[raccoonradio]

DANGEROUS WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

>>if the article passes, it's going to cost Marbleheaders more to groom their yards — substantially more, Thomson said. "I would say 25 percent more at the least," he said, noting that it will take workers a lot longer to do the same job with a rake.

Nanny state (and in Concord MA they want to ban bottled water in plastic containers)
>>People who have paid for leaf blowers want to use them, Grader said. "And I hate telling anyone what they can do," she said, but adds, "You have the darn things going all summer long."

All summer long? Are there that many fallen leaves?

>>gasoline-powered motors pollute the environment.

BAN CARS!

[bgill]

"You have the darn things going all summer long."

She must have different seasons than the rest of the country. Leaves fall in the... Fall.

[woodbutcher1963]

I use mine to blow out the garage and driveway about once a week. It takes 5 minutes to to the garage and a 200’ long driveway.

Keep in mind, Marblehead is one of the richest towns in all of Mass. It is probably all those lawn services working during the middle of the week with all their ETHNIC workers that live in towns like Methuen, Haverhill and God Forbid LAWRENCE.

[andy58-in-nh]

I used to live in Marblehead, and it's a v-e-r-y wealthy town populated by eighth-generation (at least) Yankees who did not appear to often groom their own lawns.

My educated guess is that a fair number of "undocumented" folks from Lawrence and Lowell will soon be nursing sore arms, aching from raking.

I'd also love to know what Barbara Anderson (Citizens for Limited Taxation and a long-time Marblehead resident) thinks of this.

[gidget7]

These idiots, the enviro’s, want no noise and no power (energy use of any form) yet they are the first and loudest to scream and yell to get their power turned back on immediately during an outage. I said they want no power, meaning no form of energy should be used, and they won’t be happy until we are all living without power, and that is pretty much what they profess. BUT let them go without it for one day, and they scream bloody murder.

Blowers are used to clean off grass from driveways and sidewalks after mowing too, so I suppose once a week they might be used, fools like this stalinist have to stick their nose in everyones business while saying she doesn’t want to do that, BUT.......