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?
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Melizmatic 2012/06/28 18:24:34
if you're attractive that is.
It seems so arbitrary. To some, a polka-dotted dress could be classy...to others, it could be tacky. While bathing suits are never really considered classy, the point is laws should not be based off of politicians opinions of what is "classy".
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and this:
And the city does not want this seen in public buildings, and in my opinion rightly so.
Platinum hair with black roots is an atrocity in my opinion, but we can't go around banning it just because it's not what I think of as classy.
I agree with you far too many freedoms being taken away or altered. In God we trust and that does not include politicians.
"Honey, if they don't like the way I look, they can look the other way",..
Ok, here is a question. What does "Classy" and the Jersey shore have in common?
Answer,..... Nothing.
And no, my opinion wasn't from MTV, I've been to several beach locations on the Jersey Shore and,..... "it ain't all that",..