[Libloather]

What's next? My guess - breakfast cereal. Ban it.

[Gaffer]

I sure don’t know....do it include “Red” or “Purple?”

[MeganC]

Now only outlaws will have energy drinks.

[goldstategop]

Liberals’ solution to our freedom of choice is to... ban it.

No one has proved “energy drinks” ever killed any one. But let’s keep people from drinking them anyway, for their own good, of course.

How very Chicago!

[goldstategop]

You’ll pry my “Red Bull” out of my cold, dead hands!

[barmag25]

As emergency rooms fill (insert the thing you don’t like here)....

[Carriage Hill]

Mikey Bloomturd (NAZI-NY) is gonna be PO’d he didn’t do that first.

[The Working Man]

Well now!

It looks like the gangs think that they can make a bunch of money running boot-leg “Energy Drinks”. And their pet politicians are right on board with it.

Now mind you the article doesn’t say that but we are talking the “Chicago Way” here.

It’s amazing how the threat of banning something makes it so much more desirable, isn’t it?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"Thursday that would ban the sale and distribution of highly caffeinated beverages ...." Most "energy drinks" are not highly caffeinated -- even this article makes that clear (although they characterize the fact that Red Bull, for instance, has little caffeine as a "loophole").

What I hate even more than sanctimonious nanny-staters using the coercive powers of government to control my behaviour is ignorant, or deceitful sanctimonious nanny-staters using the coercive powers of government to control my behaviour.

[KC_Conspirator]

I remember about a decade ago their was a rumor in Chicago about Red Bull causing a death over in Holland. The story was a total BS, but it was enough to get some bars to pull Red Bull from their shelves. I remember asking for a Red Bull and Vodka at one place and the idiot bartender reacted like I asked her for heroin.

[Little Ray]

Go for it!

I’d love to start a smuggling business. Cigs to New York, energy drinks to Chicago.

“Pssst! Hey kid, want a case of Red Bull?”

[technically right]

Good Lord!! This dumb@ss certainly has way too much time on his hands. Go get a real job, d#ckwad.

[mosesdapoet]

The nickname I gave him when refering to him in my weekly newspaper collumns and elsewhere was “The Bishop”. Because it was something grand to see as his limo would pull up on the LaSalle street side.

First two flunkys would get out and secure the door he was to enter through . After the passageway was clear, the first flunky then the other would be a few steps in front of him on either side as he made his grand procession into the place. As he strode down the corridor he would wave to the right and left like a bishop dispensing a blessing to church members assembled in their pews when on his way to the bank of elevators in the center of the building.

[The Cajun]

Must be all that caffeine in their systems it's throwing their aim off because of the shakes.
Baning energy drinks should help gun control in Chicago..........Or am I missing the point again?

[Cboldt]

It would be kind of entertaining to see Rahm try to out-Bloomberg Bloomberg.

Yes, I know that this proposal doesn't come from Rahm ... still, "Who's a Bigger Nanny" is pretty much the contest the Democrats have chosen to play.

[w1andsodidwe]

Why doesn't the government in Chicago ban killings to prevent the high number of homicides in the city? If banning works, well lets give it a try.

What's that? You say murder is already illegal in Chicago?

Oh well, maybe bans don't work, but we have to try.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

When they can pry the 5-Hour Energy from my cold dead hand.