Bill targets pungent riders of Honolulu's transit system

[Chris_]

Bill targets pungent riders of Honolulu's transit system

The City Council is considering a bill that will make it illegal to "bring onto transit property odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system, whether such odors arise from one's person, clothes, articles, accompanying animal or any other source."

Councilman Rod Tam, a co-sponsor of the bill, explained why it is needed:

"As we become more inundated with people from all over the world, their way of taking care of their health is different. Some people, quite frankly, do not take a bath every day and therefore they may be offensive in terms of their odor."

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The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and council member Charles Djou said they are worried the bill is onerous and too broadly worded.

"We are obviously concerned about laws that are inherently vague, where a reasonable person cannot know what conduct is prohibited," said Daniel Gluck, of ACLU Hawaii. "Vague laws — like the proposed 'odor' ban — open the door to discriminatory enforcement based on an officer's individual prejudices."

Just wait.  Some liberal idiot will claim that his stink is right to freedom of expression.   

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Note the title on Drudge says "Honolulu seeing to ban "BO" on buses...".  That's not the BO I was hoping for.   

[thundley4]

I didn't realize that Hawaii was so anti-French. 

On the serious side, would this apply to men and women that put on too much cologne/perfume?