Should a 12 year old eating French fries on the Metro be a crime?

[minionofmidas]

No Fern you can use Pravda DailyKOS.

Pravda means Trutth, you know?
What a fücking stupidity of a rule...you want clean subway trains, you provide places to put garbage in. You want dirty trains, you pass rules you don't expect people to keep to.

[minionofmidas]

No Fern you can use Pravda DailyKOS.

Pravda means Trutth, you know?
What a f***ing stupidity of a rule...you want clean subway trains, you provide places to put garbage in. You want dirty trains, you pass rules you don't expect people to keep to.

No, you enforce those rules and people should expect them to be enforced.  There are any number of laws I'd like to see removed and that I consider stupid.  The purpose of the judiciary is not to remove them.

Somebody, of any ideology, we shouldn't  be appointing to any judicial post is someone who say, "The law is stupid or I just don't like it, so I'll make it go away."

I wasn't referring to the judge at hand, just to the DC Metro.

[minionofmidas]

You also have to consider medical issues.  If the train were to suddenly come to a halt right when a guy took a bit of a hot dog, you can expect that bit to get stuck in his throat and begin choking.  Unless a passenger next to him knows how to Heimlich maneuver, that person could easily die . . . a liability which the Metro can easily avoid by banning food aboard the trains.

I hope you forgot a smilie here...

[minionofmidas]

No Fern you can't use Pravda DailyKOS.

Pravda means Trutth, you know?
What a fücking stupidity of a rule...you want clean subway trains, you provide places to put garbage in. You want dirty trains, you pass rules you don't expect people to keep to.

Garbage cans probably wouldn't be enough. Their a LOT of ignorant people who think it's easier to just throw trash on the ground or make a mess and not clean it up.

Sure there are.
But let's just say that I've ridden on numerous German cities' subways and by far the filthiest are those in Cologne, where there are no garbage cans. (I'm not sure if eating on the train is actually illegal anywhere, or where exactly...such a rule is sure as hell not enforced anywhere in Germany though; and the rule on no alcohol consumption on the train is sometimes enforced but usually not.)