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No-peanut zone makes Fifth Third Ballpark safe haven (Peanut Fascists strike again)
Grand Rapids Press ^
| June 3rd, 2004
| Shannon Vesper
Posted on 06/15/2004 8:21:01 AM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
To: Sabertooth
Buy me some peanuts nonallergic soy protein nuggets and Cracker Jacks.
To: Sabertooth
I was really shocked when, on a recent flight, I was handed several packets of peanuts as a snack... Which was great because the "trail mix" (sans peanuts) they had really sucked...
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:30:17 AM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.)
To: Sabertooth
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:35:49 AM PDT
by
eastsider
To: Mike Darancette
Doesn't Cracker Jacks have peanuts? The song just doesn't work anymore at all.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:37:54 AM PDT
by
GOP_Proud
(Those who preach tolerance seem to have the least for my views.)
To: Sabertooth
It truly is a bane for those with genetic maladies to live a normal life.
Perhaps they should stay home and watch the game on TV, or get a friend, with normal genetics, to tape the game.
Hey, they won't even have to get sick from SUV exhausts, or second hand smoke twenty miles upstream, or smell that terribly debilitating fast food, not to mention those self centered people that have the nerve to wear perfume, and deoderant.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:38:38 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)
To: Sabertooth
My son has a life threatening peanut allergy. Even casual contact with the peanut is enough to cause a fatal reaction if not treated immediately.
I don't see how having one day for peanut free activities can be construed as fascism.
What many parks have done is had peanut free areas in their parks - one section where they can sit and not be affected. Such a policy probably makes more sense.
Airplanes are much worse, going to a ballpark is in many ways a choice and treatment is relatively close by in case he goes into shock. On an airplane if he has contact with peanut residue and goes into shock, it will likely be fatal as it would take too long for the plane to land and medical treatment to get to him.
To: G.Mason
These people need a plastic bubble.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:41:19 AM PDT
by
Luke21
(Christ is wonderful.)
To: Sabertooth
I don't like the peanut fascists. But I see nothing wrong with a ballpark banning peanuts and peanut products a few days per season. Just so long as peanuts aren't banned for the entire season the way they are banned year 'round by some school cafeterias
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:43:06 AM PDT
by
dennisw
("Allah FUBAR!")
To: G.Mason
Perhaps they should stay home and watch the game on TV, or get a friend, with normal genetics, to tape the game.Or, the parents could be responsible and keep the kid out of harm's way -- like we do our daughter, without making the world conform to them.
Although it is a scary thing to run to the ER everytime the kid has an exposure, we have been proactive and have not had to make that run for 2 years. It's all a matter of looking out for your own.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:43:25 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
To: Sabertooth
Since this is a voluntary action by a team, and only for one day, I say, why not?
Good for the kid.
Good marketing for the ballpark.
To: Luke21
You think I should put my son in a plastic bubble? Man - I wish I had thought of that earlier. And here I have been trying to get him involved in all those activities trying to prepare him for life in the world. And to think I've been wasting my time - I could have just given up and sealed him off.
To: GOP_Proud
Doesn't Cracker Jacks have peanuts? Jeeze you're right. I could have been responsible for the death of some allergically charged person.
Buy me some peanuts nonallergic soy protein nuggets and Cracker Jacks extruded rice morsels.
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Shrug. A private organization choosing what kind of food they want to sell at their events. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with this.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:48:15 AM PDT
by
Modernman
("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
To: GOP_Proud
Doesn't Cracker Jacks have peanuts? Jeeze you're right. I could have been responsible for the death of some allergically challenged person.
Buy me some peanuts nonallergic soy protein nuggets and Cracker Jacks extruded rice morsels.
To: Sabertooth
And, we again have King William of Monica to thank for the "tail wagging the dog" syndrome in America.
"Timothy, a first-grader from Ada Elementary, is allergic to peanuts. "
""He was allergic to everything when he was little. His brother is allergic to peanuts, too," Jane Haverkamp, Timothy's mother, said. "He never had a life-threatening emergency with peanuts, but we don't keep any at home." "
He's allergic to "everything"? THEN, why isn't he a "bubble boy"? Why is he allowed to breath anything other than filtered, sterile, air? Is he allergic to water? (Well, she said 'everything').
Is this a new epidemic? The "peanut" sickness? I've never heard of such nonsense until the last 10 years or so...about the same time lawyers started doing television advertising. (ahem).
First the airlines, and now the ballparks. Is there anyplace we don't have to shut down and deny the masses their right to pacify the needs of a few? It's a ballpark...ballparks have peanuts. Wear a mask...or stay home.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:49:14 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(You are only enslaved to the extent of charity that you receive.)
To: FrankR
Is there anyplace we don't have to shut down and deny the masses their right to pacify the needs of a few? You don't have a "right" to go to a ballpark. It's private property and the owner is choosing not to sell a certain product at a certain time.
Wear a mask...or stay home.
Actually, if you don't like the ballpark's rules, you're the one who should stay home.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:52:59 AM PDT
by
Modernman
("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
To: Sabertooth
Thank goodness somebody out there is fighting the noble battles against this rampant peanut-ism which, even as we speak, is tearing at the delicate moral fabric of our society. The bastard legacy of George Washington Carver is an imminent threat to the well-being and livelihood of tens and possibly even hundreds of people. Can the crunchy menace be stopped? Thanks to the efforts of people like these, commonfolk like myself have been given new hope in the battle against peanut related allergies.
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posted on
06/15/2004 8:53:45 AM PDT
by
ICX
(I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.)
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