In California, clam fish are more worthy of life than unborn babies, as proved by the fact that a mom was fined nearly $90,000 after her kids accidentally collected 72 clams from the beach. So while you have the right to abort your own child, you don’t have the right to do such a thing to shellfish.

The day was as normal as any other. A mom packed some sandwiches and took her family to Pismo Beach, also known as the “Clam Capital of the World.” The kids grabbed their buckets and started collecting seashells…or so they thought….

It turns out, they accidentally collected 72 clams. Dun. Dun. Dun.

Rather than focus on the retail theft epidemic, authorities would rather crack down on clam thieves, or clam poaching, if you will.

According to the New York Post:

The Department of Fish and Wildlife confronted the mother of five and told her that her kids were collecting the clams without a license, and issued her a ticket.

“Right before we went, that’s when I opened it and that’s when I saw the amount,” Russ said.

She later received a fine in the mail ordering her to pay $88,993 before a San Luis Obispo County judge knocked her fine down to $500.

They would have gotten a lesser fine if they each stole $949 worth of merchandise.

It's INSANE that they wrote her a ticket for that much and expected her to pay it like any other parking ticket. That alone should be a crime. These are clams, no one likes clams anyway. And the $500 is still absurd.

I cannot believe the clam patrol went and gave her that fine and probably slept like a baby that night. What a bunch of power-tripping fascists.

Question: If they paid for that “license” would they have still been fined $1,236 a clam?

And now we are looking at 7$ a clam. This is still too much for a first-time "offender".

“It made me really sad and depressed, and it kind of ruined our trip,” Russ told the outlet.

Yeah, and they likely traumatized the poor children. They will never even glance at a shell at this point.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife says the harsh penalty for collecting clams without a license is in place to protect shellfish species like clams.

“The reason we got it, we have these regulations is because we have to let them get to 4½ inches so they can spawn so they can have offspring every year, and they have juvenile clams,” Lt. Matthew Gil told the outlet.

Can’t we use the same logic for abortion? Because why are clams more worthy of life than humans? Total nonsense coming from another bureaucratic organization.

I guess the Department of Fish and Wildlife life is more tyrannical than any of us thought.

There is no better representation of California than this. Go fine a mom into oblivion for clamming, while drug addicts shoot up on the street and officials fuel recidivism. Glad to see authorities tackling the real issues at hand.

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