Miami Beach Bans ‘See Food’
Miami Beach has had enough of all those public displays. “Of what,” you ask? Bronzed, naked women exposing their breasts on South Beach? Old Canadian men prancing about in mere banana hammocks?
No, those are still fine. Instead, the city has outlawed public displays of… restaurant food.
Yes, in an effort to cut down on eye-pleasing food displays, the city commission last month passed a law, now in effect, that bans “the plastic-wrapped food samples, saying they cheapened the Beach’s image.”
Right. It’s not the ever-prevalent violence in Miami Beach that hurts the city’s image, it’s those handsome displays of quality food set outside many small businesses.
So how’s that new law working out? It seems it’s getting exactly the respect it deserves.
So far, defiant restaurant owners have largely ignored the law, which went into effect Dec. 22.
This sort of blatantly anti-restaurant, anti-consumer ordinance isn’t all that unusual. For proof, check out Drew Carey’s great new video at Reason.tv, in which Drew exposes the idiocy of a targeted anti-dancing ordinance (obligatory Footloose references included) that’s putting a serious squeeze on exactly one Arizona restaurant.
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