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FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282 is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.
Nanny state turning into Jack LaLanne?!?!...
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Nanny state turning into Jack LaLanne?!?!...
"excuse me, ma'am, but you will need to step on this scale right here" " oh, damn, we can't serve you, you are too fat".
I can see some little hostess at the door, getting an ole fashioned beat down for that.......
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"excuse me, ma'am, but you will need to step on this scale right here" " oh, damn, we can't serve you, you are too fat".
I can see some little hostess at the door, getting an ole fashioned beat down for that.......
Worse...

Imagine being told by someone fatter than you telling you can't be served because YOU are overweight...
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This is the first woman in mississippi that was told that she couldn't be served because of her weight... Pay close attention to her response to the children and watch the police drive by and keep going...

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These women were next in line..

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Honestly, does someone have it in for the restaurant industry? First the chain stores put mom and pops out of business, then the smoking laws shut the doors on a lot of interstate places not to mention Waffle Houses and what used to be called coffee shops before Star bucks.
I told em so; I told em so; I told em so.
Oooo...smoking is bad...let's ban it...
Why not ban Twinkies????? kidding sort of
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Honestly, does someone have it in for the restaurant industry? First the chain stores put mom and pops out of business, then the smoking laws shut the doors on a lot of interstate places not to mention Waffle Houses and what used to be called coffee shops before Star bucks.
I told em so; I told em so; I told em so.
Oooo...smoking is bad...let's ban it...
Why not ban Twinkies????? kidding sort of

I miss going to the coffee shop with my grandpa....

don't be messing with my twinkies...
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FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282 is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.
Nanny state turning into Jack LaLanne?!?!...

This is the dumbest legislative idea since prohibition.

Fat people still need to eat. No nutritionist in the world recommends starvation diets for weight loss.

Plus any place that does not have "five or more seats for customers" is exempt. So convenience store delis, hot dog & sandwich carts, ice cream trucks, and takeout only places become the only recourse for the overweight who don't carry their own food supplies. In other words, they are left with only the worst possible choices.

And what do you do if you are working the drive-through and a car pulls up with two thin people and two obese people? Turn away the whole group or only take the thin people's order?

Politicians are sooooo stupid.
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Can you imagine employees that are prohibited from eating at their own establishment?...
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