Charlotte Russ and the kids.
Posted on 05/25/2024 2:34:23 AM PDT by Sam77
A California family whose children gathered what they thought were seashells off the beach has been fined $88,000.
Charlotte Russ and her children were actually collecting clams, which California has regulations to protect.
“They thought they were collecting seashells, but they actually collected clams — 72, to be exact,” she told the outlet.
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An interesting country??? Heavy fines for collecting clams at a beach but OK to kill a child in the womb! Twisted, real twisted.....
Charlotte Russ and the kids.
Who’d mom and dad vote for?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Kid looks like she is sparking up a butt. LOL
Who’d collect live clams?
EUW.
Especially off that beach.
Between the stench and the food borne illness risk, I’d say leave them alone to learn a harsh lesson.
“They could will have been harvesting them.”
My parents owned property with a cabin beachside at Pismo and we go almost every year to relax down there. My father and I used to walk the beach in the morning and collect clams, correct size, getting those that ended up stranded on the sand when the tide receded. If the news agency is trying to say that they went down the beach and collected 72 clams in one day, they are not telling the truth. You could walk from Shell Beach, north of Pismo, all the way past the white dunes south of the state park and not get close to that amount. They’d been doing the collect for days unless they were also clamming and had licenses. And unless they were camping on the beach, all 72 wouldn’t have been seen by the game warden together if they had them.
72 is not enough to make any real difference for them though as it might make a good amount of chowder or cocktail, but it won’t corner the market. So they were doing it for the family, and got caught in possession of too many and that has been a heavily observed law since the 1950’s. They just weren’t real bright.
wy69
Yup. That is my alledged governor
“”””Kid looks like she is sparking up a butt. LOL””””
The mother got a tattoo of a clam after the case was settled.
Should have remained as cool as a clam.
Should have clammed up until an attorney was present.
Were they trying to mussel in on someone else's clam beds?
Regards,
These are the same type of people who will "unknowingly" snap off a stalactite or "innocently" knock over a millennia-old geological formation in Goblin Valley, UT. They will "playfully" chop down a 5,000-year-old bristle-cone pine tree.
Telling, that no father was present.
Regards,
Criminal Charlotte claims clams by the California coast
Or is it a mom and mom situation?
No "dad" in the picture. Hmmm.
Regards,
All th3y had to do was say “we saw a sign that said “Fine for digging clams” so we dug, and the weird part was we didn’t even want to dig. You dig?”
And on the way here, another sign said in slang, “No! U turn!” So we turned- and we didn’t even want to turn, ut here we are”
Another sign said “stop a head”, so we stopped. Folks they are lying to you... there was no head”
You went to Pismo all the time and understood told the rules and wildlife. This family is from Fresno, so it is possible the Valley dwellers don’t get to the beach very often and are ignorant of the rules and regs.
This is a serious question.
Is it really illegal to pick up blue jay feathers?
Hm?....five kids! Punish those devote Christians. (/s)
“So they were doing it for the family, and got caught in possession of too many and that has been a heavily observed law since the 1950’s. They just weren’t real bright.”
According to my son, there are signs all over the place warning people that they that they can’t take clams without a license, the minimum size, and daily limit.
Clams are getting ‘spensive.
Afterwards the judge and lawyers all went out for a clam dinner.
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