Makes perfect sense to me. In addition to using the shaved ice for medical emergencies, the snow cones could be thrown at some terrorist. And it only cost the taxpayers $11,700.
CONE (HEADED) LOGIC FOR HOMELAND SECURITY
By Chuck Shepherd
Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird
December 28, 2011
A regional development commission in Michigan, purchasing equipment for 13 counties in May using homeland security grants, bought 13 machines that make snow cones, at a total cost of $11,700 (after rejecting one county's request for a popcorn machine).
Pressed to justify the purchases, officials pointed out that the machines make shaved ice, which might be useful for medical situations stemming from natural disasters and heat emergencies (but that they also make snow cones to draw crowds at homeland security demonstrations). [The Daily News (Montcalm County, Mich.), 12-3-2011]
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