Posted on 01/08/2015 8:18:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With the NYPD slowdown due to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s support for racist cop killers, no one is actually enforcing the minor rules and regulations, summonses aren’t being issued and people hop turnstiles in the subway with reckless abandon.
But petty tyrants aren’t to be deterred and Mayor Wilhelm/De Blasio has focused in on the city’s greatest enemy. Packing peanuts.
Nearly two years after Mr. Bloomberg first proposed banishing the material in his final State of the City address, de Blasio administration officials are expected to announce on Thursday that they have completed the deed.
Beginning on July 1, food establishments will be barred from using plastic foam cups or containers, compelling purveyors of curbside cart fare and Chinese takeout, among others, to find alternatives. The sale of packing peanuts within the city limits will also be prohibited, though peanut-laden parcels can still be shipped to New Yorkers from elsewhere.
For now.
Though I’m sure before too long every package that crosses city lines will be inspected by special packing peanut sniffing dachshunds.
Of course there will be no one to enforce it because the NYPD isn’t cooperating. So mayor Bill de Blasio can dispatch special community organizers with armbands and brown shirts to hunt down the evil packing peanuts.
But meanwhile New Yorkers can enjoy cold food…. for the environment.
Former Bloomberg administration officials cheered the foam’s imminent demise.
“We created and undertook the most ambitious sustainability plan in the nation,” Caswell F. Holloway, the former deputy mayor for operations, said in a statement. “This latest step is another reason why New York has become a model for cities around the world.”
Sure, keep telling yourselves that.
Nonprofits and businesses with less than $500,000 in annual revenue can apply for exemptions, which they will receive if they prove that buying other materials in place of foam would create “undue financial hardship.
What about businesses owned by black transgender gay otherkin? Surely they’ll get special exemptions too. Especially if they have Sharpton on speed dial. Or are married to Bill de Blasio.
At a cart across the street, Sammay’s Halal Food, John Flynn, 22, who works as a porter nearby, endorsed foam as the carrier of choice, particularly in the dead of winter.
“I just want to keep my food warm,” he said, his breath visible.
Enemy of the State! Mother Gaia demands his execution! John must be turned into Soylent Green immediately… for the environment.
“....though peanut-laden parcels can still be shipped to New Yorkers from elsewhere.”
How magnanimous of the communist.
As far as coffee or take out, simply have the customer cup their hands and poor it or dump it into them.
Whats not to like. The Mayors wife is black. .........SUCKERS!!!!
“Walking while ‘White Priviliged’”, even merely “Walking while white” - let the floggings begin!
Yep, now the Police has one more felony to look into as if going around looking for someone selling loosies isn’t enough work.
Or just ban all take out food.
All food must be consumed at the location selling said food including independent licensed street vendors
All food must be served on environmentally approved plates and utensils with those plates and utensils being cleaned according to strict environmental laws.
No food may leave the premises in any type of container, even that provided by the customer due the unknown environmental impact of the origin and questionable environmentally sound care of said customer’s container.
Jimmah Catah will be pissed.
I’m not a big fan of Styrofoam peanuts myself. They’re a pain to store for re-use, and an equal pain to dispose of.
But outlawing them is “nuts”.
So I have an idea about what to do with shipping boxes full of annoying peanuts... send them to the Mayor’s Mansion!
They’re very light, even by the barrelful. Shouldn’t cost much at all to ship to NYC via cheapest method USPS.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if everyone in the nation sent their used peanuts to Caesar Wilhelm?
Why waste the peanuts? Save up some doggy poo and pack that in peanuts and send it to Mayor de Blowsio.
>> Save up some doggy poo and pack that in peanuts and send it to Mayor de Blowsio.
I like the idea, but I think sending him something like dog poop may be technically illegal.
Maybe a picture of dog poop. Or a picture of him and his live-in monkey (same difference, I guess). Those would be perfectly legal.
Packing Peanuts ...
Packing Heat ...
What else is in store in the kingdom of NY ;?
What’s the problem? Just pack everything in shredded scrap paper (i.e. the NYT)
Nanny state personified.
One more reason I’m glad to not live in NYC. Sympathy to FReepers that do. Leave if you can.
In the good old days, the problem was people managing to toss trays out a window for traying (in lieu of sleds, etc) that night.
>> The sporks turned out not to be as biodegradable as promoted.
How did they figure that out? By dumping cafeteria trash out back and waiting for it to rot?
The communist, black radical, lesbian, midget First Lady of NYC is dressed better in that picture than she was at the PO’s funeral last Saturday!
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