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1 posted on 08/11/2003 6:33:16 AM PDT by yonif
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...and you have a problem with this law?
2 posted on 08/11/2003 6:34:51 AM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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I wonder how much this guy already paid for that bench in tax money.
3 posted on 08/11/2003 6:37:25 AM PDT by Tabi Katz
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Botanical Garden in Munich

Sniff a flower and the fine is doubled.

4 posted on 08/11/2003 6:40:28 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Good job it was a bench, not a deckchair, or the German would have stolen it, like they do on every summer holiday.
6 posted on 08/11/2003 6:41:52 AM PDT by jjbrouwer (Whaddyou talkin' about, Terminator?)
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If Bloomberg/Davis hear of this scam, they will probably try it in NYC/Calif to get more revenues.

7 posted on 08/11/2003 6:43:11 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Wow, this is madness. I hope this doesn't spread to the UK. I don't have any children to hand at the moment for chaperone duties. It would suck if I couldn't sit in the park anymore without borrowing the neigbor boy or girl.
10 posted on 08/11/2003 6:47:23 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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Hey, Aqualung...
13 posted on 08/11/2003 7:00:14 AM PDT by boris (Education is always painful; pain is always educational.)
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But the man said his only interest in the playground was to see whether it would be a nice place to take his daughter to on a planned weekend visit.

Uv course it vas a good place to bring ze childrens, it vas provided by ze government for ze Volk! How dare he question ze government fazilities!

14 posted on 08/11/2003 7:06:05 AM PDT by StriperSniper (Make South Korea an island)
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Evidently this law was designed to avoid the police having to "profile" park visitors. It would be soooo wrong for the cops to peg somebody as a prostitute or drug addict and shoo them out of the park. So they make it illegal for anyone to sit on a bench without a child present.

With such "zero tolerance" laws and regulations in force, it's no wonder that "Common Sense" committed suicide.
19 posted on 08/11/2003 7:31:37 AM PDT by DeFault User
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I happen to like this idea... the playground area of the part limited to children and the adults bringing them there to play. As long as signs are properly posted in that specific area, why is this a terrible intrusion? I would guess there are many other benches throughout the part that aren't next to the playground and the fella certainly wouldn't need to hang around for any length of time to see if his daughter would like it.
24 posted on 08/11/2003 7:43:19 AM PDT by Tamzee (I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight...... Rita Rudner)
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Looks like we're headed that way, too. Basically, every adult is a "predator" and must feel guilty just for being an adult.
31 posted on 08/11/2003 9:14:47 AM PDT by inquest (We are NOT the world)
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Germany also bans killing ants.

Germans banned from killing ants

-PJ

38 posted on 08/11/2003 12:32:58 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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But the man said his only interest in the playground was to see whether it would be a nice place to take his daughter to on a planned weekend visit.

Yeah, sure.

45 posted on 08/12/2003 6:42:05 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine ("What if the hokey pokey is really what its all about?" - Jean Paul Sartre)
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