That has created what I think is an even bigger problem for some port neighbors.

Someone has been whacking golf balls from a hill overlooking the port.

For the past several months, dozens of dimpled orbs have been ricocheting off containers and, in one case, a longshoreman's car.

Travelling at speeds of well over a hundred miles an hour, port officials are worried that the balls could hit someone or cause damage to vehicles or goods on the port's waterfront.

In response, the port has turned its anti-terrorism security cameras on the residential neighborhood where the golf balls are thought to be coming from.

Now, the government bureaucrats in charge of the port may think that peeping into people's yards and windows is a reasonable response to the hazard of flying golf balls.

I think otherwise.

Spying on citizens in the pursuit of some doofus, or doofi, is neither reasonable nor justified.

Yeah, I get that the golf balls pose a hazard, but the notion that gives port officials the right to train their cameras on people's homes and property is, I think, a big time constitutional bogey.

Stop it.

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