That’ll Stop Them

This is the kind of brilliant ideas bureaucrats come up with in the wake of the VT tragedy.

In the wake of Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage weapons in theatrical productions.

Students involved in this weekend’s production of “Red Noses” said they first learned of the new rules on Thursday morning, the same day the show was slated to open. They were subsequently forced to alter many of the scenes by swapping more realistic-looking stage swords for wooden ones, a change that many students said was neither a necessary nor a useful response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

Whenever someone does something bad, the suits always come up with absurd rules like this. And all it does is ruin things for everyone else, who isn’t a threat. The crazy people will still do their thing. These clowns never learn. 

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