{"id":46,"date":"2025-01-03T01:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T01:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-01-03T01:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T01:55:20","slug":"irvington-fishing-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Irvington Fishing Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the town that banned leaf blowers, next we will ban fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Friends of Halsey Pond have made it very clear that fishing is a dangerous activity – see their recent correspondence to the village:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The current movement to ban fishing at Halsey Pond has nothing to do with fishing – it has to do with littering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who are too inconsiderate to follow basic decorum and dispose of garbage appropriately will not care whether or not it is legal to fish at a pond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter goes further to highlight that the reason fishing needs to be banned is there is no way to enforce the existing rules against littering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How will a new rule prohibiting fishing be enforced? Is the problem the rule, or the availability of enforcement? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this will accomplish is inhibiting law-abiding residents from performing an innocuous activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we ban fishing, here is a list of commensurate activities we should be sure to ban at Halsey Pond as well – just to be safe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Flossing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Jump rope<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Knitting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Tying shoes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Crocheting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Weaving <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Tug-of-war<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Flying kites<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Drying clothing with a clothes line<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Beading bracelets<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    From the town that banned leaf blowers, next we will ban fishing. The Friends of Halsey Pond have made it very clear that fishing is a dangerous activity – see their recent correspondence to the village: The current movement to ban fishing at Halsey Pond has nothing to do with fishing – it has to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fishing-ban","tag-halsey-pond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irvingtonwatchdog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}