Saturday, May 3, 2008

Saturday Shenanigans with Jeff Peckman

Jeff Peckman of Denver is sponsoring a ballot initiative to get the city to create the Extraterrestial Affair Commission. This would provide legislation to deal with the nuisance posed by invading space aliens who wouldn't respect local Denver laws. From Rocky Mountain News (h/t The Daily Gut):

"It is important because if you're driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn't know what to do," Peckman said Thursday. "Do you wait for the hazardous materials experts to show up because of potential contaminants from another solar system? What do you do? People really don't know."

As a libertarian, I find imposing bureaucratic red-tape on our alien overlords would squash any potential knowledge we could glean from them such as plasma death rays and interstellar travel. It is best to provide our alien masters with the freedom to travel our highways, and it would be wise to employ common sense and give their flying saucers the right of way, while you cruise down the road in your '87 Buick. What we really need is legislation on emergency plans for survival of an impending zombie attack, which has been upstaged by Peckman's silly theatrics. The article also mentions that Peckman is 54-years old and lives with his parents, which is actually quite relevant to the whole story.



You Better Be Ready!

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