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Fight Crime by ... Banning Pizza!

By Alex in Crime & Law, Food & Drinks on May 25, 2009 at 1:36 pm


Jim Graham, a Washington D.C. councilman, has an unusual proposal to fight crime in his neighborhood: ban pizza!

Democrat Party councilman Jim Graham says the late-night “Jumbo Slice” pizza shacks operating on the popular Adams Morgan club and bar strip in Ward 1 attract the element that is likely to commit crime.

“Even though it’s a legal business and everything, they have become a nuisance,” Graham said. “Behaving the way they do in terms of music, in terms of letting people hang out and also in terms of tolerating a certain level of violence.”

Needless to say, the pizza joint owner is not amused: Link


 
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  1. Gauldar
    May 25th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    I guess councilman Orville Redenbacher doesn't like people ordering anything "green" on their pizza. There was a coffee shop near me that had a reputation like that, it kept shortening the time it stayed open due to police influence. It attracted night life regulars and I met some interesting people there and had good conversation, but with those people cut out of the profits it shut down.

  2. VonSkippy
    May 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    Someone should make a law banning that guy's glasses.

  3. nach
    May 25th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    Clearly they didn't ask Michaelangelo Turtle's opinion.

  4. Robolasse
    May 26th, 2009 at 3:20 am

    Is that a butterfly with a leopard pattern?

  5. seefish3
    May 26th, 2009 at 4:15 am

    I see Elton John finally butched up a little...very little.

    I say we ban jackassed morons from holding public office.

    alex, these headlines bring you closer and closer to that Enquirer job you obviously covet.

  6. ted
    May 26th, 2009 at 5:52 am

    Are politicians the only people who wear bowties anymore?

  7. Jae
    May 26th, 2009 at 7:11 am

    Sigh. I guess this is the only way he could get his name in the papers.

  8. bluejay
    May 26th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    There is no such political party as the "Democrat Party."

  9. Kalel
    May 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    And I thought Marion Barry was the only DC politician who was on crack.

  10. Thomas
    May 26th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    @bluejay: I feel your frustration. I'm sick of it too. Polling suggests that people don't like the sound of "Democrat Party" as much as "Democratic Party" so a few years ago, there was an internal push by the GOP to publicly use the term Democrat Party as much as possible.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(phrase)

  11. Thomas
    May 26th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Even though the parentheses are in the URL, the link didn't post right. From the link, the last entry on the list is the one I meant to link to.

  12. jm1656
    May 28th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    probably time to bring back the committee on un-american activity. Our three branches need some looking into.

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