[rarestia]

UNREAL! I live in Florida where chimneys are hard to find, but this crap goes on the Left Coast? People can’t even keep themselves warm during the winter... this is upside-down land, and I’ve only been alive for nigh over 30 years.

[RightOnline]

Serves ‘em right. Who do you think keeps electing these uber-PC, leftist morons?

[muir_redwoods]

“It’s okay officer, I’m only burning medicinal marijuana in my fireplace”

[Old Sarge]

more than 400 people tattled on their neighbors for lighting wood fires in their homes

Today it's fireplaces.

Next comes the neighborhood informants looking in your trash for patriotic contraband.

[Disambiguator]

Authorities say they didn't issue any fines on the spot but are sorting through 77 cases of potential violations after working overtime, patrolling in Toyota Priuses and natural gas vehicles to spot chimney smoke and respond to complaints.

They patrol in smugmobiles - just to add insult to injury.

And people ask me why I left California...

[goseminoles]

This story makes me want to scream. What is happening to our beloved nation?

[GonzoGOP]

Authorities say they didn't issue any fines on the spot

Because they would have gotten their Prius driving butts kicked. The only thing I hate worse than totalitarians are cowards.

[Sudetenland]

"Regulators said more than 400 people tattled on their neighbors for lighting wood fires in their homes on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day"

There you have your perfect liberal society. Convince people that informing on your neighbors is your civic duty.

It's the inevitable conclusion of Dike Napolitano's "See something, say something" program.

Cameras on every corner, informants in every house--not a creature can stir, not even a mouse.

[gettinolder]

Sure would shut me down. I sell wood.

[NormsRevenge]

between CARB and the Thermal Police.. we’re skrewed.

[Rytas]

In old Soviet Union that was called informing on, not tattling. The left coast lefties call it practice.

[NormsRevenge]

the latest narc on yur neighbor program .. where have we seen that before? ;-)

[Peter from Rutland]

As someone who was born in LA and moved shortly after I can confidently say that i will NEVER go back to CA. I regularly burn fires in my two fireplaces, and with 6.5 acres of woods that I keep clean, I burn well over a dozen brush fires every winter. Never mind the camp fires I have in my three fire pits scattered around the property.

[lacrew]

Cruising around in the Prius on Christmas day, huh? I smell OVERTIME.

Using Algore logic, couldn’t you just buy fireplace offsets?

[fifedom]

Uhh, I live in the SF area and I agree with the liberals on this one. We have had an inversion for about a month and the air is grimy. Smoke from fireplaces does not go up; it just stagnates and hangs in the air. My eyes have been burning and my nose running from this filth.

You do not get to piss in my well and you do not get to put filth in the air I breathe. If you want to burn wood, keep the smoke in your house. To paraphrase Jefferson, your rights end at the tip of my nose.

[VeniVidiVici]

Authorities say they didn't issue any fines on the spot but are sorting through 77 cases of potential violations after working overtime, patrolling in Toyota Priuses and natural gas vehicles to spot chimney smoke and respond to complaints.

Wonder how much they get paid for working overtime on Christmas?

[Let's Roll]

I thought this was satire - especially the part about the “Piouses”.

[jmcenanly]

Future Christmas Holiday song:
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
SWAT team breaking down your door...

[VeniVidiVici]

Here. I just picked several employees from the CA Air Resource Board and posted their names and salaries. I'm just guessing that their position has to do with inspecting fireplaces:

Merrin J Wright AIR RESOURCES SUPERVISOR $96,576.44
Brieanne R Aguila AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST $96,308.59
John W Oback STAFF AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST $95,537.54
Ronald J Nunes AIR RESOURCES ENGINEER $95,416.13
Steve P Hui AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST $95,369.84
Michelle C Shultz-Wood STAFF AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST $95,345.54

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Neighbors ratting on neighbors? Smoke police checking for violators in their "Prius?"

Someone please tell me this is satire???