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That’s how Uncle Sam Became our uncle.. see the US is our daddy, and as such, it’s his job to keep us safe.. Uncle Sam is that one no good relative we all have .. the guy always comin’ around to borrow cash and eat for free…
Laws where I live..
- Must wear a seatbelt.
- Must wear a bike helmet (16 and under, but our daddy didn’t think I was smurt enuff to decide that for my kiddies, so he took care of it for me.)
- Curfew for kids and teens.
- Cross the Street .. ONLY at the corner.
- Stop when the light is red, stay stopped until the light turns green, even @ 4am and when you are the only car within 40 miles.
- A stand up scooter rider cannot have an engine(on the street)that is 50 cc….Doesn’t matter IF you speed, Only if you can..
- It is illegal to place a container filled with human fecal matter on the side of any highway. (They had to make a law for this!)
- Babies may not be carried on the running boards of a car. (OOPS!)
- Drivers may not pump their own gas. (Mind you the attendant gets no special safety training or anything.. there’s no actual reason for the law.. but c’mon now.. you can’t just have any ole body pumping gas.. the result.. LadyH is in BIG trouble when visiting Washington!)
Anyway, there’s lots of them.. mostly common sense, we’re just not expected to have it (common sense that is), or make use of it, the rest are extreme, or other peoples morals, such as the stupid online gambling law.
On another note… I’m not really a slots player.. and I’ve never really found use for our constitutional right to ‘Pursue Happiness” … because the law doesn’t say we have any right to achieve it.. just to pursue it.. well.. while thinking this over.. I came to this conclusion…
This amendment was created FOR gamblers.. You have the right to pursue happiness, you may never achieve it.. but you can pursue it all you like.. You can keep shoving your quarters into the slot machine, in hopes of hitting the progressive.. however.. there’s no guarantee that you ever will. I imagine that hitting a progressive jackpot does provide most people with some amount of happiness.
Yes, I did see that, and thought the about same thing!
Quote:Drivers may not pump their own gas. (Mind you the attendant gets no special safety training or anything.. there’s no actual reason for the law.. but c’mon now.. you can’t just have any ole body pumping gas..lol. It’s an artificial job creation program, I think.
I remember the first time I encountered that. I pull into this gas station, get out, and take the nozzle off the hook. Out comes this guy running accross the parking lot screaming “Don’t do that! Don’t do that! Don’t do that!” I thought I was catching on fire or something. He then explained that it was illegal. Whatever, man.
I actually feel bad for those employees. I’m sure it’s better for all of us to breath a few gas fumes instead of them breathing them constantly every day.
There’s only 1 station in my town that will pump the gas for you. Never heard of making it illegal to pump gas. The stuff is too high already, much less adding to the cost for someone else to pump it!!
Do you know who’s idea it was to make this law? I’d find out and make and effort to elect someone else. who has better things to spend taxpayers time on.
Been a law for as long as I’ve been alive I’m pretty sure.. good point about the gas fumes, never thought of that before. ..
As for the price, I’ve always wondered why gas tends to be more in Washington where noone gets paid to pump it for you than it is here..
LadyHoldem wrote:Been a law for as long as I’ve been alive I’m pretty sure.. good point about the gas fumes, never thought of that before. ..As for the price, I’ve always wondered why gas tends to be more in Washington where noone gets paid to pump it for you than it is here..
Where do you live? Self service stations have been the rule here for ages now. When I was a child, there were attendants, but those have gone the way of the dinosaur!
New Jersey comes to mind as a state where you can’t pump your own gas. There is no extra charge btw.
The US is definately becoming a nanny country. Politicians where on the news recently wanting to ban certain words from the dictionary. While the words in questions were derogatory, they are still words and should be referenced in a dictionary.
Theres a funny list going around the internet that lists some pretty ridiculous laws. If anyone has what I’m talking about, please post it.
Amateur wrote:Where do you live? Self service stations have been the rule here for ages now. When I was a child, there were attendants, but those have gone the way of the dinosaur!Oregon but yeah, I’d always heard there were two, never knew what the other one was.. and only heard.. never acutually looked it up…
I don’t think you could FIND a station around here that pumps gas for you.
location unable to disclose for fear of persecution from big brother.
That is funny you cant pump your own gas.
Mind you I think that a lot of laws are meant to produce income. If they really cared about people wearing seat belts then tell me this:
1. Why dont school buses have seat belts?
2. Why aren’t cars manufactured to not start unless the driver is wearing his seat belt?
The above would save more lives but it would not make the government any money. Most laws are produced to make money. Sort of like making internet gambling illegal but gambling at a casino isn’t.
Furthermore 90% of law enforcement resources are devoted to those laws that generate income. How many people have had their house broken into and robbed blind but the police is too busy to show up… yet one block away they have a police offer randomly pulling people over for speeding 10km over the limit..
It’s all about the money.
Just wanted to add:
‘Stop when the light is red, stay stopped until the light turns green, even @ 4am and when you are the only car within 40 miles.’
That pisses me off like nothing else. Or else you have to stop at a stop sign for 3 seconds even when it’s the middle of the night and no one else is coming. Just in case a cop is hiding in the bush waiting to make an arrest.
After driving in Australia for several weeks where there’s almost no traffic lights and it’s almost exclusively traffic circles… I can say that it makes way more sense than our system and it keeps traffic flowing…. plus it prevents the above problems.
I love traffic circles too. Far fewer accidents where they are used, in fact. Washington, DC is one city that comrs to mind where traffic circles are common.
But to the “pumping your own gas” issue – do the convenience stores sell gas?
antoine wrote:2. Why aren’t cars manufactured to not start unless the driver is wearing his seat belt?I wouldnt vote for this law , what if there is somebody with a loaded gun running after u ,screw the car not starting LOL
antoine wrote:After driving in Australia for several weeks where there’s almost no traffic lights and it’s almost exclusively traffic circles… I can say that it makes way more sense than our system and it keeps traffic flowing…. plus it prevents the above problems.Just wanted to make a correction so people don’t think Australia is some kind of backward country. We do have plenty of traffic lights (and combined redlight/speed cameras attached to them) and with cities of 3 million plus people, they are required. That said, we do also have plenty of roundabouts (or is it roundaboots Antoine?) and when I drove a Canadian friend around out here he was amazed that we had a many as we do. Growing up with them they just make sense. Of course there are some dodgy ones with multiple lanes and trams running through the middle, but nothing like the well known ones in Europe.
Hi all,
so now I know whom to blame for these dang-blamed circle drive things!
lol. just kidding. we have a city near here that is up and coming and they have many such “roundabouts?”.
first time I came upon one …. I thought it was made by the same drunken fool who did the old roads around where i live …. that all of a sudden out of no where make an “S” curve for no reason I can to this day …. (now some 30 years later) explain. Perhaps some of you had the same kind of old roads near you? my best explanation is that they said “kinda boring driving straight thru – lets put in an “S” curve here!”
but the roundabouts work and obviously were not made by the same drunken fool who did the S curves. Just took me a bit to get accustomed to them.
