Remember if we outlaw electrical tape, only outlaws will have electrical tape.
I wonder if “electrical tape” is a metaphor for something else?
I had no idea Wendy O. Williams had had so much influence over the Florida legislature.
Wow I went to work and came back!!!
Okay I asked around and depending on what store you buy it from you will be carded for electrical tape if you appear to be under 30. Nobody knows why but if the register the tape is scanned with asks for your birthday thats when your required to pull out the ID.
So it might not be a law but I still think its kinda funny. So far there are three super markets the local hardware store and one gas station that does this.
Thanks for the answers on the main question.
I didn’t learn to drive until I was 21. One night, back when I was 19, I’d gotten a friend to drive me over to my prior residence (old roommates still lived there) to pick up a canvas I’d been planning on painting, but had forgotten to take with me when I moved out. The guy who drove me couldn’t stay, but I was fine with walking back to my new home.
When I looked at the canvas again (which was big, 5 by 5 feet), I realized I didn’t at all like the work-in-progress, and didn’t want to put up with lugging the thing, intact, all the way back home. So, after chatting with the old roomies for a while, I cut the canvas off two sides, removed those sides of the frame, and rolled them into the canvas. I didn’t, after all, want to throw the raw materials away, just make it easier for me to carry them home.
I got started back towards home around 11 at night. As I was walking down one of the larger roads, a police officer going in the same direction (but on the other side of the median strip), slowed way down to match my speed, rolled his window down, and asked me what I was doing. “Going home, officer!” is what I replied. “Just checking up on you,” he said back, and then he drove off.
Now, I’m sure that any self-respecting maniac with an axe, rifle or speargun rolled up in a big piece of canvas and tucked under one arm would have the restraint to answer as I did, and not blurt out that he/she is off to make a mess of the officer’s evening. But I did appreciate the fact that the officer took the time to at least see if I’d panic, and had he asked, I would have gladly offered my “walker’s license” (DMV-issued photo ID) for his perusal.
Oh, and along the lines of handsomeharry’s post, my mother was scared to death of driving. She hated driving. But, she learned how into order to get a driver’s license, and then used it as nothing but ID for the rest of her life. I don’t know if the DMV didn’t issue non-driving photo IDs back then (must have been the early 1970s when she finally learned, because I remember - vaguely - she and my dad yelling at each other in the car as he taught her how to drive), or if she thought she’d eventually conquer her fear, or what.
Anyway, it’s definitely not the case that driver’s licenses are only to be shown if a person is driving, since Virginia demands the return of any other non-expired photo IDs they’ve issued to you if you do get a driver’s license (at least, the DMV clerk demanded mine). As Chronos mentioned, there are good reasons for this. But the point is, driver’s licenses serve more than one purpose.
You’ve cover the legal Q, but what about the damn tape?
Was there once a rash of teens sniffing the fumes from burned electrical tape?
Electrical tape only leads to harder things.
Like what, glue sticks?
Solder.
Electrical tape is what is often termed a “gateway adhesive”. First electrical tape, then masking tape, and before you know it, you have a three-roll-a-day duct tape habit.
Sadly, you can’t use a patch to control the addiction, for obvious reasons.
Actually, yes, evidently a certain dimwitted gentry “huffs” the fumes from burning electrical and duct tapes. I bought some duct tape a few years ago (for drum dampening purposes) and was carded.
After I rolled my tongue back up, the above explanation, along with an apology, was given to me.
Well thank god; we can all sleep tonight.
Doing a search at N9IWP’s link to the Florida statutes came up with this:
“Sorry, Son… Gonna hafta see an ID for the garden hose and root beer.”
– CH
Florida is one wacky state.
I say we snip it from the mainland and let it float out to sea.
Wow. Glad I moved out of Florida.
Except, technically, I didn’t, and that leads me to my question…
In January, I rented a condo here in St. Louis. My mail all comes here, but I’ve kept my driver’s license. I recently leased a new car ('03 Accord, green, very nice, but anyway), and my dad came up to help me with the paperwork and to co-sign. We added up the taxes, and are having it registered in Florida, since it’s cheaper. I’ll get a Florida plate in the mail, hopefully in the next 23 days, and stick it on my car.
Now, is it illegal for me to live, physically, in Missouri 365 days a year and retain my Florida driver’s license? If a cop pulls me over and sees my new address, can I get a ticket for not officially moving to Missouri within the 30-day limit, if there is one?
I should add, if the cop pulls me over and sees my new address on my proof-of-insurance. The insurance company (USAA) gives you an insurance card based on where the car is, so as soon as I came up for college I had to get my insurance card changed from Florida to Missouri. But not my driver’s license.
This is confusing, sorry.
SanibelMan: IANAL or Missouri Resident.
However, I think you may be screwed.
I lived in Missouri for seven years, and ISTR reading somewhere that you have 30 days to put Missouri plates on a vehicle that you bring in from another state.
However, I went to college there and had Illinois plates on my truck for two years and never had a problem.
I know this doesn’t help much. :smack: