Would this offend you?

[Z-man]

Bush hates dumb, poor single moms who have smoke detectors.

[dhoward]

[tabs]

It helps if they shave the Bush....then U don't have to worry about bugs in the Bush

[RallyJon]

That'll go over well:

"Hello, I'm here from the Upper Class Ladies Society for Promoting Personal Hygiene Among the Less Fortunate. Since you live in a trailer, we've prepared a gift basket with razors, cold cream, delousing powder, and an industrial deodorizer. Please don't take this the wrong way..."

[dtw]

Poor people tend to live in clusters...

[lendaddy]

Poor people sure can dance!

[dd74]

You guys...

[legion]

Originally posted by dtw
Poor people tend to live in clusters...

Respect my authoritie!

[David]

Hopefully safety will always outweight being politically correct. The problem is most won't install the batteries or install the detectors. Sad but true.

[dhoward]

But they will go off when the box catches fire....

[Hugh R]

Used to have a rental on the beach in Ventura, and every other year, I'd have to go and buy a bunch of batteries for the smoke detectors, which the tenant would disconnect when the batteries got low and started beeping. And he had two little kids as well. I finally bought the 10 lithium battery detectors. The guy was paying me over 2 grand/mo and couldn't buy batteries for the smoke detector, or even bother to call me.

The National Fire Protection Association recommends changing your detector batteries every year when you set your clocks back in the Fall. I do, every year.

[dhoward]

2 grand a month!
No wonder he couldn't afford batteries!

[Hugh R]

2 grand/month on the Beach (well three houses off the beach) in Ventura is/was dirt, dirt cheap. Average rent in Los Angeles for an 1,500 sq. ft. house in surburbia in an old, old neighborhood is more than that.

[dhoward]

Just joking Hugh.
That's why I live in the Midwest!

[fintstone]

Originally posted by SoCal911SC
Poor people are dumb.

Dumb people are poor.

[dad911]

Originally posted by Z-man
Bush hates dumb, poor single moms who have smoke detectors.

[WaA420]

Oh I see how it is, its pitch $hit on the poor, fat, dumb guy who lives in a mobile home?

Well if you were all born poor and dumb you would see how it was.

I'll take one of those free smoke detectors.

[Por_sha911]

Originally posted by bryanthompson
It's the assumption that makes me furious, Jon. The gesture seems like an honest one.

Its not an assumption, its a statistic. By the way, do you live in a mobile home? If not, why are you being offended for someone else?

[motion]

Originally posted by SoCal911SC
Poor people are dumb.

Brian, I can always count on you for telling it like it is

[kach22i]

Originally posted by bryanthompson
I know that if I lived in a mobile home, I'd be damn offended if some group of do-gooders assumed that because I live in a mobile home I either don't have the sense to buy a smoke detector, or that I am too poor to afford one.

Dude, it's free - never turn down free when you are broke. Bet some of the more enterprising capitalist will gather up as many smoke detectors as they can (by means you don't want to know about) and sell them to rich folks- door to door. I could use an extra smoke detector with fresh batteries not chocolate bars and magazines.