NYC shop fined $60K for selling gun-shaped lighters

[sailingaway]

A New York City shop owner who was fined $60,000 for selling lighters in the shape of guns is now fighting back, filing a suit to get the punishment tossed.
The store, the US Camera & Computers, was given the hefty fine in 2011 for breaking a city law that bans shops from selling items that can be mistaken for actual guns, Fox News reported. After receiving the citation, the store’s owner sent the lighters back to the manufacturing company. But that didn’t stop the city from going forth with the fine, Fox News said.


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[AGRP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWGZpu_TXw

[paulbot24]

Why don't they just pass a law that prohibits the urge to smoke something? Depending on circumstance, they have the option to prosecute it as a thought crime or if the urge is more "serious" slap the mundane with a conspiracy to smoke charge. Taze or cattle prod repeat offenders until they get burn marks, since they love smoke so much. If anybody can, Bloomberg can.

[Origanalist]

And the daily barrage of insanity continues...........

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWGZpu_TXw


I almost didn't watch that, and it started a little slow, but that was really funny.

[Henry Rogue]

And the daily barrage of insanity continues...........Yeah, reading these crazy articles, this is the real "shock and awe".

[Philhelm]

Even the most brutal of archaic rulers would not care about something such as this.