LA County OKs $1,000 fine for throwing frisbee/football on beaches

[Acid Trip]

Those psychotic liberals in California are at it again. Let's not worry about the major problems and focus on fining the shit out of anyone having fun on the beach! Requiring permits for throwing a ball in "predesignated areas"? A PERMIT?!?!

LA County OKs $1,000 Fine For Throwing Football, Frisbee On Beaches

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.

The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.

In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.

The updated rules now prohibit “any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll” any object other than a beach ball or volleyball “upon or over any beach” between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Exceptions allow for ball-throwing in predesignated areas, when a person obtains a permit, or playing water polo “in or over the Pacific Ocean”.

However, during the winter off-season, the new rules will be relaxed.

Officials warned that any activities that could potentially harm “any person or property on or near the beach” should not be allowed during the peak summer season.

Your kids could also end up costing you big bucks: the ordinance also prohibits digging any hole deeper than 18 inches into the sand except where permission is granted for film and TV production services only.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/08/la-county-oks-1000-fine-for-throwing-football-frisbee-on-beaches/

[Muddy]

They're crazy out in Cali..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Damn football throwers....ruining the beaches :x

[Muddy]

Mother funkers...

[MrsM]

http://i39.tinypic.com/cj0gi.jpg

[Loser]

Cali and new york. Two of the most fked up states there is. Worse than florida by far.

[Acid Trip]

Cali and new york. Two of the most fked up states there is. Worse than florida by far.

How dare you say such things about the two bluest states in the US! Don't you know they are the liberal blueprint for America's future success! :lol:

[Hal-9000]

You can't throw a football on the beach?

Is this a rule to help bring parity for the ghey folk who can't?




Porky?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Its just a bunch of idiots who need to babysit the world :roll: They will be out with the tape measures to make sure you dont get your hole to deep :facepalm:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Sorry, there is a new rule here that says you can't comment about threads concerning the new California law without a permit...I need to fine you all $1000 now.

[Hal-9000]

Its just a bunch of idiots who need to babysit the world :roll: They will be out with the tape measures to make sure you dont get your hole to deep :facepalm:


No I was asking if the new rule was to help the gay people...


thought I'd consult the hometown expert..







:dance:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Officials warned that any activities that could potentially harm “any person or property on or near the beach” should not be allowed during the peak summer season

So I guess, they will be banning swimming, surfing and running as well :roll:

[Hal-9000]

Sorry, there is a new rule here that says you can't comment about threads concerning the new California law without a permit...I need to fine you all $1000 now.

If we post 3 times in error does that constitute a 20 year prison sentence?

[Hal-9000]

So I guess, they will be banning swimming, surfing and running as well :roll:

NO suntanning while at the beach!!!!! :x :x

[PorkChopSandwiches]

No I was asking if the new rule was to help the gay people...


thought I'd consult the hometown expert..







:dance:

Gay people out here are the fit ones out doing all the exercise, they will be getting screwed the hardest. I just lay back like a beached whale while the family lathers me from head to toe in SPF 100

[Hal-9000]

Gay people out here are the fit ones out doing all the exercise, they will be getting screwed the hardest. I just lay back like a beached whale while the family lathers me from head to toe in SPF 100


sweet....gain a couple of pounds and they'll use BBQ sauce

[KevinD]

Un, f-ing, real. Wow, just wow. Sorry for y'all over there.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Dan Whitcomb | Reuters


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles County officials who have been widely mocked since reports surfaced that they had imposed a $1,000 fine for throwing Frisbees and footballs on the beach said on Thursday that the rule change had been badly misunderstood.

In fact, the county had only eased restrictions that have been in place for more than 40 years and carry a much lesser fine of $100, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said.

"There has been a lot of misinformation and a lot of concern and anger on the part of the public," said Joel Bellman, a press deputy for Yaroslavsky. "It was a good faith effort to create new opportunities for people to play on the beach that they didn't have under the old ordinance."

Reports that supervisors had ratcheted up fines for throwing footballs and Frisbees on the county's beaches to $1,000 made international headlines, became a point of ridicule on local talk radio and infuriated locals.

Bellman said Yaroslavsky's office alone had fielded dozens of phone calls and e-mails from irate constituents since the first news reports this week.

In fact the original law, which dates to 1970, makes it an infraction to "cast, toss, throw, kick or roll" anything other than a beach ball on a Los Angeles County beach -- a rule that may have escaped the notice of many Southern Californians.

The revised ordinance, which was given final approval by supervisors on Tuesday, allows beach balls and volleyballs -- and loosens restrictions on footballs, Frisbees and other such sporting equipment and toys.

The ban now applies only during summer and lets beachgoers toss their footballs and Frisbees in designated areas, over the water or with permission from a lifeguard.

A first infraction carries a fine of $100, rising to a maximum of $500 for three or more violations in a single year.

Bellman said the reports of $1,000 fines were erroneous and apparently taken from another part of the ordinance that refers to misdemeanors such as public nudity.

But Bellman said lifeguards were more likely to just direct overzealous beach football players to another area if they were causing a problem. He said the intent of the law was to protect children and families from being trampled, not to ruin anyone's fun.

"We're not about making the beach an unpleasant experience for people and coming on like some totalitarian police force. They are going to be mellow about it," Bellman said.

[Pony]

$1000 fine for public nudity?!

:x

[KevinD]

Well, that makes more sense now. I can understand the restrictions in that light.

[Hal-9000]

I think that throwing a frisbee is way gayer...erm...worse than naked girlies in public

[deebakes]

isn't this a repost of a porky thread? :-k



















oh wait, i see :lol: