Comments on: “Louisiana Legislators Narrowly Reject Car Seizure for Littering”

By: Bumper

Bumper — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:52:09 +0000

“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke

By: D

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:52:34 +0000

JS: Mr. Jimmy said littering is victimless, not drunk driving. Please re-read the statement.
Jesse Spurway: gitarcarver is very generous to consider your hypothetical.
What to do about litter? A consistent, enforced fine works. At least it did in New York City a few yeras after I moved away. (Note, I have not been back in a couple decades.) Seizing vehicles screams “abuse” in my mind.
Call the local Boy Scouts or Key Club or any other service organization.
Or how about convicts? Ah, maybe work is so unusual for them that it comes to the level of cruelty? You know, there are a lot of good songs that never would have been if we never had chain gangs.

By: doug

doug — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:32:23 +0000

ah, but there will be lots of fees for lawyers. appeal after appeal.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:23:21 +0000

Oh,….. also how does it identify the vessel or “conveyance” that was used to dump the material?

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:22:31 +0000

Okay Jesse…. I’ll go with your hypothetical.

Now, how does your scenario identify the person that dumped the material on the property any more than if the forfeiture wasn’t on the books?

By: JS

JS — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:01:16 +0000

Mr. jimmy are you on drugs? Drunk driving or being over some arbitrary BAC limit is a Victimless Crime unless one gets in an accident and thereby causes harm. other than that, drinking while having had a beer is no more dangerous than the idiot who can’t text and drive or talk on the phone or do their makeup or any other distracted driving. just being over the limit does not solve the issue that the majority of those who get in accidents after drinking are totally trashed, just not over the 0.08 limit. Please do some research before you spout nonesense.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:55:55 +0000

That would be insane Doug. There would be no way for the prosecuting lawyer to profit.

Bob

By: doug

doug — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:52:54 +0000

such a draconian law. why not just give them the electric chair for the fourth offense?

By: Jesse Spurway

Jesse Spurway — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:41:24 +0000

Imagine you own a piece of property in the sticks that you use mostly during warmer weather for fishing and hunting.
You don’t go during the colder months.
Imagine you show up one spring day to do some fishing and someone has been dumping tires, oil filters, and assorted trash on your property.
You report it to local authorities in hopes they will help you.
In about a month, you get a letter from the local government. You’re hoping they have info about catching who is dumping on your property.
Instead it is a notice that you have 60 days to clean up your property and until they think it is cleaned up, they have put a lien on your property.
Those darn litterbugs.
I’m with James on this one.

By: Mannie

Mannie — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:27:08 +0000

” … till I said, “And creating a nuisance.” And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.”

Life imitating art.