From Poppa Todd:
Time to Stock Up on �Heat Balls�Brilliant... Heatball website here: http://heatball.de/index.php Google translation here
Our own federal government has banned U.S. citizens from purchasing the good-old incandescent light bulb. But worry not, you can always order them from Germany. Not light bulbs, but heat balls.
The eco-wackos have succeeded in banning the standard incandescent light bulb, leaving us with those ugly, mercury-filled, twisty bulbs. But two German entrepreneurs have figured a way to turn liberal stupidity on itself and get around the ban at the same time.
Just as acts of terrorism have been renamed �made-made disasters� by the Obama administration, these guys had one of those Eureka! moments when they realized they could get around the light bulb ban simply by renaming them �Heat Balls.�
Ahhh, the genius of German design:It looks like heatballs are a hot commodity.A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters.
Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs � by producing them in China, importing them as �small heating devices� and selling them as �heatballs� � On their website, the two engineers describe the heatballs as �action art� and as �resistance against legislation which is implemented without recourse to democratic and parliamentary processes.�
The company�s sold out its first 4,000 Heat Balls in just 72 hours.
And that�s the part that stupid politicians never seems to get. Ban and/or regulate something that the consumer wants, and he�ll figure out a way to get it.
