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Banning Farts?

English: View north along Main Street in downt...
 View north along Main Street in downtown Pendleton, Oregon, United States, within the South Main Street Commercial Historic District. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What has this world come to? You cannot fart in public spaces anymore? 

“A resident of Pendleton, Oregon, has written a letter requesting the city council ban the smell of farts in the community, but he has a good reason to be raising a stink.

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Last week, the City of Pendleton updated its nuisance ordinances to cover the smell of marijuana, NBC reported at the time. That means that even though recreational marijuana will be legal in Oregon starting in July, a person can be fined up to $500 if someone complains they smell marijuana coming from that person’s property.

In a letter published in the East Oregonian on Thursday, someone who signed his name as Peter Walters merely asked that council members take the next logical step and start regulating a far more noxious scent.”

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