Woman gets ticketed for dropping f-bomb in a Walmart

[RJ]

Originally Posted by frazod

It does seem like a simple matter. But it could also be the beginning stages of one of those where-does-it-end? things as well.

Consider this:
Warning labels
No smoking on planes
No smoking in the workplace, go to the lounge
No smoking in the lounge, take it outside the building
No smoking outside the building, take it out in the street
No smoking in the street, take it home
You have neighbors and/or children at home! NO SMOKING EVAR!!!!!!!

Laws like this are like potato chips to extremists; they can't just stop at one.

But I think with this subject we've gone the opposite direction. I don't know it for a fact, but I'm going to hazard a guess that our laws concerning what is considered crude and vulgar behavior are probably considerable more tolerant today than they were a hundred years ago. You gotta think that a woman in a small Texas town in 1908 would have faced far greater wrath than a ticket for saying f*** while visiting the general store. She'd have most likely been run out of town.