If a person is going to have their delicate sensibilities damaged by the chance that they might hear a word deemed inappropriate by another expressing their freedom to say whatever they want, then that person should not leave their house. Ever.

I for one, agree with the action. If I had been in that store with my wife and daughter, I would have been offended. In fact, either my wife or I would have probably confronted her. If she had laid into my wife or me the way she did the fire marshall, the situation could have gotten out of hand. It wasn't like he walked up to her and wrote her a ticket. He just asked her to refrain from the foul language in public. When she went into her tiraid, she was begging for a ticket imho. She got what she deserved.

What would be the appropriate number of times for him to tell the woman to stop?

Whats funny is, i think most people would agree that the only place foul language in public is acceptable is at the typical airport flight counter. :)

Now, this is amnedable if someone politely asks her to keep it down, and she loses her shit with them.

Change that to "your local DMV", and I'm in complete agreement.

Do you have anything in writing?

Why should she have to listen? Last I checked it's not against the law to be rude.

Maybe I'll just drop my pants and take a dump in the middle of wal-mart, or start spanking it. after all it's not against the law to be rude.

No one has the right to be offended by such statements.

That would also be lewd and is against the law.

Unfortunately, that would be public indecency of the sexual flavor. So, I think you'd be going to jail.

Freedom of speech, however, is not covered in public indecency. It's a sad day when people don't defend it.

We don't have the freedom to say whatever we want. That's the whole point. He didn't make up the law on the spot, it already existed.

There's a big difference between having "delicate sensibilities" and expecting common courtesy and decency. IMO, we've turned into too much of an "anything goes" society. There is nothing wrong with expecting folks to have respect for others in a public place.

Apparently in that community there is a law against using that type of language in a public place. Am I missing something here? I believe that's why she received the ticket.

Really?

Did she yell fire and put people in danger?
Did she yell gun man and put people in danger?

No. At least not that we know of. So, no, there's no harm to other people. People don't have this right to be offended and have the offensive thing reprimanded.


And as for the bold, nothing could be more laughable. We can't show a breast on a movie screen without an instant R. We can't allow cuss words on cable. We can't deal with sound effects in Paper Planes by MIA on the radio. We can't deal with growing a certain type of plant. We can't deal with what people put in their bodies. We can't deal with lots of things.

Anything goes is as far from American society as anything.