Mental Note: Stay the Hell Out of Brighton City, Michigan!  |
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| There is a new law in Brighton City, Michigan making it illegal to be annoying in public. Violators will be ticketed and fined. My question is, who is the judge of what is annoying? Considering how thin-skinned many in our society have become, they will not have enough paper to write all these tickets on, since anyone can become annoyed over anything for any reason. Here is the news story about it, please tell me what you think: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi... Michigan city bans being annoying in public Friday, December 19, 2008 (12-19) 17:38 PST Brighton, Mich. (AP) -- Ticking someone off could get you a ticket in one Michigan city. The Brighton City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing police in the Livingston County community to ticket and fine anyone who is annoying in public "by word of mouth, sign or motions." The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell reports the measure is modeled on a similar ordinance in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. A city attorney says there could be situations where the measure would violate freedom of speech, but that those cases will be reviewed by the city. The ban takes effect Jan. 2. | | | | | |
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MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | Everyone would be subject to fines, since the person first charged with being annoying will be annoyed with the ticket giver and the person who reported them for being annoying! | | | |
mommyboo (4304)
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4 years ago
| | Yeah, I don't see how they would deal with this situation. Overly pc is right, if the annoying person claimed the ticket writer was annoying, then you have the ticket writer in trouble. Bystanders can also claim they were annoyed by having to see the whole thing go down. | | | |
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2. savypat (13312)
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4 years ago
| | Everyone is in the market for a little money. I can see where this law would be much more costly to enforce then the fines produced by it would offset. Happy New Year | | | | | | |
MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | I suspect the person forced to issue the tickets would also be fined since getting a ticket is pretty danged annoying! | | | |
sirensanssmile (2784)
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4 years ago
| | That law annoys me so I want the lawmaker to have a ticket for annoying me with his nonsense. | | | |
savypat (13312)
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4 years ago
| | Good luck with that | | | |
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3. zukepr (11761)
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4 years ago
| | LMAO who is the judge of that? what annoys some, may be funnier than all hell to others so does this mean that solicitors can now be fined for being annoying? look out JWs hehe | | | | | | |
MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
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MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | Mental Note: Bring the children shopping with me in Brighton City, MI. | | | |
sndcain36 (2691)
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4 years ago
| | On second thought....maybe it's not such a bad idea...lol | | | |
mommyboo (4304)
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4 years ago
| | Yeah, it would help to threaten your kids with the potential of arrest if they were about to make public nuisances of themselves. Since they don't listen to parents, perhaps that threat would help them learn to control their public behavior. Then I wouldn't have the oh-so-fun memory of my 13 year old daughter dragging my 12 year old son screaming and kicking across the carpet of the movie theater lobby because he wanted to be in the arcade and we had asked them to meet us at a bench by the doors....Granted between the two of them, my daughter is a bully and he can't back down either - now he's bigger than she is. I love to tease them about this incident because it is pretty funny now. I was mortified when it happened. I think my hubby and I were wishing a hole would open up and swallow them, the kids look EXACTLY like him and nobody would guess they didn't belong to him. | | | |
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MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | The easily offended are offended by even the most non-offensive things. What's next, giving legal authority to the "fashion police"? | | | |
razcal2267 (9670)
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4 years ago
| | If that happens I will for sure become an agoraphobic | | | |
mommyboo (4304)
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4 years ago
| | Fashion police? OMG I can't stand 'what not to wear'. Those two (Stacy and Clinton) make people wear the worst crap ever. Besides, most of us don't have the plastic to go shop at Tiffanys and Saks and wherever else overpriced boutique they make those poor people go to. I believe in makeovers at some point, but something reasonable where you buy a few new things that can be worn 10 ways and get a new haircut or something, not 5K! I wouldn't be spending 5K on CLOTHES that's for sure. Maybe in 10 years lol. | | | |
sirensanssmile (2784)
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4 years ago
| | I will go with Razcal to Michigan to be annoying in the street and see how many ticket I can get. We can have a competition to see who gets more. I will just walk around singing because I can not sing and it must be annoying to others to hear this very bad voice. | | | |
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6. sndcain36 (2691)
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4 years ago
| | What the hell kind of stupid fascist crap is this? Talk about your enormous civil suit just waiting to happen. People who think government is the answer need to look at stories like this and realize government is actually the problem. fking idiots. | | | | | | |
MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | A civil suit would be annoying to the people who created this stupid law, so the filers of the civil suit would likely be subject to ticketing and fines. Of course, the people who created the law and the law itself could be deemed "annoying" so there would be a never ending cycle of tickets issued, and the ticket writer would be cited as well, since getting a ticket is annoying in itself! Uh-oh, I've made myself dizzy... | | | |
sndcain36 (2691)
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4 years ago
| | LOL wait you're making ME dizzy and I'm already dizzy enough! *falls out of chair* | | | |
razcal2267 (9670)
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4 years ago
| | I want off this ride it is spinning too fast! | | | |
mommyboo (4304)
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4 years ago
| | The whole idea is quite frankly - annoying - and everybody involved who ever WENT for this thing or had a hand in getting it passed and even CONSIDERED are annoying, and they all need to be ticketed pronto and I WANT THE MONEY. I promise not to do anything highly annoying with the money. | | | |
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7. CurlyRed (3467)
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4 years ago
| | Curly wanders around her hometown, legally topless, and singing the song that never ends in a really loud voice while farting... she aint never goin' to Michigan.. | | | | | | |
MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | I bet you are very popular and that you live in a heck of a town! | | | |
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MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | They can't afford belts I guess. The no baggy pants rule is in effect in a lot of cities because it is popular for people into hip hop to wear their pants below their butts with their underwear showing. Some people do not like to see young men walking around with their pants down. I think they should let them wear their pants around their knees, as there have been many reports of young men committing crimes and trying to run from police only to fall on their faces and be arrested after tripping over their low pants! LOL It's TRUE! | | | |
mommyboo (4304)
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4 years ago
| | You know, I really wish that young people could not be allowed to wear pants that hang below their butts, because I am really sick of seeing boxers and underwear and once in awhile someone's actual butt. This isn't to say I have a problem with low rise jeans, I don't, but I WEAR ONES THAT FIT. It takes all my powers of self control not to want to yank all the pants I see that are hanging.... DOWN.... even my kids do it and I am constantly warring with myself over it. Of course, to be equal opportunity here, I also wish that old people could not wear those polyester suits or pants up to their armpits with shirts TUCKED in, housecoats in public, slippers, and curlers. I am fortunately somewhere in the middle, I dress relatively young but not like I'm actually 17. I put up with my daughter because she's 19 but I battled it my own way by buying my son pants with a smaller waist knowing they won't hang off his butt like his old ones. *victory dance* | | | |
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9. whiteheather39 (15573)
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4 years ago
| | On top of all the frivolous laws suits lay people clutter up the courts with now we have the lawmakers making frivolous laws. I imagine is just another ploy for these cities to fine everyone and fill their coffers (and perhaps there own pockets) with the citizens hard earned money. | | | | | | |
MSV1313 (2239)
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4 years ago
| | The people who MADE the law should be issued tickets since the law itself seems like it will be pretty danged annoying! | | | |
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10. Ruthep (7334)
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4 years ago
| | Do the police have to hear or can you just call and report someone as annoying? Can you give tickets to owners of dogs that won't stop barking day or night and are ANNOYING me? Or is it just people. But every time a law is broken they can add an extra charge for being annoying. What do I think? I think that city will turn very dull very quickly. Every one will be afraid to do anything for fear of annoying anyone and having to pay for being themselves. But they picked a good time to have the law go into effect. Winter in Michigan. No one could move if they wanted to and come spring given the economy they couldn't even sell their house to get away from the insanity. | | | | | | |
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