mm wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:05:20 -0400, Art Todesco
wrote:

HeyBub wrote:
"State and local officials are now wrestling over whether to adopt
building codes that would require sprinklers in every new home and
townhome starting in 2011 amid intense lobbying from both sides."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/...ome_sprinklers


Sounds like my former town in Illinois.
I have seen sprinklers by the furnace
and water heaters in some houses. Maybe
it was only attached townhouses,

Until I read this, I thought Bub was talking about lawn spnklers, and
it was like homeowners associations gone wild and infected the whole
state.

I thought there was going to be a local law that everyone had to have
a green lawn.

Hmm, now that I think on it...

In some places (California comes to mind) fire suppression systems may be
appropriate for lawns.

It's for the children.