Posted on 02/22/2023 11:10:42 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Environmental advocates are celebrating in Laguna Beach — but it won’t be with balloons.
The hilly seaside city known for stunning ocean views and rolling bluffs is banning the sale and public use of balloons to curtail the risk of devastating wildfires and eliminate a major source of trash floating near the community’s scenic shores.
The Laguna Beach City Council voted Tuesday night to ban in public the popular mainstay of birthday and graduation parties, whether inflated with helium or not. Beginning in 2024, the balloons cannot be used on public property or at city events.
The move in the community of 23,000 people 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles comes as several California beach cities have limited balloons and the state enacted a law to regulate the types made of foil.
“This is the beginning,” Chad Nelsen, chief executive of the nonprofit environmental organization Surfrider Foundation, said before the vote.
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What about condoms?
Just like those evil polluting plastic straws!
“More stuck on stupid”
Normally I’d agree with you about government overreach, but those foil mylar balloons start utility line fires, get stuck in everything and never degrade. You see them in lots of trees and on power lines as well as deflated on the ground.
Now if they are “pico” balloons going around the world seven times, that’s a whole different kettle of helium.
But the beach is littered with syringes. Those are fine
ChiCom President Xi wants to know if he can still fly balloons if they are up high enough.
Please, Laguna Beach. Respond to that question quickly. You don’t want to keep our new overlord waiting.
Congressman Hank Johnson on a world without balloons....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyNFi8hMunQ
Maybe they’re looking to avoid strafing by F 22s.
No more assault balloons with clown faces and animal shapes.
No one needs these weapons of war that were made for only one thing.
/s
Leave it to California to fix problems that don’t exist.
Land of liberty
If a sidewinder missile misses one of those balloons it could hit a hillside and start a fire.
Figures.
“..More stuck on stupid...”
CA is a failed state by any definition of the word.
Destroyed by liberals “stuck on stupid”.
No. This is actually smart. They don’t want F-22s strafing the beach.
Rich people who live in luxury have to create issues like this to feel like they are victims.
And beach balls
“Chad Nelsen, chief executive of the nonprofit environmental organization Surfrider Foundation”
dumb ass surfrider foundation making problems again
What I object to about massive release and display of balloons on public property is that they end up being litter. So they should be treated just like any other trash. Banning them all together seems a bit overboard but banning their release makes sense.
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