Banned!

Good idea:

Utah's alcohol control authority has rejected an application for a karaoke lounge seeking to serve beer.

They shied away from the better solution: ban karaoke. Still, when dealing with such a heinous threat to human sanity as public karaoke, an imperfect solution is better than none at all. Reading a bit further down into the article, we find this eyebrow-tugging bit of information:

Social Axe Throwing appeared before the commission at Tuesday's meeting seeking a beer license for its Ogden location. The DABC previously granted licenses to Social Axe Throwing for its other location. Commissioners decided that ax throwing was a recreational activity under the existing law because it was a "similarly situated activity."

No drinking and singing! Very un-Mormonlike. We'll have none of that nonsense. Tossing axes about the place, though? The ghost of Ol' Magic Hat Smith approves! Chug a couple of boilermakers before you get started; it keeps the audience on their toes.

The decision by the DABC commission means that when other ax throwing businesses renew their beer licenses, they're not likely to get them.

There's more than one recreational ax-throwing business? It would appear to be a real growth market.

Get it? Growth... trees...

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Ahem.

I'll just show myself out.