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Hit the Road Wal-Mart. You're Not Welcome in New York
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Tags: New York, banned items, 2006, laws
If you don't like it, or even understand it, ban it. It might seem that's the motto of the NYC City Council these days. But you have to understand, they just want you to be safer, healthier, more politically correct and bored out of your skull. Here are the items banned in New York in 2006.
| | Trans-fats |
| | Pit bulls |
| | Aluminum baseball bats |
| | The purchase of tobacco by 18- to 20-year-olds |
| | Foie gras |
| | Pedicabs in parks |
| | New fast-food restaurants (but only in poor neighborhoods) |
| | Lobbyists from the floor of council chambers |
| | Lobbying city agencies after working at the same agency |
| | Vehicles in Central and Prospect parks |
| | Cell phones in upscale restaurants |
| | The sale of pork products made in a processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., because of a unionization dispute |
| | Mail-order pharmaceutical plans |
| | Candy-flavored cigarettes |
| | Gas-station operators adjusting prices more than once daily |
| | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus |
| | Wal-Mart |
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