Too Fat to Eat Here
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Miss. bill would ban restaurants from serving obese customers
JACKSON, Miss. - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don't be offended.
He says he never even expected his plan to become law.
"I was trying to shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi," said Republican Rep. John Read of Gautier, who acknowledges that at 5-foot-11 and 230 pounds, he'd probably have a tough time under his own bill.
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More than 30 percent of adults in Mississippi are considered it obese, according to a 2007 study by the Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.
The state House Public Health Committee chairman, Democrat Steve Holland of Plantersville, said he is going to "shred" the bill.
"It is too oppressive for government to require a restaurant owner to police another human being from their own indiscretions," Holland said Monday.
The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were supposed to determine if a customer was obese.
Al Stamps, who owns a restaurant in Jackson, said it is "absurd" for the state to consider telling him which customers he can't serve. He and his wife, Kim, do a bustling lunch business at Cool Al's, which serves big burgers - beef or veggie - and specialty foods like "Sassy Momma Sweet Potato Fries."
"There is a better way to deal with health issues than to impose those kind of regulations," Al Stamps said. "I'm sorry - you can't do it by treating adults like children and telling them what they can and cannot eat."
-- You're kiddin', right?
LINK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22997073/
Miss. bill would ban restaurants from serving obese customers
JACKSON, Miss. - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don't be offended.
He says he never even expected his plan to become law.
"I was trying to shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi," said Republican Rep. John Read of Gautier, who acknowledges that at 5-foot-11 and 230 pounds, he'd probably have a tough time under his own bill.
Story continues below #8595;advertisement
More than 30 percent of adults in Mississippi are considered it obese, according to a 2007 study by the Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.
The state House Public Health Committee chairman, Democrat Steve Holland of Plantersville, said he is going to "shred" the bill.
"It is too oppressive for government to require a restaurant owner to police another human being from their own indiscretions," Holland said Monday.
The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were supposed to determine if a customer was obese.
Al Stamps, who owns a restaurant in Jackson, said it is "absurd" for the state to consider telling him which customers he can't serve. He and his wife, Kim, do a bustling lunch business at Cool Al's, which serves big burgers - beef or veggie - and specialty foods like "Sassy Momma Sweet Potato Fries."
"There is a better way to deal with health issues than to impose those kind of regulations," Al Stamps said. "I'm sorry - you can't do it by treating adults like children and telling them what they can and cannot eat."
-- You're kiddin', right?
LINK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22997073/
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make a fat section like the smoking section. then i don't have to ruin my appetite watching them shovel it in.
just kidding.0 -
there shooting women in chicago if they over eat in the food court, then go to lane bryant 0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
there shooting women in chicago if they over eat in the food court, then go to lane bryant
I'd be really mad at you if I knew any of the dead fat women, but I have to admit you made me laugh a little bit.0 -
quote:Originally posted by cce1302
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
there shooting women in chicago if they over eat in the food court, then go to lane bryant
I'd be really mad at you if I knew any of the dead fat women, but I have to admit you made me laugh a little bit.
yeah you called them "dead fat women", deceased caloricly challenged females would be more appropriate[:)]0 -
USA going to a fascist government where everything is outlawed. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
"It is too oppressive for government to require a restaurant owner to police another human being from their own indiscretions," Holland said Monday.
The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were supposed to determine if a customer was obese.
Al Stamps said. "I'm sorry - you can't do it by treating adults like children and telling them what they can and cannot eat."
They do it with alcohol, why not food.0 -
Imagine if all those fat people started picketing the business? 0 -
just put the restaurant up a flight of stairs. 0 -
wouldn't that have something to do with race color creed or how much you need [:p][:p][:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jake_S-83
just put the restaurant up a flight of stairs.
And you could justify it by saying it was to prevent flood damage caused by hurricanes and the Mississippi River.[:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jake_S-83
just put the restaurant up a flight of stairs.
[:D]0 -
This isn't the first yahoo to get elected to push for something and then cry, "I didn't intend for it to become law, I was just trying to bring the problem to light."
Bullcrap. If this jerkoff wants to bring something to light, take out an ad in the local paper, or write a letter to the editor, or issue a press release.
You do not, I repeat, do not, propose legislation that you do not wish to become law. That's no different than aiming your gun at someone, pulling the trigger, and "accidentally" shooting them. Rule #1 of gun safety is never point the muzzle at something you don't intend to destroy.
Same thing with laws.
This twit should be recalled.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jake_S-83
just put the restaurant up a flight of stairs.
You can't do that. How can handicapped people get to the restaurant?0
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