The only problem with banning kegs and jello shots is, people will just find another way to get intoxicated. Like hard liquor. And how the #$*($ do they distinguish Mardi Gras beads from necklaces in general? Silly stuff.

Just another politician who rather than fix the problem and punish the problem people finds it easier to just punish everyone and ban something.

I like to party as well as the next person but my friend and I party responsibly. Why are we also going to be punished. Senator Scott is simply LAZY and like all politicians is using a feel good, shotgun approach to a minor problem. Do some people like as fools and idiots, absolutely. Does everyone act like fools and idiots, absolutely NOT.

Senator Scott, Stop taking the easy way out and make the hard decisions your paid for.

Instead of “lewd” behavior, how about enforcing the existing laws concerning littering and trashing up the rivers?

I don’t blame the rural conservative for being concerned. All it takes is a couple of beers and a shotgun… then suddenly you have a Texas lawyer spread eagle with two dozen shotgun pellets in his face.

RH: EXACTLY what I posted on a different blog. Before we go making new laws that are selectively enforced, or not enforced at all, we ought to focus on either making the one that we have now either manageable for law enforcement, ot make them go away. And what is left, should be clearly defined, and enforced. The main reason people do what they do now is not that there are no laws against it - there are - but rather those laws are not enforced.

Garrison: Do you actually have anything CONSTRUCTIVE to add to that?

Why do these people have it in for Jell-O? I know someone who had non-alcoholic Jell-O confiscated on a river.

Ban the lewd behavior, nudity, and out of control intoxication. It’s not the fault of any of the inanimate objects that people think are the cause.

Whatever happened to personal responsilbilty or to our right to free will? People party, whether it be on the river, at a bar, or in the city or country somewhere.
This bill is a waste of our taxpayer money and our reps’ time. People will be reckless anywhere, restricting one area will not change that.
(And…this is not a party issue…conservatives believe in smaller government, as do I).
How can such specific things be “Illegal”? WOW!

camdawggy -
As an old Boy Scout, I was taught to always clean up after one’s self when finishing up a camping trip. Of course, that was 45+ years ago when atvs and jet skis did not exist.

Perhaps if the State Patrol were to set up breathalizer check points just outside the major “camping/recreation” areas, and announce it well enough in advance, it may discourage some of the more extreme behavior.

However, I was brought up to know that there is no such right as the “right to trash up”.

RH: I think that is a good idea, provided that anyone IN the zone knows that they are subject to checks on demand, as well. I wouldn’t want people coming into the zone, getting tanked, and then staying in the zone to sober up. Much like if someone snuck a bull into a china shop, they should still work to make sure that the bull is removed, regardless of how it got in there.

It appears that the need is for more tools to do the job with now, rather than new tools to do a job that isn’t getting done. Well said by you, though, because as a former tree-hugging Oregonian, I can say that, as well: There is no right to trash stuff up -especically when it belongs not just to someone else, but to EVERYONE else.