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City will now be armed with 17-ounce cups to make sure eateries aren't selling oversized beverages
The New York Daily News ^ | 03-10-2013 | Tina Moore

Posted on 03/10/2013 9:07:04 PM PDT by algernon_garnock

New procedures give restaurant inspectors cups that can hold 17 fluid ounces and they'll be instructed to issue a violation only when a cup is found to 'clearly exceed' 16 ounces.

There will be no SWAT teams policing Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial new ban on large sodas and other sugary drinks starting Tuesday, but city inspectors will be armed — with 17-ounce cups.

The Health Department plans to use regular restaurant inspections to make sure eateries are not selling sugary beverages in servings larger than 16 ounces. But the inspectors will have specially ordered cups to help them enforce the new rule, Deputy Health Commissioner Daniel Kass said.

He spelled out the new procedures in exacting detail in an affidavit recently filed as part of the legal challenge to Bloomberg’s anti-big-soda policy. “The measuring cups that we will be issuing ... will be able to contain 17 fluid ounces,” Kass said. Inspectors will be instructed to issue a violation only when a cup is found to “clearly exceed” 16 ounces “when measured in the inspector’s measuring cup,” he added.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; bloominidiotberg; bullystate; nannybloomberg; nannystate; nazis; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes
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1 posted on 03/10/2013 9:07:04 PM PDT by algernon_garnock
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To: algernon_garnock

I really feel safe now!


2 posted on 03/10/2013 9:09:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber (I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
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3 posted on 03/10/2013 9:11:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: algernon_garnock

Good to see Bloomberg’s got a handle on serious crime in the Metropolis.

Clearly the expenditure on personnel and office hours won’t go to waste.


4 posted on 03/10/2013 9:12:16 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: algernon_garnock

How does Bloomberg have the right to rule by decree?


5 posted on 03/10/2013 9:13:19 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028
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How does Bloomberg have the right to rule by decree?

Corporate law.

6 posted on 03/10/2013 9:15:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: algernon_garnock
Don't Test Me, Bro!!!


7 posted on 03/10/2013 9:17:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: algernon_garnock

re: ““The measuring cups that we will be issuing ... will be able to contain 17 fluid ounces,” Kass said. Inspectors will be instructed to issue a violation only when a cup is found to “clearly exceed” 16 ounces “when measured in the inspector’s measuring cup,” he added.”

You gotta be frigging kidding! Yeah, just another stupid, liberal “got to control” everyone idea.

Can’t you just buy TWO sixteen ounce sodas and by-pass this stupid thing?


8 posted on 03/10/2013 9:17:53 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: algernon_garnock

There is something about all of these laws that seem unconstitutional to me. Somebody needs to challenge them and take some of his money away.


9 posted on 03/10/2013 9:24:07 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: FreedomStar3028

By royal decree.


10 posted on 03/10/2013 9:25:09 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: algernon_garnock

And in the mean time 80% of the kids who graduate from New York City High School can not read.


11 posted on 03/10/2013 9:29:01 PM PDT by kempo
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Whoa. Wait one! If the cup has ice in it, it's less than 16 ounces of sugary beverage...No doubt the ice displaces up to 1/2 of the volume.

What a rip-off!

12 posted on 03/10/2013 9:32:43 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: algernon_garnock

Boy! These Nazis are tough!


13 posted on 03/10/2013 9:36:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: algernon_garnock

BLOOMBERG = ASSHOLE

BLOOMBERG = HITLER


14 posted on 03/10/2013 9:42:07 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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If a cup hols 16 ozs how can it hold 17!
Why not just see if there are any cups over 16ozs in the establishment!
Get your bootleg Pepsie out the back door! GEEZE!


15 posted on 03/10/2013 9:47:48 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: algernon_garnock

Won’t enterprising restaurant owners sell two 16 oz. cups to a customer? Or is that against the law also?


16 posted on 03/10/2013 9:51:19 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: algernon_garnock

Nothing but nonsense. Big power, for a little man.


17 posted on 03/10/2013 9:52:42 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: Mad Dawgg

People don’t want to carry two twice as many around.


18 posted on 03/10/2013 10:07:28 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: algernon_garnock

Pizza joints here sell refrigerated 2-liter bottles. How about in NY?


19 posted on 03/10/2013 10:15:17 PM PDT by hsrazorback1 (Seek truth.)
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To: algernon_garnock

First thought this was a joke, but nope, it’s not.
How very sad and pitiful, adults treated as children and
more misuse of funds.

Unfreakin’ believable.


20 posted on 03/10/2013 10:33:30 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (Fluck this adminstration of misfits.)
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