Woman gets ticketed for dropping f-bomb in a Walmart

[Bugeater]

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.

[RJ]

Originally Posted by GoBo

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.

[DJay23]

Originally Posted by GoBo

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 agree with this completely.

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

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by RJ

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.

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.

Originally Posted by DJay23

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.

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

[RJ]

[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.
/QUOTE]


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.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by DJay23

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.

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