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.
(Excerpt) Read more at disswire.com ...
Come now. Everyone remain clam.
The fine was reduced to $500. The original fine was ridiculous.
Chairman Newsom of the Presidium of the People’s Republic of California dispatches his personal Eco-Security to Arrest and detain these violators of thr Laws of the sacred holy crustaceon bodies
A little rules based aren’t you. 7 people about 10 shells each
The government also fines people who pick up blue Jay feathers and keep them.
They could will have been harvesting them.
Not collecting them.
Don’t even think about touching a hawk or eagle feather you find laying on the ground.
That was a judge’s decision. I wonder if she had to hire an attorney and and appear in court?
The Biden Crime Family collects miillions from China...no fine. IRS collects millions from hard-working Americans.
Don’t you have to dig for clams?
Still, the proposed fine was extreme. Glad the judge showed some common sense.
Well shucks. 88k would have been quite the calamity.
They quahogged the whole clam population.
Right- follow the bubbles!
Yes, it was—but so was their excuse.
The left believes all resources are community resources.
The left believes the oil and minerals under your land belong to all the people, not to the landowner.
Unless you are on gov’t land.
no, not shells... live clams and again, I dont adhere to rules such as these... Comment on what I said, using the left progressive tactics, picking and choosing their, subjects you to a lashing unlike an untouchable author.
But not one word about the illegals operating meth labs and marijuana farms nor the ones leaving ecological devastation with their millions of tons of trash and human waste.
Was it clam season?
The family needs to all just ‘clam’ up and say nothing
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