New Charity, Garage Sale Stazi: Pay Your $15 Million Fine

This reminds me of Bush's insane law -- as part of the Patriot Act[?] on pseudophedrine. You have to provide a driver's license which they scan and sign a logbook. Then if you buy more than 9 gms in a given month, they come to your house and arrest you. No joke! I've seen news articles on it. They don't give a crap that nobody knows the details of this "law". They are thrilled to arrest your a**.

That's your hard working govt at work stopping the terrorists!

Federal Pseudophendrine Law

I think you're wanted on the Agassi thread.

This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. If you are in support of this, please complete your due dilligence and NOT BUY POISONOUS CRAP FOR YOUR KIDS.

If I put defective crap on the curb and someone picks it up, can they then sue me?

Why can't people take care of themselves and watch out for their own kids?

This is a crock of shit I agree. I can understand doing this for Commercial stores but not a fucking garage sale. What a bunch of sour price tags.

Larry

This is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Who's going to monitor this?

Can I sell my toxic stuff for 50 cents without the chance of a 15 million dollar fine??

No one is twisting someone's arm to purchase things they feel may not be safe for their child.

I would have hoped that congress had more pressing things on their plate than something like this!

The whole lot of them need to be replaced.

Lisa, go google the term. They've already been enforcing this. Some feds have nothing better to do than troll around second-hand stores and g'sales.

Good Q on 50 cents! If you've got a garage sale in mind, you'll have to go online and find out.

L:

Products if found to be toxic, have been recalled for the past decade at least.

And if they are really serious and want to prevent a child from "dying" due to resale of toxic products, why put a dollar price tag on it.

One would think anything found to be dangerous no matter what the cost, would be liable.

Just doesn't make any sense to me.

Where is the common sense?

It left long ago. After Reagan took over things turned to shit.

President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are crafting an appropriations bill that would boost the agency's funding next year by more than 11.4 percent to $117 million and it's already hiring new inspectors and other employees in anticipation of the funding infusion.

CPSC is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product. Please tell us about it by visiting www.cpsc.gov To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's Hotline at .....[stazi tattle phone number here]

Obama is funding this. One site I found was the act was originally passed by Bush.

It appears that it is a new liability shift to the seller (as opposed to manufacturer), somebody to come after when an incident occurs.

Most likely the $1 doesn't mean anything. It was just illustrative that people slap $1 price tags and may incur a $15Million fine.

#7 Lisa,
Is not just toxicity, it's anything recalled, like for example has small parts that can break off. Thousands of past recalled products for many different reasons fall under this.

Story

There was already a strong effort by many in the second hand retailing sector to pull recalled items from the shelf (or even keep them from ever reaching the shelves). This law isn't even necessary! Many outlets that sell second hand goods voluntarily subscribe to a professional association that requires them to do what the new law DEMANDS!

Adele Meyer is the executive director of the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops, which represents more than 1,100 store owners.

"Even before it was criminal to resell recalled goods, our members have always been diligent because children's safety is always foremost in their minds," she said. "But having consumers look out for recalled products that are sold at garage sales and flea markets, that is a problem, and hopefully this law will help."

The story goes on to detail how a mother and 12 year old daughter reacted when informed of their status as potential criminals because of their attempt to sell the girls unwanted doll collection. In order to be in compliance with the statute,

Nancy and Laura Lothrop must do a painstaking inventory of her collection, searching for tiny model numbers to see whether they match any of the recalled items. If they find matches, they'll pull the recalled dolls and accessories from the group that they're selling."

#8 | Posted by Danni part deux - you mean this isn't Bush' fault? PRAISE THE LAWD!

WHAT WILL we do with our Polly Pocket collection (yes, they outlawed the tiny ones a few years ago due to choking incidents)? Probably have every single Polly, house, car, pet, etc. for the entire campaign - our children NEVER put them in their mouths - I'd spread butcher paper all over the dining room floor and we'd draw roads, driveways, shrubbery, etc. - set all the little houses and shops up and have a big time.

So how would they enforce this law? Wait for some nitwit to buy a recalled toy, then check up on it, and then they call the authorities to report the person who held the garage sale?

Will the buyer of the item have standing in a court of law to sue the seller?

This is odd.

The Garage Sale Police?

"zOMFG!! He's got a Lawn Dart!!!!

Cover me... I'm going in!"

* sound of gunfire *

* facepalm *

See this is the type of Nanny Statism from the left that just makes Spud cringe.

Makes Spud wanna scream out loud at the PCfied biatches who thought this one up...

STEP THE FUCK BACK!!!!

S'rsly.

Some people hold garage sales out of economic neccessity, prolly increasingly so in these tuff times, and fer the government to now encroach upon this previously private preserve at this time and in this way is absolutely ludicrous.

Best Intentions Path goes where?

Be Well.

LOL Spud!!

You're so funny!

"He's got a Lawn Dart!!!!"

OMGosh...I LOVED those!

I wish we could still get them.

I have to settle for playing washers instead!

Lawn darts are great fun. Especially when you decide that using them for a variant on horseshoes is boring and you upgrade to dart wars!

My cousin got a dart in his calf that way. But he was slow and fat at the time, so he got what he deserved.

Lawn darts are great fun.

Agreed.

Spud as a tater tot used to play his own version of the game wot Spud called "House Darts" Wherein we'd set the hoops up on one side of the house and then throw from the other.

Granted Spud didn't get to play this interesting new variant fer very long due to some holes wot inadvertantly got poked into the roof.

Spud tried the "no one could have imagined" defense but it didn't werk out so well.

you upgrade to dart wars!

LOL. That too.

As fun as it was, ultimately, inevitable.

Ever duel with bottlerockets?

Two guys standing about 20 feet apart light bottlerockets and then throw them at each other trying to get them to explode when they hit the other person.

LOL. Kids wuz retarded back then!

Still... Good times. Good times.

Be Well.

Ever duel with bottlerockets?

We used to fire them from the end of spent roman candles.

I remember the one time my brother watched me and one other kid doing it and as he leaned back against a car, one of the bottle rockets wizzed passed, and he squashed it dead.

It didn't explode, but it did leave a nice burn on his ass, and ruined a pair of shorts.

LOL Spud!!

You're so funny!

~Lisa

* blushes *

TY fer them kind werds.

I have to settle for playing washers instead!

Spud's family plays a lot of Bocce ball* these days.

S'fun.

Be Well.

/*NEVER play Bocce ball fer money with a person of Italian decent.
//You will lose.
///Yes, voice of experience talkin'.

It didn't explode, but it did leave a nice burn on his ass, and ruined a pair of shorts.

LOL.

Ever wonder how you survived them early years?

Spud often does.

Be Well.

"Ever wonder how you survived them early years?
Spud often does."

Dead, jail or rock & roll is what I figured.

Luckily music won out.

Ever wonder how you survived them early years...?

Anyone remember when soda cans were tin and the tabs came off? We used to take the tops and bottoms off four cans and tape them to a can with the top left in place and put a little hole at near the bottom. A squirt of lighter refill fluid down top and little hole, when lit would shoot a tennis ball a couple of hundred feet. Good fun until someone figured out gasoline made the ball shoot further. Think I remember a pretty good whipping after that brilliant idea busted a window....

I can understand doing this for Commercial stores but not a fucking garage sale.

#4 | Posted by LarryMohr

Is the kid any less dead if he/she is killed using one of these toys bought from a garage sale?

Who's going to monitor this?

#5 | Posted by Lisa

In theory, we are supposed to be monitoring ourselves.

In practice, well... Profit usually has a higher priority over doing the right thing.

Nanny state bullshit. Just what the Obamites love.

Weren't they called "Jarts"? Had big metal points on them...

This is reminiscent of my mother coming to our home and saying, "OH MY! You've got a fire in the fireplace - aren't you afraid one of the children will run into it?" "Um, no, mom - they never get more than several feet from it and then they say, "HHHHOTTTTT!" - they know." What a leftard she still is.

#25 chair-born
Nanny state bullshit. Just what the obamaites love

Besides partisan blindness, how exactly is the point not made. Anyone could easily post dozens of other nanny-state stories. Besides, did you not see above where I posted that according to one source, GWB actually passed the law?

GObama!