Gunpowder Chronicle posted on October 10, 2007 1:43 PM | Rating:
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You don't say? You mean that a product designed to be ignited, which is generally a small fire on the end of a stick of tobacco wrapped in paper, poses a fire risk? And now the Mayor of Baltimore -- awash in the blood of a record-setting year of homicides wants to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
That's right... as we lunge closer to 300 homicides for the year, and 27 officer-involved shootings, the Mayor's big concern is that stupid people will not properly extinguish their lighted tobacco products.
As Baltimore's heroin epidemic -- more addicts per capita than any other city! -- drives crime sky-high, and the Baltimore Police are powerless to do anything about it, the Mayor actually wants to take this on as something to worry about?
Tomorrow, I am told the O'Malley Gazette will feature a story on a study by Yale that gasoline poses a fire risk. The Mayor plans to issue every motorist their own 10 pound container of spray foam and to reformulate the gasoline mixture to include water (are the Meadowcroft's listening... they've been doing this for years!)
Friday, the O'Malley Gazette is going to cover a study from Princeton that matches pose a fire risk. The Mayor plans to introduce "flameless" matches. Instead of getting free matches at the 7-11, you will get flint and steel.
And on Saturday, a real newspaper will hopefully cover a study from the Institute of Sane Individuals that stupid politicians are the root of all evil.