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Opening Arguments

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They were just legislators who wanted to do good, so what could possibly go wrong?

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A law taking effect this week could make criminals out of those who bring Tupperware onto many Missouri rivers.

The law was intended to reduce the floating debris from abandoned foam coolers in the state's waterways. But lawmakers, apparently a little rusty with chemistry, barred the wrong plastic.

You say poTAYto, I say poTAHto. I say polystyrene, you ban polypropylene.

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