The baby she was carrying that day is now married with children of her own. This is them playing near Ft. Walton Bch. My wife died at a young age but she did get to see her grandchildren.
Posted on 02/08/2012 6:17:12 PM PST by Wayne07
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.
In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.
The updated rules now prohibit “any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll” any object other than a beach ball or volleyball “upon or over any beach” between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Exceptions allow for ball-throwing in predesignated areas, when a person obtains a permit, or playing water polo “in or over the Pacific Ocean”.
However, during the winter off-season, the new rules will be relaxed.
Officials warned that any activities that could potentially “any person or property on or near the beach” should not be allowed during the peak summer season.
Your kids could also end up costing you big bucks: the ordinance also prohibits digging any hole deeper than 18 inches into the sand except where permission is granted for film and TV production services only.
“We are only a couple of Supreme Court Justices away from the Soviet Union.”
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Of course...
That is why I got the Hell out of Dodge while I could.
$1000 fines are just a way for Rat-hole major cities to shakedown the locals to balance the city budget.
Here in Houston they are fining nightclub performers (bands and DJs) $1000 for noise violations, no warnings, no decibel measurement, officers don’t even enter the venues.
Freekin Nazi’s! Are beach balls allowed? Or only not on beaches!
Sunny Beaches...
They can go kiss my posterior...we will have them out soon!
They can go kiss my posterior...we will have them out soon!
Before long there won’t be any place to go.
A thousand dollar for throwing a football...
It’s about the revenue, nothing else.
First time most people will find out about this law is when they are getting a ticket.
Well no matter how hard they try, government is still going to go broke...There running out of other people’s money very fast now..
The baby she was carrying that day is now married with children of her own. This is them playing near Ft. Walton Bch. My wife died at a young age but she did get to see her grandchildren.
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If I was at the beach with a bunch of small kids I would be thrilled about this.
Fines are an easy way to raise revinue. Locking people up is a loss of revinue. Then there is more sticky legal stuff as well.
nothing more than another broke state revenue stream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “cruel and unusual punishments [shall not be] inflicted”. The general principles the United States Supreme Court relied on to decide whether or not a particular punishment was cruel and unusual were determined by Justice William Brennan.[3] In Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), Justice Brennan wrote, “There are, then, four principles by which we may determine whether a particular punishment is ‘cruel and unusual’.”
The “essential predicate” is “that a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity,” especially torture.
“A severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion.”
“A severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society.”
“A severe punishment that is patently unnecessary.”
Continuing, he wrote that he expected that no state would pass a law obviously violating any one of these principles, so court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment would involve a “cumulative” analysis of the implication of each of the four principles. In this way the United States Supreme Court “set the standard that a punishment would be cruel and unusual [,if] it was too severe for the crime, [if] it was arbitrary, if it offended society’s sense of justice, or if it was not more effective than a less severe penalty.”[4]
These numb skull nanny nuts won’t be happy until we are all in padded cells to protect ourselves from getting hurt. Just give them an IPod and a bowl of pot and everyone will be happy.
“Before long there won’t be any place to go.”
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That may well be true, but at age 67, I am not so worried.
There are now problems facing every spot on the globe, but for now I am happy as a clam on my Philippine beach.
Life’s a beach, and then the Government shows up.
They still permit gang members to shoot others on beaches.
This might be a sign there’s just too many people in LA. Also too many liberals there as well.
re: “Somebody out there might be enjoying themselves.
Consequently, government feels obliged to legislate against it. No footballs, no frisbees, no smoking, no drinking, no tasty foods, no moving around on the streets and highways without your government-mandated seatbelt in your government-designed and approved conveyance.”
You’ve got to watch “Duck Soup” featuring the Marx Brothers. The “plot” is that the country of Sylvania is going broke. They need a new “leader” so they wind up appointing Groucho Marx. There is a song he does that contains much of the sentiments of your remarks above. Give it a viewing - very funny.
More police state crap to be used to terrorize and cow the people.
What was that Bruce Willis movie in which people just stayed at home and plugged their pleasure centers into a home computer....?
Yeah, I assumed that other beaches were like NJ beaches; we get a lot of people from PA, and have a large population ourselves, and the shoreline isn’t as long as Florida’s.
OK, you can have footballs & frisbees on your beaches.
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