Next Up, Your Local Hardware Store
The benevolent powers that be in the fair city of Boston have taken another courageous step in their ongoing efforts to crack down on violent crime in our neighborhoods. They've begun shutting down stores that sell toy guns.
Police shut store selling replica guns to students
The article does go on to say that the replica guns are, in fact, legal to sell. So how could they justify closing the store down and putting a local store owner out of business, you ask?
Let's recap. The cops ask the store owner to stop selling a legal product. Store owner, in kind, tells them to piss up a rope. So the cops raid the store looking for any possible code violations that would allow them to close the store down.
Ahhh...I can just feel the crime rate falling all around me like a gentle spring rain.
I guess the cops have their work cut out for them now. Why just this past weekend, I was in a Home Depot and a Target store in Boston. You should have seen all the mentally-unstable, violent objects they had lying around; hammers, bats, knives, axes, chainsaws, and (gasp!) TOY GUNS - not to mention all the components needed to make a car load of pipe bombs. It's a miracle I made it home in one piece. And to think, I had my wife and young children with me. Oh, the horror!
These merchants of death must be closed down NOW - no exceptions! Think of the children!
Once we have destroyed these capitalist killing machines and halted their proliferation of weapons of mass destruction we will be free to go after the liquor stores, car dealerships, soda machines, and any supermarket that sells any product deemed to have to too much fat, salt, sugar, preservatives, or artificial coloring.
Come on. Think "progressive" people.
UPDATE: From the Boston Herald Police Logs.
You'd think the Globe would have at least made a passing reference to the illegal weapons being sold out of this guy's store, instead of merely referring to them as "other dangerous items". And, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that the risk of drive-by throwing star attacks in the city has now been diminished.
Also, they've dubbed this latest crusade "Operation Countertop". Never mind that that's a pretty weak name for a supposed get-tough-on-crime law enforcement operation, does Countertop know about this, and did he give them his stamp of approval?
Police shut store selling replica guns to students
Boston police raided and shut down an Uphams Corner convenience store Friday that had been selling students knives and replica pellet pistols, officials said.
They said the replicas looked so much like real guns that police feared they could fuel neighborhood violence.
The article does go on to say that the replica guns are, in fact, legal to sell. So how could they justify closing the store down and putting a local store owner out of business, you ask?
When police raided the store, they discovered pornographic tapes that had been pirated, a code violation that allowed city inspectors to close the store.
"We went into the store, and we tried to appeal to the conscience of this store owner," Hasson said. "We told him we have an antiviolence campaign going on, and this is counterproductive to our efforts. . . . He wasn't receptive."
Let's recap. The cops ask the store owner to stop selling a legal product. Store owner, in kind, tells them to piss up a rope. So the cops raid the store looking for any possible code violations that would allow them to close the store down.
Ahhh...I can just feel the crime rate falling all around me like a gentle spring rain.
I guess the cops have their work cut out for them now. Why just this past weekend, I was in a Home Depot and a Target store in Boston. You should have seen all the mentally-unstable, violent objects they had lying around; hammers, bats, knives, axes, chainsaws, and (gasp!) TOY GUNS - not to mention all the components needed to make a car load of pipe bombs. It's a miracle I made it home in one piece. And to think, I had my wife and young children with me. Oh, the horror!
These merchants of death must be closed down NOW - no exceptions! Think of the children!
Once we have destroyed these capitalist killing machines and halted their proliferation of weapons of mass destruction we will be free to go after the liquor stores, car dealerships, soda machines, and any supermarket that sells any product deemed to have to too much fat, salt, sugar, preservatives, or artificial coloring.
Come on. Think "progressive" people.
UPDATE: From the Boston Herald Police Logs.
Scott Hamburger, the owner of Ultimate Communication Services on Dudley Street in Roxbury, finds himself in a pickle after an undercover cop purchased a XXX-rated DVD at his shop for $15 Friday, as well as a $30 BB gun built to duplicate a semiautomatic handgun.
Hamburger was arrested and charged with bootlegging, counterfeiting and assorted other offenses after a search warrant turned up 527 pirated music CDs for sale, 90 DVDs, porn and illegal weaponry including throwing stars, brass knuckles and double-edged knives.
You'd think the Globe would have at least made a passing reference to the illegal weapons being sold out of this guy's store, instead of merely referring to them as "other dangerous items". And, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that the risk of drive-by throwing star attacks in the city has now been diminished.
Also, they've dubbed this latest crusade "Operation Countertop". Never mind that that's a pretty weak name for a supposed get-tough-on-crime law enforcement operation, does Countertop know about this, and did he give them his stamp of approval?
