Wednesday, July 25, 2018

As Wodehouse once wrote...

...it's enough to make you think that perhaps man is not God's last word on the subject: "Santa Barbara Authorizes Jail Time for Handing Out Straws".

Watch for the emergence of powerful bootleg straw gangs, fighting tooth and nail over sucking territories.

10 comments:

Jonah said...

A Dairy Queen milkshake spoon? It's got to have at least 4 times as much plastic.

So two years in prison for those after school terrorists.

Mike_W said...

I wonder how many "environmentalists" have been out hammering straws up turtle noses.

rinardman said...

They'll insist on a return to 'environmentally friendly' paper straws. Until they realize you have to cut down trees to make those.

Insert "it's the last straw" joke, here.

Veeshir said...

Yet again I try to imagine going back to 1950 and trying to explain today.
This makes me wonder if they'd prescribe electro-shock therapy or a lobotomy to cure my obvious insanity.

JeffS said...

Yet another worthless but "feels good" gesture from the useful idiots saturating western civilization.

RebeccaH said...

God save us from do-gooders.

Steve Skubinna said...

Not plastic straws - Santa Barbara has criminalized all straws. No idea if it's intentional or just sloppy writing...

Who am I kidding? Whatever the proximate cause, the underlying one is officious stupidity.

HAL9000 said...

Rebecca,
Not do gooders; idiotic busybodies.

Deborah said...

If an illegal passes out straws, will he/she be fined and jailed?

There are days (rarer than blue moons) when I wish we were in Los Angeles, so we could drive up to beautiful Santa Barbara to hand out straws.

We found 25 packs of straws at Walmart today. Festive summer colors. We bought 3 packs. First they came for our light bulbs... Resist!

Straws are 0.02 percent of the plastic that ends up in the ocean. The USA is responsible for 1 percent of all plastic in the ocean. Plastic straws are the new mole hill.

Gregoryno6 said...

From my cold dead lips!