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Dallas police have finally arrested a man responsible for robbing local convenience stores by throwing hot coffee in the face of cashiers and than grabbing money from the cash register.

Maybe it’s long past time for our heroic legislators to offer remedies for such crimes. Obviously, cups must be registered by the state and given traceable serial numbers even before attempting to pour said coffee. A “C-chip” could be required in all coffee dispensing machines that would not deliver the hot product into any cup that is not legally registered. Perhaps proposing a three day waiting period for hot coffee purchases. This period would give time for a complete background check of the potential customer. Let’s make a law requiring that coffee be dispensed cold (temperature to be checked periodically by ATF&C spot inspection) and requiring that said coffee be reheated by the customer outside the boundaries of a “hot coffee-free zone;”  being anywhere within 500 feet of a convenience store cashier.

There are endless possibilities for “doing something” to end such crimes. All of them bring endless opportunities to restrict individual freedom. But hey, our masters say we have too much of that freedom stuff, anyway.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 at 10:43 am and is filed under Uncategorized, laws, regulations, politicians, liberty, guns, satire. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.