Wyoming wants to ban facial piercings from the state’s eateries. Apparently, there’s been a rash of tounge and eyebrow rings falling into soups and salads:

“We’ve had several cases of old ladies finding tongue rings and rings and whatnot in their food,” Cecil testified. “We actually had a lady at one of our finer restaurants in town and … she found a tongue ring.”

Or not…

But despite his testimony, when contacted by The Associated Press, Jon Cecil of Cheyenne Health Department couldn’t cite a single documented case of facial jewelry falling into a restaurant dish.

Funny how this has never been a problem with earrings. Just the weirder-looking stuff you might guess would offend Wyoming policymakers.

Thanks to Bronwyn Ramey for the link.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 at 12:33 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under There Oughtta Be a Law, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.