San Diego
Taking your pet snake or alligator to a San Diego Padres game may soon be against the law. So could throwing a Frisbee or football in the parking lot of San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium.
The San Diego City Council on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that prohibits those and other activities in and around the stadium. The laws are the idea of city officials, who hope to curb rowdiness at sporting and other events in the municipally owned structure.
Among the proposed prohibitions are carrying insulated bottles or canteens into the stadium; setting off firecrackers in or around the stadium; selling items such as T-shirts on the stadium sidewalk or in the parking lot without approval; riding a bicycle or jogging in the parking lot without approval, and being so “noisy, boisterous or rowdy” in the stadium as to disturb neighboring fans.
Stadium general manager Bill Wilson said most of the activities are already prohibited by stadium policy, but city officials want the force of law. “The general fan is not even going to notice the difference,” Wilson said. “I don’t think we’re going to be hard-core. We’re going to ease into these things.”
The council will decide in two weeks whether to adopt the ordinance.
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