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Family Fined $88,000 by California Authorities for Collecting ‘Seashells’
Disswire.com ^ | 25 May 2024 | Bradley Greer

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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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: california; californication; shells
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To: Sam77

An interesting country??? Heavy fines for collecting clams at a beach but OK to kill a child in the womb! Twisted, real twisted.....


21 posted on 05/25/2024 4:33:27 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Sam77
These do look like a collection of Fresno kids and a mom who could have not known about all the rules and regulations, and clams and shells, and have made an innocent mistake.

Charlotte Russ and the kids.


22 posted on 05/25/2024 4:52:33 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Sam77

Who’d mom and dad vote for?

Inquiring minds want to know...


23 posted on 05/25/2024 4:57:29 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: ansel12

Kid looks like she is sparking up a butt. LOL


24 posted on 05/25/2024 5:00:23 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: ansel12

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.


25 posted on 05/25/2024 5:01:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: riverrunner

“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


26 posted on 05/25/2024 5:03:10 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Yup. That is my alledged governor


27 posted on 05/25/2024 5:05:02 AM PDT by BigEdLB
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To: Vermont Lt

“”””Kid looks like she is sparking up a butt. LOL””””

The mother got a tattoo of a clam after the case was settled.


28 posted on 05/25/2024 5:19:36 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Responsibility2nd
Come now. Everyone remain clam.

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,

29 posted on 05/25/2024 5:24:00 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ansel12
These do look like a collection of Fresno kids and a mom who could have not known about all the rules and regulations, and clams and shells, and have made an innocent mistake.

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,

30 posted on 05/25/2024 5:30:42 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Sam77

Criminal Charlotte claims clams by the California coast


31 posted on 05/25/2024 5:31:00 AM PDT by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: moovova

Or is it a mom and mom situation?


32 posted on 05/25/2024 5:31:03 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: moovova
Who’d mom and dad vote for? Inquiring minds want to know...

No "dad" in the picture. Hmmm.

Regards,

33 posted on 05/25/2024 5:31:26 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Sam77

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”


34 posted on 05/25/2024 5:36:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: whitney69

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.


35 posted on 05/25/2024 5:46:14 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Chickensoup

This is a serious question.

Is it really illegal to pick up blue jay feathers?


36 posted on 05/25/2024 5:50:37 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: ansel12

Hm?....five kids! Punish those devote Christians. (/s)


37 posted on 05/25/2024 5:53:22 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: whitney69

“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.


38 posted on 05/25/2024 5:58:39 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Sam77

Clams are getting ‘spensive.


39 posted on 05/25/2024 6:01:31 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: Sam77

Afterwards the judge and lawyers all went out for a clam dinner.


40 posted on 05/25/2024 6:04:21 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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