If You Get Steamed at the Red Lobster in Virginia, You Now Can Pack Heat!

Richmond – The Virginia State senate has voted to allow diners to carry concealed weapons into restaurants that carry alcohol.  That is for permit holders who will not be drinking.  Drunks will have to fend for themselves. The bill passed after a lively debate with a vote of 22 to 18 among the senators.  Apparently, diners have not been courteous enough to leave their pieces in the glove compartments of their pick-ups where they belong and have been smuggling them into fine family dining establishments everywhere.  At least that’s the theory according to lawmakers. Their reasoning was, and we are not making this up, that women should be able to defend themselves in case they run into trouble while dining at, maybe - The Red Lobster.  Perhaps this safeguard would be for occasions like when the lobster gets really frustrated by over-crowding and jumps out of the tank and they have forgotten to put those rubber bandy things on their claws and the gal is wearing open-toed shoes?  That seems like a reasonable enough threat.   No doubt, Maryland lawmakers will likely pass a similar measure as blue crabs move waaaaaaay faster than lobsters and could pose a much greater threat.  As if the restaurant business didn’t have enough challenges in this economy.