Quote: DaButt @ 6th April 2018, 5:22 AM
An arrest would be almost impossible, but fines make sense if some moron decides to jump out in the middle of traffic, against all common sense.
It's a stupid law and it'll be gone immediately if/when we ever bring back the military draft. It wasn't always 21 - I was drinking legally at 18 in the 1980s. Anti-drinking groups persuaded the government that it would save lives and the nascent nanny state decided that they needed to "do something" to save lives. Sort of like the modern anti-gun measures, really.
As it should be.
If I recall correctly, that was one man who was waging a 20-year battle with the city and refusing to maintain his jungle of a yard. If your neighbor decided to raise a herd of elephants in his back garden and you and your neighbors complained about the rivers of shit that flowed down the street until he was finally arrested, I could claim that he was arrested for being an animal lover. But would that really be accurate?
No, bad cops are routinely imprisoned. Have I mentioned that we have the largest prison population on the planet? That's what we do with criminals: we remove them from society.
Want to talk about ridiculous laws? How about the fact that the knife I carry in my pocket every day would land me in prison if I were to carry it in the UK? Puny little 3.5" locking blade that I used today to open a package, cut some plastic line for my string trimmer, and open a bag of lawn fertilizer, but the UK has banned it in order to "do something" about knife crime. The last I heard you were still having a few problems...
Here's the silly little knife that I carry. Almost every American man (and Boy Scout) carries something similar. Scary, isn't it?
And I'm glad that I don't live in the UK where the police will haul an elderly man in on a murder charge after two armed men broke into his house in the middle of the night.
1. Jumping out? I'm just talking about using your own judgement when to cross a non-motorway and crossing when you know it's safe where there's no lights. I was fined in Seattle for it.
2. Why does the draft have to come back so adults can drink at 18?
3. You're honestly fine with the "employ at will". You can be sacked with no reason. I bet you'd soon be moaning if it happened to you. People losing their security with no rights. No wonder homelessness is piling up over there.
4. I'm talking about the Tennessee woman who worked and had a family and kids and was arrested simply for not mowing her lawn in 2014.
5. Bad cops are routinely imprisoned? Tell that to all the innocent dead people's families. The only reason your prisons are so full is because people do long jail time for the most minor offences. Depending on their race of course. And that still hasn't won the "war on drugs".
6. Not sure what the connection is between banning a sweet and a knife but okay.
7. I hope you was as passionate about the 90 year old world war two veteran who was arrested and fined twice in Florida for feeding the homeless as you seem to about this old man in the UK.