Balloon Crime in New Hampshire

Balloonacy: Sanity floats away

Yes, the House has passed yet another dumb bill sponsored by a legislator at the request of school children. That must explain the lopsided vote (215-111) in favor of the bill. Legislators hate to vote against the school children. But the school children are. . . school children. They're cute, but they really should not be legislating. Relax, it's just New Hampshire.  That erstwhile island of  the independent minded people in the sea of weeping sisters known as New England. This particular produce of legislatures who think government is a toy will make it a crime to release balloons into the air. The aforementioned kiddies have been schooled -  indoctrinated - with enviro-sludge and, don't you know, birds eat those balloons and strangle.  What about the damage to the New Hampshire's political ecology? Damage wrought by Massachusettsians who fled  messy bedrooms for clean ones up North? The sponsor of House Bill 62 is Rep. Kevin Waterhouse. A Republican. Stab me in the liver, why don't you. [Union Leader -source]