New Proposed Bill May Ban Hoodies In Public Places

[Kosh]

If you outlaw hoodies, only outlaws will have hoodies....

 

[repoman]

there are plenty of hooded robberies of convenience stores you can see on liveleak.

But unless you have a holding area where hoodie/hat/etc... removal is required before you are buzzed in I don't see how this will work.

I like the slamming gates that trap robbers in Europe.

 

[Shadowy Man]

If it bans hoodies, wouldn't it also ban hijabs?

 

[Jarhyn]

If it bans hoodies, wouldn't it also ban hijabs?

And fursuiters. Think of the furries!

 

[fromderinside]

How about we ban hoodies in places where people normally talk to each other like shops, restaurants, movies, malls, public buildings and the like where the operators and owners must supply enforcement. A place to store your hoodie, like a hatcheck. A polite person at the door who advises those hoodied to remove them while in the store. One who directs them to a nearby place where they take it off and get a replacement shopper garment while in the store or movie or court room. One who is charged with enforcing policy and law.

Make the law copless unless the ownership asks them in to deal with a difficult person, preferably without arms.

This is how I feel about most "its for your own good" laws. It should be the duty of those who want security to provide means to ensure it privately by procedure and facility accommodation. Cars should have Faraday mechanisms to keep out unwanted communication signals, schools should have rules and agreements with parents about treatment and control of the out of control kid, smoking bans should be policed by those who have customers, etc.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Make the law copless unless the ownership asks them in to deal with a difficult person, preferably without arms.

Meaning that instead of law enforcment personnel, hopefully trained to some standard on what the law means, every individual vendor gets to decide the exact point where pulling a hat bill down low is intended to obscure one's identity?
Or calls to 911 because the woman in the drive through is wearing a shawl and the counterman lost his shit....

Wearing identity-obscuring bangs? A hairdo with ill intent?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Hoods don't kill people, people kill people.

Meanwhile in Oklahoma, a poorly written law has banned hoods in the state, which includes the hoods of motor vehicles. Drivers can be fined up to $800 on the first offense, driving a vehicle with a hood.

 

[arkirk]

Hoods don't kill people, people kill people.

Meanwhile in Oklahoma, a poorly written law has banned hoods in the state, which includes the hoods of motor vehicles. Drivers can be fined up to $800 on the first offense, driving a vehicle with a hood.

This is bullshit! Hoodies (and I have to admit I don't own one) are very useful serviceable clothing. I used to own several of them when I lived where the weather was more inclement than here. The problem is not with the hoodie. It is with Oklahoma and its authoritarian law makers. The uniform of the biggest criminals in America is the business suit. Maybe we should outlaw those? Lately, it appears that hoodies have become the clothing of victims of killer cops and would be cops. Hoodies rarely hide enough of the face you can't recognize its wearer. It appears to me that there are legal precedents that make such a law unconstitutional. I do recall a number of cases where protesters wore masks and were arrested for wearing them. I must admit I only have a memory of scanning the case while doing legal research about 20 years ago and the court let the Lone Ranger go on the basis of the First Amendment.

 

[tupac chopra]

 

[Nice Squirrel]

This is bullshit! Hoodies (and I have to admit I don't own one) are very useful serviceable clothing. I used to own several of them when I lived where the weather was more inclement than here.

CRAP! We got the wrong man!

 

[Sarpedon]

More republican compassion: During a record cold snap, Republican lawmakers bravely ban warm clothing!