I don’t know what the current laws are (other than the border being shut down due to covid) but back in the eighties, the drinking age in Ontario was 18 while the drinking age in New York was 21. However, the bars in Ontario had to close at one am while the bars in New York could stay open until four am. The result was that you had people crossing the border in both directions in order to go drinking.
This is an example of what I have been talking about. Here is the relevant MN statute that you may note has not been changed since 1986:
609.294 BESTIALITY.
Whoever carnally knows a dead body or an animal or bird is guilty of bestiality, which is a misdemeanor. If knowingly done in the presence of another the person may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than one year or to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000 or both.
So, yes. A fish is an animal, and if a person has sex with a fish, he violates this law. So publishers of these lists can say that it is illegal in MN to have sex with a fish. But it is misleading. There is no law specifying it is illegal to have sex with a fish.
There was a town in NJ (Green Brook) not that long ago enacted an ordinance that made it illegal to eat in cars. On it’s surface it sounds absurd but it was a town with a major highway running through it and a large number of fast food restaurants along it. The signs for the ordinance were in the parking lots of the fast food places. The purpose was to cut down on the amount of trash that was tossed out of the cars. I think it was repealed. There is a Sonic in the town now so I hope so. That’s kind of the point of Sonic.
For whatever it might be worth, this is what the “OK to turn right on red at this light” sign looks like in Germany.
“Right on red” is still illegal everywhere I’ve been in Europe, except as (very rarely) posted per the above.
Now that I think about it, the person I recall telling me about it was my (now ex) FIL, who is probably in his 60’s telling me a childhood story, so it happening pre-67 sounds right.
Also, from about 30 seconds of looking at wiki, it seems the section of freeway from Milwaukee to Chicago was finished in the late 50s/early 60s and his butter story was usually part of a bigger ‘we had to take the roads* all the way to Chicago back then’.
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*For those that grew up in Milwaukee, this is why there are so many run down (but still somehow operating) motels all up and down S 27th st. It was the main thoroughfare through Milwaukee before the interstate system so there was a lot of people/truckers stopping for the night here. Also, when driving past them with an older adult (ie parents) you learn not to mention them unless you want the rest of your car ride to be stories about them going to Chicago as a kid. Stories you’ve already heard a dozen times.
France has some pretty draconian labour laws which limit the hours that staff can work. The legal length of the working week is 35 hours and the working day may not exceed 10 hours. Furthermore, employees may not work for more than 4.5 hours without a break. The maximum working day may extend to 12 hours under a collective agreement.
This causes all kinds of anomalies.
You horseman-of-the-land/sovereign-horseman types are always looking for the magic loophole… 
These hardly seem draconian.
Are you prohibited from working more than 35 hours or must overtime be paid after 35 hours like it must after 40 hours in the US? The US requires a break with 6 hours of work. And as always states might have stricter requirements.
I’m not at all sure that has anything to do with a restaurant where staff is present and working but won’t allow people to order anything. Of course, I’m also kind of wondering what it means that the restaurant was “fully open” but wouldn’t allow the poster to order anything “until opening time an hour later”. Unless “fully open” simply means the doors weren’t locked at a time when the restaurant actually wasn’t open for business.
Is Oregon the only state that requires an actual prescription from a doctor to buy Sudafed? As fat as I know everywhere else, while you have to ask for it at the pharmacy counter and show ID, you can still get it without a prescription. So several years ago when I was traveling to Oregon for work and noticed I was getting a cold, I headed to the nearest pharmacy to get some Sudafed, and was surprised when the pharmacist asked for a prescription. When I didn’t, she was like “Oh, you must be from out of state.” Not having a prescription, I had to make due with the crappy non-pseudoephedrine decongestant until I got home.
Restaurants in NY use to be required to get a permit to serve margarine, and were required to post it. This was to accommodate places that served kosher food – margarine could be served on the baked potato if you ordered steak.
Thanks. Yes, I rarely drive through any of the other boroughs unless passing through on a highway, so Manhattan’s list being that small makes sense.
Are you sure about that? I’m fairly certain that labor laws regarding breaks are entirely up to the individual state.
Here’s what Wisconsin has to say about breaks:
For workers 18 or over…
Wisconsin law does not require that employers provide brief rest periods, coffee breaks, or meal periods to adult employees, although the Department recommends that employers do so.
Employers are encouraged, but not required, to provide breaks of at least 30 minutes in duration at times reasonably close to the usual meal period. Such matters are to be determined directly between the employer and the employee.
That’s not what the law says. That’s pretty much the result, but it isn’t the law.
We have similar (federal) laws in Australia. The only thing that seems like an anomaly to me is that the fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) mines still have 12 hour workdays: I start loosing track and having accidents when I get up towards 12 hours, and I’d hate to be driving a truck or pushing a drill when that happens.
Yes, you can’t sell any handgun not on the list. Thereby, you can’t sell any handgun that is 21st century.
People who work more than 35 hours in a week in France are entitled to extra pay or extra days off, known as RTT days ( réductions de temps du travail ).
Generally, people in management or executive positions forego RTT days and certain professions have also opted out but for many people working a 39 or 40 hour week means getting up to an extra fortnight off a year in reclaimed RTT days.
However, I am not sure why this meant that the restaurant wouldn’t serve you. Maybe there was no food prepared, or the chef had yet to arrive. Who knows - maybe they just couldn’t be arsed?
They’re also illegal in DC.
I don’t know why, though. I’ve never, ever seen DC cops set up a traditional speed trap; they rely almost entirely on speed cameras and police vans that they move around the city for that kind of traffic enforcement.
Regarding self-serve gas pumps, this is old data, but back in the day, before I cleaned up my act and went to college, I worked seven years in a West Texas convenience store that offered pump-it-yourself gas. Not once in all my time there did anyone drive off with the pump still stuck in the tank. I don’t recall any major gas spillage. Never heard of it anywhere else in town. If the ignorant yokels who patronized my store back then couldn’t manage to screw up like this, what is it about modern man today that they cannot perform this action successfully? The only problem I can recall is someone left his car running by the front door to dash into the store real quick, it slipped into neutral or the parking brake was not engaged, and the car ended up rolling backward all the way into one of our pumps, rendering the pump inoperable.
Does it matter if your surrey has a fringe on the top?