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Monday, June 15, 2015

Arlington Cracks Down on Salty Language

Uttering some of the more expressive words in the English language will cost you up to $250 if you say them in Arlington, now that county officials have upped their fines on public uses of profanity. The Arlington County Board just approved a measure increasing penalties for public intoxication and blue language from $100 to $250.

Even if Arlington is sacrificing its reputation as an urbanist’s dream community, its leaders have not given up their mission to clean up its residents sometimes-naughty antics. The code change adopted during Saturday’s board meeting came after the Arlington Police Department reported making 664 arrests for public inebriation and foul-mouthed talk in 2014.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

spd would never enforce it.

Anonymous said...

What is considered foul mouth talk? Hmm. Ooh how that law can be interpreted.

Anonymous said...

Bring it to oC And the bury.

Anonymous said...

lmao, can't say f u but can hug or crawl all over your partner of the same sex and that's ok. What a messed up country!

Anonymous said...

WTF? what kind of BS is this? There is still the 1st. Amendment right?

Anonymous said...

Your fourth amendment is all but abolished. First is already in works by Obama for speaking against Islam. I'm sure they'll get away with it.

Anonymous said...

YOU idiots above think its ok too curse on a public beach where lots of children are ? you guys are probably sitting at home single in your mommys basement.

Anonymous said...

No more crappy flea market subwoofers thumping out obscenities in traffic?