Illegal In the US, Legal In the World

[@LegalEagle]

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[@mifuyukisaragi9809]

I have ate tons of Kinder eggs as I grew up in Asia. Luckily I have never brought any back to the states. Whats funnier is I don't think any of my parents or other relatives actually know its illegal, we just been very lucky.

[@tomsko863]

Can you do a review of the movie "A Civil Action" (1998)? It's based on a true story and it has a very different take on the crime-procedural trope movie. Note: it is NOT the greatest movie of all time, just interesting and based on true events.

[@lulubassen]

Has the usa actually signed any human rights?

[@nickdaigle2811]

A classmate brought Kinder Eggs back from Germany for my entire 2nd grade class. Not sure how her parents smuggled in 30+ eggs. They were delicious though, and nobody died.

[@damrielkaari3718]

In Belgium it's not necessarily enforced... But getting hit while crossing in places where there's no pedestrian crossing, might get you a ticket for attempted suicide. That being said however... I know of some crossings with lights, that police officers will use if they need to meet their quota of traffic tickets.

[@SoleaGalilei]

Some years ago a woman was hit by a car and killed outside my workplace. There was a public outcry to "do something", so the city assigned a beat cop to patrol that block and ticket people for jaywalking. I did think it was interesting that the focus was 100% on pedestrian behavior and not on how fast people were driving on that street.

[@DaybreakPT]

The "do something" people should've been more specific in their demands instead of just shutting up when some stupid band aid fix was made.

[@scruff5644]

Tickets pay the mayor. Changing a speed limit costs the mayor.

[@dbadaddy7386]

It's much easier to catch and ticket pedestrians.

[@ywoulduchoosetousethis]

Car country. Pedestrian and cyclists r nuisances. That's what I get from drivers commenting when those two r around

[@dbadaddy7386]

@@ywoulduchoosetousethis There is definitely a bias in modern city design towards cars.

[@Jrpyify]

Surprised you didn't mention Loitering. Back when I worked at a school for international kids, I had to explain some of these US-specific laws and they always found loitering hilarious. "So ... It's illegal to... Stand around??? Hahaha wtf america?"

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

I think it's because rules against loitering are on the lower levels like counties, cities or even specific areas.

[@lyfandeth]

Don't forget vagrancy. Simply having no money on you could lead to your arrest for vagrancy, up into the 70's.

[@lyfandeth]

It is not that simple. Whether loitering is legal, and how it is defined, varies in each US venue. Cities, towns, counties, states, all may set their own laws about it in the US.

[@Eudaletism]

A lot of silly laws on the books are holdovers from the Black Codes, neutrally-worded laws which were written to jail black people. No loitering, no vagrancy, no gaming, no trespassing near the railroad tracks, etc. No doing X past midnight.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And then even try to define loitering. When does it start? Is there a timer that sets the difference between waiting and loitering.

[@NotJustBikes]

I couldn't pay for a better channel recommendation. Thanks! You hinted at it at the beginning, but you didn't even get to the topic of zoning. Because of strict euclidean zoning, you can't open a shop or an office in your neighbourhood. That means that people in new neighborhoods, built within the past 50 years or so, are very unlikely to live within walking distance of any shop, office, or medical centre. This means almost everything requires a drive, which generates a huge amount of car traffic in these neighbourhoods. Also, in most US neighbourhoods you can't even add an apartment in your garage, or a basement apartment. You can't buy a house and turn it into 2 or 3 apartments. And that's not even getting into what other restrictions might be in place because of your Homeowners Association (HOA). And finally, in the Netherlands I enjoy another freedom I could never fully achieve in the US or Canada: the freedom to not to have to drive.

[@Tyrope]

I was hoping to see you here after the shoutout. *rings bicycle bell*

[@josephstrong8377]

You had me up until turning a single family home into a multiple family apartment. That is a no go. With the families and kids in my neighborhood there are already enough vehicles, now add 2-3 apartments with all the people living there and all their vehicles then that's going to be a problem.

[@sudo4598]

@@josephstrong8377 The point is is that we have become reliant upon single family zoning which is, for numerous reasons, very inefficient and generally bad. We can't turn these single family neighborhoods into more dense and walk-able neighborhoods.

[@Sientir]

@@josephstrong8377 That's the thing I didn't get until I started watching Not Just Bikes' videos: American cities have been (re)designed around cars, but if you change things so that cities are designed around pedestrian and bicycle traffic instead, cars are no longer necessary. That would reduce the amount of car traffic you have to deal with. It's a very different paradigm, though, and not one I was able to grasp until it was presented to me.

[@melissamarsh2219]

@@josephstrong8377 it’s called having public transport and walkable cities

[@duckymouth]

In the UK, jaywalking is just how crossing the road works. If the road is clear, then you just cross the road. I remember once reading a comic from America and I thought that it saying that crossing the road in that way being illegal was just a joke.

[@drpri1836]

Same in Bangladesh too. In fact, the traffic police help kids, people too scared to cross the street on their own, elderly to jaywalk if present.

[@arm4146]

no queen and no pedestrian lights, thats crazy

[@duckymouth]

@@arm4146 there are pedestrian lights you're just allowed to ignore them and most people do if the road is clear

[@JXßT3R]

Well(mainly due to the british(when they had the u.s) built the roads carriage dependant, it just carried over to America being car dependant.

[@artemiseritu]

Nor sure what part of the UK you're from. But everywhere I've been, cars act like pedestrians don't exist.

[@Infernitar]

When I was younger I genuinely thought America made up jaywalking as a harmless stock crime to show a cop was being over-zealous, especially because cops in comedies would treat jaywalking as an especially heinous offence

[@mustang8206]

Police don't enforce jaywalking unless you are putting yourself or others at serious risk like walking on the highway at night

[@carlodave9]

Jaywalking is a legal way to selectively hassle people who look like bad news. Which I'm not totally opposed to. But the racial disparity in enforcement is pretty damn implicating.

[@speedracer2please]

Comedies do still exaggerate how seriously it's taken. I've never seen it enforced in New York City, and I even worked on a comedy called Jaywalk Cop where the severity of all crimes is inverted and only superstar detectives can investigate jaywalking.

[@davidalcala1373]

It's pretty hit or miss, tbh. I've been ticketed once for it in the 32 years I've been alive, but he was an asshole cop who wanted to scare 15 year old kids.

[@yournamehere7862]

@@mustang8206 they don't much anymore but they definitely used to. It's one of those laws that are just meant to be applied selectively at the discretionary whims of any random officer

[@gamelockbreaks9607]

I was in London and I remember a guy that started talking to me because I was American. He looked at me and said " you know what is cool about the UK? You can walk across the street and people HAVE to stop for us." He then stood in the middle of the street, giving drivers the bird who honked at him. I was just sitting there lost for words. I don't think I will ever forget that lmao

[@herculesbrofister265]

BLM does that all the time.

[@anna-gt2mu]

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[@anna-gt2mu]

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[@Thedeathdump]

@@herculesbrofister265 so you’re saying blm are advocates for walkable cities? Sign me up

[@d_ryosuke]

You're legally required to stop for crosswalks, at least in NY.

[@AlexTenThousand]

Fun fact, Kinder Joy wasn't even made with the US ban in mind, it was introduced in the Summer of 2001 in Italy (under the name " Kinder Merendero") in order to fill the gap, as Ferrero doesn't sell many of its products during the season to avoid them being ruined by the heat.

[@SerenaBS]

I thought it might be a heat thing, because i saw it around Asia, usually in the hotter places. It's pretty good at that temp too. Though by cultural norms there, everyone thought it was weird i was buying a child's chocolate for myself as a teen.

[@libellen3250]

We also only have them in Brasil, probably for the same reason.

[@ragerr_yt843]

when he said they were introduced in 2018 i was confused as ive been eating these things since 2009

[@stephjovi]

Yeah they're always there in summer, especially the single ones at the register. Thankfully it's winter and I'll buy one tomorrow. Damn video I'm trying to eat less chocolate 😂. Seriously that toy is way too big to be illegally swollowed. I've opened the package with my teeth often because I didnt manage to get it open otherwise

[@samplautz5586]

Who else still sees these around in the US? They sell them at the place I work at which is why I’m super confused. I’m 21 so theres no way these have been illegal for that long because I remember seeing them a couple years ago, and like I said they have them at the store I work at

[@GoodCraftingYT]

What surprises me most is that people make unreasonable laws that prevent symptoms instead of focusing on the source. It doesn't matter what rules or products people make, if people aren't smart enough to not mess it up, well, it's same as forbidding eating the normal way because it's possible to choke. I couldn't imagine a nine year old (come on, people are responsible and smart by then) "accidentally" kill their sibling with a literal weapon before I heard it. Same for crosswalks. One time two women in my city were crossing a street, one absolutely ignored the light and analyzed the road, then crossed, the other waited for green light and got hit by a car anyway. Conclusion: people should be taught to think instead of being "sheilded" from something potentially dangerous if you try hard to make it dangerous. Anyway, thanks for making videos like this and educating people on important things. Love your channel

[@PexiTheBuilder]

Smart phones make difference too, green light = safe, and then just stare at phone, not looking what happens around..

[@AschenDog]

A lot of people around here blow straight through red lights without even looking. I generally use crosswalks on wider and busier roads, but at the four way stop near my house it's *absolutely* safer to jaywalk. If I'm far enough away I only have two lanes of traffic to watch instead of at least four at once. The few close calls I've had on that road were *all* at the intersection proper.

[@googane7755]

It's crazy that blame is fully on pedestrians in America and not reckless drivers. Here in Europe it's very much your responsibility to slow down near pedestrians and to give right of way if necessary.

[@manny9323]

It’s not crazy. It was initiated by corporations to make money. It’s the most predictable thing in this country lmao

[@damien678]

​@@manny9323 It's both extremely predictable and crazy as all hell

[@jasonshih3633]

I’m pretty sure pedestrians have the right of way in the Us as well. Just took my driving test and it was emphasized hella log

[@maryamz6691]

@@jasonshih3633 Yes pedestrians have the right of way but only when they're crossing on crosswalks. So if they're jaywalking then they don't have the right of way.

[@jasonshih3633]

@@maryamz6691 nonono, i just took my written test and it literally had a question that said even if theyre jaywalking, pedestrains still have the right of way. And in California where im from, jaywalking is legal now, so pedestrians stil have the right of way. Idk about other states, but in California, the pedestriians definitely win

[@Heyyyyitsanya]

In high school we had a German exchange student who was getting a care package from her parents I asked her if they could send a kinder egg bc they’re banned she was surprised they were banned and sent one I split the whole egg with the class and we all joked and enjoyed that we were eating a banned food item thanks Anna

[@BobTheTrueCactus]

How many casualties?

[@sholahverassa8582]

@@BobTheTrueCactus Tons, I betcha. One egg and a whole class of kids? There's gonna be a battle royale for the toy.

[@realdragon]

@@sholahverassa8582 Yeah, american kids would pull out guns and german kid gas canteen. It was bloodbath

[@sholahverassa8582]

@@realdragon So thaaaat's the real reason behind the kinder eggs' ban!.. The kids used to just whip out their pieces each time anyone was getting a cool toy they haven't yet collected!.. Man, I know I would have gone berzerk. When those oriental-ish shark figurines were around, I got a fuckton of those stupid jar guys, but didn't get the sultan or whoever was it... And i am still pissed each time i remember it :c

[@TheSaxAppeal]

Kinder eggs themselves aren't banned just the ones with toys in them as they're considered a choking hazard

[@muskatDR]

You cant be seen drinking in public. Unless you carry it in a brown bag which has the same effect as shouting "Im drinking alcohol!" at the top of your lungs...

[@myriamickx7969]

This brown bag to hide the bottle screams bigotry to me.

[@berdwatcher5125]

@@myriamickx7969 how?

[@damp2269]

add no buying alcohol sunday morning....

[@navyboyslocum]

@@damp2269 I can buy alcohol sunday morning, what do you mean?

[@damp2269]

@@navyboyslocum no every state is the same. I lived for a while in Louisville KY and there you couldn't buy alcohol sunday morning... something about church..it has been years since i lived there but just checked and the rule is still in effect.

[@scottd1885]

Jaywalking and Kinder Eggs being illegal is genuinely WILD

[@hunterlewis6214]

Jaywalking is probably more taken seriously in busier places. Where walking is very common, dozens of people walking across the street on a busy road would backup traffic so much

[@wjf0ne]

@scottd1885 Jaywalking is a nice little earner for the city. Cops that enforce that law aren't one bit concerned about your safety, they just don't want the hassle of dealing with dead or broken bodies and know that the money from citations goes some way towards their pay.

[@iverbrnstad791]

@@hunterlewis6214 to be fair, there are rules about hindering traffic in most countries where jaywalking is legal. At least in Norway that's how the law is written. I don't think jaywalking is more common in Norway, as it it still more chill to use pedestrian crossings, if you cross elsewhere you have to watch traffic, look left and right, and all that.

[@agentchaos9332]

Those cheese regulations are particularly funny given how many chemical food additives are illegal in Canada and most of Europe, yet legal here. Crazy how much fast food chains alter their recipes from America to Canada/Britain

[@zefyrisd69]

Yeah that's ridiculous. Like If you want to ban stuff like Roquefort and Bleu, start maybe by banning all the ridiculous stuff you add to your own food that is pretty much illegal everywhere else, dear USA.

[@williammeek4078]

I wouldn’t call it funny. I am slowly growing more and more of my own food to avoid chemicals I can’t even pronounce.

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@williammeek4078 hell do it just for two biggest offenders that are pretty easy to pronounce: Sucrose, Sodium

[@xczechr]

Everything is a chemical, folks.

[@zefyrisd69]

@@xczechr some chemicals happen to really not be good for the body, while others happen to be.

[@babygorilla4233]

The authoritarian nature of our laws really shines in the sentencing. Things like 3 strike laws, minimum sentencing laws, and the odd prisoner quota for private prisons. It's a vicious cycle we setup. We made private prisons, and those prisons made money. Which they immediately spend on lobbying to get stricter laws longer and longer sentencing.

[@Mysterios1989]

To be fair, the minimum sentencing is not uniquely American. For example, in Germany, minimum sentencing exist as well, it is just kept at a way more reasonable level, with most crimes having the mandatory minimum of a month income.

[@emojack]

Dont forget lowering the mandatory minimum standards in those private prisons. raising profit margins while also making sure ex inmates leave the prison more broken then they entered. Helps generating more repeated offenders.

[@dangerousdays2052]

In the US it's better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent.

[@ku8721]

@@dangerousdays2052 Sadly that is still true pretty much the world over!

[@pocketmarcy6990]

@@Mysterios1989 but it’s not illegal to break out of prison there so Yes I know you’ll still be brought back to prison in Germany if you break out

[@leepopey]

I got to say about the Jaywalking. As a brit, when I went to new york I was very confused by the fact the green man and the cross walk didnt mean cars couldn't still turn and drive there... that feels very dangerous

[@kenlompart9905]

In Canada, Jaywalking is legal until a pedestrian walking outside of designated pedestrian areas interfere with traffic. This means that as a pedestrian who is crossing without a crosswalk, you must yield to motorists on the road.

[@myriamickx7969]

Jaywalking : US is a country with terrible records of lack of safety for pedestrians. Why? Because in the US, everything is designed for cars and driving, and no amount of safety regulation is geared towards protecting the "weak” users, i.e. the pedestrians and cyclists. Instead of encouraging people to drive responsibly, make jaywalking illegal. It's so much easier.

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

Yeah it happens a lot especially in cities. Either they were too lazy to put a extra traffic light for turning or the driver doesn’t care. It’s legal, but it’s worse when drivers don’t use their turn signal and just barge in even when pedestrians are waiting on the other side. If that happens to me I usually walk in front of the car as it’s about to turn and stare menacingly at them

[@emporioalnino4670]

Right on red is extremely dangerous and leads to a large increase in pedestrian and cyclist injuries/deaths. There is no reason it shouldn't be banned.

[@kenlompart9905]

@@emporioalnino4670 If pedestrians and cyclists get hit by someone turning right on red they're crossing against the light.

[@jaebee1121]

Here in America, the moment we find out that something puts kids in danger, legislators pull out all the stops to ensure we try to keep our kids safe, unless the danger is from gun violence.

[@katiem.3109]

Or cars.

[@chrisnotpratt1903]

Gotta love America. The only nation dealing with gun violence while having guns being a huge part of our culture.

[@nicolas4377]

or priests or politicians

[@YayyAreaaa]

Or pedophiles

[@yashsinghal403]

Yes

[@narnas55]

I remember the first time I visited Orlando, FL I crossed the street without using the crosswalk and quickly learn about jaywalking. In a matter of minutes after the first police officer stopped me I was surrounded by multiple police vehicles and angry looking men. After asking for my ID and info things turned south fast as they did not recognize Puerto Rican license as a legitimate form of ID and accused me buying and using fake ID's and failure to identify to a Police Officer which is an arrestable offence, they told me. Thankfully I had my passport in my backpack since I had just barely got out of the airplane and was only given a bad time, a warning and a couple of dirty looks.I went to see Micky Mouse but got to meet Uncle Sam instead. Don't get me started on trying to buy crazy glue at walgreens tho.

[@emjayay]

I'm guessing that looking Puerto Rican had a lot to do with that.

[@robync1366]

That is awful

[@nk-dw2hm]

@@emjayay bro was guilty of walking while brown. That's a class 3 extra-felony

[@astererratum6546]

I live in an area that has almost no crosswalks. I don't have a car. I literally can't drive. (health reasons)

[@MrTheguitaristguy]

Colony moment.

[@peterwilson8039]

When my son was a toddler I realized that it is much safer to cross in the middle of the block rather than at an intersection. Sight lines are a lot better, cars are coming at you from two directions instead of four, and there is much less chance of somebody in a car doing something unexpected as in turning without signalling. This is not to say that pedestrians shouldn't use crosswalks, but rather that they put crosswalks in the most dangerous location.

[@lisaw150]

So true! Also, "jaywalking" generally works fine if people aren't idiots about it. In Germany, where I live, you'll basically only get fined for "jaywalking" if you literally cross right at a red light, and even then I've never heard of anyone actually getting a ticket. And you can both walk and drive just fine, even in very busy cities like the one I live in. In Paris, where I used to live, everyone just crosses at red lights and it still works. They just pay attention to traffic, problem solved.

[@memkiii]

@@lisaw150 I lived in a small town in Germany, and one Sunday, was waiting at a pedestrian crossing, with a light, on a completely deserted road through town. No vehicles in sight, the crossing light on red. So I started to cross, only to be given a tirade of abuse, and not inconsiderable amount of brolly waving from an elderly German woman that I hadn't seen behind me, who was informing me in no uncertain terms about the folly of my ways. Don't mess with German Grannies, and don't Jaywalk in Germany. At least not while anyone is watching. As for Paris. It doesn't much matter either way there. Even if you wait for a green light, the traffic is not going to pay any attention, so you may as well just cross regardless, (and run if you value your life). Half the time, the traffic isn't even on the road. At least that was my experience. Not that London is much better.

[@lisaw150]

@@memkiii yeah, you have to be careful with grannies 😅 but if you cross between red lights, that's fine! As for Paris, I never saw a car or scooter run a red light in the time I was living there. Bikes, yes. But I have to admit I crossed at red on foot all the time in Paris.

[@chaos.corner]

In the UK, we were taught to cross away from junctions for exactly those reasons. I think it might even be in the highway code.

[@_H__M_]

@@memkiii Yes, they expect you to be a role model for the children - even when there are none around. As somebody, who grew-up in Germany, I understand the importance of not breaking traffic laws in front of children, because children copy pretty much every behavior. Unlike American children who are driven by their moms everywhere, German kids are often walking or cycling to school, sports/activities or friends by themselves without parental supervision. Being a good example may prevent a kid from getting into accidents. Still, going crazy on people when there are no kids around is a bit much. I guess less people jaywalk in a society where this behavior is shunned than in a society which relies entirely on ticketing by law enforcement.

[@pixiesnakes4293]

So there is a country where you can legally own a tank, an assault rifle, a grenade launcher, and with some paperwork a M109 Howitzer self-propelled artillery cannon. But not a chocolate egg, a dart, or a menthol cigarette because those are "too dangerous". Sure makes sense!

[@thenickstrikebetter]

In South Carolina you can get a permit to launch a missle

[@richardwillson101]

"BuT tHE seCoND AmEnDmeNt" 🤦‍♂️ It would be funny if it didn't involve hundreds of dead schoolchildren.

[@Edward256]

America is all about BIG, so the bigger the safer, right?

[@LOKSTED]

Gun prevents crime. Kinder eggs do not but I’m not surprised a Bronie couldn’t understand

[@Edward256]

@@LOKSTED Did you know that Norway prevents crime without guns, but with kindness? Not exactly "Friendship", but once you have a look at Halden Prison only positive words come to mind.

[@orphantheism]

fun fact, jaywalking is only illegal in nz if you are within walking distance of a cross walk or if the crossing light is red. the fine is also only $35

[@jannetteberends8730]

That used to be the law in The Netherlands. Just learned from this video it’s abolished. 😀

[@trafalgarlaw8373]

Well it just categorically shouldnt be one

[@TheEulerID]

All countries that have jaywalking rules have conditions of that sort. That's even in the USA. There aren't marked cross-walks everywhere.

[@thepolishnz]

And it's never policed

[@HowDareYouSpeakToMe]

I remember lawn darts. Our favorite game was to throw them directly above ourselves and run away before we got impaled. Our second favorite game was one guy holds a plank of wood as a shield and everyone else throws lawn darts at him. Fun times. I can see why they're banned now because those were the games we came up with as kids.

[@kaptnkarl01]

My favorite one was where the two teams stood on opposite side of a house and you threw the darts over the house and the other team had to avoid them when they came over.

[@rogerwilco1777]

@@kaptnkarl01 We would stand on opposite sides of a creek and try to skip stones into each other.. which would last until the 1st person got hit in the shin and then it would just become a straight up rock war

[@elizabethpowers7540]

I'm willing to bet my parents still have the lawn darts in the back of their shed. They had 6 children and miraculously we all survived with no impalings (particularly surprising when you consider we were 6 siblings - the odds of impalings being intentional thereby going up greatly).

[@firstmkb]

We didn’t have lawn darts, and had to play “rock tag.”

[@critlv972]

@@firstmkb my dad used to love playing “rock wars” when he was a child

[@Deckzwabber]

They were some dark times, years in a Dutch kindergarten. I lost seven of my twenty classmates to Kinder eggs. I was so lucky to make it alive.

[@xczechr]

You were in kindergarten for multiple years? Yikes.

[@Deckzwabber]

@@xczechr In the Netherlands we go for two years. But do please explain why you find this upsetting.

[@patrikburda]

@@xczechr In Czechia we go usually from 3 (might be from 2.5) to 6 (or 7 if you are born after September and miss "school enrollment"). Now how is that bad for anything? :D Would you rather put 4 year old kids to school (where they will learn nothing) or would you rather keep your kids asocial till they go to school?

[@aspannas]

@@xczechr Where do you live where kindergarten is only one year lmao

[@cobaltchromee7533]

@@xczechr You weren't in kindergarten for multiple years? Yikes.

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

I remember when I was a kid, a neighbor had lawn darts in their garage. We had no idea how the game was supposed to be played. Instead, we would take turns seeing who could throw them the highest in the air. While they were far from "razor sharp", even a blunt lawn dart falling from those heights could certainly do significant damage to your skull. Oddly, it never occurred to any of us that these might be dangerous in any way.

[@terrychant4365]

I think even as intended it was crazy. The sets I remember had 2 target loops, so it was like horse shoes and being dumb kids we'd stand right behind the target our friend was throwing at. Good thing we didn't have accuracy down and widely missed.

[@KentHenry8]

we had a plastic-tipped set when I was a kid which could still pierce typical soil but my neighbor had one that was truly (for seemingly no reason, other than they looked neat) razor sharp at the tip. What a weird decision.

[@capybara2671]

My friends and I would also throw them as high as we could. But then we'd run in circles. How none of use were injured I will never know.

[@4of20]

they are never razor sharp, thats so editorializing, I fell in and out of love with this channel in the span of a week :D dude is extremely hyperbolic and has a clear agenda, shame really

[@DaDunge]

I remember once when I was a kid a friend fired an arrow form my bow into the air and it would have hit me had I not rolled out of the way. I would likely not be writing now had he hit me.

[@cdnnorsedogdad5119]

I live in Canada and back in the early 90's I was charged with Jaywalking in Toronto at Queen and University. But I challenged the law and won. The Ontario Law at the time, stated that "Jaywalking is closing a road, street, Highway or Motorway (yes, the law is so old it still had "Motorways" listed) in such a manner that you endanger your own live or the lives of other." I did this at 3:000 on a Tuesday morning, as the ticket has time it was issued by the cop. written on it. The only people near that intersection were me and the cop who wrote the ticket, in his PARKED car on 1 block west of intersection, who stopped me as I walked by his car. I asked the Court how my walking across that intersection at 3:00am on Tuesday morning "endangered anyone, including myself. The Judge couldn't think of a way and asked the cop that question, before voided the Ticket. He did mention to the cop that he not try to hard to meet a "quota" of tickets in his shift.

[@PingMe23]

Drug Testing. I got razzed when asking how companies in other countries could drug test their employees when more drugs were becoming legalized. Turns out, only here in the US do we do drug tests as a prerequisite for being employed. It's basically an employer laying claim to your off hours and policing what you do with them without paying you for it.

[@th3oryO]

Many jobs here in Canada have the same restrictions.

[@velox__]

The concept of drug testing before employment for a large part of jobs is just insane to me.

[@ungenbunyon5548]

Happens here too in the UK

[@inelouw]

It's almost completely illegal here in the Netherlands for employers to ask their employees for a drug test. The only exceptions are pilots, captains, and train drivers. Other than that, employers can only ask you to please not do drugs while at work.

[@neeneko]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Unfortunately a lot of companies just do it across the board (well, unless you are c-suite at least), regardless of if drug use would cause a safety risk. It has just become a boilerplate 'reefer madness and DARE said this was bad, so it is policy now!' thing that low level employees are hit with. it should then come as no surprise that drug use among executive is pretty unchecked.

[@zir0faive]

I always wondered if the kinder egg being banned was a urban legend, thanks for confirming it's real... But this raises a question to my foreigner eyes: doesn't this "musn't contain something not edible" make some fruits like peaches illegal?

[@debra1363]

Don't give them ideas!

[@AllFunniesandGames]

If there's one thing the US doesn't need to import, it's peaches. (I mean, corn's probably a little higher on the list, but still)

[@RealClintCapela]

Georgia would cease to exist lol. But I know what you mean with stone fruit lol (imagine cherries with their hard and smaller pips)

[@joestewart5406]

It is a urban legend my mom has bought them from Walmart dozens of times lol

[@nerdymaple2637]

That food safety law only applies to manufactured products. Products that naturally have inedible parts, such as peaches or apples, are safe as long as the producer isn't intentionally putting something else inedible, such as pieces of plastic, in their products. Since Kinder eggs don't naturally grow toys inside of them, they 100% break that food safety law.

[@gouki4u]

I worked in a gas station that still sold clove cigarettes in 2009. I'm sure we just didn't realize we were supposed to take them off the shelves as not many people bought them, but good to know I've apparently trafficked contraband.

[@ShadowMoon878]

Sell it to indonesians. They love clove cigarettes.

[@poisonedkilljoy9304]

apparently i’ve been involved in illicit cigarette behaviour, cos in the U.K., we’re allowed to buy menthol filters for rolling tobacco, but we can’t buy menthol cigarettes (or any other flavour, for that matter), but there’s also a GIANT thing of anyone leaving the U.K., going somewhere where tobacco laws are laxer, and coming back with the stuff is just…kinda normal. i’ve had menthol cigarettes (not rolls) from a friend doing this

[@ScooterBond1970]

Gas station I worked at around 2001/2002 started selling a new brand of "budget" cigs that had all manner of flavor additives... including chocolate.

[@TheSleepingonit]

In the early 2000s, I did sample product surveys. I got cigarettes once. Newport wanted to try the idea of fruit flavored cigarettes.

[@electricminecrafter]

9:20 note if an aerospace engineer says that a flying toy is not safe it is probably not safe

[@discordantmelody9316]

Jaywalking provided me with one of the weirdest experiences of the US ever. Mid 90's and I was in Pittsburgh for a conference. The hotel was on one side of the street and the conference hall on the other. Many attendees were from across Europe and after breakfast would wander outside to go to the conference hall. One day a cop was present and suddenly he got very excited and started shouting at a particular person. The person ignored it because they didn't think it was directed at them. Moments later the cop pulled his gun on the guy and had him on the ground. That was one very confused (and frightened) german wondering what the heck he'd done and if he was going to survive. The rest of us are looking at each other going wtf as the concept of jaywalking was not a thing where we came from.

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

Using a gun to stop a jaywalker seems rather........ Exagerated what what I would expect to see in a place where police was unregulated like... Let's say.... A dictatorship.

[@Siegmernes]

Getting a gun pointed at you in Germany would be a genuinely difficult task. You'd need to do some pretty bad shit to manage that.

[@asmosisyup2557]

@@TheAllMightyGodofCod Well the gun was probably used to due to the person fleeing arrest (by walking) or not complying with an officer. He's lucky he didnt get shot.

[@2Papinos]

@@asmosisyup2557 yeah cause walking away is sooo freaking dangerous... Maybe the person has a hearing problem or is just zoned out in his thoughts... Pulling a gun and throughing him on the ground is literally mental and excessive...

[@wibwe]

@bruh or if he was deaf

[@Gamer3427]

Honestly in general, a lot of the laws we have aren't because any common sense or reason was involved, but just because someone lobbied hard enough for their personal interests or because they pictured the 'worst that could happen" rather than the reality of the situation. It also seems like it's significantly harder to get dumb laws repealed than it is to get them enacted in the first place.

[@b.cdrisk2035]

Anti-jay walking laws are good. Keep in mind Europe is a very different place with slower traffic and narrower roads

[@veryontron4279]

@@b.cdrisk2035 Because they have multiple ways of getting around in the EU besides just using cars.....USA could use a hell of a lot more options besides just cars.

[@b.cdrisk2035]

@@veryontron4279 I lived in Europe, I know

[@hangukhiphop]

Also racist moral panics

[@epowell4211]

I agree. When Jaywalking laws were first instated, there were way more pedestrians than vehicles, but there was a lot more money made by the automobile industry. On the toys, food, and candy bans, I can see the valid points, but I bet the people backing the push to criminalize them all have money to gain from it somehow.

[@thunder____]

Thank you for shouting out Not Just Bikes! His channel was incredibly eye-opening for me and I want literally everyone in the United States to watch his Strong Towns playlist.

[@aatsiii]

Let's go! Not just bikes not just for Americans too! We still have jaywalking tickets in Poland it's ridiculous!

[@bigpooper4156]

yes!!!

[@sparkster1314]

Damn right. If town planners had followed the strong town model, life would be better in so many ways.

[@flotsamike]

In Texas it's illegal to walk along a road without facing traffic. In some areas it accounts for up to 10% of all arrest. It's sort of an unofficial vagrancy law and probable cause for investigating public intoxication.

[@Schnipps]

It amazes me how so many things become illegal just because people are incompetent.

[@Kirraii]

Truly

[@tannergordon8302]

Or because 50s parents ignored their kids

[@degstoll]

@@tannergordon8302 That's incompetence

[@tannergordon8302]

@@degstoll fair

[@Ptr-ck7if]

Ninja weapons were banned in the U.K. Because people thought people were buying them and killing people (they were not in the slightest). They even had to censor the ninja in teenage mutant ninja turtles because of how big it was

[@melpomenesnightmare7291]

I got hit by a car when I was 14, it was going like 50mph. When I was in the hospital, a cop gave me a jaywalking ticket. Also this was in a very, very small town…like there was no traffic lights in the town small. But it was my fault, and the judge said it was one of the weirder things he’d seen and fined me 10 dollars lol.

[@SharienGaming]

honestly...unless you threw yourself in front of the car - not your fault... the driver is operating a 2 ton metal projectile... its their responsibility to do so safely and im betting there is a serious amount of fault with the road designers as well... if that speed is within the speedlimit, thats a WAY too high limit for an urban area... and im betting that urban road is also built like a highway

[@ironcito1101]

You got hit by a car going at 50 mph? Damn, you're lucky to be alive. Did you recover fully?

[@melpomenesnightmare7291]

@@ironcito1101 Yeah, I actually didn’t even break anything. Just flew into the windshield and over the car 15 feet or so. I couldn’t walk for a couple weeks and still have glass in my scalp. But I’m fine!

[@Jehty_]

So how do you cross the road legal if there are no traffic lights? Or were there pedestrian crossings?

[@melpomenesnightmare7291]

@@Jehty_ no, there weren’t any crossing’s…I tried asking the cop, but I was 14 on some heavy painkillers, scared in the hospital so I don’t think he answered

[@fusel5883]

Let's turn that one around and look at something that's legal in the states but illegal in most countries, civil forfeiture. Theft by the police that sometimes outranks normal theft by value per year.

[@blakekaveny]

It’s legal to bribe politicians

[@fusel5883]

@@blakekaveny true. Forgot about that one... Still shockes me that it's legal to do so and totally accepted.

[@neeneko]

And in that vein, slavery! still perfectly legal in the US provided there is some pretext to put you in jail.

[@sandshark2]

@@neeneko or if the slave owner is a company and not an individual. Its actually protected now by the SC that companies can keep slaves, actual slaves not just wage slaves.

[@MarcelaElviraTimis]

@@sandshark2 what?!?

[@philipberthiaume2314]

Jaywalking is also illegal in Ontario, Canada. I saw a young lady get hit by a car that she had walked out in front of and as the paramedics loaded her into an ambulance, a police officer slipped her infraction notice into the chest belt that was strapping her to the stretcher.

[@woowybaby3064]

That is sick.

[@philipberthiaume2314]

@@woowybaby3064 I'm sure that it was unpleasant for the driver also.

[@TheRockStar04261999]

As a Canadian, Kinder Eggs were an awesome treat growing up and the fact that the US has a fine of $2500 on kinder eggs but yall can buy butterfly knives from a 711 makes me so confused

[@CaTastrophy427]

Guns too. And tasteless, odorless poisons that can be made to look, smell, and taste like lemonade or fruit punch or what have you.

[@medusagorgo5146]

I have ‘allegedly” brought them into the country. I lived in Germany for a total of 10 years and I “allegedly “ sent them to my nephew & niece. Allegedly.

[@TheRockStar04261999]

@@medusagorgo5146 Cannot confirm or deny thought eh? lol

[@christopherclark4038]

I never understood the knife argument, a hammer can be just as deadly, or a filed down toothbrush. I get it you are scared of violence because you live in a simple country, but it's just silly to me.

[@TheRockStar04261999]

@@christopherclark4038 Fair enough I just used butterfly knives as an example as they are illegal here in Canada due to the ease of consealment and quick drawing ability, same with switchblade

[@JBrynnJ]

I watched this on nebula and was so sad I couldn't comment on the genius scriptwriter. Some of the jokes in here are just GOLD. "Ovarian contraband"

[@raycrow3718]

Bleached flour, pork treated with ractopamine, our gmo corn.. all banned is most industrial nations.. but not the us

[@brennancrazy]

The puns this video were on another level

[@cp78912]

Bless you for contributing to Nebula/Curiosity Stream. Great service really.

[@nodidog]

Does nebula not have comments?

[@MattSeremet]

@@nodidog the service while valiant makes the niceties of KZbin obvious. I bet they're working on it tho

[@MGlBlaze]

Here in the UK (and probably most other countries that don't have jaywalking laws) we're taught street safety from a very young age. "Stop, look, listen" is a mantra that was advertised frequently and included informational advertisements on television under the "Green Cross Code" brand. It boils down to being pretty sensible advice; stop at the side of the road and make sure there isn't any oncoming traffic by looking both ways and listening for the sound of approaching vehicles before trying to cross.

[@Ali-mv3jc]

Yeah I remember learning that in about year 2. There was a song too 😂

[@davidcrellin8531]

It also helps we have different types of "crosswalk" for different types of roads. Although it does confuse Americans when we call them by their names (Pelican, Puffin, Zebra) :D

[@alexanderkupke920]

@@davidcrellin8531 Arent´t Pelican and Puffing just some names that got common in place for the technology used on these? I think the one is PEdestrian LIght CONtrol or PELICON, which becam Pelican. While the Puffin was derived from Pedestrian User Friendly INtelligent. Also you you forgott about the Toucan (Two Can Cross). With all of those most likely completely unknown to anyone outside the UK. For those around the world wondering, A Pelican crossing has traffic lights and Pedestrians have to push a button to call fro green. A Puffin crossing is mostly the same, but has infrared sensors which monitor the crossing and change the lights as soon as the crossing is clear. (so the cars may have red for a shorter time if someone sprints over the crossing while they have to wait longer, if someone with a walker hobbles across the street.) A Toucan if I remember right is a crossing for Pedestrians and cyclists. Oh and finally for those who wonder, a Zebra Crossing would be a marked crossing in the US, looking at the markings it should be obvious where the Zebra came from. It is the same in German by the way, where it is called "Zebrastreifen"

[@jampanpvp2382]

“Look left, look right, look left again” was a phrase we were taught in school

[@owenrowell]

I can still visualise the diagrams for the green cross code with the hedgehog crossing the road

[@ivymoths]

that bit about lawn darts just reminded me of a time when i was 6 where my teacher told us to “bring in darts tomorrow”, and i told my dad about this, who promptly gave me darts. y’know, the ones you throw on the boards and whatnot. unsurprisingly, when i, a wee little year 2, rocked up to school with a little pouch of the things, my teacher confiscated them til home time. also unsurprisingly, when she’d told us to bring in darts the previous day, she meant _paper planes._ (although: in me/my dad’s defense, i don’t think ‘darts’ is a common phrase for paper planes here in nz? at least, i certainly haven’t heard it since that one specific time.)

[@sindrehsoereide]

Freedom to Roam is another weirdly missing rule in "The Land of the Free". As a Norwegian, it confuses the hell out of me how people don't have that right in other countries.

[@SvanTowerMan]

As someone who loves the idea of running around in wide open fields and admiring the trees and mountains, the lack of a "freedom to roam" law greatly restricts my ability to do that.

[@danielthecake8617]

I think it's stupid to make it illegal to remove people from your property.

[@teemu86]

We have that also in Finnland, the main point its not for profit

[@robertpollock2037]

We have freedom to roam in Scotland but not in England- most people don’t realise we have our own legal system so laws such as limits on drink driving are different from the rest of the UK

[@ferretyluv]

I hear about Freedom to Roam in Scandinavian countries and yet Iceland had fences everywhere and signs telling tourists not to trespass.

[@old_grey_cat]

Language difference: in my Australian childhood, we were taught that "jaywalking" was failing to go straight across the road - because going at an angle leaves you in danger longer. Our jaywalking laws are variants on " You must cross a road in the timeliest, safest route possible. You must not cause a hazard or an obstruction to drivers or other pedestrians " So if you are within a certain distance of traffic control devices you can be fined for not using them, and you aren't allowed to go diagonally across the road. It's not a crime, though, and the fine is not large. From the original origin, jay as in silly or rube, it makes sense: don't play silly beggars while walking on the road.

[@flykintoun]

In SA it's an offence if you're within 20m of a pedestrian crossing and don't cross using it, and it's an offence if you cross a road diagonally, it's a $148 fine

[@paddington1670]

Jaywalking is not in the Criminal Code and is not considered a criminal offence in Canada. Come here and mess with our traffic, seems to be fair game, but dont forget to say sorry while you do it.

[@CoolKoon]

"It's not a crime, though, and the fine is not large." - Yeah, even in countries where fines are issued for "jaywalking" it's treated as a minor offense. Treating it as a crime is nuts and something only the wicked 'muricans would do...

[@unconventionalideas5683]

It is not necessarily a crime in the US, although it is a violation of traffic regulations.

[@CoolKoon]

@@unconventionalideas5683 Let me put it another way then: in no other part of the world (save for some disgusting dictatorships perhaps) would you be arrested for "jaywalking". This is literally something that only happens in the US. Anywhere else you get a (usually symbolic) fine and that's it.

[@geoffreydevereaux3272]

Phew. I’m so glad you guys take the safety of your children seriously. I can’t imagine how you guys would clamp down if children were dying en mass due to something. It’s good to know American children can go to school safely and grow up in a country which values their lives so much.

[@anthonywiththew]

Yeah I love being an American child. It helps me so much when people make fun of my country btw

[@arandomcomment1092]

@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT You can criticize a country all you want, but maybe you're stooping low when you're "making fun" of actual children. Bully the government for all you care

[@borrasca2311]

I agree with Geoffrey most americans don't anything too that goverment they enjoy taking it up the ass being raped of that money while there mass killings in there schools

[@geoffreydevereaux3272]

@@anthonywiththew this isn’t saying “oh look how great it is that children are dying.” But it is saying that this needs attention. And pointing out the absurdity of banning kinder surprises whilst doing nothing about gun control.

[@geoffreydevereaux3272]

@@arandomcomment1092 you… you recognised this is aimed at the Government correct?

[@Thedeathdump]

Oh man I love that you shouted out not just bikes!!! I freakin love that channel! I didn’t know you were a fellow advocate for the fellow walking/biking man rather than the studio apartments on wheels

[@ladyrevan8903]

I've almost been hit IN a crosswalk, WITH cross signal more times than I can count. What needs to happen is they need to crack down and ticketpeople who drive haphazardly and permanently suspend their licenses. Too many people are on the road who just should not be. Either drive safely and be aware of your surroundings, or don't drive at all.

[@enjoyslearningandtravel7957]

I was almost hitting on the crosswalk, and I was walking on the signal, a young woman driver was turning right, and was not paying attention and almost hit me and I had to jump out of the way.

[@mindblown9]

I have been hit in a crosswalk with the signal, and the person who was turning right said the sun was in her eyes when the sun was above on the other side

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

@@mindblown9 lmao, how’s the court case going?

[@chaosvolt]

The one thing that's always bugged me about jaywalking: the points on a street farthest away from any intersections, driveways, or other access points aren't considered legal to cross. So you're expected to cross right next to the intersection, in a country where "right on red" is legal for most intersections. A country where we trust drivers to actually look before they blindly pilot a 2-ton vehicle right into a pedestrian that's already started crossing, but don't trust them to chuck lawn darts at each other. :V

[@emjayay]

No right on a red in NYC though, in any borough.

[@chaosvolt]

@@emjayay There's always exceptions depending on city ordinances yeah, but for most of the country it's something pedestrians have to worry about. Plus all assumptions about whether it's safe to cross go out the window in practice, since if you can't trust drivers not to commit vehicular manslaughter then obeying a red light would be even more of a stretch to ask for...

[@greywolf7577]

@@emjayay In my state it is right turn on red unless a sign specifically says that you can't. Ironically, I saw someone get pulled over for turning right on a red light at an intersection that specifically said that they couldn't. So reading street signs is important.

[@graceross4888]

Any pedestrian knows the best place to cross an avenue is at the middle, enough space for incoming cars to see you and enough for you to pace your walk, luckily my city started implementing them like this

[@warailawildrunner5300]

@@graceross4888 In the UK we can cross where we please, although pedestrian crossings are recommended on busier roads. We are taught from a young age how to risk assess crossing a road. Same in all EU countries.

[@Skios]

The revision of the traffic code in The Netherlands did have one major change that really impacted the traffic experience - cars no longer automatically had the right of way over cyclists. It was actually a law that was introduced during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, in order to make sure that German military vehicles weren't impeded by civilian traffic.

[@brofist1959]

It's a rule that should exist in the US, cars are much heavier and faster and more dangerous, cyclists should be made to pull off to allow traffic to pass if they happen to be on the road in a non-cycling lane - or, alternatively, simply banned from non-cycling lanes. A cyclist is a hazard.

[@Khetroid]

How are cyclists the hazard when it would be the cars doing the damage?

[@darklazerx7913]

@@brofist1959 cars are much heavier and faster and more dangerous, cars should be made to stop to allow bikes and people to pass. They are an ineficcent way of transport that takes up way too much space, makes walking a hassle, and are super noisy. A car is a hazard.

[@Churro_Douglas]

@@brofist1959 Right of way should go to the party who would suffer most in the event of a collision. American pedestrians take on both the physical and legal consequences of the collision, so it is no surprise that no one drives in a safe way around bikes and pedestrians (or humans, as I prefer to call them).

[@helgenlane]

People in these comments be like "let's ban cars and drive bicycles everywhere!", the same people next morning "man, I have to drive 20 miles through suburbs and highways to my job again"

[@terryhayward7905]

You have missed one other major freedom, the freedom to roam, in almost all European countries, you are free to walk on any public land AND most private estates, as long as the area is not marked as closed to the public and you do no damage to the property, close gates after passing, not leaving trash etc.

[@freemovies411]

"The couple was unaware that they were in possession of illegal ovarian contraband," got a good snicker out of me. XP

[@stephjovi]

I just read that as snickers 😂. Damn all that chocolate talk at 2 am now I need to buy snickers and Kinder eggs tomorrow because I can 😂

[@freemovies411]

@@stephjovi Ayyyy good on you for catching the totally intentional chocolate pun! 0u0)/

[@exceptionallyriso]

@@freemovies411 natural comedian

[@callummclachlan4771]

"Where the hell did the evidence go?" *Mumbles, "It just disappeared...."

[@shorttbone4193]

My students are always shocked by the kinderegg thing 😂 my roommate in college was from Vancouver and her kindereggs were seized at the border when she came to Washington. 2 years later she got a letter from the US gov telling her they have been holding her “contraband material” and she needed to pay a $3000 fine to get them back or else they’d be incinerated 😂😂😂

[@The_Rising_Dragon]

NOOO! DON'T BURN THE KINDER EGGS!!!!

[@realdragon]

Mmmmm 2 year old chocolate probably held in warm room

[@DenseMelon]

JESUS A 3,000,000 FINE

[@shorttbone4193]

@@DenseMelon 😅 omg you’re right

[@Cupcake_Royale]

@@DenseMelonikr. And all that for a kinder egg?

[@Sevenpuddingsx]

"here in America when we find out something is dangerous to our children, legislators pull all the stops to keep our kids safe" I see you, Devin. I see you.

[@vaf3614]

Yeah, guns and schools are a perfectly safe combination with no obvious flaws.

[@Just_Ve]

Just remember that he says here in America when in fact those nonsenses are mostly from the USA, the rest of the continent people have more important priorities.

[@Gary_Harlow]

Yeah, trucks with a hood twice the higth of a four year old is also legal... somehow.

[@antoinetteellison5387]

Unless it is a gun, then we hand them out like candy.. 😭

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@Just_Ve 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@DakodaS246]

I love that you know not just bikes. That makes me hopeful of good change for our neighborhoods

[@ChatookaMusic]

On one hand I understand wanting to protect children in general, but on the other hand something about the mindset of "I made the personal parental decision to give my children a bunch of deadly sharp objects to play with and one of them died so we should ban all the sharp objects" rubs me the wrong way

[@HeathsHarleyQuinn]

There's something to be said for a breakdown in America of teaching your children how to behave especially with sharp objects but just also in general. This is a world where as a small child my dad told me never to leave the house without a pocket knife and I was taught nice safety and I was expected to follow knife safety and guess what I follow knife safety and I wear a pocket knife on me to this day. And no I am not a boy. So yeah I agree with you completely and I don't know what happened except to say that people just presume that children can't learn things which is a really dangerous Outlook because if you decide to treat people as though they can't learn things they eventually get to a point where they've done it so little that they don't know "how to learn"

[@hankkingsley9300]

Did you give them big bag of glass

[@robcostigan8757]

@@hankkingsley9300 SNL shoutout. Love it. "We're just packaging what kids want."

[@keyboard_toucher]

It's not only your children who can die when your children do dangerous things

[@ChatookaMusic]

@@keyboard_toucher that doesn't change anything about my statement. The only thing different about "I made the personal parental decision to give my children a bunch of deadly sharp objects to play with and someone/something else died/was serious injured so we should ban all the sharp objects" is as a parent one might be even more blatantly motivated to shift responsibility off of oneself.

[@fozzytheflyingmuppet]

I live in the EU and I've never seen lawn darts here. I don't suppose selling these in a toy-shop would ever be legal in the EU. Javelins are thrown by children under supervision at athletics class.

[@maartendetemmerman393]

thats probably why they weren't banned, cause noone would be stupid enough to sell 'toy'javelins for little kids. never seen thse things and similar toys are all made out of materials that would soften aan blow. the only thing i geuss that would come close would be petanque balls. but the ones for kids are normally plastic with water and not a metal ball that they can barely lift

[@alexanderkupke920]

I wondered the same. I slightly wondered those would be legal here as a lot "lesser" things are considered a weapon in Germany, but as far as I can remember I also have never seen those sold anywhere in the last 35 or so years I can remember somewhat clearly. I have seen the dull plastic or other versions though.

[@neilthehermit4655]

Lawn darts were withdrawn in the UK shortly after their sale in the 1970's due to safety concerns,by the company that made them... Legally not banned directly,but would probably be classed as weapons/dangerous objects so won't be sold anyway.

[@petrograd4068]

I've actually seen them in a second hand store in Sweden, but the tips were plastic and not too pointed.

[@HippoOnABicycle]

@@alexanderkupke920 Speaking of German weapons laws, correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's legal to sell pepper spray as long as it's marketed as being protection against aggressive dogs? I bought pepper spray from a German website a few years ago and all the product descriptions were like "This pepper spray is good if the dog is really big" or "This mild pepper spray is good protection against small dogs." It seemed obvious to me the pepper spray was meant against humans and that the website was just bullshitting about dogs to get around the law.

[@FrumpyMcDumpster]

Kinder Eggs: objection sustained, trial over, straight to jail. Juul: I'll allow it.

[@gwaptiva]

Guns: Am I a joke to you?

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

Not enough kids have choked on a juul yet lol

[@potatopotatow]

@@gwaptiva no, no, it’s the doors, you see

[@potatopotatow]

@Bygotskitz agree. Was referring to US ridiculous right wing politicians (US) insisting that guns aren’t the problem, it’s unsecured doors.

[@naception]

Juuls are made by Altria which like all tobacco, spends billions to poison our government with lobbyists. Kinder eggs are made in Italy. Unfortunately they haven't bought enough politicians yet.

[@TylerSy]

When you can own an assault rifle but not a chocolate egg

[@kamalindsey]

Fun fact, theoretically states in the US could set their own drinking ages and did, but then the fed passed an act where if states set drinking age less than 21, they would withhold federal road funding for the states. This has led to states, like Nevada, who probably would have set the drinking age to an European level to keep it above 18.

[@geoffstrickler]

The US has always had a bizarre relationship to alcohol, sex, and nudity, largely tied to our puritanical origins. We really need to “loosen up”. Alcohol: Institute a “graduated” approach, you should be able to purchase beer/wine “by the drink” at perhaps 16, where a presumably responsible adult server is managing how much you can consume. Allow “liquor by the drink” at 18/19. Allow beer and wine “to go” (package sales) at 19 or 21, then all alcohol sales by 21-25. That gives people time to gradually get used to responsibilities consuming alcohol, rather than ban all until 21, then allow whatever. Sex and nudity. We’re a society of prudes. Stop it.

[@Akriashi]

That's how a lot of our national law work: Sure States can set whatever they want; and Congress ties state funding to the national law; See restrictions on adult content in public libaries: Any libary can do so; and lose funding. Don't like No Child Left Behind? Fund your school system yourself.

[@awesomemantroll1088]

@@geoffstrickler Origins? I'm still here!

[@jb888888888]

In the US it is legal for under-21s to drink, provided they are at home and supervised by their parent/legal guardian.

[@TheBiggerNoise]

@@geoffstrickler Down here in TX, I could buy a drink for my kids at a restaurant before they were of age. And, yes, it was great b/c it made it much less of a big deal when they finally could go out on their own.

[@StrawHatsAreFashionable]

Weirdly enough, Germany has laws against jaywalking, but the penalty is so incredibly small that it's basically a bad joke, the fees don't ever go above 10€ and I've never seen any law official care in the slightest about it.

[@etuanno]

Here in Switzerland I don't think it's forbidden. The insurance company can refuse to pay because you crossed the road "unsafely". Makes sense, don't walk across a big road, a small one is fine though. And use crossings whenever possible.

[@therabbithat]

If you jaywalk how will drivers know when and where to look up from their phone

[@Misslaneyberry]

I've never gotten a fine for jaywalking and I've never known anyone who's gotten a fine but I will say be smart or US drivers will hit you

[@AndDiracisHisProphet]

Are you sure? my sister almost lost her driver's license. Granted she was in a bike and it was like...25 years ago, but still. 10€?

[@derdomino828]

In Germany, the true punishment is the old ladies scolding you because you are setting a bad example for the children :D

[@FrameDrumAndFlute]

What bother me about jaywalking laws is that now drivers will speed from one red light to the next, because they view the roads as for them, exclusively.

[@scottbarcomb6744]

I know and it makes no sense too. You waste gas doing it and it's unsafe. If you see the next light is red don't get up to speed just to brake again immediately.

[@thomasdegroat6039]

Im sure drivers hate me as a pedestrian because I will not cross a street unti I see the car is stopped or very slowed down (like under 10 mph). They get up to the crosswalk way to quickly and trust their brakes to stop them on a dime. I don’t trust you like that.

[@FrameDrumAndFlute]

@@thomasdegroat6039 My wife was hit waling in a crosswalk. Never, trust a car will stop.

[@phageling9949]

The road IS for them exclusively. Too many people just walk out in front of cars. Get rid of those laws and all of the sudden it is the drivers fault for an idiot pedestrian walking out in front of their moving vehicle.

[@wendyheatherwood]

@Phage ling It belonged to pedestrians, cyclists and horses long before cars were a thing. Cars were added and turned out to be pretty dangerous for them, so instead of removing the dangerous thing they'd just put in the space people and animals had been using for centuries they kicked out the people and animals instead, and for the most part never gave them a place to use instead.

[@swagmaster6973]

A little over a month ago my best friend and his girlfriend went to Canada. We live in Michigan, so you can drive to Toronto in only a couple hours, and they were back the next day. He invited me over to his house and to my surprise he handed me a Kinder surprise egg and informed me that they brought like 10 of them across the border. I was genuinely surprised and giddy with excitement to be holding such exotic contraband. After devouring the chocolate and as I was putting together the little toy I looked over at our several guns sitting on his couch and had to re-evaluate my entire life. We slaughtered some paper targets a half hour later lol crazy world we live in

[@ChrissieBear]

"Hey Steve, should we protect the country from real threats?" "NO, WE MUST CRACK DOWN ON THE CHEESE AND CHOCOLATE EGGS!"

[@karlwolfenstein4496]

Chocolate with a toy inside is DOOM for our children, but the GMO Frankenchicken and Psudo beef from Mickey-D's, Yeah buddy, Super Size Me, suck it down and make sure the kids are addicted to it too! It's All INSANE!

[@thecomposerchanginggames5250]

People have died from both of those things, it was a good move to ban them.

[@Slurpgerk]

@isabelle4197 It's easier to ban cheese and candy than guns, people will put up less of a fight

[@radarplotextractor3168]

I wouldn't be surprised the bans are due to lobbyists paying politicians with money from Hershey and the dairy industry.

[@ЮрийБогомолов-б8щ]

@isabelle much more people (and partially kids) died in car accidents than in gunfights but no one wants to ban cars

[@eyezak_m]

It’s hilarious that out of all things to be seized at the border. It seems like kinder eggs would be the last thing you would expect.

[@magnusbane420]

I'd take one with me for the memez

[@JumblesaurusFlex]

And yet guns are somehow not a risk to children....

[@ExperimentIV]

i’ve sent them to american friends in rhe mail before. the first mistake was using a land route 😤

[@paysonfox88]

I thought the hateful and resentful eggs would be seized, not the kinder eggs.

[@atomf9143]

Just today, they found over a ton of cocaine at the Mexican border. They probably seized a load of Kinder eggs too.

[@Arnyh0ld]

The irony of banning kinder eggs while there are literal guns at school did not elude me.

[@dkoda840]

Guns aren’t allowed at school tho.

[@izawa9211]

​@@dkoda840 beacuse its not allowed doesnt mean there arent Sadly

[@night6724]

@@izawa9211 That’s not what he said.

[@night6724]

@@izawa9211 gun grabbing isn’t a solution

[@izawa9211]

@@night6724 i think you dont know what he said

[@assignmentspaghetti6897]

I love hearing the genuine bitterness of knowledge that you can hear in his sarcastic openings for these

[@CrystalBrightz]

"Illegal ovarian contraband." I'm gonna tuck that one away for later.

[@Mellypepper]

I scoffed, actually scoffed, at the "the moment we find out something puts children in danger legislators pull out all the stops" to ensure kids are safe bit. Nice one. 😂

[@beardfistthegoldenone7273]

"More security at schools? Nah fam, 40 BILLION to Ukraine tho, peace out fools bout to go on my 5th 2 week vacation this year." -Congress

[@Shade01982]

Except for the most obvious threats for some reason. Because, you know, money.

[@swedneck]

"cars kill hundreds of children every year? pffffffft that's fine! This wad of cash that mysteriously appeared in my hand says so!"

[@edwardallenthree]

It is ironic that we can say that with a straight face and one of the few modern societies that actively practice as human sacrifice of children.

[@JM-cl7pl]

We need to ban the guns because is America really a free and safe country if the feds can’t kill you without worrying of getting shot back?

[@MrSwanley]

Wow, I just found out that I probably broke the law the last time I was in the US. It seems I had no idea what Jaywalking was, I had heard the term in movies and tv cop dramas and from context thought it meant to intentionally dawdle and obstruct traffic. Last time I was in the US I needed to get to a convenience store in the late evening, and I crossed roads exactly how I would do it in the UK: if the road is busy, find a crossing. If the road is empty then just cross! I had no idea that was jaywalking!

[@nosuchthing8]

Actually most people in the US ignore Jay walking laws.

[@PixieoftheWood]

Eh, it's okay. I'm an American and I knew it was a law, and I just cross wherever if there's no traffic.

[@ked49]

I don’t think anyone takes it seriously unless there are at least five cars

[@scottym50]

@@ked49 I think it's hilarious that you have to walk 2 blocks to a cross walk, and still get run over by cars while you are crossing.

[@BenjaminWalburn]

jaywalking was made a crime as an excuse to harm black people, as well as make it harder for them to get to work. It was part of the racist infrastructure system that included things like separating black communities with train tracks and major roads, as well as building overpasses too low for public transit to pass under.

[@olegpetrovic]

Wait wait wait, lemme get this straight. You can own a tank, an AR-15, and an M109 Howitzer self propelled artillery cannon, but not a *GODDAMN KINDER EGG* ?!

[@rhy45bianchi31]

URRÀ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@ickykid94]

I'm so happy you mentioned Not Just Bikes. North American roads and zoning are inhospitable for people that want to be outside!

[@jdatlas4668]

i want a crossover about zoning laws now.

[@codex4046]

The Nebula ad at the end was replaced for even more NJB promotion in the Nebula version.

[@TheJerbol]

@@jdatlas4668 that would be cracked

[@SRFriso94]

The issue is that so many Americans have internalized this idea of car = freedom. Not realizing that by building the country only for cars, they have effectively turned cars into their own prison.

[@mustang8206]

Too bad for them. Cars for the win

[@owenkittredge3433]

I have felt for years that crossing at an intersection in a city typically is more dangerous than jaywalking. Due to that at a light controlled intersection the pedestrian has to watch 3 directions, cars making a right turn, cars making left turn and cars blowing the light. When jaywalking in the middle of a block when stepping off the curb you first have watch to your left then mid way look keep an eye on the right both are much easier to do.

[@astral_haze]

and having to walk off of the crosswalk or on top of a car's hood because people stop on the crosswalk

[@anahills3836]

I agree!

[@angelachouinard4581]

@@astral_haze Just last Thursday it happened to me. I walked in back of her car and then turned and looked the next driver dead in the eye. The crosswalk timer was so fast the light turned green when I was in the middle of the road. I felt like a target.

[@enjoyslearningandtravel7957]

Exactly what I think too !!!! that crossing on a crosswalk is definitely more dangerous since cars can turn right on a stop signal. It is allowed so a person gets halfway across the crosswalk and then has to run out of the way of the car turning right or hope that they slow down and not hit you. And, like you said, if a person walks midway down the street, they can see much further down that all the cars are stopped so they have an empty road to walk across and nobody turning right.

[@owenkittredge3433]

Good news California has removed Jay Walking this year due to that it was mainly use to stop folks of color.

[@chrisdiboll2256]

As a Brit, my mind was blown when I was told what jaywalking actually is. I'd heard the term on films and stuff, but didn't realise until I visited that it basically means crossing a road without the government's permission

[@cemdursun]

In my first week in the US, I was stopped for jaywalking and was told to learn the "laws of America" if I wanted to live here. I was also frisked with the officer's hand on her pistol.

[@VillaFanDan92]

Yeah, I always thought jaywalking was like walking on a motorway/freeway or something.

[@TruPunx89]

being a dutchie i would not survive in the US solely for the reason i cant cross the street whenever i fckn want to

[@lizzieburgess674]

Until I went to the US (many, MANY years ago) I'd imagined that jaywalking was wandering about in the middle of a road among the traffic - not just crossing the street. Not so, to my surprise!

[@chrisdiboll2256]

@@lizzieburgess674 Me too!

[@lillyehrlich2816]

The amount of sarcasm in this video lol. I will be an avid fan from now on

[@KingsGlaive42]

Kinder eggs are definitely the biggest threat to children in America.

[@UlexiteTVStoneLexite]

Yeah....

[@TomNook.]

Eggs don't kill people, people do

[@indrinita]

Yep, definitely not school shootings, I agree!

[@KingsGlaive42]

@@TomNook. And where do people come from? An egg cell. Point proven.

[@UlexiteTVStoneLexite]

@@KingsGlaive42 lol 😂😂😂

[@_Tp__]

I love the way they phrase the kinder egg danger. They make it seem like as long as you’re out of the USA it’s fine but if you enter the US with a kinder egg, american kids will start dropping all around you.

[@goshdarnitman]

Like school shootings

@@goshdarnitman Oh, no, *those* are A-OK, because they're AMERICAN! U! S! A! U! S! A! U! S! A! U! S! A!

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

@@goshdarnitman Nah, the country actually did something about kinder eggs

[@mehere8038]

well like he said, it's an IQ thing......

[@victorzarenin9286]

When I was a kid (late 90's early 2000's) my family would never let me play with something as dangerous as lawn darts. My dad taught me other forms of entertainment, like throwing knives, making rockets, shooting, etc. That's how I stayed safe as a kid :)

[@Bill_Garthright]

We threw _hatchets_ when I was a kid. We'd try to get them to stick in trees. Of course, if you didn't get it just right, they'd fly back all over the place. I was probably six years old at the time, because we moved when I was seven or so. :)

[@ananda_miaoyin]

I made sure my kids had a really well rounded education as well. Especially since I could not find any goddamned lawn darts!

[@temjiu9915]

Kind of ironic huh? I grew up with a family that hunted (not voraciously, but enough that rifles were a standard in our house). I was shooting hunting rifles by the time I was 10. Never once had a single incident. But I"m sure I'd probably get myself and 13 other kids killed with those devious darts! We also used to play bottle rocket wars, where we'd head down to the river and spend a few hours shooting bottle rockets at each other. Definitely not legal, but it's just funny how much they hyperfocus on a lawn dart when I can count the incidents involving fireworks in my own life, but those are still "legal". Or perhaps its the nature in which they are advertised and implemented. Most people assume that toys for kids are "safe" without looking at them logically and, well just looking at them. But fireworks, bottle rockets, and rifles are definitely not kids toys.

[@pul0y]

My mom loved us so much we didn't get to play much at all. She believed that we were safer helping her in the kitchen. She still does it to this day. I saw her hand a chef's knife to my young nephew and told him to play with carrots instead. No lessons on proper handling and technique. Just hand it to him directly, said her piece, then turn to other meal prep.

[@herbwitch5681]

Don’t forget the hairspray flamethrower

[@tomwalker779]

Here in Toronto you may cross between lights/crosswalks provided you don't interfere with or impede traffic.

[@billyalarie929]

when it comes to jay walking, i'm always telling people "i'm not committing any crimes, i can't walk" bc i'm in a wheelchair.

[@DrRussian]

I guess your Jay Rolling then

[@andredulac4456]

@@DrRussian they see me rollin', they hatin'

[@vegasab7186]

Honestly I've lived and worked in several states and a few countries without ever being harassed for jaywalking. I didn't think it was more than urban legend.

[@mehere8038]

lol in Australia the law is "crossing against the signals" or "crossing at a non-specified location" or something like that - it's worded so that wheelchair doesn't get out of it, I think originally done that way for kids riding bikes rather than with wheelchairs in mind. Biggest problem I find though is the "helpful" drivers who just stop in the middle of the road when they see me waiting to cross in my wheelchair. There's a spot at the end of my street that has natural traffic breaks, that I just wait for, but the idiots totally mess it up by just stopping in the middle of the road to let me cross, even though there's cars still coming the other way AND it's a 2 lane road each direction, so when they stop, any cars behind them think they're turning right with no signal on & dart around beside them & would still hit me if I crossed when they decide to stop & wave me across. Drives me nuts! Wish they'd just follow the road rules! Do you get similar where you are?

[@TheRealHungryHobo]

@@vegasab7186 I live in Canada, had a teacher threaten to call the police on me for jaywalking in grade school, so i looked it up. There's two components to the law, you have to both: - Cross outside of a designated crossing area - Disrupt the flow of traffic So you're only jaywalking if you run out in front of traffic like an idiot. If you just cross an empty street, that's fine.

[@LabGecko]

After living in the EU for a few years most of these laws seem manufactured to benefit industries tied to the laws instead of any concern for public safety. I wonder what the American Cheese lobby does...

[@mrwess1927]

Protects the cheese caves.

[@willb4643]

@@mrwess1927 you think any American cheese has ever been in a cave?!?!

[@Angel-eu7pt]

@@willb4643 Will, there ARE american cheese caves, where the cheese is stored, no joke

[@aryanbhuta3382]

That's the great thing. Europe has centuries-old cheese lobbies. The US doesn't, so it makes laws based on public safety.

[@LabGecko]

@@aryanbhuta3382 haha, right? I'm so scared of that Mom & Pop corner fromagerie in France! Really though, is crazy how much money the US cheese industry pours into politicians to sell substandard cheese at massive markup.

[@jameschu8376]

I remember when I found out kinder eggs (Child eggs) were illegal in the USA and I haven't stopped laughing since.} Even as an adult I'd STRUGGLE to fit that capsule into my mouth....if your child is ganneting things an adult would struggle to get their jaws around then sorry to say maybe it's time to stop worrying about chocolate and start working on a having a backup child.

[@rasalghul1904]

lmao thanks man that made my day

[@Gliese380]

It's not the capsule, it's the smaller contents. Not that I agree with it.

[@IzzysTravelDiaries]

If the kid opens the plastic egg and starts eating what's in there, that's just Darwin in action and we're probably all better off. Kids all over the world have Kinder eggs.

[@bluester7177]

@@IzzysTravelDiaries Also, as someone who lives in a country where they are legal, had them as a child multiple times and have survived, I think is not that common, in my experience, they have an age bracket to which they are recommended so that children won't choke (the toys are quite big anyway and don't always need assembly and when they do the parts aren't that small), and normally children open these things with parent supervision.

[@DRL1320]

I’m very glad plastic toys inside food is banned in US. It’s good. It should not be deadly to my two year old. Hated the vlogger making his idiot cruel remarks about “stupid” American children. We’re talking about the safety of children under age three, who put EVERYTHING in their mouths - and you want a world where little kids can find these “treats” lying around leading yo ghastly accidents. He “joked” that food treat was banned in the US after killing “only” seven kids. Horrible. Now if we would be as outraged by the hazard of unsecured guns in households.

[@paull8678]

Back in the 70s, my cousin's family had lawn darts, and one of the darts landed in their above ground pool, puncturing the bottom. It had to be drained and fixed. They darts got banned from the house after that.

[@TheGirlWithTheLighthouseTattoo]

I learned to jaywalk properly when I started traveling. I went to the UK by myself at 17, and quickly realized that EVERYONE jaywalks, and the way the lights are set up, you would be waiting all day otherwise. The city planners were smart enough to put a waiting area in the middle of the street, so when each direction had a lull, you could cross and wait for the other direction of cars to have an opening. Plus, the roads all have arrows that point to which direction you should look to see oncoming cars... Imagine common sense like that in the states... The thing that gets me is that so much of suburbia stateside doesn't even have sidewalks in many places, let alone areas to cross these multi lane massive streets. Visiting my family in Michigan, it's easy to be reminded that they are the home of the automobile because the way everything is built is to accommodate cars... I mean, in what delusional world does a "Michigan left" exist? The rest of the world calls that a u-turn. 🤣

[@roselover411]

In South Dakota, we call making a right turn but sliding into the far lane instead of the close lane a South Dakota turn. Nearly everybody does it here even though I'm pretty sure it's technically illegal.

[@6ftcheeseburger384]

Trust me, with the ways michigan roads are built, pedestrians are never close to someone doing a Michigan left. They are also super helpful and make driving alot more relaxed. :) Our roads alot alot different than in the rest of the world, hell in the Midwest our roads our even wierd for other americans!

[@Compucles]

Imagine common sense where the traffic lights are timed properly to allow pedestrians plenty of opportunities to cross the entire street at once at an intersection without any additional burden on traffic.

[@6ftcheeseburger384]

@@Compucles almost exactly like how we have it in america???

[@Gogoglovitch]

A lot of the ways suburbia makes itself unfriendly to walkers is entirely deliberate. The designers want to keep outsiders (read: poor people and, usually, non-Whites) out of their neighborhoods, so they make it so you absolutely need a car to get around -- no sidewalks, a layout that can't accommodate buses, big stroads that separate their suburb from any commercial zone, and more. It's malicious design at its finest.

[@yelir64]

"Young children can choke on it" - The motto of every politician in the US

[@0816M3RC]

It is definitely Matt Gaetz's motto.

[@salemcrow5078]

Yeah, everyone knows children can't choke on bullets, duhhhhh.

[@joedwyer3297]

@@0816M3RC Nancy wants to let children watch drag shows

[@deldarel]

Some priests too

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

Imagine being so blinded by your regulatory career that you can't tell the difference between something being technically banned by regulatory language and something actually being unsafe (yet deemed safe enough in every other first world country and without actual evidence that it isn't).

[@Formulka]

Here in Czechia "jaywalking" is only an issue when you do it within 50 meters of an available crosswalk. If there is none in sight, you can cross the road wherever you want.

[@Kralledd]

here in germany its within 30 m of a crosswalk, and only if that crosswalk is showing red.

[@sweetdaydreamer8868]

@@Kralledd its 100m in serbia

[@refrigeratorNO]

Here in new Zealand it's 25 m

[@adpop750]

14:04 The Netherlands it always was allowed to cross the road as a pedestrian. The "laws against Jay-walking were very limited". It just wasn't allowed to cross the street if there was a pedestrian crossing less than 50 meters away. But as you said even that was abolished 30 years ago. And it got that memo today when I watched your video 😀 Greetings from The Netherlands 🙋‍♂

[@Cosmosisification]

Bruh when Devin chuckled/nervous laughed after he said "Because Canadian and European children are smarter" I cracked up

[@insertclevernamehere2506]

Tough call. I prefer to think that is more more that US children are more infantilised by their society than Canadian and European ones.

[@hawkeye5955]

@@insertclevernamehere2506 : Infantilization is part of it. The US ranks low in math and science among it's student population.

[@ichijofestival2576]

As a former American child, I felt the urge to defend myself. As someone who has spent extensive time with other American children, former and current... Eh.

[@shanweeboy]

Kids are dumb everywhere. Euros just hide it better. The shroud around canadians is falling, however.

[@playc.holder6432]

💀

[@dr.floridamanphd]

“Illegal ovarian contraband.” That’s an expression I never thought I’d hear.

[@brianbarker2551]

ohhh, have I got a Roe story to tell you.

[@supernenechi]

There's now a law in The Netherlands against using your phone while biking, just like there is one for cars. Just like in cars, no one follows the law.

[@bentleyvos]

Thing is, it's more dangerous to use your phone while biking, especially because you have to use your hands on the handlebars.

[@petalaregina8835]

should have to ride horses too, where I live there is no legalization for those who ride horses, I've seen crowds with dozens of people riding horses in the middle of the street where cars pass while drinking alcohol and using cell phones, was honestly scary

[@kimeowsky]

@@bentleyvos id say its FAR more dangerous to use your phone while driving. no one is biking at 50-70+mph.. i say more dangerous for the general population rather than the person on the phone. if you bike into a crowd of people i think everyone will be okay. if you drive into a crowd of people..

[@bentleyvos]

@@kimeowsky Maybe not just as dangerous, but it's still more dangerous for you than not.

[@BlazeStorm]

@@bentleyvos It's obviously more dangerous than biking without a phone, but your previous comment implies that a phone while biking is more dangerous than a phone while driving and... no. It isn't. You said you have to hold your handlebar with two hands but in the same vein, you're supposed to hold your car's steering wheel with two hands. Most of the time people use one hand for either vehicle

[@AnthonyLeighDunstan]

Interesting video. Every country has its own curious little idiosyncratic legalisms. Romania, for instance, also upholds several needlessly strict laws including jaywalking and trailer registration laws that essentially view your little inoffensive non-motorised wagon as a lethal weapon, on par with actual engine propelled vehicles. 😂 Being Aussie having migrated for the second time, I’ve found many of Romania’s silly little bureaucracies absolutely ridiculous. Reminds me of Gogol’s short story The Nose. To give you an idea of Romanian law enforcement mentality, I was stopped by a cop sometime passed midnight in the sleepy town of Hunedoara for jaywalking. He said “you need to use the pedestrian crossing” and looking around at the bare road one could land a cargo plane on, I said “yes because it’s unsafe” to which he immediately replied “no, because it’s the law”. I tweaked my neck restraining a persistent eye-roll. 😂

[@HistorysRaven]

To the crosswalk issue, I lived in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando for just under two years. Very few people actually used the crosswalk, unless there were crossing guards on duty, because it was safer to cross 100 feet away from the intersection than at the crosswalk.

[@williammeek4078]

Yes this! I live in Tampa and 100% agree. Crossing mid street is MUCH safer for all involved that at the intersection. At the intersection, a driver has to have his head on a swivel and look all directions. Mid street, they are mostly looking forward. Much easier to see pedestrians that way. Much easier for pedestrians to see traffic this way.

[@joaoricardo9174]

"because it was safer to cross 100 feet away from the intersection than at the crosswalk." That's a great insight into American car-centric city planning. I wouldn't be surprised if they outright outlawed pedestrians.

[@christopherclark4038]

I agree with this, but imagine the traffic if there were crosswalks in the middle of each road instead of at the lights where people have to stop anyway. Imagine stopping for a light then stopping for a pedestrian half a block later then stopping for a light again at the end of the block. And having this potentially all day every day on each road.

[@williammeek4078]

@@christopherclark4038 or maybe a pedestrian bridge?

[@Sunari]

@@williammeek4078 This is why at one crosswalk on the way to my old job I let the first car go first. They were too busy checking that nobody else was turning to care and look for a pedestrian. The second person was likely looking forward for that first car to go and so more likely to see me. While there was a time or two that person just sped across anyways despite it being my turn...this usually worked out better after almost being hit a few times. I'd say traffic flows also affect the safety cause in Chicago I had no issue in especially the denser building areas going across the road because the traffic flowed more like a faucet whereas places like California traffic was more rain drop like. Probably also a factor of street size in there since the city streets would be narrower so there was also less distance to go before the deluge of cars caught up to that particular corner.

[@ItalianRetroGuy]

As an Italian I am very impressed and confused by how they even invented Casu marzu. Like wtf, "oh it's worm invested, let's eat it". Or even "I wonder what it would taste like if I let it rot"

[@damp2269]

probably a case of oh this rotted but we got nothing else to eat, let's try it.

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

​@@damp2269 Pretty sure Sardegna(the region where they have this cheese)'s population never had any food shortage problem in history, its economy has always been food industry only pretty much.

[@damp2269]

@@cannotfigureoutaname because no region ever got seasons with too little or too much rain thus ruining crops, you also accounted for war, or excessive levies for hundreds of years back when the cheese was discovered and records were poor. gotcha.

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

@@damp2269 Chill out mate lol

[@SixJayy]

@@cannotfigureoutanameI mean, that was a pretty braindead comment, sorry to say

[@MrFen-ws3vr]

Kinder Eggs being illegal falls under "think of the children" like so many other things but seems like it is probably more about "I can't be bothered to pay attention to my kid so make this thing illegal" rather than "US children dumb" Also the cheese mite thing The FDA claims "because it could cause an allergic reaction" but if that's the case then why are other well known allergens (nuts for example) not illegal

[@Melsharpe95]

This is the thing. Kinder eggs are everywhere here in the UK and I've never heard of anyone's kid choking on them. They're usually so eager to get the toy out they barely even eat the chocolate lol.

[@tiffanysandmeier4753]

The regulation that bans Kinder eggs is from the 1920s. Basically the regulation is that non food items cannot be included within food. The Marde Gras king cakes with the plastic baby inside also violates this. And some bakers get around this by sending the plastic baby separately for the person to insert themselves. The FDA had the ban before the Kinder eggs were ever created, and do not accept them as an exception.

[@StarlightEater]

Bro there are a bunch of tree nuts that are illegal in the u.s.

[@katie6731]

Big Peanut must pay pretty well. 😁

[@zwenkwiel816]

Think the mite thing is because mitecheese isn't really a thing in the US so the legal mite limit is more about unintended mites being in food. Like they wouldn't be mentioning it on the label but if they exceed a certain limit it might trigger an allergic reaction.

[@1st1anarkissed]

Lawn darts were actually quite fun to throw. They had a metal point about as sharp as a ball point pen. They were heavy, around two pounds and flew with vigour.

[@kirkshanghai]

"Some people argue that kinder eggs aren't a risk to Canadian children or European children, because they are smarter than American children." [pause] .......... "So, anyway" Lmao holy shit Devin is not pulling punches today

[@ThW5]

Taking into account the number of kids becoming lawyers, there might be something to that, ...

[@0816M3RC]

@@ThW5 Lawyers can make a lot of money.

[@joiceraiana]

I laughed so hard when my friend told me you can have the police called on you if you're walking on your own neighborhood, because walking is considered weird. How can you be free, if you can't be in your own street? That's mental.

[@edi9892]

I've seen the same in Europe. Some places are very suspicious of strangers. My mother had it even worse when her dad tried to drive her to relatives, but the car broke down in the middle of nowhere in an era where mobile communication was basically nonexistent... They walked trying to find help and a peasant let the dogs free and shot into their general direction! That was in Austria, during day time, and they were not even tresspassing!

[@tjsogmc]

You've never been to Paris, have you?

[@Taragoola]

Nah, it’s fine. You just have to be white.

[@100brsta]

@@edi9892 that definitely doesn't sound like something common for Austria. I am not austrian and I often bike around for fun around austrian farms.

[@edi9892]

@@100brsta it was probably an extreme case, but I've seen quite a bit that farmers are paranoid about thieves.

[@him7487]

I love that you mentioned Not Just Bikes. More people in the US should watch his videos, it's interesting to see another thing the US is completely incompetent at. Seeing how other countries build their roads and cities specifically to be able to live within the city. In a lot of cities in the US it's practically impossible to live without a car and honestly it's something that'll never get fixed but it's one of the largest pitfalls of our country.

[@budling5921]

I popped off so hard when he mentioned Not Just Bikes. I live in the US and love NJB. Amazing channel, everyone needs to see a video or two.

[@robertstone9988]

Maybe in an urban area. In rural areas is the exact opposite. You have to have a car to travel and assholes on bicycles clog up the roads. I'm all for sharing the road but that means both sides have to give and so far the cyclist in these rural areas don't give an inch. 10 miles of traffic backed up on a single Lane Road behind two assholes on bicycles stating that it's their right to be in the road and they don't have to pull over and let traffic buy. I live in a mountainous area with beautiful scenery so I don't blame the cyclist for wanting to ride on these roads but they're all mountain switchbacks with blind corners and no passing zones and if you get stuck behind these assholes on their bicycle going up the mountain prepare for 2 hours of 2 miles an hour usually a line of 10 15 20 cars and a handful of dick heads on bicycles in front of them who will not just pull over to the side of the road and let traffic go by inevitably somebody tried passing the cyclists around a blind corner hit another car head on and the cyclists were on the news the next day talking about how they should be in cars on these roads because it's too dangerous. Share the road cyclist

[@hunam_1]

As expected, LegalEagle is a man of culture.

[@taco5225]

you do also have to consider that europe is generally a lot more compact too, and have been building for the vast, VAST majority cities meant to be traveled by horse or foot. America involved very rapid expansion across an area nearly the size of the entirety of europe with a much smaller population. Everything was spread out

[@robertn.4329]

@@taco5225 you should watch not just bikes he disproves this point entirely. Just think, America did not have cars at one point too and they had cities as far as San Francisco and New York. How did people cross large distances faster than horse? Hint: it is not a car.

[@Nick12_45]

The free-est country is some random island in the middle of the ocean

[@SudoYETI]

jaywalking is a perfect example of big business writing the laws in the US. Also love the shoutout to Not Just Bikes

[@mariopiedrahita2917]

Big Car has dealt untold damage to the US

[@_KaiTheGamer_]

@@mariopiedrahita2917 and continues to do so

[@cookiecraze1310]

'Climate Town' did a video called 'How the car industry carjacked the American dream'.

[@rabbit251]

Many of these little "violations" are simply ways for your local government to raise money to fund their police. I'm a retired attorney from Oregon. After several deaths of children on the water they passed a law handing out huge fines to adults with children not wearing life vests. Surprisingly, the government raked in thousands of dollars in fines, but yet the number of incidents didn't decrease. It would have been much more effective to put public service announcements on TV and radio (something required by FCC rules) than handing out fines. I represented a family that lost a child and guilt of the lose was immense, often resulting in divorce, alcoholism, and other societal problems. Prison and fines did little to rectify the problem except to create other social ills. (I can give other examples about car seats and a host of other things, but hopefully I have made my point).

[@SudoYETI]

@@cookiecraze1310 Climate Town is another fav of mine. Loved the collab between them and NJB

[@dronepilot-jrf-w1381]

The kinder egg one always makes me giggle. 7 dead kids? Banned, $2500 fine for them. The rules in the US are hillariously backwards

[@matthewlawton9241]

It's not hilarious. It's classist. Understand, EVERYTHING about America is about what benefits rich people. Somehow, the banning of kinder eggs is about protecting profits. They sell it to the public wrapped in some crybaby moralism (Won't SOMEONE THINK of the CHILRENS!!!!) but it's ALWAYS money. Dimes to dollars, this is an anti competition law. They just didn't want another company competing. Maybe Americans would learn how shit-tier their chocolate really is if something half way edible entered the market. We need a long, angry season of eat the rich in this country.

[@lynnmatsui]

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a Kinder egg is a good guy with a gun. 😂

[@angolin9352]

The Kinder egg thing has nothing to do with the eggs themselves. The government passed a law in the 1930s that made it illegal to put non-food items in food. This is a generally good idea that protects consumers (an extreme rarity in US law). Kinder eggs wouldn't be invented for another 40 years or so. Nobody has bothered to make a carveout for them because it would open the floodgates of unintended consequences, and also because apparently Ferrero hasn't -bribed- lobbied Congress enough to get a carveout bill passed. CBP on the northern border must not have anything better to do with their time. Or they wanted to go to the southern border but got stuck on the Canadian one.

[@OhSoTiredMan]

They probably swalloed it whole without even attempting to bite or chew it.

[@captaingreen4116]

But like...HOW??? How did they eat it? Were they pretending to be snakes or something or...

[@The_Viscount]

As a kid, I tried to bring coconuts into the US from the Bahamas. Since I was only 12, the Customs guy didn't get mad or anything, for which I'm thankful. He could have easily punished my father for not knowing better or stopping his son. Instead, he kindly explained that it wasn't okay and why.

[@Cipher_Paul]

But why is it not okay? Is it seen as contraband?

[@thechairguy]

@@Cipher_Paul i'm far from an expert on this, but generally seeds and plants are restricted/carefully monitored for cross-country flights because bringing in the wrong plant could potentially cause an invasive species outbreak and destroy an ecosystem. i can't say much on what effect a coconut tree would have on the US ecosystem, but as a rule of thumb, don't bet on bringing any plants or fruit on a flight without getting a fine at the very least