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Anyone's acutely distressing, personal, most embarrassing, moment of social misfortune could become a criminal misdemeanor.
Stop right there.
How would such a regulation be enforced? How would it affect law enforcement officers? Obviously, would this not lead to nosey policemen? Men and women chosen not for their intelligence, judgment, and ability to chase down a felon, but for the size, strength, durability, and the sharpness of their noses? Men and women whose noses are trained to withstand the strongest and the most pungent, and the most powerful bursts of human wind? Men and women capable of always nosing around, walking a beat on the sniff for illegal scents?
Would the law responded to citizen complains? Would violations have to be witnessed by a credible and nose tested witness or witnesses, with noses that can detect the originators of offending obnoxious odors? Or would the long nose of law have to be a nose-witness to the event, following a citizen's complaint?
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