DaButt
Friday 6th April 2018 4:22am
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Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
You get fined or arrested for jaywalking
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.
Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
you can't drink in a bar for three years after you've become an adult
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.
Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
your boss can just sack you because they want to
As it should be.
Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
people have been put in prison for not mowing their lawn
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?
Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
even though not all American cops are corrupt, the ones that are can do whatever they want and get away with.
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.
Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
And let's not forget the banning of those dangerous kinder surprise eggs with the toy inside.
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?
Quote: Statesman Dave @ 5th April 2018, 9:54 PM
I'm still glad we're not America and I can feel safe to talk to a cop like a mate without being scared of farting.
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.