Fingers crossed & wood-knocking (in a random & arbitrary plane of existence) that this is a
promise, rather than politicking:
Under the program, which still needs approval from the council’s Budget and Finance Committee, citations of $250, $500 and $1,000 for the first, second and third offenses could be issued. An administrative review process would be available should citizens choose to appeal.
City officials estimated it would cost $577,000 to start the program and that it would generate more than $2 million in revenue.
The panels added use of gasoline-powered leaf blowers as one of the violations and removed other crimes, such as illegal sales of tobacco and illegal parking lots.
Yeah, don't fuck w/ the "sharing economy" you over-regulating yada yada ... Nonetheless, if a gasoline-powered leaf-blower is heard in five & a half hrs. (0730, as last Tues.) it will be WWIII all over our metaphorical lawn. Asphalt. Concrete. Whatever.
Other local news:
SOUTH PASADENA (CBS/AP) — Two teenage boys were arrested Monday after making specific plans to kill three staffers then gun down as many students as possible at South Pasadena High School, police said.
The boys, who did not yet have weapons but were trying to get them, had been under constant surveillance since the school district informed police of their plans last Thursday, South Pasadena police Sgt. Brian Solinsky said.
He would not elaborate on the plans or what form they took, but Solinsky said they were “very specific” and included named targets.
“This is a prime example of school officials recognizing suspicious behavior,” Solinsky said in a statement. “It was this information that helped prevent a horrific tragedy.”
All
hat text, no
cattle guns.
3 comments:
Newsflash:
At some point, EVERY kid 'plans' to kill some specific teachers, coaches and classmates. it is perfectly normal behavior, even if the plans are 'detailed'. Mine were extremely detailed, because I planned to get away with it. But the thing is, only the very rare (and genuinely defective) kid actually DOES anything...
(Legal) Conspiracy Editor:
In the very late '70s or v. early '80s some weasels I knew, most of whom owned guns/flirted w/ survivalism (hippies, not honkies) & some of whom moved some reefer felt they'd been cheated on a deal & thoroughly planned/mapped &tc. an armed raid of about 20 weasels on an apartment in the Valley. The 'phone wires were to be cut, there'd be two armed dudes minimum at every window & door, yada.
Didn't own a gun at the time (+: Not really any of my beeswax.) but went along to sit in the backseat of a lookout car. The intended targets weren't home or something, & no further incursions were mounted.
Still, I wonder what might have happened ...
(Legal) Conspiracy Editor II:
"EVERY?" Wow. Some school. Took me a few yrs. of employment to get bitter.
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