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California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
Reason ^ | 01/25/2018 | Christian Britschgi

Posted on 01/25/2018 10:33:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

This isn't just Calderon's crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won't be allowed to offer plastic straws or utensils as of July.

The Los Angeles Times has gotten behind the movement, endorsing straws-on-request policies in an editorial that also warned that "repetitive sucking may cause or exacerbate wrinkles on the lips or around the mouth." Celebrity astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson (always up for a little chiding) and Entourage star Adrian Grenier have appeared in videos where an octopus slaps them in the face for using a plastic straw.

The actual number of straws being used is unclear. Calderon, along with news outlets writing about this issue—from CNN to the San Francisco Chronicle—unfailingly state that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day, many of them ending up in waterways and oceans. The 500 million figure is often attributed to the National Park Service; it in turn got it from the recycling company Eco-Cycle.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; fine; straws; waiters
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To: SeekAndFind

Hurts woman and minorities the most.


21 posted on 01/25/2018 10:39:31 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: SeekAndFind

Ian Calderon is an idiot.


22 posted on 01/25/2018 10:39:32 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This article has to be complete satire - no ? How is it possible that somebody could be this STUPID ?????????????


23 posted on 01/25/2018 10:40:48 AM PST by Mopp4
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To: SeekAndFind

Plastic Sporks are next!!!


24 posted on 01/25/2018 10:41:17 AM PST by albie
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To: gubamyster

“911! What is your emergency?”

“Hi. Yes. I am having lunch at the Penera Bread on Lambard. This waitress brought be a glass of water and offered me a straw. I didn’t ask for it. I would have made her take it back, but I didn’t notice at first. I am keeping the straw for evidence. Please send cops quick. I have to hang up before she sees me calling you.”

“Maam, police are on their way. Stay where you are and remain calm. Don’t use the straw.”


25 posted on 01/25/2018 10:42:10 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: SeekAndFind

We used to roll our own straws out of a $twenty when needed.


26 posted on 01/25/2018 10:42:29 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is unconstitutional spitball control!

-PJ

27 posted on 01/25/2018 10:43:02 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well...that sucks.


28 posted on 01/25/2018 10:43:22 AM PST by moovova
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To: knarf

Don’t know. I haven’t lived there since 1997, and am I glad about that. I even hate going there to visit my family.


29 posted on 01/25/2018 10:43:57 AM PST by bkopto
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To: Mopp4

How is it possible that somebody could be this STUPID ?????????????

We’re taking about Left wing nut bars are we not?


30 posted on 01/25/2018 10:44:36 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

That pretty much defines the California imbecile governor currently bullshitting more crap disguised as a State of the State address.

To say nothing of the moron legislature...

31 posted on 01/25/2018 10:44:54 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: SeekAndFind

$1,000 per straw would really suck...


32 posted on 01/25/2018 10:45:01 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Tenacious 1

didn’t straws used to be made of paper and wax?


33 posted on 01/25/2018 10:45:39 AM PST by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is what a police state looks like.


34 posted on 01/25/2018 10:45:52 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: ClearCase_guy
Wouldn’t we just take them out back and shoot them?

Environmentally messy and economically wasteful. Use them for slave labor until they die. And when they do, string up the corpse in public with a sign saying, "Environmental absent-mindedness leads to THIS".

35 posted on 01/25/2018 10:46:03 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

Exhibit A:
Pixie Stix!!!


36 posted on 01/25/2018 10:46:14 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Political Junkie Too

QUICK! The waitresses better become illegals and shoot someone so they can have a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card


37 posted on 01/25/2018 10:46:41 AM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is what it comes to - jail terms for passing out straws. This is California and even the Soviets have more common sense.

When straws are outlawed only outlaws will have straws!


38 posted on 01/25/2018 10:47:39 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Understand, California lawmakers would literally fine you for wiping too many times if they could.


39 posted on 01/25/2018 10:47:48 AM PST by servo1969
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To: SeekAndFind
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

Who ever thought up this idea needs to be beaten until they scream for mercy.

40 posted on 01/25/2018 10:47:55 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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