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Massachusetts town moves to put a price tag on cursing
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:04 am
by ajmrowland
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... ublic?lite
At a town meeting Monday night, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.
Officials insist the proposal was not intended to censor casual or private conversations, but instead to crack down on loud, profanity-laden language used by teens and other young people in the downtown area and public parks.
I'm really happy about it," Mimi Duphily, a store owner and former town selectwoman, said after the vote. "I'm sure there's going to be some fallout, but I think what we did was necessary.
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:23 pm
by SpringHeelJack
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:42 pm
by JiminyCrick91
What, no South Park style chip implant?
-Skyler
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:59 pm
by ajmrowland
Helen Lovejoy. I would just love to punch her one of these days.
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:56 pm
by Disney Duster
It's not like this is really that bad. I'm sure if someone curses because they stub their toe, it won't be fined (well it shouldn't be!) but otherwise it really is no problem.
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:53 am
by carolinakid
I don't like to hear cursing in public either, even though I'm quite the potty mouth. Maybe the threat of a $20 fine will cause some people to think twice before yelling obscenities (and they really need to be spoken obnoxiously loudly to be heard in public) in a supermarket, subway, etc. I also don't like to hear God's or Jesus' names spoken profanely in public, but that's another issue!
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:40 pm
by ajmrowland
Disney Duster wrote:It's not like this is really that bad. I'm sure if someone curses because they stub their toe, it won't be fined (well it shouldn't be!) but otherwise it really is no problem.
it's not the worst thing to happen no, but it's just one more law that goes against constitutional rights.
"Freedom of Speech"
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:09 am
by a-net-fan
ajmrowland wrote:Disney Duster wrote:It's not like this is really that bad. I'm sure if someone curses because they stub their toe, it won't be fined (well it shouldn't be!) but otherwise it really is no problem.
it's not the worst thing to happen no, but it's just one more law that goes against constitutional rights.
"Freedom of Speech"
Not necessarily. Anyone can express ones self without using profanity / vulgar language in public. It has gotten way out of hand and really hits you when you start hearing children under five years old using words they should never have even heard at that age. I applaud the new law and hope it spreads across the country. Our society really needs to re-gain some class.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:04 am
by CampbellzSoup
Believe it or not I'm actually in favor of this move....we live in a society now where it seems that we have no class. What happened to manners, class, and etiqute?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:17 am
by TheSequelOfDisney
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:49 am
by Super Aurora
what a pointless and wasteful law.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:17 am
by Flanger-Hanger
Super Aurora wrote:what a pointless and wasteful law.
Agree, but that sig of yours is great!
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:44 am
by Super Aurora
Flanger-Hanger wrote:Super Aurora wrote:what a pointless and wasteful law.
Agree, but that sig of yours is great!
Thanks. Thank Tim(princephillipfan) since he provided those awesome images in the Haunted Mansion thread. My favorite is the Opera glasses woman. I would most definitely but that painting/artwork if I could and hang it on my wall.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:39 pm
by ajmrowland
a-net-fan wrote:ajmrowland wrote:
it's not the worst thing to happen no, but it's just one more law that goes against constitutional rights.
"Freedom of Speech"
Not necessarily. Anyone can express ones self without using profanity / vulgar language in public. It has gotten way out of hand and really hits you when you start hearing children under five years old using words they should never have even heard at that age. I applaud the new law and hope it spreads across the country. Our society really needs to re-gain some class.
yeah, but I chose to take it literally.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:41 pm
by ajmrowland
CampbellzSoup wrote:Believe it or not I'm actually in favor of this move....we live in a society now where it seems that we have no class. What happened to manners, class, and etiqute?
1. the internet
2. we never really had much class in the first place.
3. overworked parents
4. alcohol
the list goes on......
