at least i dont live there O.o

i kind of want to go and just leave unopened sodas lying around, now

i kind of want to go and just leave unopened sodas lying around, now

i'm on the other side of the U.S

if VA does that I'll move

thankfully it's mostly in san fran.. and high schools, at the moment. Chances are I'll move if/when California adopts it as a whole, too >>

wow just wow next they may have a coffee ban

that would suck
with out caffine
i'm depressed

trans-fats

This...I just loled.

I loled so hard my butt even let out a chuckle. That's how absurd it is.

It's pretty wild, wow.

and ^ This.

oh you SF gays and hate for unneeded calories

in all seriousness though, that kinda sucks (i don't drink pop anymore so i can't really say much else lol). Did they ban energy drinks too?

ugh, and lynching gays here is so called "smiled upon by god"

...That just makes no sense. XD

Woooooooooooow. WTF?

i did read it-
jsut, it does seem fairly silly. I mean-
let me put it this way.
when they took soda out of the high school vending machines, people mostly just stopped using them.

Yeah... what stridentweasel said. They are banning the sale of soda on city property in vending machines. People can still get them everywhere else. Actually I think it's a good step in the direction of reducing obesity.

By protecting people from their own personal choices?

mhmm, because you need to save people from there own derp-dom

Diet soda is still being sold, and if they want to get soda from somewhere, they can find a store or another vending machine that isn't on government property. Instead they are offering healthier alternatives, and I really don't see anything wrong with that.

ghey...

And I'm going there in a couple weeks. I'd bring a 12 pack of soda with me if I didn't have to check it...

Fucking food nazis.

It's still being sold, just not in the vending machines on city-owned property. It's not banned entirely.

Good, it shouldn't be banned entirely. I'd say it was totally messed up that soda's banned, but not cigarettes.

I agree, that would be very messed up!

California is known for passing all kinds of half-baked and crackpot laws....

This appears to be just one more of them.

HEY NOW!

the half-baked laws may be bad... but the FULLY baked laws are FUCKING AWESOME!

Really?

Gov Grey allowed Enron to nearly collapse the stock market by refusing to change an unadvised energy law.

Gov Swartz has made it his agenda to make soft drinks and candy illegal in schools (the health nut that he is), while California's transportation infrastructure is going straight to hell. (Don't believe me? Drive on nearly any California interstate and they'll make you into a believer.)

Big trucks are not allowed to idle while shut down in California. Would anyone, as a SOCAL resident, not run your AC in the middle of summer? Why should truckers not be allowed to? Why must they suffer? Oh yeah. "Truckers are the biggest pollution culprits in the US!!" and the huge load of bunk that that is. A single modern truck produces less pollution than the average car, and it produces absolutely no carbon monoxide! Must be something like why truckers must drive at 55 in California and are ticketed at 58 - while cars are allowed to go up to 70, but are rarely ticketed unless they go 15 or more over. Trucks are easy political targets, and the politicians that be, get to score points by cracking down on (already way over-regulated) truckers (which was one of the main reasons I retired from trucking). And California likes to call itself the fore-runner for creating new ways to make trucks safer.

And the list could go on and on. And on and on and on! California is like off in lala land from the rest of the United States. When I drove truck, I absolutely hated having to go to California. Now that I have retired from trucking, I will never set foot in it again except maybe to visit a friend.

California is a state gone mad - with excessive amounts of counterproductive laws, over regulation on just about everything, and city halls that encourage people to dream up new laws to be voted on during legislative sessions! You can't walk ten steps in the state of California without breaking a law some where.

Half baked laws....?

No. It is more like brain-baked people making up bunches and bunches of needless laws. Count me out of California. Give me Nevada where people are friggin' left alone!

However alcohol and tobacco are still allowed to be sold publicly?

I don't imagine those are sold in vending machines, but yes.

>.>
<.<
*begins to make bathtub mountain dew*


on a side note that is retarded

I understand the concept of it and do think it should not be allowed in schools (sold or offered in anyway) so its solely up to the parent on where the kid gets soda or not with his/her lunch.

However, the practicality of a city wide ban?? Not so much, its got to be just government buildings and the sale of them in such.

OMG TAB TOO!? D: THOSE GAYS WILL STARVE WITHOUT THEIR TAB!!! ;~;

*chugs 2ltr of mt dew*

"the City is replacing sodas with drinks such as soy and rice milk." - fucking distgusting

"The program is partly modeled after first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to fight obesity." - even though she's anorexic? xD

Overall, this new law is fucking gay. So I guess, in a way, it fits! :D

that is the best random logic ever.

Well doesn't it make sense? xD A gay law for a gay city? :P

We will soon have to go to Indian reservations to get our coke.