Steve Byrne

The gardeners would pass it along to the consumer, just like they do with everything they outlaw or everything they put a safety whatever around.

That's what they do.

They pass it along.

And that'd be fine.

And then if you didn't want a gardener, you didn't have to have a gardener.

Or you get some renegade who would come in, undercut the guy.

But either way, he couldn't use his leaf blower anyway.

So it's a moot point.

I don't understand why we can't enforce this.

And I can't remember.

I think it was 2000 when they went on their Million Man March.

Anyway, here's what I wrote in my book.

that got pulled out of the book.

Los Angeles is the only city I know that has more leaf blowers than residents.

It's at least three days a week I'm woken up by the melodic tones of the leaf blower.

A day doesn't pass where I don't drive slash drive.

jog slash walk my dog through a giant funnel cloud of pollen, dust, dirt, cockroach, fecal matter, and whatever other toxic particulates these assholes have managed to lift off the ground and insert into my lungs.

In Los Angeles, it's illegal to smoke on the beach or in parks, or if you want to smoke at a club, or you can't just even go outside and smoke.

You have to go down the street.

Yet these guys...