New York City restaurant inspectors will now be armed with 17-ounce cups

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sip-hits-fan-article-1.1284047


City restaurant inspectors will now be armed with 17-ounce cups to make sure eateries aren't selling oversized sugary beverages

New procedures give restaurant inspectors cups that can hold 17 fluid ounces and they'll be instructed to issue a violation only when a cup is found to 'clearly exceed' 16 ounces.

The Health Department plans to use regular restaurant inspections to make sure eateries are not selling sugary beverages in servings larger than 16 ounces. But the inspectors will have specially ordered cups to help them enforce the new rule, Deputy Health Commissioner Daniel Kass said.

He spelled out the new procedures in exacting detail in an affidavit recently filed as part of the legal challenge to Bloomberg’s anti-big-soda policy. “The measuring cups that we will be issuing ... will be able to contain 17 fluid ounces,” Kass said. Inspectors will be instructed to issue a violation only when a cup is found to “clearly exceed” 16 ounces “when measured in the inspector’s measuring cup,” he added.

How pathetic is your life when you're carrying around a cup, and using it at Mayor Bloomberg's decree to make sure others aren't drinking Coke from cups that are too large? What real difference in the world do these people think they're making?

[James Madison]

It's not about making a difference. It's about stomping on your throat and letting you know who owns you.

[sailingaway]

did he put that out the same day the report came out that 80% of students in NYCity public schools can't read?

Distraction, maybe?

[Restore America Now]

How pathetic is your life when you're carrying around a cup, and using it at Mayor Bloomberg's decree to make sure others aren't drinking Coke from cups that are too large?

I laughed, against my better judgement.

[PaulConventionWV]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sip-hits-fan-article-1.1284047



How pathetic is your life when you're carrying around a cup, and using it at Mayor Bloomberg's decree to make sure others aren't drinking Coke from cups that are too large? What real difference in the world do these people think they're making?

OH... MY... GOD...

The absurd has just gotten... well, too absurd for words to describe

[VoluntaryAmerican]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sip-hits-fan-article-1.1284047



How pathetic is your life when you're carrying around a cup, and using it at Mayor Bloomberg's decree to make sure others aren't drinking Coke from cups that are too large? What real difference in the world do these people think they're making?

Depends how much fuhrer Bloomberg is paying?

Yuppie-Nuremberg defense.

[DGambler]

Can these restaurants serve sugary beverages in 14 oz cups and just give free refills? Or buy one get one free? Or invent a cup that is just two cups joined together. Not sure what the law actually reads, but I'd be looking for loopholes just for the hell of it if I lived there.

[mrsat_98]

I think I would start a bring your own cup special.

[Mani]

Whenever you read about those crazy state or local laws that are 50-100 years old....and sound hilarious now, and you wonder.....how the hell did that ever make it into law or city ordinance???



Well......now you know.....

[kathy88]

I can't think of a bigger loser job than this.

[tasteless]

We need to ban these 17-ounce assault cups that are more at home in Bavarian beerhouses than on our streets

[presence]

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[TonySutton]

And people in America wonder why people from other countries laugh at us.

[ItsTime]

With this new law can you just sell "cups" empty cups then have a self serve machine where they can fill those cups? Or how is it worded?

[jtap]

I can't think of a bigger loser job than this.

Exactly. Any person that takes this job, I have no interest in knowing. I am sure we have nothing in common.

[Peace&Freedom]

Well, some help is on the way:

The New York City Libertarian Party Nominating Convention will take place on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 from 7:00-9:30 p.m. at the New York Irish Center located at 10-40 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101 http://www.newyorkirishcenter.org/

One stop, 5 minutes on the 7 subway train from Grand Central Station to the Vernon-Jackson stop. Admission is FREE but we will pass the hat for contributions to defray the cost of the venue.

-Libertarian Nominations for NYC Mayor, Comptroller, and Public Advocate
-Deliberations to Endorse Proposed City Referendums / Ballot Initiatives to:

REPEAL THE NYC SURVEILLANCE STATE (End Stop and Frisk, Ban Surveillance Cameras, Airport & Police Body Scanners throughout the 5-Borough Area)

REFORM CITY GOVERNMENT (End the Large Soda Ban, i.e. Remove the Mayor’s Unilateral Authority to Make Food and Health Regulations, or Bump Referendums off the Ballot; Eliminate the Offices of Public Advocate and Borough President)

Flyer: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?2d438858157gb64

[VanBummel]

Every day I think "At least it can't get any dumber than this" and every day I am proved wrong. A ban on high capacity...cups. Gettin' real tired of your shit, New York.

[Occam's Banana]

Well, some help is on the way:

Looks like a NY state judge beat them to it: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?407173-NY-Supreme-Court-Judge-blocks-Bloomberg-s-soda-side-ban

[Mani]

With this new law can you just sell "cups" empty cups then have a self serve machine where they can fill those cups? Or how is it worded?


That's what I'm wondering.....what if a patron smuggles in a 16 ounce cup and after paying, they use the illegal cup and an inspector walks in! Who gets busted? The patron? The restaurant? Both? If the restaurant is liable Will restaurants then require TSA security to make sure no banned beverage holders make it inside??

[Peace&Freedom]

Looks like a NY state judge beat them to it: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?407173-NY-Supreme-Court-Judge-blocks-Bloomberg-s-soda-side-ban

Thank goodness, if it holds up as a decision. The LP here will nonetheless proceed to develop initiatives on all the control freak fronts, to contain or remove the Mayor's powers to perform this kind of capricious tyranny on any front.