One of the main problems in our society today is this attitude of "I dont care, I dont give a fuck" (haha, Ironic in this case) and "its not my fault"

Take responsibility for your actions and always be polite, courteous and respectful to others. Why is that so hard for some people to understand???

While I don't condone her actions I hate to see us start going down the slippery slope of legislating morality. IMO what the fire marshall should've done is notify the store management of her behavior, and they could ask her to leave the store. If she refused, then she would be breaking the law and he could take action, and if management didn't care, he could take his business elsewhere.

I don't think it's a morality issue as much as a common decency issue. As long as the Fire Marshal isn't out looking to ticket people who curse it's probably not anything to worry about. I imagine it's an isolated incident involving one very rude woman.

I agree with this completely.

Sounds to me like the Assistant Fire Marshall found himself to be a little too self important in this situation.

Fair enough, but it's not really that much easier to define what is decent and what isn't. Sure, we can all agree that walking around naked isn't decent, but after that the line can get a little blurry.


Eh, I commend him for feeling he needed to take some kind of action, I just don't agree with the action he took.

I HATE when people curse in public and I certainly don't mind asking someone to stop when my children are present. But a ticket seems a bit much, unless we're going to police all indecent behavior like being ugly, fat, uneducated, etc.

Heh,I'm sure,when the extent of his career involves writing tickets for expired extinguishers

[QUOTE=GoBo;4914069]Fair enough, but it's not really that much easier to define what is decent and what isn't. Sure, we can all agree that walking around naked isn't decent, but after that the line can get a little blurry.
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True, but in reading the article it doesn't sound as though the marshal was looking to give her a ticket. Sounds like he was just trying to get her to watch her mouth. If the guy's trying to be the morality police, now that would be another story.

And really, I can't see any reason why it would be necessary for someone to be dropping clearly audible F-bombs at the local Walmart. I get aggravated every time I go in one of those stores but I wait until I get outside to cuss.

There wouldn't be anyone at all in Wal-Mart if they did that.

well **** you

Being inconsiderate shouldn't result in a ticket/arrest.

From the writeup, its hard to get a fair gauge of just how agitated and upset this women was. Who knows? It does sound like he tried at first to be polite and asked her to stop.

If she became uncontrollable then what should he have done?

Walk away? If she became uncontrollable after he talked to her then obviously he is causing the situation to escalate (not saying he did anything to cause this to happen, just that she was not being receptive to his attempts to calm her). I agree with the earlier post with the suggestion of going to the management of the store.

I applaud the guy for stepping up and asking her to watch her language. But the idea of it resulting in a citation is over the line IMO.

Uncontrollable how? Cursing more? Screaming? Getting physical? I agree that we don't have enough information.

You either support free speech or you don't. The amendment is very straight forward and requires little of the ridiculous judicial interpretation that has followed since it was written by James Madison.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.