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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
that sucks, but your situation is far removed from a kid with a lolli in his mouth who hadn't dropped it on a seat, nor littered. There is so much about this case we could debate because we just don't know the information.
Everyone has had an incident where they've had gum stuck on their pants/shirt and it sucks... But just because it's a minor problem doesn't mean we need to make a law controlling it... Let's try to fix our REAL problems first
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How is it far removed? It had not YET... the NO FOOD law is there to prevent it BEFORE it happens.
On a crowded bus, ONE seat that has been stickified denies ONE bus rider who's paid their fare and deserves a clean seat. There are some people in NJ who commute 2 hours via bus and will not stand holding the rails when they PAID for a seat.
Rudy Guiliani believed in the broken window theory and improved the quality of life by going after quality of life law breakers, which this falls under. Monitor the small stuff and the big stuff slowly takes care of itself. He also at the same time took care of ridding NYC of major mob interests, all while also taking care of these small quality of life issues.
While YOU may swallow your gum or dispose of it properly, there's plenty of evidence here in NYC showing that OTHER people are not so diligent or caring. While YOU may not need to told how to act by laws, other people do.
When I was in Madrid, I did not see a single black dot on ANY of their sidewalks because they meticulously scrubbed their sidewalks almost every day.
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