{"id":8532,"date":"2010-02-08T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:52:00","slug":"the-mommy-state-says-youll-shoot-your-eye-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"The Mommy State Says &#8220;You&#8217;ll Shoot Your Eye Out&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we thought TV weatherpeople overreacted to snowstorms.<\/p>\n<p>King, North Carolina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxii12.com\/news\/22487153\/detail.html\">slapped on some amazing, draconian &#8211; and utterly irrelevant &#8211; restrictions during their recent round of flurries<\/a>, imposing a curfew, banning alcohol sales, and <em>banning the sale of firearms and ammunition,<\/em> or possession of either off of one&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, they declared a police state. Over snow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s over &#8211; sort of. Mayor Frank Burns and Police Chief Dwight Shrute have lifted <em>some <\/em>of the restricti0ns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities lifted a curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the state of emergency declaration would continue until Monday 9 a.m., barring any unforeseen circumstances or severe changes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, I was pulling your legs about the Burns and Shrute bit. Not that it isn&#8217;t fully appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of it, though?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Effective Sunday afternoon, alcohol restrictions and a curfew were lifted. All other remaining restrictions would continue until Monday, said Paula May, King police chief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Other restrictions include a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person&#8217;s own premises.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, the emergency shelter established by the American red Cross at West Stokes High School was closed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate the support and cooperation of everyone with our efforts to keep the citizens of King safe,&#8221; May said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, to be fair to the citizens of King, it sounds like if they didn&#8217;t &#8220;support and cooperate&#8221;, they might have wound up spending the weekend in an emergency shelter of a different kind.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know where a guy can contribute to a campaign to recall <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Hauptmann<\/span> &#8220;Chief&#8221; May?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we thought TV weatherpeople overreacted to snowstorms. King, North Carolina slapped on some amazing, draconian &#8211; and utterly irrelevant &#8211; restrictions during their recent round of flurries, imposing a curfew, banning alcohol sales, and banning the sale of firearms and ammunition, or possession of either off of one&#8217;s property. In other words, they declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}