Less unnecessary regulation is not crapola. The Nanny State is forcing teenagers out of jobs that previous generations filled. Jobs that taught them some useful lessons they could take forward in their lives. But thanks to overprotective liberals those jobs are disappearing for American youth.
Working a job is also a private venture, actually a motor vehicle is more of a risk since it not only involves the 16 year old, but everyone else on the road, including pedestrians and those on bikes.
I guess you need a drivers license to operate a trash compactor. I hear those devices have a door that must be shut before it will operate. Pretty safe. WAY more safe than a teenager texting while talking to their friends in the cars with loud music playing while they are eating hamburgers and shakes.
Yes but as Leffe what if the lib employee is INSIDE the trash compactor when they close the door? Lib teenagers do things like that you know.
Laws are laws, and I'm sure this one is in place for a reason... Machines like this can be dangerous...
Please tell me you're joking? It is amazing the lengths liberals will go to to prevent people who want to work from working.
So a motor vehicle isn't potentially dangerous, but a trash compactor is? Double standard much? Of course you do.
No I'm not joking... Nobody's preventing anyone from working there, just preventing kids under 18 from touching that machine... Very simple concept... But, way to throw the "you're a liberal" card out because we disagree...
I know four things about this. The law states these machines are not to be used by minors. The machines were not marked by Chucky Cheese to make this clear. Minors used the machines. Chucky got fined. It's that simple. If one of these kids had been hurt, Chucky would have been in the courts and up to it's ears in a very big pile of poop.
The fine is valid. That's a given. They knew the rules and deliberately broke them. They got what they deserved. The question is at what age should children be allowed to operate heavy machinery? A trash compactor is infact, heavy machinery. So please tell us, how low do we go for children operating such machines?
My girlfriends daughter had her hand caught in one of the dough mixers, almost lost it. Was a HS senior at the time.
I'd agree with you, except that these devices are not dangerous when used correctly. I've used trash compactors, balers, etc. and most such devices (especially in our sue-happy culture) are idiot proofed. I don't see any reason to ban kids from using them. The only possible reason is that since most such devices are used in jobs that teens can get, it essentially bars teens from productive work, thus giving the establishment more power to mold their minds in a "proper" direction away from productive work.
Yes, that is the law, but it doesn't make it right or negate that my opinion and millions like me, who think it is stupid and unnecessary. There really is a reason businesses are fleeing California, and you don't have to acknowledge that, but it is a fact. Like previously mentioned, operating a motor vehicle is fine for a 16 year old, but not operating a trash compactor is. If you can't see the idiocy in that, well then you really are a clueless liberal.
It's not so simple. Some pizza stores only have a couple of kids working in the evenings or at other times. That means the owner has to fire one of the kids so that he can hire an adult worker JUST TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH.
Chuck E. Cheese doesn't have just a couple of kids working in the evening, I can assure you... In reference to other pizza stores, reschedule folks... Very easy...
