Posted October 2, 200717 yr Don't we have more pressing issues to be dealing with? No playing on city streets? BY JANE PRENDERGAST | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER October 2, 2007 CINCINNATI - Cincinnati officials will consider a proposal to outlaw all game-playing on city streets. City Manager Milton Dohoney suggested the new ordinance, he wrote in a memo to council members, because police officers increasingly are encountering citizens playing games, such as basketball, in roadways. The games obstruct traffic, the proposal says, and are dangerous for the players. Now, the city’s “playing in the street” law, in effect since 1972, bans anyone on roller skates, coasters, toy vehicles or similar devices from going on any roadway other than play streets unless crossing a highway in a crosswalk. Dohoney’s proposal would repeal that and add: “No person shall play any games including, but not limited to, basketball, baseball or football, upon any roadway other than the roadway of a play street.” The penalty, as for other misdemeanor traffic violations, starts with a fine of up to $100 for a first offense.
October 3, 200717 yr I can understand the potential danger but no. Besides, it has an unbalanced effect. People in OTR or other dense neighborhoods would be much more prone to fines than people with big back yards. I'd like to think we didn't recruit our city manager to propose petty stuff like this.
October 3, 200717 yr What about those kinds in Hyde Park who hold the street Olympics every summer? Yeah, this will go over well.
October 3, 200717 yr No more shouts of "Game on!" after the cars pass. A couple night ago I watched some kids playing ball in a parking lot near 12th and Walnut and thought how great it is that kids were busy playing sports and not just standing around. No more of that. Craptastic.
October 3, 200717 yr soooo retarded! in fact i am incensed to even hear this. good people -- put the kabosh on it!
October 4, 200717 yr Well, Dohoney is now saying that he won't put this before Council now and will instead try to work on a compromise. Any guesses on what would constitute a "compromise"?
October 4, 200717 yr The only fair compromise that comes to mind is him coming up with more important issues and in exchange, not losing his job. Kids have always used streets to play and parents like it because if they play in front of the house they can keep an eye on them. Anyone driving down a street is supposed to be aware of kids playing in the street. That's enough shenannigans, Dohoney!!
October 4, 200717 yr If this truly is an issue with kids on certain streets that may be causing traffic problems, maybe the city needs to enlighten those kids ON THAT PARTICULAR AVE of the problems they may be causing. MOST kids are pretty good about listening to reason and understanding why this may be an issue with there street. It wouldn't hurt to point out to some of these kids where the nearest park is located in relation to there dwelling.
October 4, 200717 yr Ohio is turning into a can't do nothing state. so then we have to do everything? :wink: I know I know....
October 4, 200717 yr soooo retarded! in fact i am incensed to even hear this. good people -- put the kabosh on it! sorry to be so pc, but dont say that. :-)
October 4, 200717 yr good people -- put the kabosh on it! sorry to be so pc, but dont say that. :-) Wait, what's offensive about kibosh?
October 4, 200717 yr " The word kybosh, or kibosh, has been used throughout much of the English-speaking world for at least 150 years. Possibly the first printed examples of "putting the kybosh on it" are in Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz. There are also several American written examples from the 1880s. There are suggestions that it originates from the Yiddish word kabas or kabbasten, meaning to suppress or stop. Other possibilities are from the heraldic word caboshed - the emblem of an animal which is shown full face but cut off close to the ears so that no neck shows. Webster's New World Dictionary suggests it may derive from the old German word "kiebe", meaning carrion. The most likely explanation, however, is that by the Irish poet Padric Colum, who theorised that it comes from the Gaelic "cie bias" meaning "cap of death", the mask worn by the executioner at the block or the black cap ofthe judge when delivering the death sentence. The words are pronounced "ky bosh". Stanley Blenkinsop, Macclesfield The term is from the Irish term for the death cap as worn by a British judge, thus meaning a stop or ending. Dickens in 1836 uses the form "kye-bosk", which suggests that he heard it as two words and so supports an Irish origin. The word was popularised in the First World War song: Belgium Put the Kybosh on the Kaiser. http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/34/messages/216.html
October 4, 200717 yr I thought he was referring to his use of the word "retarded". Which gets thrown around in the same way as "That's SO gay".
October 4, 200717 yr ok, ok -- i guess it was so gay of me to use so retarded. i'll put the kibosh on that term!
October 4, 200717 yr OK, the games can continue On second thought... BY JANE PRENDERGAST | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER October 4, 2007 CINCINNATI - Kids: You can keep tossing that football on the streets. Cincinnati officials won't soon be considering an ordinance against playing in the street. City Manager Milton Dohoney on Wednesday withdrew the proposal that had been prepared for City Council's consideration. It would have banned all games in the street, including baseball, basketball and football. "Play streets" - temporarily designated, blocked-off streets - would still be OK. The request for the change originated with police officers in District 3, on the city's West Side, said Sgt. Eric Franz, who handles community oriented policing projects there. Dohoney cited officers' increasing encounters with roadway games, which can obstruct traffic and endanger players.
October 4, 200717 yr "Unfortunately, this item did not get the proper vetting in the administration before I advanced it," he said in a statement. "Therefore, I have asked for this item not to be put before council. I want to find a reasonable solution and exhaust other options before proposing an ordinance that affects citizens citywide." You will always see politicians make statements like this as opposed to "I made a mistake".
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