Heads Up, Texas State Capitol Visitors
The Texas Department of Public Safety has a press release.
Here’s what it says:
To ensure the safety and security of the general public and those who seek to exercise their right to peacefully assemble and protest, effective immediately, certain items may be prohibited from the Capitol Grounds unless worn or carried by a licensed peace officer.
Any item manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of preparing a person to engage in physical combat may be prohibited, including but not limited to:
- Firearms and other deadly weapons, except when authorized under License to Carry authority
- Improvised items used to lock a person to another person or object
- Plastic bottles containing alcohol or non-consumable substances
- Open flame torches
- Metal signs
- Metal, plastic, and wood objects longer than 12 inches
- Sticks or other objects with protruding nails
- Balloons not filled with air, oxygen or helium
- Bricks, stones or rocks
- Projectile launchers, including water cannons
- Spray paint cans
- Gas masks or similar equipment
- Glass bottles
- Hammers
- Crow bars
- Toxic fluid, gas or solids in any container
- Improvised shields
- Helmets
- Drones
- Pepper spray
- Tasers
Do I see a battery powered mix-master? No, I do not.
A rattail comb?
Nope. And I can kill a man with one.
Do I see a hairdryer, a long intension cord, and a bucket of water? Nope.
Bois d’arc balls? Not on the list.
Apparently, you are still free to throw a dictionary at someone as needed.
But, here’s the big question, they will not allow a helmet but they will allow Borris Miles’ reputation on the grounds of the Capitol. That’s crazy.
Thanks to another Susan for the heads up.
Music or video CDs and credit and other cards can be used as Frisbee like weapons with devastating accuracy and deadly effects.
I learned how to throw No 2 lead pencils and screwdrivers so they would stick line knives.
Pressurized insecticides and matches make good blowtorches.
Just saying.
1Balloons not filled with air, oxygen, or helium? I guess balloons filled with nitrogen (which won’t burn and constitutes 78% of the atmosphere) are a no-no. Likewise, balloons filled with neon or argon.
And how could they distinguish a balloon filled with hydrogen from one filled with helium?
I guess unlit Tiki torches are OK as long as they’re less than a foot long.
2Nothing like a big bag of marbles throw down in front of a mob Johnny Law’s who are advancing towards you!
3Johnny Law will be busting their arse’s, no matter which way they try to move!
Numbchucks.
4Knumchux?
Cousin to the rat tailed comb – a sharp edge 3 x 5 or 4 x 6 index card. Think about it.
5I already knew this was the world’s most dangerous beauty salon. But from now on, I’m keeping an eye out for the rattail combs.
6But I thought it was our “God Given Right” to carry firearms everywhere we want. I’m so confused…..
7A container of toxic gas is a good description of most conservatives, so I guess they’ll be banned as well.
8I have been thinking about the cute little list of items banned from the grounds of the Texas State Capitol, and I realized that the list does not ban emotional support animals. You are perfectly free to stroll about the grounds accompanied by your emotional support animal.
Mine is a rhinoceros.
9Slipstream for the win. Combs and rhinoceroses.
10Rick:
11That’d make one helluva good bumper sticker. Although displaying it in my neck of the woods wouldn’t be advisable without first investing in auto glass.
And auto paint.
12And tires.
Oops. #11 & #12 were meant for the previous post. Sorry, sorry everyone. I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
13Didn’t they try to prohibit females from bringing feminine hygiene products awhile back as they were afraid that women would throw them?
14Don’t worry about Slipstream’s rhino. It is still frozen in not so permafrost for the time being.
A little burdie told me Slip’s Mr Quackers quacking off key was deadly.
15So, what you are saying….one of the safetist places in Texas is the ledge? Barring rat tail combs of course!
16Oh. And sorry JJ. I guess I shoulda kept my mouth shut about the riot gear.
17@P.P.
18There’s never a good week to quit sniffing glue. Nor alcohol, tobacco, or amphetamines. But we must.
Improvised items used to lock a person to another person or object.
19So they will be confiscating wedding rings?
No need to throw a dictionary. I suspect that even displaying a dictionary has the same effect on Republicans that displaying a cross has on Dracula.
The ban on “improvised” bondage gear is interesting. One wonders what activities they fear visitors to the Capitol will be getting up to.
“Emotional Support Rhinoceros” should definitely be the name of a rock band. But it seems to be an animal of which Trumpanzees have a morbid fear. They endlessly denounce RINOs on their blogs, and seem to see them everywhere.
20olden gray, not to worry; you can still have your firearm if you are properly licensed. Does that make you feel all safer now, knowing that the guns are allowed but the balloons are not?
21Well, this just totally kills that West Side Story reenactment I had planned. Maybe 11″ chains?
22Hmmmm. Sling shots. Did I miss those ?
23Everything I carry for self-defense & capable of killing are not on that list. The most important item not on the list is the mental ability to kill or harm, being psychotic helps with that!
24No mention of chain saws and dirty didies? Get a five gallon pail of effluent from under a hog confinement and make sure the lid fits tight until you get inside. Do not, under any circumstance try to breathe while you are under the confinement. Methane gas is deadly.
25@epo
G/Sgt Hartman was sure that “It is a hard heart that kills.”
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