CLEVER SMOKERS IN MINNESOTA HAVE FOUND A LOOPHOLE IN THE STATE’S NEW SMOKING BAN:
On October 1st of last year, it became illegal to smoke in restaurants or bars in Minnesota.
(–Many states have laws banning smoking in public places. Check out your state, here . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_United_States.)
–But there are about 30 bars in Minnesota where people are still smoking . . . and NOT getting the usual $300 fine and misdemeanor charge. That’s because they found a loophole in the no-smoking ban . . .
–There’s a stipulation in the ban that says ACTORS are allowed to smoke during theatrical productions . . . as long as the audience is notified . . . because the cigarettes are considered PROPS.
–One bar in Maplewood, Minnesota (–near St. Paul), called The Rock is regularly staging what they call, quote, “theater nights.”
–During theater nights, customers pretend they are actors . . . so they can smoke. When they come into the bar . . . they even pass the “Props Department” . . . which is just a stack of black ashtrays.
–The bar also makes up fake playbills that list the names of bartenders and security guards . . . and say they’re playing the ROLES of bartenders and security guards.
–And at Barnacles Resort and Campground in Aitkin, Minnesota, they came up with an even more outrageous idea. They had a “Medieval Night” where everyone dressed in costume and spoke with an accent . . . just so they could smoke.
–The Minnesota Health Department has caught on to the whole thing . . . and they said they’ll fine a bar $10,000 if it’s caught putting on a fake theater night.
(Associated Press)
April 5th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
If the smokers were actually “clever” they wouldn’t be smoking.
I myself am quite a dimwit smoker.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:50 am
hmph.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
i think kieth west is the best…we should date.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
It’s a sad day in America when a legal product has to be used in a seemingly illegal way. Why smokers must be made to feel morally inferior is beyond me. What do the non smokers gain a healthy environment? Lower health cost? Cleaner smelling clothes? If this is the case then perhaps we should ban combustion vehicles from entering the city, stop the poor from entering the emergency rooms, and ban all perfumes and cologne. The only thing bans cause is weak minded individuals to feel guilty for making their own individual choices, ah Jesse, and for weak minded non smokers feel morally superior, but above all this type of ban only causes the division in our society to widen.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
No need to hate on these dancing ballerinas, the no-smoking rule the man imposed on their state gave them a chance to sprout roots. Whatever that was. Nah, they just made the best of it.
II Don’t Mess With Texas II
May 20th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
^ ” . . . the no-smoking rule the man imposed on their state gave them a chance to sprout THEIR roots. ” my bad.
KEEP ON ROCKIN!!!!
II Don’t Mess With Texas II
June 7th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Very Funny and Cleavor!! I bet the Medieval Night was fun too! For those of you who left nasty comments, people can smoke if they want to! Why waste your breath talking bad about smokers when your not the ones smoking….I guess you people have nothing better to do!
June 26th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
PERFUME AND SMELLY PEOPLE WONT CAUSE ME HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT WILL LEAD TO AN EARLY DEATH LIKE BREATHING IN THE SMOKE FROM OTHER PEOPLES CIGARETTES.