Or any other a-helmet-for-every-sport politician, really. Next thing you know they’ll try to ban swimming at the cottage.
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.
In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.
The updated rules now prohibit “any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll” any object other than a beach ball or volleyball “upon or over any beach” between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Exceptions allow for ball-throwing in predesignated areas, when a person obtains a permit, or playing water polo “in or over the Pacific Ocean”.
It will also be illegal for your kids to dig holes in the sand deeper than 18 inches. Unless of course the hole is for a movie or a TV show. This is L.A., after all…
Decades ago, author Jack Williamson wrote about humanity being put in virtual straightjackets by The Humanoids – a race of self aware androids they’d built to help them – who had decided humans were their own worst enemies and needed to be protected from their own follies. The end result was a hellish existence where almost nothing was allowed humans as there was always SOME risk, however trivial. Fast forwards those decades and who needs fictional androids? We’re doing it to ourselves. So much for a ‘free’ country.