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http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/2008/07/floaters_cant_elude_beach_booz.html

It makes me sad that something that had long been a San Diego tradition, I will no longer be able to take part in. My dad was always an advocate of a few beers at the beach. Not enough to get belligerently drunk mind you, just to make for a nice mellow, relaxing day of fun in the sun.

I love how people can drink in theme parks, even half of Disneyland serves booze (California Adventure) but in a public place it’s suddenly forbidden. Just because of a minor incident that occurred on a holiday last year, resulting in little to no injuries/damage. San Diego’s just raking in the money from these tickets.

Let’s do some math, shall we? Roughly 500 tickets written out so far, with each citation bringing in a 250 dollar fine. That works out to $125,000 income for San Diego. Perhaps the Beach Ban is a thinly disguised effort to lift San Diego out of its notorious budget deficit?

It seems the more common sense approach to an actual effort to circumvent malicious incidents in the future is to either A) regulate drinking on holidays or B) ban drinking only on major holidays… since those seem to be the only occasions beach police had been having issues with.

Oh wait, a decision such as that makes far too much SENSE.

Damn you San Diego Politics.

Oh and on a side note, I’ll be spending my fourth of July working. In a theme park. That serves booze. *sigh*

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