[Mpls] Blowers Unite!

[Sheldon Mains]

Comments imbedded in two posts below:

> -----Original Message-----
> Victoria Heller
> ....<snip>....
> 
> If government can "regulate" conduct on private property, 

Gee, so the government shouldn't tell me I can not have a meth lab in my
apartment?

> what's to keep it out of your bedroom?  Based on my own 
> fading memories, bedrooms are far riskier than bars.  Bedroom 
> conduct has become a major health issue, generating 
> incredible public cost.

And isn't it the defenders of sacred private rights--the Republicans--that
want to regulate sexual relationships--in bedrooms?
> 

While I too think that leaf blower regulation is dumb, I just had to comment
on the inconsistency of the arguments of the right end of the Republican
party.


> -----Original Message-----
> Mark Wilde

> I think the city should ban leave blowers.  As Stephen
> said, we put bans on noise and pollution all the time.
>  Leaf blowers are loud and irritating, waste limited
> natural resources, and contribute to asthma and other
> lung ailments. 

Electric ones are noisy?  And the particulate pollution caused by the
blowing settles out quite quickly (as fast as the particulate pollution
caused by electric lawn mowers)

Would you also ban leaf suckers?  (leaf blowers in the sucking mode)

sheldon
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Sheldon Mains
Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota