Posted on 02/09/2012 11:44:23 AM PST by Mount Athos
The age-old hobby of tossing a football or Frisbee on the beach on a beautiful summer day in Los Angeles will cost you a cool $1,000 thanks to a new ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
Claiming that such activity could be dangerous to other beachgoers, the Supes outlawed "any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll any ball, tube, or any light object other than a beach ball or beach volleyball” on or over a beach.
Act like a nasty POS, get treated like a nasty POS. I can’t imagine anyone choosing to be in your company, smoker or not.
You really wanna drive ‘em nuts, how about we send Tim Tebow out to the beach to toss the pigskin around...
Which is exactly what you deserve as the language you use defines you.
Have you no shame?
I have great sympathy for smokers and would think that such bans were entirely unnecessary - IF - most smokers were not such scumbag litterbugs.
Sorry if my “profiling” due to overwhelming evidence went against your notions of fair-play.
Anything that bothers a liberal, will eventually be banned, if not already
You are correct, smokers are not, however people that use such language to describe others definitely are.
My parents taught me that the use of gutter language is a sign of ignorance, poor upbringing, lack of education and plain low class (also known as trashiness.) None of which are anything to be proud of.
I do have shame.
I think shame is the proper social response to acting shamefully.
Smokers, as a group, have acted most shamefully and they should feel ashamed that they turned the world around them into an ashtray.
When you act like a bunch of littering ignorant low lives who cannot be anywhere without trashing the place with litter - is it really a surprise that people don’t want that around?
Actually, most people I would prefer to be around smokers than foul mouthed, nasty people such as you have portrayed yourself.
Anyone care to peruse the ordinance? It's hard to imagine this being proposed, written up, voted on and implemented with a straight face. Southern California descends deeper into the loonie bin.
Interesting.
My parents taught me that smoking and littering were signs of ignroance, poor upbringing, lack of education and plain old low class trashiness.
Littering, no doubt.
I seriously doubt your parents taught you that about smoking, unless of course your parents are only about 30 years old. That would make them part of the generation that has been brainwashed by all the anti-smoker hogwash no one can get away from any longer.
Take a volley ball smash in the face and you may opt for a collision with a Frisbee.
These stupid laws and massive fines only apply to people who are inclined to follow the law. If a police officer writes a ticket to some young gang-banger, do you think he is going to pay it? But if he writes a ticket to a middle-class wage earner who has a house, a car and kids in school, Mr. Middle-Class has no choice but to pay up.
So you don’t even bother to write the ticket to the juvenile law-breaker or the illegal alien. Those tickets will be tied up in missed court dates and letters sent to vacant lots until the end of time, without the state realizing one thin dime. But you write a big whumping fine to the basically law-abiding guy just out for a pleasant afternoon with the family, and it is free money in the mail.
I drive on a certain stretch of highway every weekday to work, and then again on Sunday morning to and from church. Monday to Friday, traffic is moving at 80 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. People are talking on the phone, cutting each other off and passing on the shoulder routinely. And if you do see a police car, it is sitting on the side of the road with cars whipping past without even bothering to slow down.
But on Sunday morning, it’s wall to wall police cars. You see people getting stopped for doing 60 in a 55, and the fines are surcharges can add up to hundreds of dollars. They are constantly cruising and looking at you for cellphones or seatbelts or any other violation they can make up. I must pass at least a half dozen cars both on the way to church and on the way back every week.
So, what’s the difference?
The difference is not in the crimes being committed, but in the quality of the people committing the crime. Monday to Friday, it’s run-of-the-mill. Lots of people the police stop will never show up for court and the police will waste all kinds of money trying to extract payment from people who will never ever pay. But the Sunday churgoer will have that check mailed into the court before the end of the day. It’s free money, and the state is going to pick it up.
What about life guard and police jeeps which have killed and/or maimed bathers lying on the beach?
"FOR YOUR COMFORT AND SAFETY WILL EVERYONE PLEASE REMAIN PERFECTLY STILL!"
Just one little 10.0 is all I ask.
The overall trend is there and has been for many decades.
As a group smokers are less educated and poorer. Smoking is about as “down scale” as you can get.
As a group smokers tend to be litterbugs.
Stinky littering undereducated and poorer is a sorry way to go through life smokers.
Sounds like your parents were ignorant bigots.
Any parent who really cared about their child would discourage them from smoking. Not only because of the health issues, but because their friends associates and likely mates are going to be more likely to be smokers and therefore less likely to attain a higher education or wealth.
Wouldn't you want your children to associate with people with educational aspirations and attitudes that accumulate wealth?
Do you not care about your children?
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5320a2.htm
Current smoking prevalence also was higher among adults living below the poverty level* (32.9%) than among those at or above the poverty level (22.2%)
Educational attainment has been associated consistently with adult smoking prevalence since 1983 (Figure 2). By education level, smoking prevalence was highest among adults who had earned a General Educational Development diploma (42.3%) and lowest among those with graduate degrees (7.2%).
Accumulating wealth is neither a sign of intelligence nor a guarantee of security. FWIW my parents did try to discourage me from smoking but they weren't neurotic control freaks so they let me make my own decisions once I reached the age of majority. If I had children I would do the same with them. I would particularly teach them not to make kneejerk judgments about other people and give them some insight into more important aspects of character and personality than peripheral lifestyle choices like smoking, food preferences or fashion choices. I would teach them to discern real character flaws such as the inability to judge people on an individual basis.
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