Beaches Ban Picnics, Lewd Drawings, Camels

[Deja Q]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/26/travel/main2855606.shtml

Welcome to the Jersey Shore! Have a great time, but please don't dig too deeply in the sand in Surf City (you could get blown up), feed the seagulls in Ocean City (you could catch a disease), or draw dirty pictures in the sand in Belmar (it's rude).

If you have tummy trouble, don't even think of going to Sea Bright, and if you come to Spring Lake, leave your spear gun at home. Other beaches won't let you eat, pick flowers, fly a kite, gamble or ride a camel.

For a state that relies heavily on shore tourism to power its economy, there sure are a lot of things you can't do here.

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Ocean City passed a law in January prohibiting the feeding of seagulls from beaches or other public property. Officials say they acted to prevent bird droppings from contaminating waterways and spreading disease, but also note the avian scavengers have just gotten too brazen in recent years.

Most of the beach laws in New Jersey are common-sense — banning glass containers, fires, pets and nudity — while others go a step further.

Belmar, for example, prohibits smoking, gambling, cursing or changing clothes on its beach. It also says no one may “model, draw or depict any obscene or rude figures upon the beachfront.”

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“My primary concern is to keep people from drowning,” he said.


The article has more, though only Lord and the journalist's psychiatrist know why.


So I've got two things to say about the article:

1. Ten years ago, this sort of "news" article would not have been considered for public consumption.

2. This ought to be in LBN... :crazy:

3. How do they know it was a picture of something lewd, such as a phallus, and not a poorly scribbled out hot dog??!

4. Oi, you said "...two things to say...", so how come it's 4!