Dude, you forgot your coffee cup.
Posted on 06/05/2009 7:17:05 AM PDT by DemonDeac
"TEXAS CITY — A man who used a four-letter word to describe to his neighbors how their cat left feces in his yard was acquitted Tuesday of a disorderly conduct citation."
"“A little piece of America died today when a jury of six says it’s OK to curse in front of a 13-year-old when asked not to,” Rainey said. "
"“It’s a sad day for morality, that this type of behavior is condoned,” Rainey said."
"Loflin was at least the third person cited for cursing in public in the last 12 months in Galveston County."
(Excerpt) Read more at galvnews.com ...
“”“A little piece of America died today when a jury of six says it’s OK to curse in front of a 13-year-old when asked not to,” Rainey said. “ “
It would have been a worse day for America if the government could tell us what we can and cannot say.
There are too many adults acting like little children who awant the government to be a nanny. If the idiot didn’t want their child to hear it, remove the child from the scene.
What is more offensive? a **** word? or Cat ****?
There is nothing more offensive than Cat ****
I guess they missed the local Walmart where “children”...teens and Adults curse non stop on cell phones stuck to their ears.....very loudly and in English, Spanish and “hip hop” talk.
Is it rude? Yes.
Should all that is rude or immoral be illegal? No.
Nope. They are keeping us safe there too.
:On Aug. 4, a La Marque assistant fire marshal cited Kathryn Fridge after overhearing her drop the F-bomb in Wal-Mart, while she had a conversation with her mother. “
These people defile a mans property and they are worried about words.
Dude, you forgot your coffee cup.
Reminds me of the pro-aborts who get twisted into knots over pictures of aborted children, but take no offense at the abortion procedure itself.
It’s too bad he was acquitted. Cursing in public is far too common. So is cursing on TV. They should have thrown the book at him: cats pooping on the lawn is a jolly nuisance and an annoyance, but hardly just cause for uttering choice four-letter words.
It is wrong to curse, and doing it too frequently has a diluting effect: it becomes common ergot and loses all its effect, its ability to shock and scandalize. It becomes boring.
It’s too bad Liberals learned how to curse: it is all their fault. They curse too often, inappropriately, and they have turned what was once a shocking event into a commonplace part of English language use.
Liberals curse more frequently in five minutes than Gen George Patton would in five days. Yet imagine what would happen if one of them Liberals cursed at the General! It would be worth the price of admission to watch.
Real men curse very infrequently, violently, in appropriate circumstances. When they do, people are shocked, the air turns blue, paint peels off the walls, and birds tumble out of the sky stone dead. People mark their calendars because it is an event never to be forgotten.
If I had been the judge in Galveston, the court would find for the Prosecution, defendent to pay a fine $,1000 per swear, sentenced to 30 days community service.
Unless it’s Dog****
Fixed it for you.
Acquitted for lack of evidence and lack of intent to incite.
The cat owner should have been cited for lack of cat control. I have had feline-icide on my mind many times because of uncontrolled cats pooping and peeing in my front entryway.
It bombards visitors to my home with an unmistakable and highly objectionable odor.
Why aren’t cat owners help responsible for their cat’s actions while roaming the neighborhood? I’ve heard it’s because in the law cats are still considered wild animals. Well, if that’s true, why can’t I shoot them dead on sight? They’re certainly not an endangered species.
My Dog has never crapped on someone elses lawn.
Cat owners seem to think Kitty can run wild.
I think a little piece of America died when this guy took his neighbor to court instead of settling the issue himself. He shouldn’t allow his cats to run outside unprotected in the first place, but that aside, he would have been a good role model for his daughter if he had taken care of the problem with a degree of grace and diplomacy. But why do that when you can sue at the drop of a hat? Nice lesson to teach a 13-year old.
Interesting article, though. It looks like the only time a foul talker can get senteced in when he swears at a woman. I’ll remember this. :)
“If I had been the judge in Galveston, the court would find for the Prosecution, defendent to pay a fine $,1000 per swear, sentenced to 30 days community service.”
I’m glad I don’t live in your America. I’m just not in favor of a nanny state where big bad government is the morality police. But if you like being in a nanny-state then more power to you. I just don’t see how that position is remotely consistent with conservatism. Sounds closer to liberal do-goodedness in spirit.
Lol...they need to hang around a little longer. A man behind me in line this week at Walmart was cursing up a storm on his phone because his wife or girlfriend wanted to turn on the AC at home. Then late at night you get the battle of the rap stations on radios around the store as the stockers do their thing. While picking up frozen vegetables, I learned (roughly translated from hip hop rap cursing)....that “Ho’s” just want money and babies and that bullets are a drug dealers best friend....
bttt
“Cat owners seem to think Kitty can run wild.”
In many places they can. Cat leash laws aren’t as common as dog leash laws.
Okay, if the word was “s**t”, I was under the impression that that didn’t count as a swear word down there.
*** DING DING DING *** No more calls; we have a winner!
People who keep pets need to take responsibility for them. Ideally, cats ought to be kept inside, or at least on your own property, so that they don't become a neighborhood nuisance.
Somebody needs to tell Michael Rainey to GTFU, and do it with a two-by-four.
Oh my, you are so right, I see it now so clearly. What Big Brother needs to do is go through the dictionary and make laws about each word, this work is OK, you are free to say it... this word however, is a euphemism, $100 fine. This word, is one of the big nasty words.. jail time for you fella..
All praise Big Brother, master of protecting us from words.
"The idiot" shouldn't have to hide his kid because his neighbor has no class.
We had a saying when I was a yoot. “thats meaner than cat ****”
I curse about my wifes @#*”% cats every day =)
Its just common sense /s
L0L
What sort of people does he expect to find in a neighborhood where the locals have slovenly habits like letting their cats crap on other people's property?
I don't see how cursing in front of small children is consistent with conservatism. Sounds more like libertarianism. Founders of this nation weren't in favor of public obscenity, and neither am I.
We have leash laws here, but it seems that some of the cat owners don’t care. And some of the dog owners.
They will be fined $35 for each offense after the first one. The first one gets a warning.
My dogs were always on leashes for walks or indoors with me. The cats never went outside. I’ve seen too many of them as road kill.
Some people are so stupid when it comes to pets.
Curse words will be gone for good once the new edition of the Newspeak dictionary is completed.
Reminds me of Demolition Man.. Be Well..
Well, cats should be indoors FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION! :) But very few communities write that into law. Why? Cats are smaller and seen a a lesser threat than dogs?
The court didn't need to get involved because the neighbor had no class. Being cited for swearing is BS!!
What I see that’s ‘dieing’ here is property rights! A person works hard buys a piece of property, pays his taxes on that property, takes pride in keeping his property look good and yet some yahoo neighbor thinks it’s OK for their cat to use this man’s property as its litter box. No all, but most cat owners are the most arrogant people I know! How many times do I have to here: “Well a cat has to free to run, it’s not healthy for them to be couped up in the house all the time” and other inane excuses! Take about prejudices! Name on city that prosecute violations of animal law violations by cat owners as strickly as it does dog owners. I had cats ‘$h!+’ in my yard, flower beds and boxes shreaded, my bird feeds turned into their own personal butch shop, half the time they didn’t even eat the bird they just killed. I am sick to death of CATS! and cat owners! On my list they are below congress and only just above our present President!
Rush Limbaugh has been using four letter words on national radio for years.
That's why I stopped listening to him while my kid's were around when they were younger. I didn't want them to think it was acceptable. (Turns out that didn't do a lot of good as they grew older and were more exposed to modern “culture”, but I was trying.)
And when a lady called in to complain about that, he blew her off.
Seems like liberal tendencies contaminate even those deemed to be conservative.
You can say the F word because we are free to say offensive things but you cannot say the N word necause it is offensive.
“I don’t see how cursing in front of small children is consistent with conservatism. Sounds more like libertarianism. Founders of this nation weren’t in favor of public obscenity, and neither am I.”
It isn’t right either but it shouldn’t be the government’s job to make sure people are polite to each other.
I find that a great many of us are moving toward libertarianism... I know I am.
> I’m just not in favor of a nanny state where big bad government is the morality police.
Neither are most Liberals. That’s why they are trying so hard to have same-sex marriage, and why they are trying so hard to put an end to don’t-ask-don’t-tell. And that’s why some of the filthiest sewer-mouth language you will hear in TV is being used by Liberals. They agree with you, you see.
The point is not the Nanny-State being morality police in charge of language: we are in charge of our morality and language. Those of us with self-control keep things like four-letter words under tight lock-and-key, for infrequent use. There should be at very least a social taboo on swearing — but if there isn’t, a legal taboo will do just fine.
Cats have different personal habits than dogs anyway, of course, and they’re not as troublesome in that way. Of course, dog lover/cat haters will see it differently. I love both, BTW. :)
I agree. These idiots don’t control their cat, I guarantee they don’t control their daughter, but they want to control their neighbors speech.
I hate it when people let their rain fall on my yard. It gets everything wet.
True, but they were in favor of individual responsibility and not being told by the government what one can and cannot say.
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