Washington State: 'Your Butt is Disgusting'

That's cigarette butt, you sicko. But if you were expecting to read something involving people's asses, who am I to disappoint you?

Buried in the comments section at Reason:

Last weekend I visited a couple State Parks here in Washington State and found that all outhouses in WA now include a little sticker on the door stating that is a violation of state law to smoke within 25 feet of an outhouse. Apparently, an outhouse qualifies as a public accommodation.

So it's OK for Washington State to give the public shit-stained johns without running water — but a wisp of tobacco smoke anywhere near said facilities, well, that's an intolerable assault on public health.

Comments

[colson]

Washington blows - at both ends of the map.

[Billy Beck]

I would not require a law to tell me not to smoke near an outhouse. The facts of reality are sufficient: methane explodes.

[colson]

But whattabout second hand methane exposure?! We must do something to protect the children!