Somewhere in America, in a small garage or shop hidden off a main street, insanity reigns supreme.

Somewhere in America, inhibitions are cast to the wind, common sense is bade farewell, and safety is shown the door and asked never to return.

Somewhere in America- perhaps in your home town- tool-crazed miscreants tempt Fate by abusing power tools in organized gatherings that can only result in injury and death. For those of you innocent of such thoughts, we refer to the past time called "Belt Sander Racing."

As usually happens when unlicensed and amateur tool owners can get their hands on power tools, abuse gets out of hand, and there is no better example of this behavior than the "racing" of belt sanders. Already an extremely dangerous tool, in which an endless strip of paper studded with abrasives is spun at thousands of rpms with no safeguards of any kind, belt sanders have been known to "get away" from even experienced, licensed users. These mischief makers actually construct special tracks where they purposely lose control of their tools, sending them uncontrolled down the track at high rates of speed. Since this is not dangerous enough, they usually have a room full of rowdy spectators who, no doubt, would like to be injured as well.

M.I.L.T. finds this behavior not only totally unacceptable, but dangerous to the participants, the community at large, and children everywhere. It must be stopped.