It’s illegal to pick flowers from parks
Arrest that little girl, she just picked a flower from the park…
17-25 Flowers–Picking in parks, etc.
No person shall pick any flower or flowers growing in any public park or place in the city, except by the express authorization of the superintendent thereof.
(Code 1959, � 4240)
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- No pissing in the waters of local parks
- No molesting of animals in city parks
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This is quite reasonable, actually. Places like Golden Gate Park in San Francisco would not want their carefully cultivated dahlias to be mauled by the public. It costs money to maintain them and they want them to stay looking nice.
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Dot Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
oh geeeeeeeeeeez. i almost got attacked by a pack of angry middle aged jogging women who hissed at me and said ‘we seeeeeeeeee yooooooo’ lol i was gone from the scene and at home enjoying my beautiful vase of wild flowers by the time they could have gotten their sorry asses around to reporting me.
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CR
September 4, 2009
If everyone does it, it’s wrong. If I do it, it’s ok. lol
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Dot
May 11, 2010