Because you just can’t regulate stuff enough:
After scores of deaths, the U.S. government government is taking a closer look at off-road recreational vehicles, known as ROVs.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted Wednesday to write mandatory rules to regulate the four-wheel vehicles, after more than 100 deaths since 2003. Riders have suffered dozens of injuries, too — some leading to amputations.
I understand that because of deaths and injuries, anyone going skiing will now be required to dress like football players.
Speaking of which, the government will now mandate that the NFL adopt touch football rules. No more of this tackling each other; that can cause injuries.
By the way, do you enjoy a good game of chess? Moving those pieces around could bring on carpal tunnel syndrome. The government feels that that is a hazard, and a drain on the new government run health care system so chess is now banned. They’re doing it for the kids.
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on 23 Oct 2009 at 10:33 am # Keith
Jeff,
have you listened to Frank Zappa’s “Joe’s Garage” albums lately?
They kept me alive on a 7 hour drive the morning Tony Blair became British PM. I still can’t believe how brilliant Zappa’s piss take of the nanny state was, especially for the late 1970s
Keith
on 23 Oct 2009 at 2:21 pm # bud
Is it the gov’t press release or the MSM screwing it up? In either case, the idiots that want to tell us how to run our lives - because they’re so much smarter and… just better… than us- can’t even get the NAME right.
It’s O-R-V, superior person, not R-O-V.
on 23 Oct 2009 at 3:47 pm # Doug in colorado
Just to further prove that leftist folksingers don’t have all the good song ideas…this could be about Obama, Reid, Pelosi or any number of czars:
Jonathan Edwards - Sunshine (Go Away Today) Lyrics
Sunshine go away today
I don’t feel much like dancing
Some man’s gone, he’s tried to run my life
Don’t know what he’s asking
He tells me I’d better get in line
Can’t hear what he’s saying
When I grow up I’m going to make it mine
But these aren’t dues I been paying
(Chorus)
How much does it cost, I’ll buy it
The time is all we’ve lost, I’ll try it
But he can’t even run his own life
I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine, Sunshine
Sunshine go away today
I don’t feel much like dancing
Some man’s gone he’s tried to run my life
Don’t know what he’s asking
Working starts to make me wonder where
The fruits of what I do are going
He says in love and war all is fair
But he’s got cards he ain’t showing
(Chorus)
Sunshine come on back another day
I promise you I’ll be singing
This old world, she’s gonna turn around
Brand new bells’ll be ringing
on 23 Oct 2009 at 4:04 pm # anon
A familiar refrain.
First they came for the three wheelers…
on 23 Oct 2009 at 4:07 pm # Timmeehh
Too late, they beat ya to it.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Helmets+must+kids+Tremblant/2056497/story.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Whistler+Blackcomb+toughens+rules+helmet+skiers+boarders/2058795/story.html
on 23 Oct 2009 at 8:00 pm # john of sparta
c’mon now…lawyers need work, too.
go out and sue somebody today.
on 24 Oct 2009 at 9:18 am # ditto
I’m telling that you weren’t wearing your seat belt.
on 24 Oct 2009 at 3:06 pm # Brass
My company has now made wearing a helmet mandatory while skiing or boarding in uniform. You cannot imagine how pissed off the employees are.
on 24 Oct 2009 at 11:08 pm # karrde
Well…100 deaths since 2003?
How many people succumbed to the death machines known as automobiles during that time?
on 25 Oct 2009 at 1:45 pm # comatus
karrde, they’re working on that. In 1969, I editorialized that marihuana was no more hazardous than tobacco. And now?
Mary-jane’s still illegal, and cigarettes are, too. I take it all back.
On this one, it’s an “efficacy” issue. I’m a Hunter Ed instructor, but I don’t believe for a moment I’m reaching the population of youth who are most likely to negligently discharge in a backseat(!). If some state safety program could keep the young from operating off-road as if they were immortal, I’d probably accept it, might even help. But it doesn’t work that way. Tens of thousands of Boy Scouts and Young Marines could take a mandatory safety course, and it would hardly dent the death toll of Butch & Buzz out with good old Uncle Ernie.
I suppose we’re going to do it anyway. Perhaps some good will come of it. And then we’ll go on to the next step, regardless.