Perhaps some of BHO’s civilian security force (which will be funded as well as the military) can cook up something like the Elf and Safety over in the UK. This story isn’t unique – there are literally dozens more like it, and probably a lot more that go unreported. I’ll link some more in this post. In fact, I’m sure there’s a site or blog someplace keeping track of them.
UPDATE!: I found a fabulous UK blog chronicling the intrusion of the nanny state! It’s called
Nanny Knows Best.
Remember, the government that takes care of you also gets to make decisions for you.
Vote for the nanny state at your own peril, kids.
h/t Barking Moonbat
October 24, 2008 at 8:12 am
Hi and thanks for the H/T.
Here’s another elf n safety story for ya from our own experience some 3 or 4 years ago. True story.
Wife and I managed to lock ourselves out of car in parking lot at a mini market. There we were with three or four bags and no car keys.
At about the very same time a police cruiser pulled into the lot and I went over and asked them if they could help us. Maybe they had a slim jim and could open our door for us.
Nope. They couldn’t do that under Health and Safety, we were politely informed. However …. they could help.
While I waited in the parking lot by our car, the two officers drove my wife back to our house where she got a spare set of keys and they drove her back. Problem solved but it took two cops and a cruiser and about 20 minutes of their time. Elf ‘n’ Safety.
Oh yeah …. barbers can’t trim with a straight razor the way they do back home in the USA in a men’s barber shop. Yup. Elf ‘n’ Safety again.
Always on the job looking after us.
GG: Your tax dollars at work! And to think, people here seem to believe that the government is going to pay for everything and then stay out of your life.