Sand trains stir up dust in St. Paul neighborhood [Minnesotans afraid of sand]

Minneapolkis Star Tribune ^ | June 26, 2012 - 12:08 PM | CHAO XIONG

[Hunton Peck]

It's a "documentary filmmaker" leading the hysteria on this one.

Anything to make America impoverished and energy-free.

Oh, and did I mention these people are nuts? Specifically, they're eremikophobes.

[Red Badger]

Sand?......

WE MUST EVACUATE THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!

[SoDak]

And the Red Star Tribune is only too willing to assist in creating some sort of hysteria. It really grinds against the leftists that the Dakotas are providing a nice stream of American oil, and there are very few wing nuts locally to provide roadblocks.

[matt04]

The title should be “Jim Tittle, a St. Paul activist and filmmaker complains about sand in rail cars.”

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Oh, Horrors! The beaches are gonna cause us to get cancer! Where is BO and his Homeland Security bunch when you need them?

[Red Badger]

And to imagine we buy sand for our children to play in!
We must band sand!.....For the children!!!!!!!!!!!

[ansel12]

Even California allows sand.

[Hunton Peck]

Considering the lengths the environuts are going to in their attempts to restrict carbon dioxide emissions, banning sand doesn’t seem far-fetched at all. They can talk each other into believing anything.

[Kirkwood]

Insandity

[Red Badger]

A case could be made for just about anything being bad for humans. Drink too much water at one time and it will kill you!........

[Kirkwood]

Second-hand sand exposure alert!

[Hunton Peck]

Ah, the dangers of dihydrogen oxide. Information long suppressed by Big Water...

[this_ol_patriot]

Read the comments under the article, they're crazier than the article, the first one even blames Bush and not in a sarcastic way.

WTH are they smoking up there?

[Hunton Peck]

"Second-hand sand exposure alert!"

I thought Charles Atlas found the cure for that decades ago!

[Kirkwood]

She was young and beautiful, but met her end from a lethal dose of silica.

[Hunton Peck]

Massachusetts and Cali both have their varieties of nut, but there’s a peculiar strain of liberal lunacy native to the Upper Midwest that’s not quite like anywhere else’s. I think it has something to do with the large number of Scandinavians.

I couldn’t make it through more than a few of the comments before developing an urge to bang my head against a wall.

[Hunton Peck]

Doesn’t silica turn to glass when exposed to that much hotness?

(And thanks)

[this_ol_patriot]

It has to be the lutefisk, what else would account for so many lye-ers?

[Hunton Peck]

That’s base, man...

[ccmay]

Silicosis is no laughing matter. Sandblasters, miners and such can really suffer from it if they don’t diligently use a good respirator around airborne rock dust. Sand passing by in a rail car seems unlikely to offer the same risk but I would not dismiss it out of hand.