AKA However it damn well wants to work.
In this episode, a New York restaurant that earned a top grade of “A” barely five months ago was shut down after the owner made a recording on his iPhone of an inspection by the city health department.
George’s, a 60-year-old downtown fixture that had to be rebuilt after the attacks of 9/11, was shuttered after the inspector became aware that owner Bill Koulmentas was crafting a memento of his visit. The diner was slapped with enough violations to close it down.
What was going on?
At one point, Reid crawled under a dishwasher and reported finding 13 roaches in the wall. So Koulmentas repeated the procedure but came up bugless. He offered the inspector $1,000 if he could produce a single roach.
But Reid had other fish to fry—or prevent from being fried, as the case might be. Among the violations he recorded was the contamination of a batch of cooked potatoes and peppers “by one loose screw (approximately one inch in size) resting on food surface on grill.”
Go read the whole thing. They didn’t appreciate allowing any sort of oversight over their corruption, bias, and incompetence, so they shut down his business…his livelihood.
Crushing innocent people under a jackboot is how the nanny-state operates.
Yup. The rules are made so vague, and enforcement so arbitrary, as to make everyone a violator/criminal, and if you don’t toe the line, that’s when they come down on you.
This is why I agree with Newbius that in order to make any change we are going to first have to retake control of our local governments. Health regulations are, like in the case above, are all local. Most city councils and county commissions are made up of less than 10 people. Control those ten or so people and you control the health code, the traffic code, building codes, etc.
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