I want to take a picture with you in this shirt.' They want to put them on Facebook." 
 
 Basaraba was also putting the pictures on Facebook, but he says he's now deleted the account. "Anything I've ever posted gets only gets three or four likes," he said, adding that he got 78 likes when he posted a photo posing with the woman in a bikini. 
 
 He said 95 percent of the women "found it hilarious." 
 
 "Maybe the younger ones didn't as much but the older ones did," he said. 
 
 The retired engineer said he's embarrassed and would like to apologize to the teenager and her mother. 
 
 "I engaged (the younger girl) before I knew she was 16 because of her bust size," he said. "I did make the mistake of saying, 'You're the cutest one here. Call me when you're 18." 
 
 He said his wife died in 2003, he's never remarried and he has a daughter and granddaughter who live out of town. 
 
 "I read in the paper about men who have sex with underage women and their life is gone," he said. "I can show you my bank account. I don't have any assets. I don't have money, just enough to live. I don't have money for a sugar baby." ||||| LIVE, THE ONE AND ONLY LOCAL 10 NEWS STARTS RIGHT NOW. WE BEGIN WITH A STORY YOU SAW FIRST ON LOCAL 10 NEWS. A 90-YEAR-OLD MAN CITED AGAIN BY POLICE FOR FEEDING THE HOMELESS. NOT BEFORE SHINING ANOTHER SPOTLIGHT ON THE CONTROVERSY ISSUE IN FORT LAUDERDALE. STANDING BY LIVE WITH OUR TOP STORY NOW. WELL, THAT 90-YEAR-OLD IS A HOMELESS ADVOCATE WHO HAS BEEN FEEDING THE HOMELESS TWICE A WEEK EVERY WEEK FOR THE PAST 24 YEARS, INCLUDING OUT HERE ON FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH WHERE TONIGHT HE RAN INTO TROUBLE. I'M ONLY INVITING 200 OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS TO DINNER. ABBOTT AND HIS TEAM OF CHEFS SET UP ON THE BEACH, DISHING OUT FREE FOOD TO THE HOMELESS. UNIFORMED POLICE WERE ALSO THERE RECORDING. THE 90-YEAR-OLD IS VIOLATING A NEW CITY ORDINANCE THAT MAKES IT A CRIME TO FEED THE HOMELESS IN PUBLIC. THE PENALTY, 60 DAYS IN JAIL. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE GUMPTION TO MOVE ON US, THEY WERE AFRAID, AFRAID OF PUBLIC OPINION. BUT ARNOLD, WHO WAS ARRESTED THREE DAYS AGO FOR FEEDING THE HOMELESS AT A DIFFERENT PARK IN FORT LAUDERDALE WAS ULTIMATELY CONFRONTED BY COPS IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR INTERVIEW. WE'RE DOING FINE. YOU'RE IN VIOLATION, OF 2.2 AND ISSUE A NOTICE. THE ELDERLY CHEF WITH A BIG HEART WAS ESCORTED AWAY IN FRONT OF A LARGE CROWD OF HIS SUPPORTERS. ARNOLD, ARNOLD! INSTEAD OF WHISKING THE 90-YEAR-OLD TO JAIL THEY DECIDED TO FINGERPRINT HIM AND ISSUE HIM A VIOLATION ON THE SPOT. IT'S A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT AND I BELIEVE THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD AND BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. IT'S A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. SILER IS NOT BACKING DOWN FROM THE LAW THAT HE SAID WERE GOOD INTENTIONS. THE LAW SAYS IF YOU'RE GOING TO FEED THEM OUTDOOR TO BREAKFAST TO LUNCH TO DINNER. YOU'RE ENABLING THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS. WILL YOU COME BACK TO THE BEACH? I'M FIGHT FOR THE BEACH AS LONG AS THERE'S BREATH IN MY BODY. HE SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION AND IS WILLING TO WORK WITH THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE AS LONG AS IT INVOLVES HELPING THE HOMELESS WILL FOOD AND HE'S EVEN WILLING TO TAKE THE ISSUE TO THE COURT TO SUE THE CITY, AN AREA HE'S HAD SUCCESS WITH IN THE PAST. IT'S A STORY THAT'S CERTAINLY GARNERED INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION. 
 
 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - 
 
 Local 10 first brought you the story of the 90-year-old man who was arrested for illegally feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale. Wednesday he was back to continue his cause. 
 
 VOTE: Do you agree with the Broward homeless feeding ordinance? 
 
 "We've heard from every continent," said Arnold Abbott. "The last I heard was from Kenya and Moscow." 
 
 Abbott has heard from hundreds of people all around the world since he and two pastors were charged Sunday with feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale. 
 
 "I've heard from South America, any number of people from Canada, three newspapers from the United Kingdom," Abbot said. 
 
 He was the first charged with the new ordinance that makes it a crime punishable by up to 60 days in jail to feed the homeless in public. The story first aired Local 10 has gone viral. 
 
 "I am both enthused and humbled," Abbot said. "The good news is that there is pressure being put on the city of Fort Lauderdale to do something about a law that is not only unfair, it's repressive." 
 
 Mayor Jack Seiler, who supports the ordinance, said he's gotten massive feedback as well, though not always so positive. But he said the law is meant to help the homeless, not to keep them from eating. 
 
 "Mr. Abbott has decided that he doesn't think these individuals should have to have any interaction with government, that they should be fed in the parks. We disagree," Seiler said. 
 
 But Abbott said there aren't adequate government services or food to deal with the homeless. 
 
 "What the city is doing by cutting out feeding is very simple -- they are forcing homeless people to go dumpster-diving all over again," Abbott said. "They will steal. That's what the mayor is forcing the homeless to do." 
 
 And while Abbott said he wants to compromise with the city, he expects to be charged again. 
 
 "I love the city. I live here, it's a beautiful place and I'd like to keep it beautiful, but you cannot sweep the homeless under a rug," he said. "There is no rug large enough for that." 
 
 Abbott and his team of chefs set up shop Wednesday night on Fort Lauderdale Beach and dished out free food to the homeless. Uniformed police were also there recording. 
 
 "They didn't have the gumption to move in on us. They were afraid, afraid of public opinion," said Abbott. 
 
 But Abbott was ultimately confronted by cops in the middle of an interview with Local 10 News. The elderly chef with a big heart was escorted away in front of a large crowd of his supporters. Instead of whisking the 90-year old to jail, police decided to just fingerprint Abbott and issue him a citation on the spot. 
 
 "It's a pubic safety issue. It's a public health issue," said Seiler. "The experts have all said that if you're going to feed them to get them from breakfast to lunch to dinner, all you're doing is enabling that cycle of homelessness. They don't interact with anyone, they don't receive the aid that they need." 
 
 "It's our right to feed people, it's our First Amendment right and I believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and we should be allowed to feed our fellow man," Abbott said. 
 
 Abbott was asked if he would come back to the beach. 
 
 "You bet your life," Abbott replied. "I'll fight for the beach as long as there's birth in my body." 
 
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– A 73-year-old man is banned from a Florida beach after a parent complained that he was handing out business cards that read, "Sugardaddy seeking his sugarbaby." While police didn't arrest Richard Basaraba, Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue Capt. Tammy Marris says he's been told to stay off the beach and walkovers for six months for violating an ordinance that prohibits soliciting on the beach, the AP reports. The ban is a trespass order, and Marris says someone who violates such an order can be arrested for trespassing. Basaraba wasn't arrested because police didn't see him handing out the business cards. Basaraba told the Daytona Beach News-Journal he's "devastated" by what he considers an overreaction by officials. He said he wasn't trying to entice anyone into doing anything illegal when he handed a business card out to a group of girls on Daytona Beach on Saturday. But the mother of a 16-year-old girl complained to authorities after her daughter told her about the incident. The girl told officials the man handed her 18-year-old friend the business card while they were at the beach. It featured a picture of a younger woman sitting on the lap of an older man wearing a business suit. Printed on the card were an email address and the accompanying text: "Ask me about your monthly allowance." Basaraba told the newspaper he's been careful not to hand the cards, which he recently ordered, to anyone under 18. A beach patrol report says Basaraba told the 16-year-old that she should contact him when she's 18. "I engaged [the younger girl] before I knew she was 16 because of her bust size," Basaraba tells the News-Journal. "I did make the mistake of saying, 'You're the cutest one here. Call me when you're 18.'"