No Smoking on Wrightsville beach? Police state?

I'm an ex smoker and although I would prefer not to smell cigarettes on the beach I think people have the right to do it, it's outside for gods sake. Is this a free country anymore? People don't understand that making new laws and regulations just makes it easier for more laws and regulations to be made. Eventually we will live in a friggin police state, have some tolerance for other people and respect their rights to personal freedom lest yours be taken away.

 

Nope.

Buy all your guns and ammo now!! There's a lot of speculation regarding an Obama 2nd term and our right to bear arms.

 

Classic WB, which is why it is not surprising. Did you also know they want to institute surveillance 24/7 via taking a picture of your license tag when you get over the bridge and taking a picture when you leave? On another note, does anyone really believe we will ever find out the reasons behind 2 WB police being forced to resign and one demoted a little over a month ago?

I grew up on that beach, it hasn't felt like home for decades....

 

**** um if you gotta smoke um.

 

That's the problem headhigh, they are refusing to make the reasons public. Word on the street is it has to do with improper traffic stops, over-willingness too use tasers and faulty detective work.

 

This has already taken place in the fine state of New Jersey. Its bound to happen everywhere... just like paying to even get onto the beach... along with paying for parking... coming soon to NC! Get ready to pay 8 bucks a day to get onto the beach to surf in the summer! Next, we will need a passport to surf! ...i cant wait...

 

This is why I live in the crusty-redneck-imbred-paradise I call home, Carolina Beach what what!
On another note, I do not smoke cigs, but I do find it particularly alarming how many butts are thrown on the ground. I work at the Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar and see this type of behavior on a daily basis. We have a ridiculous amount of ashtrays and receptacles available to toss out your cigs, but ignorace still prevails and butts get thrown on the reg.
I have made people go down and pick up their cigs after I see them toss it. If they refuse, no more Haitian Sucka Punches for you retard.

 

CB represent!

My favorite (and I have done it on pretty much every beach in SE NC) is to pick up the trash after seeing someone drop it, run up to them, say "I think you dropped something, looked important so I brought it back to you," and hand their trash back to them. I have seen some of the funniest expressions on people's faces this way!

 

Ocean Bill

You sound a bit inbred yourself, it wouldn't be wise to refuse service to someone. Especially during the summer

 

Love the tiki bar, Caroline is one cool girl. Also heard from my cousin that LA county has a new $500 fine in place for throwing a football on the beach. Fun times.

 

I heard about the Football/Frisbee law in California too. They may get great waves, but that state is so broke they'll try to fine anything to make revenue, like farting in public.

 

Says IQ2. Someone has to keep people like you from hurting themselves....

 

thank god. I am tired of seeing hundreds of cigarette butts every time i go surfing. Then whenever i ask somebody politely to please throw it in the trash, they role their eyes like im the bad guy. If putting tar into your lungs is so important you can go to the sidewalk for a minute.

 

they need to make cigarette illegal and legalize the weed...

 

I don't really care about people smoking on the beach, but like a lot of other people have said, why is it deemed acceptable to just throw cigarette butts on the ground (anywhere, beach or otherwise)? I bet if I walked by someone who had just thrown their butt on the ground and unwrapped a piece of gum and threw the wrapper on the ground, they'd think it was wrong. Do cigarette butts evaporate, you slobs?

 

I don't think it's such a bad idea. It's aimed at reducing litter (cigarette butts) and trying to keep them off of the ground. I don't smoke and I do get annoyed at the amount of people I see toss butts out their car window or while they're walking down the street.

WB has a ridiculous amount of rules, though, and it's always so packed. I can't wait til I move a couple islands down from there in the near future!

 

AMEN TO THAT! Marijuana is a herb, naturally grown, a medicine, where cigarettes are made of hazardous chemicals, and they kill millions of people every year (correct me if i'm wrong) and weed hasn't killed anyone..

 

You need to drop the polite act. Polite should be the last thing on your mind when you see someone littering on your spot.

Anyway, in regards to Wrightsville Beach--they already have litter ordinances on the books. This proposed law is not about litter. If they were concerned about litter, THEY WOULD ENFORCE THE LAWS ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. This is about so much more and typical of the "new" Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen that has been in existence for over a decade now--70% or so transplants that haven't even lived in NC for more than a decade much less WB. Their municipal government now resembles more of a hyper HOA than a town government. It's a slippery slope when something like this becomes law, hopefully a citizen of WB will have enough sense and the cojones to take this to court--there's legitimate questionable legality in that.

My opinion at least...