CA passes "fun tax" -f'ing liberal moonbats

[Threedee]

Well done. I was going to see how long I could troll you for...

[Yurt]

Oh I know, I saw the article. In fact I almost posted it myself. I saw three or four friends who live in LA post it on Facebook as well.

I get that you and Zappa probably aren't on each others Christmas list but I have a hard time believing that when he read this article about these rules at the beach his first thought was the fine is only $500 not $1,000 and that changes the whole story.

why are you always so nice?

[Yurt]

It could just be that our beaches are better than yours.

huh, huh...you said beaches

[Yurt]

So what should the limit be? What about a young child running along the beach who falls into the hole and breaks a leg or even worse?

common sense. before these regs people made holes in the sand. fact is, regs are not going to stop some idiot from making a huge hole. we don't need the government to tell us what to do 24/7. the examples you posted are EXTREME examples. and in light of all the beaches in the world, your examples are VERY VERY rare.

[cawacko]

why are you always so nice?

Haha, you mean along with being racist and sexist?

[Yurt]

Haha, you mean along with being racist and sexist?

no, you are always nice. why..................

[christiefan915]

why are you always so nice?

You should take lessons from him.

[cawacko]

no, you are always nice. why..................

If I am I guess it's just my nature/personality. In the real world I get along with most people. I'm not the confrontational/argumentative type.

[icedancer2theend]

common sense. before these regs people made holes in the sand. fact is, regs are not going to stop some idiot from making a huge hole. we don't need the government to tell us what to do 24/7. the examples you posted are EXTREME examples. and in light of all the beaches in the world, your examples are VERY VERY rare.

Kids with pails and shovels have been digging holes and building sand castles at the beach for eons. The tide comes in and fills the holes and demolish the castles... Only Tom would see danger in 18 inch holes at a beach where the tides fill them back in~

[Aoxomoxoa]

common sense. before these regs people made holes in the sand. fact is, regs are not going to stop some idiot from making a huge hole. we don't need the government to tell us what to do 24/7. the examples you posted are EXTREME examples. and in light of all the beaches in the world, your examples are VERY VERY rare.

I wouldn't call 31 fatalities and 21 non fatal cases in a decade rare, would you?

Digging sand holes may sound like innocent fun at the beach, but it can be risky and even deadly, according to a new report. In the past decade, there have been reports of 31 fatalities and 21 nonfatal cases of people submerged in sand when the sand holes they were digging for fun collapsed in on them.

http://www.webmd.com/news/20070620/d...n-be-dangerous

[icedancer2theend]

I wouldn't call 31 fatalities and 21 non fatal cases in a decade rare, would you?



http://www.webmd.com/news/20070620/d...n-be-dangerous

LOL yeah, Tom, with 4 billion people on the planet and a billion visits to US beaches a year, it's an epidemic!

[Aoxomoxoa]

LOL yeah, Tom, with 4 billion people on the planet and a billion visits to US beaches a year, it's an epidemic!

I wonder how people, especially children have sustained serious injuries from falling down into those holes? Oh by the way, those collapses tend to happen where the sand is dry, so your theory about the sea just covering it all up is patently not true.

I am not sure where you are getting your population figures from but last time I checked the Earth's population was 7 billion instead of 4 billion as you stated.

[Yurt]

I wouldn't call 31 fatalities and 21 non fatal cases in a decade rare, would you?



http://www.webmd.com/news/20070620/d...n-be-dangerous

how many people visit beaches every year? approximately 200 million people visit southern and central california beaches every year. just using cali's beach numbers, are you suggesting that 51 people out of 200 million is not rare? the percent is something like .00002

[icedancer2theend]

I wonder how people, especially children have sustained serious injuries from falling down into those holes? Oh by the way, those collapses tend to happen where the sand is dry, so your theory about the sea just covering it all up is patently not true.

I am not sure where you are getting your population figures from but last time I checked the Earth's population was 7 billion instead of 4 billion as you stated.

I had not looked at actual populations Tom. The last I had heard a number for global population it was 4 billion. I see the new number was publicized in October. I guess this makes your chicken little stats even less significant?

• Coastal states receive about 85% of the tourist-related revenues in the U.S. It's estimated that
some 180 million Americans annually make 2 billion visits to ocean, gulf and inland beaches --
more than twice as many visitors that go to all the National Park Service properties during the
same period.

link

[Threedee]

I'm always stuck on the 6.2 Billion number from 1999 (which I believe they used in Armageddon).