Thursday, 26 June 2014

E-Cig? Or Weapon?

Thanks to occasional contributor Bear Tripper for pointing out this rather bizarrely-termed e-cig policy from a US theme park's website which betrays a high level of ignorance about them.
Electronic Cigarettes?  No electronic cigarettes, period.  There is no way whatsoever for the Park to determine actually what is in such devices, nor whether such a device is actually for “smoking” and not a weapon or some other sort of device.  Minimally, electronic cigarettes are annoying and/or a concern to the majority of our customers who do not wish to be subjected to whatever substance people may be “smoking.”
A weapon? And I'm also curious as to what "some other sort of device" could mean. Considering that this was buried in a huge list of equally authoritarian rules which appear to have been written by curmudgeonly Aunt Griselda on a day when her arthritis has been giving her gyp, perhaps it's a way of ensuring no-one sneaks a piccolo or nose-trimmer past the watch towers under false pretences.

Have some sympathy for Bear Tripper, won't you? They have to visit this charmless 'fun' centre soon.