Concerned citizens beg Kevin Bacon to dance away Alberta town's "Footloose" ban

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzjYn406mGc

 

A new bylaw that bans public swearing, spitting and yelling in Taber, Alberta, means residents could be slapped with a $150 dollar fine for dropping the F-bomb.

 

But the bylaw doesn't stop there -- it also bans playing music in public which "disturbs or annoys a person" and gives authorities the right to break up assemblies of three or more persons in a public place.

 

That's why the citizens group Save Us Bacon is arguing that Taber needs a hero. And that hero, they say, is Kevin Bacon.

 

The group's goal is to raise enough money to pay Bacon to fly to Taber to host a "raucous dance party/protest against an embarrassing, archaic, vaguely worded law passed by an out of touch town-council

[WinMacLin Guy]

Who the hell made this bylaw...the Grinch? The towns people have every right to be ###### off.

[abecedarian paradoxious]

Not long ago, we had Hope; had Cash; had Jobs.

If we lose Bacon, I'm gonna kill something.

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

'and gives authorities the right to break up assemblies of three or more persons in a public place.'

 

This is what pisses me off the most, as it goes against our [Canadian] Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it goes against Part 1, Section 2c: 

 

freedom of peaceful assembly

[Torolol]

Devil do NOT loves being mocked!

[XorpiZ]

Seriously. Are we talking about Canada here??

 

 

The bylaw also includes a $75 fine for spitting in public and a curfew on kids and teenagers from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. MT daily.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/taber-bylaw-bans-public-swearing-spitting-and-yelling-in-alberta-town-1.2988992

 

That's just insane.

 

Reminds me of https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/That%27s_a_paddlin%27