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Claim A says Hollywood bans Silly String every Halloween night. Claim B says Hollywood bans Silly String for all of October. Claim A is true, and Claim B is completely made up.
The rule dates to 2004, when Hollywood Boulevard property owners and city workers begged for relief. Then-Councilmen Eric Garcetti and Tom LaBonge introduced the ordinance.
The problem was scale. LAPD says up to 100,000 people packed the Boulevard on a typical Halloween night, and hundreds of illegal vendors sold cans of the stuff. Spraying it became the night's main entertainment.
The cleanup was brutal. The string stripped the sheen off parked sports cars and coated the Walk of Fame stars. Police put the cost to property owners at about $200,000 a year.
The ordinance even warns that the cans may cause pedestrians and police officers on horseback to slip and fall, and that thrown string can be a weapon. The ban runs from just after midnight on October 31 until noon on November 1, covering the LAPD's Hollywood Division. Violators can face up to $1,000 in fines, and even up to six months in jail.
The ban is not a month-long affair. It covers only about a day and a half around Halloween night, so Claim B is wrong about its length.
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