UPDATE On The NY Whipped Cream Story – State Senator Cannot Believe People Would Assume The Government Would Do Something So Ridiculous. HA HA HA HA HA!

Earlier this morning, I posted a story widely reported by mainstream media outlets (including CBS, Newsweek, and others) about retailers checking IDs of anyone wanting to buy whipped cream canisters. If you missed it, you can catch up right here.

Now, it turns out, a state senator from NY is clarifying the law, and saying that people are misinterpreting it.

The reason the story went so viral is that a bunch of stores in the Capital District posted signs saying that you had to be 21 or older to buy whipped cream canisters, due to a new state law targeting teens who are trying to get highs off of the nitrous oxide in the canisters. But the state senator responsible for the law, Joseph Addabbo Jr, says it only applies to the nitrous oxide CHARGERS that are used to recharge whipped cream canisters, but not the actual cans of whipped cream themselves. I literally had to look them up, you guys. I had no idea such things even existed, but here’s a website where they can apparently easily be purchased online.

Anyway, Addabbo said, hilariously, “We did not ban the sale of whipped cream, let’s be reasonable. Why would we do that?”

Why would the government do something useless and outrageous and unreasonable, you guys? I mean, why would we ever think such a thing? What possible reason could we have to think that the government would do something so completely stupid?

Oh yeah. It’s because of how the government is constantly doing stupid, useless, unreasonable sh*t. See: Almost anything Gavin Newsom has ever done ever, for example.

Anyway, I guess if you’re under 21 and you want to buy a whipped cream charger, you’re going to have to get it online and not in a store. Way to go, Addabbo! You’ve been a huge help. If you’re an 18 year old New Yorker and you wanna fight for America in the military? FINE. You want to buy a whipped cream charger? Absolutely not, you immature imbecile. You’re gonna need to bring your mom.

Our country is borked.