Staying Amused Over Where I live
I live in Gwinnett County, Georgia and drive through DeKalb and Fulton Counties to get to my work in Clayton County, Georgia each day. While I miss my hometown of Chattanooga I really do enjoy living in the Atlanta area. This is something I never imagined I would say.
One of the things that I enjoy about living in the Atlanta area is that there is always a news story about one of the municipalities passing some ordinance that makes you go,”What????”
For instance, this morning I looked at the paper and saw that one little town in Gwinnett County, Lilburn, has passed an ordinance making it illegal to do just about anything but drink, eat, watch TV and play the state run lottery in the bars and restaurants located there. The mayor was quoted as saying, “I like to sit down and have a beer as much as anybody else, but we can show studies that show that bars and honky-tonks lead to more crime.” So they pass a law making it illegal to do the activities that get in the way of continuing to drink?
Not to be outdone by Lilburn, to the south of Atlanta in Clayton County the city of Forest Park has decided to start ticketing cars left unattended and warming up in peoples driveways. The only thing that keeps me from really enjoying a good chuckle over this is that the ticket runs $168. Forest Park is a blue collar town and that’s a steep price for a lot of these folks to pay.
The town’s reasoning for doing this is to reduce car theft. I guess the next thing they will do is start rattling doors and fining people for leaving their doors unlocked to reduce burlaries and home invasions. They could also start fining women for wearing too provacative of dress in an effort to reduce rape.
General | Larry D. Burton | 06 March 2007 |
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By Felix Miller, 3/9/2007 @ 4:18 pm
Larry wryly observed of the small town political mentality: They could also start fining women for wearing too provacative of dress in an effort to reduce rape.
And wouldn’t that stir up a hornet’s nest of feminist outrage, matched by alarmed male concern for endangered girl-watching.
There is a conservative mantra about unrestrained taxation: If it moves, liberals will tax it.
In this case, if it allows bad behavior, pass a law against it. Some things are just human nature.
By Cat, 3/24/2007 @ 3:06 pm
The office is in Gwinnett county. My sites are in Dekalb.
By Larry D. Burton, 3/25/2007 @ 10:49 pm
Oh, there are stories coming out of Dekalb county that are just as bizarre or more so.