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COLD SHOCK: Warming up your car illegal!
WND.com ^ | January 10, 2014 | WND.com

Posted on 01/12/2014 4:35:45 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

WASHINGTON – The recent nationwide cold snap isn’t just making Americans uncomfortable. It’s turning some into lawbreakers.

The shocking news of state and local regulations that make it illegal to warm up your frozen car is hitting home in Texas, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, Colorado, Wisconsin, South Carolina – even some cities in Minnesota.

Who knew it could be illegal to run back inside while your car is warming up in winter – in a practice sometimes called “puffing”?

Many Americans are getting first-hand experience this brutal winter with the latest manifestation of what some call the “Nanny State.”

The reason for such laws is usually linked with the increased threat of vehicles being stolen – and some of them carry hefty fines for enticing car thieves to commit their crimes. The laws are a little fuzzy on the newer technology of “auto-start” vehicles specifically designed for the comfort of their drivers and passengers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Maryland; US: Minnesota; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina; US: Texas; US: West Virginia; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: automobiles; climatechange; enginewear; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; nannystate; pollution; puffing; theft; warmingupcar
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EPA Fines School Bus Company For ‘Excessive Idling’
41 posted on 01/12/2014 5:13:50 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Future Snake Eater

Wouldn’t that be in AA county, not PG?


42 posted on 01/12/2014 5:14:45 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I guess the ole saying:

“You can’t step outside your house without breaking the law” rings true.

F**K their silly laws, arrest me!


43 posted on 01/12/2014 5:15:06 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: PistolPaknMama

Reassuring . . . NOT!


44 posted on 01/12/2014 5:16:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: driftdiver

Yes, but only to cool down the interior before you drive away.


45 posted on 01/12/2014 5:17:35 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I never had a problem with this except for one clown in a preious apartment complex who would start his car and then go back inside for about an hour. I hate the noise of an idling engine for extended periods of time.


46 posted on 01/12/2014 5:18:26 PM PST by OrangeHoof (2001-2008: "Dissent Is Patriotism!" 2009-2016: "Dissent Is Racism!")
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To: digger48
they have auto starts for stick shifts too

Unfortunately, neither of my vehicles' transmissions have a neutral sense switch in them - both use a clutch pedal switch. Some transmissions do, some don't. I wouldn't wire in a remote start unless it had a neutral sense. Too dangerous.

But I can go out and start them and leave them running without worrying about someone driving off with them...
47 posted on 01/12/2014 5:18:46 PM PST by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

So, we’re penalizing people for exposing themselves to crime , huh?

Makes so much sense!


48 posted on 01/12/2014 5:18:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Are they actually going to send the police around to check for this? Such idiots we have enacting laws.


49 posted on 01/12/2014 5:18:56 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.--Ps3)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Control freaks at ski areas in Soviet Red Hampshire have been doing this for a couple of years...


50 posted on 01/12/2014 5:20:02 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Fishing-guy
If the police are driving around the neighborhood looking for  tickets to write   dogs to shoot, citizens to intimidate, real crimes to ignore, donuts to order . . .


didn't think you'd mind

51 posted on 01/12/2014 5:20:27 PM PST by tomkat
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

Nanny State PING! to reply #41


52 posted on 01/12/2014 5:21:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I just looked up my township to see if there was an ordinance like that on the books. Thank God, there isn’t.


53 posted on 01/12/2014 5:21:30 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: VerySadAmerican

That fluffing


54 posted on 01/12/2014 5:21:34 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I live in Wisconsin. Radio 1310 WIBA’s traffic watch was advising people to warm up their cars so they won’t wind up like the dozens of disabled cars in -20F conditions. No one threatened radio guy with sanctions.

That day, car #1 blew a coolant hose connector, and car #2 got a flat tire hitting a separated piece of highway due to cold heaves on the interstate. Until the car warmed up the window was icing over . . . ON THE INSIDE!

Cars left running at the gas station do sometimes get stolen. I drive older GM products (mid 90s), and half of the doors/windows/locks don’t work in WARM weather; there is no way I am going to LOCK them in cold weather.


55 posted on 01/12/2014 5:21:55 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (Five years, my brain hurts a lot.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

“But, officer, my wife had the car in the scope of her .308 the whole time. See that open widow up there? HEY HONEY, WAVE FOR THE OFFICER! See her up there, sir? I don’t think the thieves represent the threat that you believe.”


56 posted on 01/12/2014 5:22:07 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Talisker
Follow that concept...

Do what?

58 posted on 01/12/2014 5:25:56 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: F15Eagle

You would think so and then Polar Vortex hit, blast that Al Gore.


59 posted on 01/12/2014 5:26:03 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Time to drop a burning tire in the town square.


60 posted on 01/12/2014 5:26:29 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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