Shia's Attorney to Judge: Smoke This!

16. This is ridiculous! Seriously. So what if he was smoking? Big damn deal. I am so sick of these cigarette nazis. For Christ sake there is a cannabis store like in every of the city. LA is just becoming a city of anal idiots.

Posted at 5:11PM on Mar 19th 2008 by diablofeminina weho

17. I think this kid is full of himself. No matter what your opinion regard to smoking or smoking laws, he is not above the law and must comply just like you and I. He was also arrested in November of 2007 for refusing to leave a Walgreens in Chicago, go figure?? But why I really say this is because of the attitude he had when he was on the HBO reality series "Project Green light". He spent hours trying to get into character, it was just so pathetic.

Posted at 5:09PM on Mar 19th 2008 by emme

18. On comment #14 cs said "Cigarettes ARE a drug dummy".

Well, er, no they aren't... must be from California! Probably meant Nicotine. Well so is caffeine and the ingredients in Aspirin. And they are all legal to use, so what's your point?

BC

Posted at 6:31PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Bob C

19. Surely you jest. Cigarettes are legal and have never been classified as a drug. Like it or not, WHAT A WAST OF TIME AND MONEY, in a State that depends on Tobacco Taxes to survive. Push this too far and thousands of jobs and billions in tax dollars will be lost to our state. Remember history: Remember prohibition. It's BACK

Posted at 6:30PM on Mar 19th 2008 by jdw

20. this iz just another attempt by the goverment 2 control this country through fashist religious zelotry by calling it"good 4 u".this law iz fashist and unconstitutional i dont want 2 hear religigion so maybe tahts bad 4 my health!!

Posted at 6:10PM on Mar 19th 2008 by todd lissner anti adult anti wholesomeness activist-----\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

21. Hey LaBeouf, keep on smokin dude.... that way the cancer will get you and we will be spared having to watch anymore of your crappy acting. Really, you are doing us all a huge favor!

Posted at 6:24PM on Mar 19th 2008 by JRS

22. One morning, while I was enjoying Venti Americano and NYTimes at the local Starbucks, I received one of the first tickets for smoking on San Fernando Rd here in Burbank. It's not so much a ticket as it is a bench appearance ticket to the Burbank Criminal Courts on Olive Ave. The law (BMCC 17-708) makes it a Misdemeanor Criminal Offense to smoke anywhere within the "Village Limits" which is a small area from 1st to 3rd street and Angelino to Burbank Blvd. For the rest of the city, you're not allowed to smoke within 20 feet of doors.
I stood before Judge Nyby and plead not guilty but was finally given the choice of either going to jury trial using a constitutional defense or accepting the reduced charge of "Infraction" without Misdemeanor and a $25 fine ($123.00 after bloated court fees)
Shia was apparently here one day doing the same HORRIBLE thing! Smoking a butt on his was to either the AMC or Markett City Cafe. What a crime!!! Not appearing on or before the date on the ticket has resulted in a few people here spending the night in jail. YES, JAIL! For SMOKING! A CIGARETTE for Christ's sake. When will it all STOP?
I guess I'll be hearing from a few of you about the health ricks, blah, blah, blah... well, have at it then...

Posted at 7:32PM on Mar 19th 2008 by FireWirer

23. What a backward place we live in.......seriously. The Burbank Police have absolutely NOTHING to do out here so they impose all these crazy little laws to give the police some excersize. Too bad it has to be at the expense of good people whose only want to enjoy a cigarette outdoors (like we are supposed to be able to do). I feel sorry for Shia, they are trying to make an example out of him.

Posted at 8:36PM on Mar 19th 2008 by AMB

24. he should consider himself lucky, if he had been busted by L.A.'s finest he might have "accidentally" been shot!

Posted at 8:44PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Fernando Valenzuela

25. This is UNBELIEVABLE! Britney breaks traffic laws and worse everyday and she gets away with it, but if you smoke in public then you go to jail. This country is a joke!

Posted at 9:02PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Hmmmm

26. 21. One morning, while I was enjoying Venti Americano and NYTimes at the local Starbucks, I received one of the first tickets for smoking on San Fernando Rd here in Burbank. It's not so much a ticket as it is a bench appearance ticket to the Burbank Criminal Courts on Olive Ave. The law (BMCC 17-708) makes it a Misdemeanor Criminal Offense to smoke anywhere within the "Village Limits" which is a small area from 1st to 3rd street and Angelino to Burbank Blvd. For the rest of the city, you're not allowed to smoke within 20 feet of doors.
I stood before Judge Nyby and plead not guilty but was finally given the choice of either going to jury trial using a constitutional defense or accepting the reduced charge of "Infraction" without Misdemeanor and a $25 fine ($123.00 after bloated court fees)
Shia was apparently here one day doing the same HORRIBLE thing! Smoking a butt on his was to either the AMC or Markett City Cafe. What a crime!!! Not appearing on or before the date on the ticket has resulted in a few people here spending the night in jail. YES, JAIL! For SMOKING! A CIGARETTE for Christ's sake. When will it all STOP?
I guess I'll be hearing from a few of you about the health ricks, blah, blah, blah... well, have at it then...




Posted at 7:32PM on Mar 19th 2008 by FireWirer
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That is absolutely ridiculous! Isn't it nice to know that your tax dollars are funding stupidity like this? That law is a complete joke! Thank God I don't live in Nazi LA!!!!!

Posted at 9:08PM on Mar 19th 2008 by WTF?

27. osama bin laden

Posted at 9:28PM on Mar 19th 2008 by brah

28. Unbelievable what this country is coming to. Or at any rate California.

Posted at 9:42PM on Mar 19th 2008 by bill

29. I think that these Smoking Bans in outdoor areas are Stupid and ridiculous. They are a huge waste of Taxpayer's money and a waste of the Police and court system.Why don't you people do something constructive? Here you are complaining about people who smoke cigarettes in outside locations...meanwhile, you are sitting down at an outdoor cafe or Starbucks...drinking coffee and sucking in all of the car fumes along the busy streets. What about all of the smoke you are inhaling from the refineries and forest fires?
**A person who is born in Los Angeles and who never smokes a cigarette...in his life...by the time he is 21 years old...the inside of his lungs are black...not from the cigarettes, but from the poor air quality due to car fumes, refineries,...etc.
***You complain about a cigarette...what is that brown stuff overhead that we are breathing every day. I know the politicians and weathermen call it haze. People...haze is not brown. FIX THE BIG PROBLEMS FIRST BEFORE YOU GO AFTER THE LITTLE PROBLEM

Posted at 7:27AM on Mar 20th 2008 by DALE W

30. So . Burbank, CA is a NON SMOKING city, but you can drive a car? I guess it's only because of the bad smell? Are you sure it's smoke from cigs that give you cancer and not that stuff that comes out of the back of the car and is in the air we breath? People don't get lung cancer from second hand smoke, they get it from breathing the air.

Posted at 3:35AM on Mar 20th 2008 by Perkoff