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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