What should we ban?

Surely there are better ideas than banning bottled water?

Let’s put Bright ‘on the map’

A few days ago I wrote about the NSW town of Bundanoon  and its rather dubiously motivated ban on bottled water sales. I don’t agree with the ban but it is amazing just how this not-so-brilliant, but certainly simple, idea has generated world-wide publicity  for the little tourist town in the Southern Highlands about 150 kms S.E. of Sydney.

So it got me thinking about what products (or activities) Bright should ban so that we too can gain national & international notoriety as ‘the town that roared’.

Save Bright tried to ban Coles/Woolworths from building a new supermarket but all they managed to achieve was a lot of negative publicity and to hold up a major project that will actually benefit the town. I think we’ve got to be smarter than that – well, let’s face it, being smarter than Save Bright is not difficult – and come up with our own little piece of inspiration by banning something more innocuous like Bundanoon has done. Here are some ideas, some sort-of serious, some not, but I’d like more suggestions:

• Soft drinks
• 4WD vehicles
• Alcopops
• Pirate pants
• Geelong supporters (I won’t suggest Collingwood, they make up half our tourist market)
• Nose rings
• Same sex couples (just kidding)
• Condoms
• Lycra (not kidding)
• Smoking in all public places (now that would generate world-wide news)
• Kissing in all public places (they ban it in Italy!)
• Bogans
• Myrtleford residents (oh, same thing)
• Mullets (there goes the hot rod event)
• Public swimming pools (saves water – and saves our rates money!)
• Junk food
• Tourists (oh, Save Bright already tried that)

Over to you.