Posted on 06/21/2007 9:47:33 AM PDT by pabianice
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That’s just pathetic...
This is the same thing that occurred a couple of months ago in Fairfax County: Cannot give homemade food to the homeless because we can’t regulate how you cook your food.
Holy cow. Now, I wonder how many servicemen and women got food poisoning as a result of these greeters handing out treats to them?
I wonder how many people got food poisoning by eating the food offered by vendors at the airport?
I’ll bet the latter loses on that one.
That’s Fairfax County, Virginia.
That sucks.
This is just another case of mindless, robotic bureaucrats run amok.
If I want to send off a friend by handing him a package of homemade cookies, will the airport refuse to let me hand it to him?
THESE ARE OUR TROOPS! They are adult enough to fight and die for us, and they are adult enough to decide what food to accept from these good people.
Who is making this decision, Larry his brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl? I know that they lived in Vermont but I think they were originally from Maine. Olympia Snowejob probably had something to do with this.
Ping!
Bump
Unbelievable. Or I guess more accurately it is pathetically sad that it is believable.
Noting that concessionaires must adhere to strict federal regulations on food preparation, temperature control and handling, he said ensuring that all food is properly prepared and stored is a safety and security issue.
This is another example of "zero tolerance" when it comes to bureacratic regulations. No one has the nads to allow exceptions. If someone makes an independent decision and some minor bump in the road comes up, they are scared shiatless that they will be called on it. Result? Germanlike devotion to regulations.
Probably some vendor has complained behind the scenes, no one would be stupid enough to make it formal. Could be that one of the vendors is simply an anti military leftist and see this as an opportunity to piss on the troops. Ditto for some bureaucrat in the pipeline.
Interestingly, since they are not selling anything, it seems that would limit the airport's authority. When I fly, I always carry food and drink with me to eat in the airport. I would assume that, based on their reasoning, I could get food poisoning from my own food and sue them for letting me bring it in.
Most people don't know that in the past 15 years a flood of NY and MA yuppies have spilled into Maine, jerking the state to the far Left. Maine has the fourth most generous welfare benefits and social give-aways in the US.
***Interestingly, since they are not selling anything, it seems that would limit the airport’s authority. When I fly, I always carry food and drink with me to eat in the airport. I would assume that, based on their reasoning, I could get food poisoning from my own food and sue them for letting me bring it in.***
Oh, very good. That’s what I was trying to say, but you did it so well.
Incredible. I’m dumbfounded that this would happen in this country. I’m sure that regulations regarding food preparations were written to cover the preparation and sale of food, and not free giveaways of cookies etc. How pathetic this is.
If it is not permitted it is prohibited.
And only the government permits....
I was sentenced to three years in Maine, while in school in the early ‘80s. (my father is employed in the paper industry) Luckily, the sentence was commuted and he was transferred back to Texas in ‘83, it must be terrible there now if it has been overrun by the NY/MA crowd.
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