Banned For Everyone
One person's fault, everyone else's new set of rules.
Airbnb Banned Parties Worldwide After a 2019 Halloween Shooting at a House Booked for a Family Reunion. By 2024 Its Software Was Deterring About 38,000 People in the United States From Renting a Whole House Over Halloween Weekend.
In late October 2019, a woman booked a large house in Orinda, California, through Airbnb. She told the owner she lived in Lafayette, that members of her family had asthma and needed to get away from the smoke of the Kincade Fire, and that she wanted to host a family
Congress Moved Cold Medicine Behind the Pharmacy Counter in 2005 to Shut Down Meth Labs. It Worked, and Four Years Later Meth Was the Cheapest and Purest It Had Been Since the Law Passed.
The Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act became law in 2005. It addressed a real and specific problem: methamphetamine was being manufactured in domestic kitchens, garages, and motel rooms, in quantities that made small-scale production a genuine public safety issue, out of pseudoephedrine bought from the cold and flu aisle. The
A Power Bank Stored in an Overhead Bin Destroyed an Air Busan Jet in January 2025. Airlines Across Asia Responded by Requiring Passengers Keep Their Power Banks Closer to Their Bodies, Not Farther Away.
On the night of 28 January 2025, an Air Busan Airbus A321 with 176 people aboard was preparing to taxi at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, when a fire broke out in the rear cabin. Everyone evacuated down the slides; seven people came away with minor smoke-inhalation
Railroads Gave Editors and Officials Free Passes for Life. Congress Decided That Looked Too Much Like a Bribe.
American railroads spent the late nineteenth century handing out free annual passes as a routine industry courtesy — to their own workers, to employees of connecting lines, and, generously, to newspaper editors and public officials. Nobody was supposed to be for sale. By the 1890s, plenty of people were, and the
New York Apartment Buildings Ban E-Bikes After a Record Year for Battery Fires
New York's delivery workers charge their batteries at home because there's nowhere else to do it. Now their buildings say they can't.