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Sqwertz > spewed forth:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:37:03 -0700, David Harmon wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:54:53 -0500 in alt.food.barbecue, Sqwertz
>> > wrote,
>>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:22:56 -0700, David Harmon wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:58:41 -0500 in alt.food.barbecue, Shawn
>>>> Martin > wrote,
>>>>> David Harmon wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:20:31 -0500 in alt.food.barbecue, Sqwertz
>>>>>> > wrote,
>>>>>>> Grilling (and barbecuing) at home is illegal for 95% of the
>>>>>>> population in New York City. But they may have just been
>>>>>>> referring to the weather.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 95% of the population? Do you have to have a Texas birth
>>>>>> certificate to be exempt, or what? Git a rope!
>>>>>
>>>>> No exemptions, even in Texas.
>>>>> Even here, open flames are not allowed on apartment patios.
>>>>> I don't have a solid number of the people in NYC living in
>>>>> apartments, but I would bet it is substantial.
>>>>
>>>> Would you believe, electric smoker?
>>>
>>> I believe they exist, yes. But you need to smoulder wood chips even
>>> in an electric smoker. Hence, also illegal.
>>
>> Why would that be illegal? There are no open flames. No flames at
>> all, even.
>
> Its the way the law is written. I know in Texas my electric smoker
> was illegal as well. Often times the would chips would catch on fire,
> too - so the potential is certainly there.
>
> -sw

yer fergittin' the smoke factor and how nasty it smells to them nonsmoker
folks<eg>.
wafting into their apts and causing reparable harm to them and their
chillerns