Should Bathing Suits Be Banned on the Boardwalk?
SodaHead Living
2012/06/28 18:00:00
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The beach, the boardwalk ... they're pretty much the same thing, right? Not in Asbury Park, N.J. Technically, you're not allowed to wear a bathing suit once you step off the beach in the Jersey shore city -- and the chairwoman of the local Republican party wants to enforce that rule, to keep things "classy." Classy on the Jersey shore? (We kid.)
"I understand that social things have changed," said 74-year-old Louise Murray, a city councilwoman from 1997-2001, who's been noticing suits at the boardwalk’s bars and restaurants, The Star-Ledger reports. "But forget that. Just put a shirt on."
The ordinance is believed to be more than 40 years old, and Asbury Park is considered more "high-end" than other Jersey Shore towns. But others are mixed on enforcing the rule.
"How do you satisfy everybody?" Deputy Mayor John Loffredo told The Star-Ledger. "I don’t think it’s appropriate to just wear a bathing suit at a bar. But it’s up to the business. If they allow it, they allow it." He continued, "We don’t have the resources to enforce it. We’re not going to have cops on the boardwalk enforcing that. It’s not going to happen." Do you think bathing suits should be banned on the boardwalk?
The ordinance is believed to be more than 40 years old, and Asbury Park is considered more "high-end" than other Jersey Shore towns. But others are mixed on enforcing the rule.
"How do you satisfy everybody?" Deputy Mayor John Loffredo told The Star-Ledger. "I don’t think it’s appropriate to just wear a bathing suit at a bar. But it’s up to the business. If they allow it, they allow it." He continued, "We don’t have the resources to enforce it. We’re not going to have cops on the boardwalk enforcing that. It’s not going to happen." Do you think bathing suits should be banned on the boardwalk?
Top Opinion
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Melizmatic 2012/06/28 18:24:34
Oh, and I'm not a him, but do LOVE my military. I am a Marine Mom.
In short, let the bathing suit alone and learn to look the other way when I become older, more senile, and falsely come to the conclusion that taking an mid evening stroll down the board walk in my way-way-too-small Speedos is good idea.
My question is who is paying the taxes to the obnoxious civil servants that somehow now think they can run rough shod over our personal business?
I am in favor of occupy, yes I don't want them wrecking crap, but at the same time we have given the political idiots the keys to the city and now they want to play imperial rulers.We need a group of people perhaps 30 million strong to give them a message.
Just like in the movie Network, until somebody by way of masses of people jump up and say I am mad as well and won't take it anymore, they will keep putting it to you.
Please speak up at the polls and vote every stinking incumbent out that you can. I don't care what flavor/party they are, get rid of the offending weight of stupidity.
Don't you think your freedoms are worth it?
A town telling an entire beach community to cover up because they are uncomfortable with it is prudish. That's what the word means.
A town enforcing a decades old law that would push everyone into the same category of conservative wardrobe would be a prudish law. Hence, the "official boardwalk uniform".