"Vomiting in public could cost St. Catharines residents $300"
i understand what "the man" is trying to do here but this is just silly. are brock university students really that vomitous that the streets are like the sewers are backing up with vomit? yes? oh... well that's not the point!
i can see a fine for fighting and knocking over mailboxes but vomiting? it is a natural reflex that you really don't have any control over once it decides it's going to do it's thing! sure you could drink a little less but the line between being comfotably loaded and spewing your cookies is a blurry, blurry, red-eyed line! people are hoping the tickets will be proportionately distributed to students and non-students but can you see a bylaw officer writing a ticket for an infant who spit-up on her mama's shirt? that would only be fair... and awesome! that's the key for this new bylaw going down in flames - reporting babies and children for vomiting in public and insisting they be written tickets!
another thing to point out: since when does vomiting and spitting rate a higher fine than destruction of property?? spitting and vomiting in public is a $300 fine while knocking over mailboxes, fences or hedges is only a $250 fine... i'd be more upset if some drunken lout destroyed my fence than if he ralffed on my lawn - the vomit will wash, but my fence will need more attention.
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