Colombian Town May Mandate Carrying Condoms

A town with one of the highest HIV infection rates in Colombia may make it a crime not to have a condom on you if you're 14 and up (Town weighs requiring residents to carry condoms, Chicago Tribune.) The Catholic clergy is bemused, to say the least, though I give points for openmindedness to the priest who said he'd rather see more widespread education about the consequences of sex. Although don't you think this plan would also help in that regard?

Wow, what's this, Mom?
It's a pocket scapular. Now shut up and do your brother's laundry.

The proposal's a valuable publicity stunt, and I sure hope it stays just that. I mean, how far is this going to go? Will enforcers be checking expiration dates? "Ma'am, judging by the looks of your boyfriend you've got the wrong size here, I'm going to have to write you a ticket?" Plus, there are so many unforeseeable consequences to this kind of weird governmental intervention. You KNOW the rough kids in Tulua are already thinking up new ways to be bad-ass once even the nerdiest have a Trojan in their backpacks.