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2020 Hopeful Cory Booker Leads Democrat Senators in Fighting Beach Umbrella Threat


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2019 May 5, 4:00pm   369 views  3 comments

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The United States is facing daily threats from illegal immigration, outbreaks from once eliminated diseases, and calls from lawmakers to allow children who survive abortion to die, but four Senators on the East Coast — including presidential hopeful Cory Booker — are worried about the threat posed from beach umbrellas.

CBS affiliate WTKR-TV cited one example of a woman, Lottie Belk, who died after being struck by an umbrella in Virginia Beach in 2016. The lawmakers sent a letter to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission asking it to tell them how the issue is being addressed.

In the letter, they say that over two decades more than 31,000 “umbrella-related” injuries have taken place and asks for more details about the type of umbrella involved in the injuries.

“The scourge of beach umbrellas is not a new phenomenon,” the letter says, citing a woman in New York who received a $200,000 settlement from the state from an injury she incurred in 1999.

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1   WillPowers   2019 May 5, 4:01pm  

Ban bananas! Do you know how many people have slipped and fallen on banana peels?
2   WillPowers   2019 May 5, 4:01pm  

It is getting frightening the number of inanimate objects that are out to get us humans. Bananas - guns - beach umbrellas now. I'll never look at a chair the same again - not knowing what sinister deed it has planned.
3   Shaman   2019 May 5, 4:22pm  

I wonder how many of his sort have choked to death on a rubber cock ring?

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