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Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, a person who violates any provision of the code to be guilty of a misdemeanor with each offense punishable by a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 6 months, or by both.
This bill would prohibit a food facility, as specified, where food may be consumed on the premises from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the consumer. By creating a new crime and imposing additional enforcement duties on local health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884
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California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by bradley13 on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:59PM (17 children)
Talk about playing "mommy", even a fine is too much. But jail time? Seriously?
On the good side, this means that they have already solved all of California's other problems.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:02PM (7 children)
Talk about pissing off your base voters... I think I have met 1 RNC voter out of all the servers I have met.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:31PM (6 children)
Those who are should view a film and we'll see if they don't come away with broken hearts and changed attitudes.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is only 1 of 5 such giant trash heaps in Earth's oceans.
...and the bill's sponsor is Ian C. Calderon (D-Whittier).
Whittier is in Los Angeles County (very Blue; lots of tree huggers).
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:40PM (5 children)
Who cares? This doesn't justify jail time or insane fines for handing someone a straw.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:54PM (3 children)
The point is that it's not "a" straw, it's millions of straws.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:48PM (2 children)
The point is that such severe punishments should not even be on the table for something like this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @05:47AM (1 child)
In a country where you pay millions for downloading 1's and 0's that punishment seems rather benign.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 28 2018, @11:28AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:29AM
$25 - $1000 OR jail time. So I presume most restaurants would be looking at a $25 fine. Repeated offenses would likely raise the fine each time. One might make a similar criticism about the health inspectors requiring businesses to post signs reminding employees to wash their hands, or any number of health code violations. Those make more common sense since food safety is a more common worry amongst people, and not many people worry about plastic pollution.
It becomes much more than "just a straw" when you have millions upon millions being used and thrown away every day.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:02PM (4 children)
California has only two problems, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The cure: nuclear strike or weaponized Anthrax. Or Ebola or Hantivirus, because I don't just want them dead...I want them to be shitting out their intestines and bleeding through their eyes while they die.
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:04PM
tell us how you really feel.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:25PM (2 children)
Only Two?
What about the Always Feculent San Diego, the People's Republic of Santa Monica, and Detroit of the west, Oakland?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:39PM (1 child)
Oakland and San Francisco are basically the same problem, due to similarity and proximity. Nuke Gay Bay, and both Oakland and San Fran are solved.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:17PM
Totally different problems, but yes, one nuke solves both problems.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:37PM (1 child)
So you could land in jail indefinitely on a Three Straws Strike?
Tourists - head up! Beware having ANY plastic straws in your luggage, TSA will check!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday January 28 2018, @08:12PM
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:55PM
I hear the drought is over...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by webnut77 on Sunday January 28 2018, @08:33AM
So they're going to feed and house these straw violators in prison for six months. What's that going to cost? $40,000 per violator? They might have to early parole the rapists and murderers to make room for these vermin.