"It's really disturbing," Tim Gray, a 56-year-old father of four, told the Los Angeles Times. "We were eating dinner and we heard these loud sounds outside, like something really bad had happened. I went outside and heard, well, the typical sounds you'd hear in a porn movie. It was echoing all over the neighborhood."

Echoing all over the neighborhood? That must have been quite a movie they were making. I wonder what the working title was.

assuming that anyone ever actually had the stated intentions of preventing social diseases...

I'ma gettin old, and no longer giving the benefit of doubt... the whole purpose of this was to get them to move, just like Ventura is going to do. Regardless if it's a sin tax, or onerous zoning laws.

Doesn't cleanly explain the building tax... I'll chalk that one to stupidity... next, they'll pass a law that you can't use building materials in the county unless they have the county seal of approval, that a code inspector would check.

At least the officials in Ventura are realistic about their goals.

> hoping that will get the pornographers to keep on traveling to the next county

like using a water balloon to squeeze a water balloon.

Another idiotic move of a similar nature -- proposing an increase on taxes for building supplies in LA County. Solution: Builders bypass LA businesses and buy their building supplies in Pasadena.

Last I checked, Pasadena was in LA County. Did you mean the city of LA?

"Doesn't cleanly explain the building tax... I'll chalk that one to stupidity... "

Following your own logic, I won't. If you are a Limits to Growth type and you want to find a way to make construction more difficult, what would be an easy backdoor way of doing that?

"next, they'll pass a law that you can't use building materials in the county unless they have the county seal of approval, that a code inspector would check."

Well, there is this matter of a use tax, which I presume they have in California. Don't know if the city of L.A. has one, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Sometimes it's tought to tell if in passing a law with an "unintended" consequence, if that was the original intent.
Sometimes it is obvious. such as a community near DC which didn't want the citys sprawl and traffic to take it over. So it passed harsh zoning laws, so the developers went to the next community past them. Giving them all the traffic but none of the revenue. pretty clear it was unintended.

Getting the porn to move, not so clear it wasn't the intent of some.

But if people used condoms, then a baby momma wouldn't rip the leg off another baby momma with the same baby daddy.

http://www.azfamily.com/news/pregnant-womans-leg-amputated-after-boyfriends-pregnant-ex-hits-her-with-car.html

If anyone can leave at any time, why do people still bemoan excessive regulation when they could move to another city/state more appropriate to their values?

Moving though not regulated is not without financial costs.

No one moves to California for the abundance of economic and civil liberties. They move here because it's where the culture, status and money is.

Nothing wrong with that. But if their priorities were really for individual freedoms they could move to a place like Nevada, where I can screw a hooker, open carry a gun, and not have to get my car smogged.

They move here because it's where the culture, status and money is.

And the weather. I'd have moved to Nevada years ago, but my wife won't leave California because of the weather. Divorce is an option, but that carries its own costs.

bs123, as a Nevadan let me tell ya: there are only two places in Nevada, and you can't legally do any of those things in either of those places.

Now if your big dream is to own 5 acres littered with old above ground home oil tanks, save twenty-eight bucks on smog fees to screw the state only to spend seven hundred and fifty to get screwed yourself, then rural Nevada is for you.