I gotta go get a can, man.

Did you read the whole article tardmitter?

It's a perfectly sensible rule.

If Canada keeps f@%#ing up they are going to loose their federal highway money.

Its not the can thats the issue......they have rules against canned beverages with caffeine in them.

Free health care but no soda in cans! I guess I wont be moving their after all

Makes sense.

It's stories like these that remind of why I don't care about PEI.

"handsome B. wonderful"
TARMITTER!!?
did your wife leave you and her lover pee in your cornflakes this morning ya big cuckold!?
sheeshe..smile a little...ya big cuckold.

If this happened in the US people here would be screaming about losing another right and being oppressed by the man. It's all good since it's in Canada.

He hates these cans.

Stay away from the cans!

©

It seems like a convoluted law. It's ok to sell drinks in plastic bottles because they're re-fillable (although not likely to be used in that way); but, from what I understand, it's easier and more cost-efficient to recycle (aluminum) cans than plastic bottles...

/I guess I'll resolve the issue by not moving to Canada.

If only there were some sort of vitreous material from which beverage containers could be made. Someone should invent it. I suggest they start with silica, as it occurs in abundance.

You know who else sold things in cans?

Javelin22: Its not the can thats the issue......they have rules against canned beverages with caffeine in them.


No caffeine!? We must invade this Fascist regime at once and introduce them to the glory that is caffeine.

"I don't want the unsightly sight of a can lying in a ditch, and I owe favors to the guys in the bottling plant who voted for me, so I'm going to steal your merchandise and make you pay me $1240.00. It's all in the name of a better society."

What the hell goes on in policymakers' minds that makes them think it's appropriate to do this to another human being? Maybe it be better if Prince Edward Island was littered with the bodies of dead bureaucrats.

So...you admit you grabbed his can?

Thyomorb: If only there were some sort of vitreous material from which beverage containers could be made. Someone should invent it. I suggest they start with silica, as it occurs in abundance.

Hehe... Nothing like some old school vitreous humor.

BTW "Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew"



Just a little gay. Just a tiny bit.

Javelin22: Its not the can thats the issue......they have rules against canned beverages with caffeine in them.

not true. you can have caffiene in cans... but the regulations state that clear beverages cannot have caffiene. so sprite, 7up and Mountain Dew are not allowed to contain caffiene, regardless of can or bottle.

/at least it was last time I checked

Apparently the law is there to protect PEI bottling plants.

That's some fine protectionism there, Lou.

How about a deposit on the cans like many states in the USA do?

Ahhhh, rent seeking....

Man, this almost tops the woman stuck on the toilet for 2 years in terms of stupidity.

Belac

It's also there to protect tourism (hence the littering justification). Tourism and potatoes are stereotypically seen as PEI's main industries.

That said, PEI's got lots of weird laws. There's a limit on how much land a non-resident can own, for example. Though I'm pretty sure that one's to prevent the Irvings from buying up the entire province.

ohmyvariousgods: So...you admit you grabbed his can?



Mr. Simpson, your silence will only incriminate you further.

No, Mr. Simpson, don't take your anger out on me. Get back! Get
back! Mist -- Mr. Simpson -- nooo!
/Dramatization -- may not have happened.

In Ocean Beach on Fire Island, you are not allowed to eat or drink in public in order to keep litter down.

I found out about this law when I got a warning from a cop when I was drinking a bottle of water while waiting for the ferry.

I guess it makes sense, but I felt kind of weird ducking down an alley to finish my drink.

Why not use prison labor or charities to just pick the farking cans up. Typical government, ban it so we can make bank off the fines instead of finding a way to make it work.

How's about actually fining people for littering instead of making it impossible to buy a damned Red Bull?

Holy poopcrap, Batman.

Javelin22

While there are laws governing what type of pop can contain caffeine, this article has nothing to do with caffeine. In PEI pop/soda must be sold in refillable containers (glass bottles).

In other parts of Canada you can easily buy a can of coke, with caffeine or a can of redbull.

PEI is a small island that only has one bridge to the mainland...keeping landfill to a minimum is a really good idea for them.

As I remember, the soda containers are all glass, with a 40 cent deposit. You can't get big plastic bottles either.

And it's nice to still be able to drink a Coke out of a glass bottle when I visit :)

Their McDonalds also offer McLobster sandwiches...eeew

Dennis_Moore: ohmyvariousgods: So...you admit you grabbed his can?



Mr. Simpson, your silence will only incriminate you further.

No, Mr. Simpson, don't take your anger out on me. Get back! Get
back! Mist -- Mr. Simpson -- nooo!
/Dramatization -- may not have happened.

With the still! Haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks!

/oh, and littering sucks and stuff and junk

Handsome B. Wonderful: Did you read the whole article tardmitter?
Another P.E.I. retailer fined over carbonated drinks in cans

...Where did Tardmitter go wrong?

since when is a can non refillable?? last time i checked theres a large hole at the top, in which, a liquid could be poured in, hence...refillable. while it can't be resealed, neither can a glass bottle with a pry off cap.

so there, stupid canada...cans are refillable. I can't believe people accept this as a normal government system, make cans illegal to prevent littering....what do glass bottles disappear when it hits the ground? people should trash the fark out of that place as a form of protest

Methinks the "protect local bottling jobs", though mentioned last, is the real reason behind the ban on aluminum cans.

Sounds like the premier is allowing the bottlers just enough time to ramp up to can-based production before lifting the law.

/almost every taxi I've been in in PEI is a bootlegger for beer and liquor

mikec2003: last time i checked theres a large hole at the top, in which, a liquid could be poured in, hence...refillable. while it can't be resealed, neither can a glass bottle with a pry off cap.

Refillable in this case implies being resealable.

How did they get the first cap on the bottle? I bet they could do it again.

jimmychitwood: How about a deposit on the cans like many states in the USA do?

there are less than 150,000 people on the island.

Cans could be recycled, but it's a lot easier/cheaper to clean out and re-fill bottles for such a small population.

mikec2003: neither can a glass bottle with a pry off cap.




Ummmmm...you never made your own beer didja...

/psst! they can be resealed...

g026r: That said, PEI's got lots of weird laws.

Especially garbage laws. Last time I was there camping, they handed me a bunch of coloured bags and a big sheet of instructions on how to throw things out.

People there are pretty cagey too (outside of Charlottetown).

rkane1: keeping landfill to a minimum is a really good idea for them

Makes sense. They're still kinda crazy.

In a bizarre twist, PEI then declared war on the rest of the country for promoting non-refillable containers in its name, and demanded for it to change to "Bottleada."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.....

Belac: Apparently the law is there to protect PEI bottling plants.

That's some fine protectionism there, Lou.

Reminds me of Brookings, SD. Their town council was run by the owners of half the businesses in town, and their primary concern seemed to be making sure competition was nonexistent.

So they enacted "non-competition" laws that fixed the price on gasoline to whatever the councilman's station was selling it for that day (which was usually a dime higher than the next town over).

They refused to grant a permit to TGIFridays' because another councilman owned the Applebees.

It took them three years to let Lowe's build a store because some councilman didn't want competition with the Wal-Mart he had a huge stake in. They only allowed Lowe's permit because another councilman's K-Mart had not only gone out of business, but had sat vacant for two full winters and the building had suffered major water damage from burst pipes and roof leaks. Guess which building Lowe's was required to set up shop in (or tear down and rebuild, which would have been cheaper) if they wanted to come to Brookings.

TheAbstractor: BTW "Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew"



Just a little gay. Just a tiny bit.

Came here to say the same thing.
Way to go Guardian.

Damn you Anne of Green Gables!
Damn you straight to hell!!!

zopi: mikec2003: neither can a glass bottle with a pry off cap.
Ummmmm...you never made your own beer didja...

/psst! they can be resealed...
yes if you have a new cap, if you take a bottle of coke, and use a bottle opener to open it, i bet you can't put that same bent cap back on.

I have made beer before, and the caps i had are new caps, not bent ones that have been pried off with a bottle opener.

DukeOfChutney: mikec2003: last time i checked theres a large hole at the top, in which, a liquid could be poured in, hence...refillable. while it can't be resealed, neither can a glass bottle with a pry off cap.

Refillable in this case implies being resealable.

How did they get the first cap on the bottle? I bet they could do it again.

I remember back in the....uh...late 80s...they had these can covers that had a smaller lid that would seal closed.

Think of a coffee cup lid, but you can put it on top of a soda/beer can. Closing the tab would stop contents from spilling out if knocked over. Didnt keep the beer any fresher, but you could id your own beer can easily.

They came in all those awesome 80s colors too.

/lawn yadda yadda

This is Prince Edward Island, an extremely small province with probably the countries most serious recycling program due to the complete lack of landfill sites. As far back as I can remember, practically all flavored carbonated beverages sold there had to be in refillable bottles.

FYI, subby, saying "Canadian" here, while accurate, is like saying something that happened in Rhode Island applies to the whole of the US.

rkane1: Their McDonalds also offer McLobster sandwiches...eeew

Actually, one of the few things at McDonald's that's actually worth eating. Quite tasty, and only offered while lobster is in season.

I live on PEI and I'm getting a big kick out of these replies.

/Really. Been living here for over 30 years.
//This no canned pop law disappears by May 1, 2008.
/// There are few businesses that have jumped the gun like this guy.
////The people that worked bottling pop will be offered jobs in recycling the cans
//More importantly, on May 1, the hell with pop..., we can get beer in cans.