“If we see a pattern of glass as a weapon it will no longer be allowed,” Christine Puglini, the board’s chairwoman, said at a hearing yesterday, addressing representatives of Minibar, a Copley Square Hotel bar. “You may be high-end, but you’re not acting high-end.” [More]Perhaps not, Christine, but you certainly are acting like a rear end.
Anyone who can't be trusted with a glass...
Banning things. That's the default solution to everything for these hive insects, isn't it?
[Via Steve T]
Hopefully no one thinks to get behind the bar and start throwing liquor bottles!
ReplyDeleteThis banning of things, rather than relying on the already existing statutes attempting to regulate human behavior, will eventually get so out of hand (not to mention profitable for governments, what with attendant fines, etc.), that it will bring about the unintended consequence of generalized revolt.
ReplyDeleteOh wait . . . this is wussified, PC-driven "America". Sorry, I was dreaming of the Founder's America.
-MM
P.S. The local library district has had to ban videos (embedded, YouTube, etc.) of all things. That's because kids wouldn't stop playing online games, streaming videos, etc. - which ate up bandwidth to the point staff couldn't carry out basic administrative duties, like checking out books (remember those?). So, rather than ban privilege-abusing patrons, they ban the "thing". Now I can't even read any articles you link to which have videos, or (horrors) regularly refresh. Bandwidth at home sucks even more. You can't pay enough to get bandwidth which allows basic streaming, or, sometimes, even watching short YouTube videos, because of the heavy gaming/video use around here - and I'm in the boonies. Wonder how much worse it is in large cities.
"You can't pay enough to get bandwidth... because of the heavy gaming/video use around here”
ReplyDeleteYou could before the socialists rammed through “net neutrality.” Now discriminating on the basis of content type is as illegal as refusing to insure a client with a terminal pre-existing condition. Fairness for all, hooray! Now learn to share the misery equally.
Scotland, of all places, tried this very thing years ago.
ReplyDeleteAye. I should have remembered.
ReplyDeleteBut the heirs of Braveheart, in spite of making a few noises about their bold heritage, are afraid to yell "Freedommm!" More likely the heirs of the sell-out Lairds who let him and his followers die while they treated for special considerations from Longshanks.