Man fined for using metal hoe on beach. Associated Press

[teklord]

An Alabama youth minister was fined $25 for using a metal garden hoe to dig in the sand with his 7-year old son while on spring break in Panama City Beach Florida. The officer told them they could not use metal tools on the beach. The law was adopted after a rowdy 2015 spring break and was designed to protect against sexual assaults.

Bring a plastic scoop?

Tek

 

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[ChuckT]

Metal hoes and sexual assaults? What the %$%€£ goes on around there.

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[Terry Soloman]

The ONLY reason he was cited, is because he got STUPID with the police officer. End of Story.

Alabama man fined for using metal garden hoe during sand castle construction | WBMA

 

[Peyton Manning]

yeah I got a ticket once in my 61 vette when I was 19 for getting lippy (imagine that?)

 

[lookindown]

The ONLY reason he was cited, is because he got STUPID with the police officer. End of Story.

Alabama man fined for using metal garden hoe during sand castle construction | WBMA

It says the police officer said you cant use metal tools on the beach...so no metal scoops...you missed a chapter of the story.

 

[Terry Soloman]

It says the police officer said you cant use metal tools on the beach...so no metal scoops...you missed a chapter of the story.

It says the guy refused to do what the police officer requested and that po'd the cop so he wrote him up.

 

[OBN]

So I guess all who bashed Akooster for his PVC scoop a week ago can now set on the sidelines with there metal scoop and watch him dig the gold..

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/beach-shallow-water/536362-diy-sand-scoop-uniblo.html

 

[Kansas_Jayhawk]

An Alabama youth minister was fined $25 for using a metal garden hoe to dig in the sand with his 7-year old son while on spring break in Panama City Beach Florida. The officer told them they could not use metal tools on the beach. The law was adopted after a rowdy 2015 spring break and was designed to protect against sexual assaults.

Bring a plastic scoop?

Tek

Rule #1 respect the officer
Rule #2 be an example for you 7 year old son




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[Geobound]

I get brining a ho to the beach, but who brings a metal hoe to one??

As for getting a ticket........well I don't blame the guy for asking about the new law, but why must people always argue with the cops?

 

[lookindown]

It says the guy refused to do what the police officer requested and that po'd the cop so he wrote him up.

Do you not see that it says there is a law that says no metal tools on the beach?

 

[lookindown]

You may not get fined if you stop using it when asked but it looks like metal scoops along with any metal tools are banned.

 

[Xraywolf]

The ONLY reason he was cited, is because he got STUPID with the police officer. End of Story.

Alabama man fined for using metal garden hoe during sand castle construction | WBMA

Got stupid by requesting a cite of the law ?
Do you care to clarify or are you proposing that when told to jump by a man with a badge, one should only ask "how high" ?

 

[cudamark]

Not exactly a great example of a "youth minister" eh?

 

[cudamark]

I'm still trying to figure out how banning metal tools at the beach is going to prevent sexual assaults? What, a rapist is not going to worry about breaking rape laws, but, is worried about a minor infraction banning metal tools? The logic there escapes me.

 

[TommyB]

I agree with Tom. If he stopped using the Hoe and filled in the hole he'd probably been OK. Maybe the cop was a bit sensitive to the new law because of spring break.
Florida gets crazy, I hear. I'm sure after the college kids leave, everything will be OK

 

[lookindown]

I'm still trying to figure out how banning metal tools at the beach is going to prevent sexual assaults? What, a rapist is not going to worry about breaking rape laws, but, is worried about a minor infraction banning metal tools? The logic there escapes me.

I don't understand the connection between metal tools and sexual assault either.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Got stupid by requesting a cite of the law ?
Do you care to clarify or are you proposing that when told to jump by a man with a badge, one should only ask "how high" ?

He didn't STOP after he demanded the officer cite the law. He then REFUSED to fill in his holes. The guy was obviously an idiot.

 

[gamiller]

Hoes on the beach.LOL

 

[gamiller]

So he used a hoe and didn't fill the hole. Now that's even funnier.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You may not get fined if you stop using it when asked but it looks like metal scoops along with any metal tools are banned.

lookindown, I have a link to a guy who got a ticket for eating a hamburger while driving. The cop called it "distracted driving" or some such nonsense. THE POINT IS: That "flukes" (over-zealous cops in fluke incidents) will always most certainly be in the news. But the question here is: Is this really something to worry about for us md'rs with our (gasp) metal scoops ? I doubt it. No more so than you'd worry and stop eating while driving if I showed you my cop + hamburger ticket story.

Example: There was a city in So. CA , that fronts the beach (hence has a small stretch of municipal beach), that enacted a law decades ago that forbade "digging holes" on the beach. The law was because some college kids, going out for late night keg parties, would dig enormous pits for their bonfires. Or to goof off or whatever. They would not fill in these giant pits. Also kids digging tunnels have been known to have the tunnels collapse and some kids have suffocated. Hence the law. And the law made no distinction on the size of the digs. But SERIOUSLY now : Do you *really* think such laws were meant for md'rs ? OF COURSE NOT. Nonetheless, it's the "letter of the law", eh ?

So too do I believe that if someone went out to these Alabama beaches and had a metal sandscoop, he'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who cares less. Sometimes md'rs can over-think things.