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28 Nov 2007, 4:37 pm

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It'll be tougher to have sex or smoke on sidewalks or in parks in Berkeley, Calif., after the City Council passed a controversial new measure Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The Public Commons for Everyone Initiative cracks down on yelling, littering, camping, drunkenness, smoking, urinating and sex on sidewalks and in parks; the ordinance also provides housing benefits, counseling and public toilets to the university town's homeless population, the paper reports.

"There are people on the streets that we as a society are collectively responsible for," City Councilman Laurie Capitelli told the paper. "I think sometimes people need help fixing their lives, and we collectively have to help people do that."

Seniors and social workers will be responsible for monitoring street behavior, the Chronicle reports.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313450,00.html


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28 Nov 2007, 4:44 pm

I would have never thought I would see the day--seeing that that is Berkeley, the hippie factory.

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28 Nov 2007, 5:09 pm

the times they are a changing


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28 Nov 2007, 5:35 pm

On the one hand, these measures make the streets more sanitary.

On the other hand, no more sidewalk sex. :roll:



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28 Nov 2007, 6:00 pm

Sex on the Sidewalk. H'mm. Sounds painful.


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28 Nov 2007, 6:32 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
Sex on the Sidewalk. H'mm. Sounds painful.


Yeah, it's more comfortable on the grass. :lol:

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28 Nov 2007, 6:33 pm

Well, Berkeley still isn't as bad as Singapore (anyone remember the Michael Fay incident?)

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28 Nov 2007, 8:37 pm

I don't recall ever seeing anyone have sex on the sidewalk.....so people are actually doing this???? Geesh, who'd a thought. I agree though does sound painful.



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28 Nov 2007, 8:39 pm

I'm sure gravel rash is heaps worse than carpet burn anyway (not that I know, perhaps someone can enlighten us on this).


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28 Nov 2007, 9:47 pm

Thats so wrong. There's nothing better than sex in the park.


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28 Nov 2007, 9:48 pm

KristaMeth wrote:
Thats so wrong. There's nothing better than sex in the park.


That's correct. Where the grass is.


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28 Nov 2007, 10:26 pm

KristaMeth wrote:
Thats so wrong. There's nothing better than sex in the park.


My ex, who's been to Mexico City several times, told me that it's common for couples to have sex in the parks, as long as they cover themselves with a blanket. There will often be several couples doing it within sight of each other, and it's allowed. I'd think that would be weird. :? I mean, I wouldn't exactly be in outdoor-social mode. :lol:



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28 Nov 2007, 11:06 pm

Ragtime wrote:
KristaMeth wrote:
Thats so wrong. There's nothing better than sex in the park.


My ex, who's been to Mexico City several times, told me that it's common for couples to have sex in the parks, as long as they cover themselves with a blanket. There will often be several couples doing it within sight of each other, and it's allowed. I'd think that would be weird. :? I mean, I wouldn't exactly be in outdoor-social mode. :lol:


Lol, yeah, with people around, all doing it... that's kinda weird.

I'm talking like in one of those tubular slides at 3am when no one's in sight. I guess it's bad that I've done it where kids play, huh? Yeah. Real bad probably.


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28 Nov 2007, 11:13 pm

A little cramped, I think.



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29 Nov 2007, 7:08 pm

Ragtime wrote:
My ex, who's been to Mexico City several times, told me that it's common for couples to have sex in the parks, as long as they cover themselves with a blanket. There will often be several couples doing it within sight of each other, and it's allowed. I'd think that would be weird. :? I mean, I wouldn't exactly be in outdoor-social mode. :lol:


That would definitely be weird. :oops:


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29 Nov 2007, 7:26 pm

Damnit, now I can't go to the toilet or have sex in my makeshift shack on the pavement. Thanks killjoys.


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