This is why in many municipalities it is illegal to keep a squirrel as a pet.

Do flamethrower squirrels eat only roasted nuts?

Offhand, I can't find any updates on this story, unfortunately. It's from 2015.

"Texas Restaurant Gives Parents Guides for Acceptable Behavior, Bans Bad Kids."

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/texas-restaurant-bans-bad-kids-and-gives-parents-behavior-instructions-cuchara-texas-children-policy

It's full of memes!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8328201/Detroit-priest-overcomes-social-distancing-squirting-people-Holy-Water-TOY-GUN.html

Well, this one's a better article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/03/31/thank-you-for-taking-a-stand-customers-flock-after-upscale-restaurant-bans-kids/

By
Peter Holley
March 31, 2017 at 8:44:42 a.m. EDT

The final straw was a little girl using an iPad with the volume on high, a device her parents refused to turn down despite repeated requests from the staff at Caruso’s, an upscale Italian restaurant in Mooresville, N.C.

Yoshi Nunez, the restaurant’s manager, had encountered unruly kids in his restaurant before; but this time, he said, the parents were misbehaving, too.

“Finally, we had to ask them to leave,” Nunez told The Washington Post. “They were upset, but they didn’t seem to care about what the other guests thought. We tried to be nice about the situation, but we’re here to take care of customers and we can’t tell a parent how to control their kids.

“That was the incident that triggered the entire thing.”

“The entire thing,” as Nunez puts it, is the restaurant’s strict ban on children under the age of 5. It went into effect in January, drawing passionate applause from some diners online and angry condemnation from others.

The ban — conceived by the restaurant’s owner, Pasquale Caruso — has led to a dramatic increase in reservations, said Nunez, who said Caruso’s has seen a spike in diners, from about 50 per day to around 80.

“Banning children has always been a topic in the industry and every owner says, ‘I wish I could do it,’” he said. “Our owner has the full support of the staff. We work here to make a living, too, and we support our owner 100 percent.”

It’s hard to say whether child bans are officially a restaurant industry trend, but they’re no longer particularly unusual. Caruso’s — which describes itself as “traditional, classy, intimate” on its website — is the latest in a series of eateries to ban children or introduce measures to control them.

In recent years, restaurants in Korea, Italy, Australia, Texas, Pennsylvania and California have either banned young children outright or introduced measures to control their behavior, according to Eater...

Several paragraphs later:

The debate surrounding the bans invokes larger questions about sociology, class and parenting trends, with some researchers saying they are the natural result of a culture of overtaxed parents desperate to spend as much time as possible with their children, even if that one-on-one time occurs over a fine bottle of wine at the expense of other diners around them.

Liam Flynn, owner of Australia’s Flynn’s Restaurant, which instituted a ban on children under age 7, has a simpler explanation that speaks to how casual dining has become for many families.

“A lot of parents think they’re paying for the space and service and taking a break, and therefore taking a break from parenting as well,” he told Eater. “There’s a lot of people that feel they are not accountable for their own or their child’s actions."...
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I never thought of that explanation, but it makes sense.

And:

..."How you are legally allowed to discriminate amazes me!” she added. “Next you will be kicking out all the elderly because they take too long to eat. Slippery slope!”

But the push-back from parents online was overwhelmed by an outpouring of support for the restaurant’s ban, which was endorsed with language reserved for civil rights struggles.

“Thank you for taking a stand,” multiple people wrote.

Others said they applauded the restaurant’s “courage” and called the policy “brilliant.”

People from across the country promised to visit the restaurant, which is about 30 miles north of Charlotte, and one particularly animated fan suggested Caruso’s policy should be turned into state law...

..The .ban wasn’t based on a single incident, Caruso said, but came about after he started “to lose money and customers, because I had very young children coming in, throwing food, running around and screaming.”

“I had several customers complain, get up and leave because children were bothering them, and the parents were doing nothing,” he told the Tribune. “It started to feel like it wasn’t Caruso’s anymore, that it was a local pizzeria instead.”

And from the New York Post:

"...But some eateries are taking a different tack when it comes to catering to patrons of all ages. A restaurant in Italy recently made headlines for rewarding parents of well-behaved diners with a discount on their meal."

Look, this is not a political comment, IJS—

Throat-to-hairline, doesn't she look like a rubberized sex toy, fabricated by a guy who's never kissed a girl? Or even looked his cousin in the eye?

There's some geometry missing in those eyes.

I have not done so myself yet...

But this tweet is being linked here for you to enjoy, because the replies are probably going to be golden.

(Later: Yep)

"How you are legally allowed to discriminate amazes me!” she added. “Next you will be kicking out all the elderly because they take too long to eat.

"Management reserves the right to refuse services to anyone."

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...because the replies are probably going to be golden. ~ Crid at May 17, 2020 11:02 AM

The hashtag alone is worth the price of admission.

To ask is to answer.

Curiously, given the stated importance of “sensitivity” and being mindful of what things might mean, we aren’t invited to ponder the kind of person who would resent someone else’s wedding photo. And then complain about it. Or whether such neurotic affectations, these unhappy mental habits, are something to be actively encouraged. In the name of progress.

https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2020/05/their-happiness-hurt-my-feelings.html

The final straw was a little girl using an iPad with the volume on high, a device her parents refused to turn down despite repeated requests from the staff at Caruso’s, an upscale Italian restaurant in Mooresville, N.C.

Fortunately for the parents, an irate customer didn't snatch said iPad out of her hands and smash it over her father's head.

How's that for accountability, buddy?