Posted on 01/27/2018 3:05:14 PM PST by Hadean
Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.
Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.
This isn't just Calderon's crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won't be allowed to offer plastic straws or utensils as of July.
The Los Angeles Times has gotten behind the movement, endorsing straws-on-request policies in an editorial that also warned that "repetitive sucking may cause or exacerbate wrinkles on the lips or around the mouth." Celebrity astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson (always up for a little chiding) and Entourage star Adrian Grenier have appeared in videos where an octopus slaps them in the face for using a plastic straw.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Straws are private property. The owner of the property is free to give his property away. Now if you are a pinko communist, you think all property belongs to the government, and it naturally follows that the government is in charge of it’s redistribution.
Tucker Carlson had a defender of the law on his show the other night, and the guy claimed that no individual would be fined or jailed for non-compliance, but that their employers would be held accountable. He also claimed that one of the reasons for the law is that the oceans are filling up with plastic. I wish Carlson had asked: (1) if waiters won’t be fined, why does the law say that they can be fined?; and (2) how do the plastic straws served in restaurants end up in the oceans?
“The Muslimes will applaud”
Thats like when the chit hits the fan... stand back !!!
A waiter handing a patron a straw carries a heavier penalty than an illegal killing a citizen does.
What is wrong with this picture?
What if its an illegal alien food server then what ?
“Straws are private property. The owner of the property is free to give his property “
No its being purchased as part of the beverage price
I miss my mommy
Such a law is unenforceable except by the “straw” police with photographic evidence and recording .
A extra large sugary soda in a plastic cup, with a plastic straw. De Blasio would go into convulsions at the thought.
Happens to me all the time.
Yep. Search titles, but not the whole title.
Pick one or two words from the title that wouldn’t show up very often.
Works most of the time.
The straw is deed the property of whom ever purchased it. The owner of the restaurant purchases them from the supply company. They most certainly are the property of the restaurant owner. Who pray tell do you think owns them? The owner of the property is free to give them away, if someone wants to buy them from the owner, so what? It does not change the rights of the property owner. With out property rights we have no freedom, we should resist infringing on property rights if we value our freedom.
Can’t you see this charging a thousand dollars for giving away some property is an assault on freedom?
They are NUTZ!!!!
Beat NYC to punch .... I’m sure De Blaiso will counter and raise with something as stupid.
Now any snotty elitist type customer who gets offended by a service faux pas and does everything possible to get a server fired has a new weapon in their arsenal.
“THE SERVER OFFERED ME A STRAW!”
California, where its legal to come here illegally from another country and shoot and kill an natural born citizen. But if you use a straw you are criminal.
What the f*** happened to mybonce great state???
ROFL!!
The way I eat cake the file will be in my digestive system 10 minutes later!!
You kill me :)
This damn thread top to bottom is so funny I ‘m readin it twiçe , flu , nah , blowing so much waterworks laughin my ass off, germs ain’t got a host’s chance
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