You may rest easy today in Charlotte. The Charlotte police department, in cooperation with the bureaucrats at the food police "health" department, have saved you again. No, they didn't actually arrest anyone who raped someone. No, they didn't manage to get a child molester off the streets. No, they didn't even capture someone who was threatening you. Instead, they've managed to capture dangerous food preparers!
Do you feel safer yet?
But the courageous police did "bust" people who were daring to prepare allegedly dangerous food in their apartment. No, no one died from the prepared food. No, no one even got sick. In fact, no one even prepared once about the food that was prepared there. But someone complained about the smell, so off to jail with these dangerous preparers of foodstuffs!
I bet you didn't know it was dangerous to prepare food. This story shows that it IS dangerous to prepare certain quantities of food -- if you don't ask permission from government first. Yes, in America, if you prepare the wrong amount of food without asking permission, it's off to jail with you. Go ahead, tell me this is a free country.