News of the Frisbee and football ban at Los Angeles beaches went viral, thanks to many misinformed and outraged onlookers, who included KCBS and KCAL stations.
In fact, frolicking around the sands with either a Frisbee or football is allowed from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
However, lifeguards can stop a game if it threatens safety in crowded sections. These peace officers can give a ticket to those main offenders.
A first infraction for playing in a nondesignated area can be up to $100. A third and final warning can cost a beachgoer $500 in a 12-month period.
Three strikes, and you’re out of the margin!
If you’ve watched a game of ultimate Frisbee or seen White Chicks, then you know how much damage a flying disk or flying pigskin can do. However, if Frisbees and footballs were completely banned at the beach, then here’s a hypothetical list of other ban-worthy actions:
The opening and consumption of sealed food packaged before purchase
Film industries remastering movies into 3D
Playing Bingo at the house of God
Banks not allowing withdrawals of less than $20
Getting tatted a symbol, of which you know nothing about
Awards show presenter banter from non-comedians
Revealing more than 80 percent of your skin in public where children are present
Parallel parking a store cart
Releasing gas when people are present in your path of release
Sticking chewed gum underneath a restaurant table
Wearing a t-shirt in the Pacific Ocean (the Atlantic Ocean is too frigid)
Dating your friend’s sister
Juggling pins near a school
Happy one-year death anniversary, frisbee inventor Walter Fredrick Morrison!