Stupid US laws!

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS EX-PAT BRITISH TRUCKERS (INTERACTIVE)
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They have some really stupid laws down here as I am finding out bit by bit.
A friend of our family got 3 points on his licence last summer for … Paddling a canoe without a life jacket :open_mouth:
If you fall behind on child support they revoke your driving licence which prevents you from doing a job, which puts you even further behind with child support :open_mouth:
If you hold a CDL (LGV) you can only have .01% blood /alcohol level even if you are off duty for a damm month, if you just hold a car licence it’s .08%.
A fellow worker here took his Jeep off the road and didn’t turn in the licence plates, he has now had his licence revoked for forgetting and has lost a good job :open_mouth:
Some really riddiculous laws to say the least.

I saw a sign on a shop doorway last week saying 'If you look under 40 years old you will be ID’d for cigarettes :laughing: Can you imagine some shop assistant thinking ‘That bloke looks about 39, I had better ID him’
I have been asked for ID buying a bottle of Vodka… Jeesus Christ ! I am 57 with a grey beard :laughing:

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That’s before you get in to them mad obscure ones that pop up in the paper every now and again. Like its illegal for a man to marry a horse in Iowa on a Tuesday.

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www.dumblaws.com
“…It is illegal to let your pig run free in Detroit unless it has a ring in its nose…”
“…Willfully destroying your old radio is prohibited…”
“…Couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple’s own property…”
Etc. :slight_smile:

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Here’s a good railway law in Arizona and some other states …

When two trains near a line crossing both must stop and niether shall move untill the other has gone.
In some states it is ilegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

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You can have an Armalite or a Kalashnikov assualt rifle but it musn’t be able to shoot fully automatic.

You can’t shag a girl under 18 but there’s no 18 year old virgins in the whole of the US.

The 1970’s double nickel speed limit.

Can’t buy a beer under the age of 21 but could get drafted for Vietnam.

And yes I was asked to show my age on my passport in a hotel before they’d let me have a beer in the bar.I was 30 at the time. :open_mouth: :laughing:

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My wife was refused a drink in America she was 25 at the time. Mind you I got Id checked in morrisons last year. I wouldn’t mind I was buying baileys hardly the under age binge drinkers tipple of choice.

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You can shag a girl under 18 if you are under 18, you can be her guy for ages then as soon as you turn 18 and she remains younger it theb becomes ■■■■.
I think the Vietnam war ended quite a few years back :laughing:
The drink laws are so damm riddiculous it makes me wannna cry. Yet young 16 year old kids can go and get a learners permint on their 16th birthday and drive with an adult right away … My wife lets our lad who is just 16 drive out Honda Pilot (8 seater, 4x4, 3.8 v6, weighing 2 tons) I will not let him anywhere near it if I am home.

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Pat Hasler:
You can shag a girl under 18 if you are under 18, you can be her guy for ages then as soon as you turn 18 and she remains younger it theb becomes ■■■■.
I think the Vietnam war ended quite a few years back :laughing:
The drink laws are so damm riddiculous it makes me wannna cry. Yet young 16 year old kids can go and get a learners permint on their 16th birthday and drive with an adult right away … My wife lets our lad who is just 16 drive out Honda Pilot (8 seater, 4x4, 3.8 v6, weighing 2 tons) I will not let him anywhere near it if I am home.

There’s a lot of their laws I do/did agree with but they were mostly the result of the law as it still stood in the southern states during the 1960’s.In which case if I’d have been lucky enough to have been living there I’d have been driving a 426 powered MOPAR or a 427 powered Ford running moonshine at the age of 14 and luckily for Jerry Lee Lewis and a lot of others the northern poofter federal zb’s hadn’t got full control of the place at that time. :wink: :laughing:

But some say they might have won the Vietnam war if they hadn’t missed what they were shooting at and bombing a lot of the time because of all the dope they were smoking instead of drinking beer like everyone else in the sensible world. :open_mouth: :laughing: