It just got easier to keep things clean in Middleborough, whether it’s the mouths of combative adolescents swarming the town center or people who think nothing of dropping trash on the street. Town Meeting voters agreed Monday to decriminalize a range of longstanding town bylaws that regulate antisocial offences from excessive swearing in public, at $20; and littering, at $50; to shoveling snow into the street, also $50; and public pot smoking, which warrants a fine of $300.
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no, these are not "new" ... just a return to Blue Laws, enforced by a local nanny government with, surprisingly, support from the media with a story like this: "It just got easier to keep things clean in Middleborough ..." really? making the streets of Middleborough safe for the Upright to perambulate; gotta make plans to move there where no one is heard swearing, there is no snow in the streets and, just in time, I wont have to witness someone smoking Martha Coakley's Public Enemy Number One, the Evil Weed. sounds like a small town with small minds, their brows all knitted up, granting police broad discretion to harass young adults and someone else's neighbors.