[Westlander]

Liberal Lunacy.

[AD from SpringBay]

When will they pass the, "Butt wiping is mandatory" law? Either that or force the legislators up there to get day jobs.

[CindyDawg]

What if it's snowing while you are driving?

[Ron in Acreage]

what a bunch of iceholes!

[popdonnelly]

"fines of up to $500 and a six-month stay in jail."

I'll take the six months. By the time I got out, it would be summer.

Yet another reason not to live in Massachusetts - as if another was needed.

[mwyounce]

But I thought that cars' exhausts are causing global warming? Shouldn't the very act of driving the car melt the snow away?!?!?!?!?!

[Horatio Gates]

Let global warming run it's natural course. This snow and ice thing will be a faded memory.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't have a problem with a law like this. Anyone who has driven along a highway and sustained windshield or body damage from a chunk of ice flying off the roof of some jack@ss who didn't bother clearing off his vehicle understands what I'm talking about.

[Keith in Iowa]

I bet you've never had a huge chunk of ice fly off the car in front of you and bounce on your hood, then into your windshield at highway speeds...

[kms61]

I take it you've never been hit by a flying slab of ice while driving down the freeway.

[ladyinred]

The nanny states spread.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"You haff snow on your car vindshield! You vill be shot!"

[Smarti Pants]

oh my NO not really "liberallunacy"!

Ever get behind a truck that tosses a pebble at your windshield? That's what it's like when you don't clear off the top off the cars, the snow - sometimes ice flies off the top when the cars get going and it hits the windshields of the cars behind them. It's very dangerous!

When I lived there, I saw the ice coming off the tops of busses & trucks on the highway - and I thanked GOD I wasn't behind them when it happened.

Sad to think it's going to take a law to make people do what should be considered common sense, though!

[japaneseghost]

It's already the law in VA.

[The South Texan]

Yet they keep on reelecting a drunk. Cede Massachusetts to French and be done with it.

[NonValueAdded]

I was never struck by ice flying off a car but I do remember from my time up north that many drivers would only do the windshield, leaving the brake lights covered. Even if they cleaned off the brake lights, the snow would slide off the trunk and cover them. That was more of a hazard percentage-wise than a high-speed deicing on the highway.

[Doctor Raoul]

Massachusetts will pass a law requiring clean underwear.

To assure it's clean, you must change it every 2 hours.

To be able to check, you'll have to wear underwear on the outside.

Liberals are a disease on society.

[aft_lizard]

Being behind a blizzard from a Camry when it hasnt snowed in two days is never fun, but a 500 dollar fine?

[sergeantdave]

Another tax revenue scam from the blood-sucking leeches.

Politicians should be fined $5,000 everytime they open their yaps and propose something stupid.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

Some of you don't realize that when ice flies off the back of a car on the freeway, it has the potential to break a windshield. It has happened here in WA causing a major accident.

Plus, if you don't clean the ice off your windshield, how are you able to see where you're going? If you don't clean it off your mirrors, how are you able to back up.
Of course, if you're fortunate enough to have a garage, all you have to do is scrape the driveway.

Ever try to walk on "black ice"? I have...didn't work.

[Inyo-Mono]

This is already a ticketable offense here in the mountains of California where vacationing skiers delight in driving home with four feet of snow on the roof of their vehicles.