Gothamist: One Last Cigarette

dustin

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:11:14 -0500

I saw that rat too!!! even snapped a picture of it with my phone.

ifdj

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:27:14 -0500

hey hookah, only one problem with your argument - it's not coming from the right. the left has always made it a point of telling us what's good or bad for us, as long as it's politically correct - screw your rights!

Rocknrope

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:08:47 -0500

2 Things: 1) You couldn't pay me enough to pry open the mouth of a dead rat to jam a cig butt in its maw, even for a gag pic. 2) Restaurants can do what I saw in the International Lounge in Beijing airport: Create a tiny 6x8 room where you addicts can puff away in ventilated cancer-ridden joy. They even had a window so I could peer in and view the future lung-lesioned dead.

alex

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:00:46 -0500

Kojak, you should suck on a lollypop instead, it's better for you.

Kojak

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:50:00 -0500

Smoking is bad for you as they say, and they'll make it as difficult as possible for you to smoke anytime, anywhere. Even if the health of people around you wasn’t an issue, they'd ban it in restaurants anyway. But they can’t keep me away from my Cubans or 420. Fuck em Fight the Power.

hookah

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:39:46 -0500

The fact that people are still debating the smoking ban 2 1/2 years after it started means that it's still in people's minds. Why couldn't there be a compromise? Such as a machine-ventilated smoking room that employees don't enter? This means that the employees are protected, but we can be humane to smokers when there's a sub-zero wind chill in the deep of winter. Contrary to what the Puritanical Right tells you, smokers are people, too.

timThompson

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:13:17 -0500

More importantly, who were you addressing before you provoked some responses, meesalikeu? The rat?

hd

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:59:08 -0500

"rights" ? they have the right to be better actors so they don't have to wait tables anymore.

Conan the Librarian

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:50:50 -0500

"It's not a smoking ban. it's an enforcement of bar/restaurant workers and customers health rights." They have no rights. As long as I put down the tip, Im the one who makes the rules.

j

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:37:20 -0500

Hey that's the rat that flashed me on the subway!

Neil

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:36:06 -0500

Jason was just jealous that LA rats can't smoke anymore on the beaches of Santa Monica.

meesalikeu

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:35:55 -0500

it's not a smoking ban. it's an enforcement of bar/restaurant workers and customers health rights. still whining about this now universally accepted situation are ya? ha. sounds like the majority of us before the enforcement.

alex

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:31:45 -0500

I know that fat rat. He/She/It was near the corner of 13th Street and 2nd Ave. Almost stepped on him/her/it.

Jen W

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:30:03 -0500

It's part of decomposition. Bacteria consume the body, but their metabolic processes release gases, causing bloating. Neat, huh?

guh

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:09:56 -0500

why IS that rat so fat? is its corpse expanding in some rigor mortis type decay process? did it die of a heart-attack, or morbidly obesity?

Kojak

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:56:47 -0500

Definitely a slow news day today... In NY anyway

jake

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:49:32 -0500

best! photo! ever!