Garage sales covered under new product safety laws

kansascity.com ^ | 5/26/2009 | SARA SHEPHERD

[Nachum]

Selling any used cribs or playpens at your upcoming garage sale? Children’s clothes with drawstrings or zippers? Pre-1985 books? Rubber duckies or pool floaties?

Better check them twice.

Just like megasize toy manufacturers and stores that sell products from China, the notoriously broad and confusing federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act applies to you and your front yard

[rabscuttle385]

Nanny state ping.

[Brimack34]

How many jobs have the liberals killed in this country? We need a web site to track it. Also how many people have died because of environuts?

[Nachum]

How many jobs have the liberals killed in this country

It is tracked. It is just that the libs blame everyone else for it.

[bboop]

Um, come and get it. Will there be a jail ward wing for citizens who break this law?

[steve86]

No one around here is paying the slightest attention to this latest bullshit from Washington. In fact, various parties are mocking the lib bastards by advertising items in the local classified paper that blatantly violate the newest tyrannies.

[TheBattman]

They trying to shut down the resale business completely? Is that 0bama's plan to get the economy moving... eliminate the channels to get stuff cheaper (as in used)? That dries up, then you have to buy new, or make your own from new components... that stimulates the economy, right?

0bama's vision for America... change you can really believe in...

[dfwgator]

Will there be a jail ward wing for citizens who break this law?

Yep. Right next to the ward for people who removed the tags from their mattress.

[bboop]

Hardihar.

[PackerBoy]

Recommendation: Sell all used items as non-usable museum pieces, with prominent warning indicating that the item is unsafe for its original designed purpose and is now only suitable for display behind a protective case.

[pissant]

Time to tell the “authorities” to go f*** themselves with a 2x4

[unkus]

0bama’s vision for America... change you can really believe in...
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FUB0

[pray4liberty]

Think they’ll go after Goodwill and the Salvation Army Thrift Stores too??

[Nachum]

They tried. The thrift stores complained a lot and so they had to push off the legislation for awhile. So, for the moment, they are ok.

The government is very confused about this. It is just interesting that they are going after garage sales. Besides being unenforceable, it is a political hot potato if they try to.

[AFreeBird]

Don’t forget eBay

[Inyo-Mono]

Pre-1985 books?

I have tons of them. They are the only ones I read.

[NavyCanDo]

I swear that laws like this and product recalls on car seats and cribs are done so as to force parents to the new products at highly inflated prices. Its a racket.

[this_ol_patriot]

No one around here is paying the slightest attention to this latest bullshit from Washington. In fact, various parties are mocking the lib bastards by advertising items in the local classified paper that blatantly violate the newest tyrannies.

While I share your loathing of liberalism's policies we can't hang this on them unless we also include President Bush.

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008... In August of 2008, President Bush signed into law the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ("CPSIA")...