Quote Originally Posted by JimF View Post
yup . . .typical . . . .
Ranks right up there with many other “rules and regulations” . . . .like . . . .

Remember when the wizards down in D.C. wished to eliminate machine guns?

Ban all guns that would “fire multiple projectiles with just one pull of the trigger.” (There goes ALL shotguns!)

One would think these politicians would THINK THINGS THROUGH when they write these laws!
There's a basic rule of English that says you can't use "politician" and "think" in the same sentence.

Our politicians all have the Union Syndrome. In 1836 the steamboat "Union" pulled away from the docks in Alexandria, VA and blew up in the middle of the river. There was an investigation, and the results were printed in the Alexandria Gazette. The Union was a new boat and there were leaks in the steam system. This was a problem that would cure itself, as scale and sediment built up in the system and blocked the leaks.

But someone got impatient and shoveled "a large quantity of horse manure" into the boiler -- which plugged the lines and blew up the boat.

The Union Syndrome is the belief that you can solve problems by adding horse chit.