File These Rules Under O For Odor

[liveoaktx]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/metropolitan/3152903

The Houston Public Library is asking City Council to approve a list of new rules and regulations this week that would prohibit, among other things, "offensive bodily hygiene that constitutes a nuisance to others."

Sandra Fernandez, the library's public relations manager, said the rule refers to all customers, including men and women awash in after-shave or perfume.

"This is a library," Fernandez said. "We have customers that are going to use our facilities (in close proximity) for an extended period of time. We have had people where the person standing next to them makes it hard for them to breathe."

The new set of rules — the first proposed to City Council since 1981 — also prohibits sleeping on tables, using restrooms for bathing, and viewing obscene Internet material. Council is expected to vote on the rules Wednesday

[mopinko]

1. all customers, but

especially homeless people with the audacity to read, i'd have to bet.

[Fridays Child]

2. And will the odor judge be blind?

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