Restaurants Forced To Turn Away The Fatties?
A Mississippi legislator proposed a message bill he knew would fail in an effort to “shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi.” His bill would require that restaurants turn away the obese rather than serve them.
Right now bills like this are just used to raise awareness. When taxpayers become responsible for paying each others medical bills under the socialized healthcare plans proposed by some politicians ideas like this will be taken more seriously as efforts to save taxpayer money.
H/T Boing Boing
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How would they measure who is too fat to eat at a restaurant? I think a system like the ones already in place at the Theme Parks would work great! Remember standing underneath the paw of some cartoon character to see if you are tall enough to ride a ride? All the restaurants would have to do is take a wood cut out of some cartoon character like baloo the bear and every patron would have to stand in front of it. If you obscure the cartoon character then you would not be allowed in.
Comment by Dignin — February 8, 2008 @ 10:29 am
That is a cool idea. I pity the fool who has to turn the first person away after standing them in front of the cartoon character. That would not be a fun job!
Comment by Jeremy Manning — February 8, 2008 @ 4:25 pm