Massachusetts Town Issues Tickets To Swearing Teenagers
What the heck? I wonder what will happen when the parents of this town discover “television”.
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.
Pictured: Goddam teenagers.
The ordinance gives police discretion over whether to ticket someone if they believe the cursing ban has been violated.
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kea718 11 months agoI really don’t have a problem with this and I’m all for protecting the right to free speech. There’s a time and a place for it though and inappropriate language shouldn’t be used in public where young children can hear it. More often than not it’s teens who are yelling profanities with no regard to who’s around them. Obviously in this town it’s become enough of an issue that people want to do something about it. They aren’t saying you can’t curse, they are saying you can’t curse loudly so everyone can hear it. Unfortunately we live in a time where people are incredibly rude and show no respect for others. Maybe by giving tickets to people they’ll decide to be more aware of their surroundings and think about what they’re going to blurt out.
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LionessFeathers 11 months agoACLU will be on this quickly. Freedom of Speech, anyone? If you don’t want your kids swearing in public then you need to raise them to understand that there is a time and place for everything. Obviously there are a lot of parents who have done a poor job raising their kids in this town.
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zombiebait 11 months ago
I don’t thinking creating a slew of asinine laws is the answer to any problem. But that being said, there was a woman wearing a shirt that said “bitch” in giant block letters on it, at my local playground the other day that was packed with kids. I was appalled. So I may vote for making having some common sense a law if they put it on a ballot.
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whiteinkdesigns 11 months agoWhat the Fuck?!
Oooooh wait did Bloomberg just hear that? Shit, fuck…ugh. I’m getting a ticket. -
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hayleyhatcherm 11 months agoThe first amendment does not protect profanity or pornography. Read it. I cuss, but I def do not in public. They should consider those around them. It’s disrespectful.
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AdventureNeckbeard 11 months agoNo, you can’t just ticket teenagers, make it fair ticket everyone, and ticket more than just public profanity. Stop getting other people to do parenting. I was a bad kid but I rarely swore because I saw no point in it and my parents had me shook if I ever said a bad word and they found out, wooo my ass was grass. Parents need to learn how to enforce and stop getting others to.
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Lillithdv8 11 months agoI say be hipster about this. It’s too mainstream to curse, let’s go Shakespearian: “You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!”
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Danielle W. 11 months agoi believe this goes against our human rights outlined in the bill of rights…what happened to free speech?
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trollprincess 11 months ago
I’m firmly against legislating what people say, but then I remember the childish punks who walk down the sidewalk outside my apartment shouting profanities or the dicks who have fights on the lot across the street where they shout racist, sexist and homophobic epithets at one another and maaaaan, are my principles tested.
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Bonzo Gal 11 months ago
Bullshit. Bullshit bullshit bullshit. You can’t legislate manners. Do I enjoy hearing people swearing loudly in public? Not usually… but I also don’t enjoy hearing religious people standing on street corners spewing the Bible at me. I don’t want any laws banning ANY sort of speech. That is unconstitutional and 100% fucking un-American.
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