Posted on 09/04/2017 4:32:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some “judge” will decide that it can only be enforced if there is a government supplied trash can withing 3 feet of the offense....
“Anyone caught and convicted of littering...”
Oh, how quaint.
Wanna print an impressive story? Show me conviction rates a year from now. And I don’t mean percentages; I mean hard numbers: X amount caught, X amount convicted, 60Y hours of community service performed. And — for a state the size of Texas — X had better be at least a four-digit number or words like “unenforceable” and “failure to enforce” will remain applicable.
We’ve had the signs up along our California highways all my life; I’ve never run into anybody who’s been busted for it.
Personally, I’m for a lightning bolt from the heavens blasting the bejeezus out of anybody who so much as flicks a cigarette butt onto the ground. You do “shock and awe” for the small stuff and it’ll revolutionize the public mind frame in a hot second.
Litter law fines don’t even cover the cost to the State of writing the citation. Community service of 60hrs might deter some people; 160hrs would grab a WHOLE lot more attention. You make it a certainty that dumping your car’s ash tray out the window will make you an uncompensated employee of the State for a MONTH...?!
THAT would be real “teeth” for the law.
As is...well, we’ll see, but don’t get your hopes up.
I was in Vegas, and this woman finished her ice cream bar, then just tossed the stick and wrapper on the ground in front of herself. There was a trash can less than 5 feet away.
Some folks have no couth or sense of responsibility to their fellow citizen.
Yep - people are what they are and there’s plenty of ugly to go around w/o a worry of a shortage.
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