Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Cops Are Coming, Eat Your Cigarette.

Holy crap. No smoking outside in Omaha. I know, my head is swirling with the implications. If I'm reading this right, you have to find a bar with a Keno license that doesn't serve food to get your fix. And here's the kicker, the police want people to call 911 if they see infractions.
"just like they would for any other crime they observe being committed."
Wow, there must be nothing going on in Omaha. I usually assume the cops have better things to do that give me a ticket for speeding on the beltway around here. But it turns out that the increased call volume has been "insignificant" which means one of three things:
1) Omaha has a monstrously overbuild emergency response service (which wasn't very likely and we didn't expect it)
2) People aren't smoking in restricted areas and are law abiding model individuals.
3) No one is calling the cops on smokers cause it seems silly to respond as if they'd just seen a car jacking or mugging.

1 comment:

Kirk said...

out here they tell you to use 911 to report drunk drivers.. i thought that was silly given that already when people get shot or have thier hand stuck in a meat slicer, 9-1-1 puts you on hold.