Santa Barbara approves jail time for straw ban violators(sfgate.com)
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Santa Barbara approves jail time for straw ban violators
https://sfgate.com/bayarea/article/straw-ban-santa-barbara-plastic-law-jail-fines-13105042.php
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Santa Barbara resident here. Where is this coming from? Jail time? Fake news? I'm cringing for even typing that out.
https://www.keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/the-last-st...
https://www.keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/the-last-st...
The proposal was fine and jail for repeat offences, now it's been kicked to "review".
Like Seattle's job tax once you get serious attention on something, not to mention the teeming hordes of trial lawyers drooling at the opportunity to sue Santa Barbara Council for ADA violations, the idea is going to die a quick death.
They would have gotten away with it without all those people blowing it out of proportion...
Like Seattle's job tax once you get serious attention on something, not to mention the teeming hordes of trial lawyers drooling at the opportunity to sue Santa Barbara Council for ADA violations, the idea is going to die a quick death.
They would have gotten away with it without all those people blowing it out of proportion...
Loads of misdemeanors won't get you jail time, but are way worse than handing out a simple straw. Stupid law is stupid.
I wonder how many choking victims will die because of this law. An emergency tracheotomy cannot be performed due to the lack of a small sterile plastic breathing tube... or does that only happen in the movies?
How many more laws until we become a just and fair society?
If "hundreds of thousands" means 500 thousand, then this is saying that 0.00027% of those plastic straws are found on coastlines.
I understand that there are problems with both of those statistics, but it still seems a bit odd to publish them like this (there are 13 words between those numbers).
Again, the "500 million" number is likely wrong (as OP references, [1]) and the "hundreds of thousands" number was probably the author taking a spitball at something that there aren't real statistics for, but they still chose to print it.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-b...
EDIT: In reference to [1], being within an order-of-magnitude is pretty impressive for a 9-year-old.