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@mifuyukisaragi9809

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Has the usa actually signed any human rights?

@nickdaigle2811

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@richardwillson101

Жыл бұрын

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

@Edward256

Жыл бұрын

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

@LOKSTED

Жыл бұрын

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

@Edward256

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@dbadaddy7386

Жыл бұрын

It's much easier to catch and ticket pedestrians.

@ywoulduchoosetousethis

Жыл бұрын

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

@dbadaddy7386

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

BLM does that all the time.

@anna-gt2mu

Жыл бұрын

Eareaera

@anna-gt2mu

Жыл бұрын

Eareaeraea

@Thedeathdump

Жыл бұрын

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

@d_ryosuke

Жыл бұрын

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

no queen and no pedestrian lights, thats crazy

@duckymouth

5 ай бұрын

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

@G.h.o.s.t-mi2dc

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

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

@dkoda840

Жыл бұрын

Guns aren’t allowed at school tho.

@izawa9211

Жыл бұрын

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

@night6724

Жыл бұрын

@@izawa9211 That’s not what he said.

@night6724

Жыл бұрын

@@izawa9211 gun grabbing isn’t a solution

@izawa9211

Жыл бұрын

@@night6724 i think you dont know what he said

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@lyfandeth

2 жыл бұрын

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

@liam3284

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently inthe US, a no standing sign applies to pedestrians and not cars.

@lyfandeth

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

8 ай бұрын

Or cars.

@chrisnotpratt1903

7 ай бұрын

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

@nicolas4377

7 ай бұрын

or priests or politicians

@YayyAreaaa

7 ай бұрын

Or pedophiles

@yashsinghal403

7 ай бұрын

Yes

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

8 ай бұрын

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@teemu86

7 ай бұрын

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

@robertpollock2037

7 ай бұрын

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

7 ай бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@josephstrong8377

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@carlodave9

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

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

Жыл бұрын

Don't give them ideas!

@AllFunniesandGames

9 ай бұрын

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

7 ай бұрын

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@nerdymaple2637

7 ай бұрын

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.

Jaywalking and Kinder Eggs being illegal is genuinely WILD

@hunterlewis6214

28 күн бұрын

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

17 күн бұрын

@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

7 күн бұрын

@@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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Interdacted

Жыл бұрын

I just drink, smoke, and walk back home. :)

@berdwatcher5125

Жыл бұрын

@@myriamickx7969 how?

@damp2269

Жыл бұрын

add no buying alcohol sunday morning....

@navyboyslocum

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@Kirraii

Жыл бұрын

Truly

@tannergordon8302

Жыл бұрын

Or because 50s parents ignored their kids

@degstoll

Жыл бұрын

@@tannergordon8302 That's incompetence

@tannergordon8302

Жыл бұрын

@@degstoll fair

@Ptr-ck7if

Жыл бұрын

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@trafalgarlaw8373

Ай бұрын

Well it just categorically shouldnt be one

@TheEulerID

9 күн бұрын

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

3 күн бұрын

And it's never policed

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

6 ай бұрын

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

@thechairguy

23 күн бұрын

@@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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@ragerr_yt843

Жыл бұрын

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

@stephjovi

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

How many casualties?

@sholahverassa8582

Жыл бұрын

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

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

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

@sholahverassa8582

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

6 ай бұрын

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

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* ?!

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

2 жыл бұрын

You were in kindergarten for multiple years? Yikes.

@Deckzwabber

2 жыл бұрын

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

@patrikburda

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@cobaltchromee7533

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

11 ай бұрын

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

@damien678

11 ай бұрын

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

@jasonshih3633

11 ай бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

@@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

10 ай бұрын

@@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

Thank you so much for referring to Not Just Bikes! I was about to explain the benefits of designing safe public spaces over fining jay walking in a car centric environment. 💕

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

"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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Just_Ve

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@antoinetteellison5387

2 жыл бұрын

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

@romainsavioz5466

2 жыл бұрын

@@Just_Ve 🤦🏻‍♂️

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

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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_

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ku8721

2 жыл бұрын

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

@pocketmarcy6990

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

“Here in America, the moment when we find out something puts children in danger, legislators pull out all the stops to ensure we try and keep our kids safe.” Yeah right unless it’s guns…

@YaM0MsAh03

Жыл бұрын

Well ya can’t take them. Maybe when people listen to real solutions rather than the fantasy rooted idea the left came up with, we can move forward in making change happen. Until they stop trying to ban guns nothing is going to change because that’s always what the fight will be about rather than actually addressing the lack of safety schools have in regards to its students. If you think any stranger being able to walk into a school is ok but guns are the problem, you lack critical thinking skills and I question your mental state.

@janthecoo4964

Жыл бұрын

"In America guns are spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M."

@veronicab15

Жыл бұрын

Or trans people teaching po*n to them in kindergarten.

@joshuahadams

Жыл бұрын

@@janthecoo4964in blood.

@janthecoo4964

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuahadams oh so much blood

As a Canadian, this makes me want to go out and buy some kinder eggs. I've taken them for granted!

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

@UlexiteTVStoneLexite

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah....

@TomNook.

2 жыл бұрын

Eggs don't kill people, people do

@indrinita

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, definitely not school shootings, I agree!

@KingsGlaive42

2 жыл бұрын

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

@UlexiteTVStoneLexite

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingsGlaive42 lol 😂😂😂

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Did you give them big bag of glass

@robcostigan8757

Жыл бұрын

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

@keyboard_toucher

Жыл бұрын

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

@ChatookaMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

6 ай бұрын

That is sick.

@philipberthiaume2314

6 ай бұрын

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@robync1366

Жыл бұрын

That is awful

@nk-dw2hm

Жыл бұрын

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

@astererratum6546

Жыл бұрын

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

@MrTheguitaristguy

Жыл бұрын

Colony moment.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Misslaneyberry

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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.)

When I was in middle school a teacher snuck kinder eggs into the country for us. Props to that teacher.

@DarthVader-ch4um

2 жыл бұрын

What a freaking cool teacher!

@pencilbender

2 жыл бұрын

Hahah yeah dope teacher man totally rad me too what was his first and last name again and what state?

@isabellecasier5702

2 жыл бұрын

I (EU) remember having a whole collection of the toys when kids where little. Mom and dad also got to enjoy the chocolat . Strange US banned them but allows to possesse firearms, makes no sense to me. On the other hand, remember the flippo's in the bag of chips ? These got banned in EU. I wonder if this was retaliation for the US eggban 🤔😁

@Fangoros

2 жыл бұрын

OMG are you alright? How many of your classmates suffered because of this villainous teacher!?

@CordeliaWagner

2 жыл бұрын

Choking hazaaaard!!!

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@xczechr

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is a chemical, folks.

@zefyrisd69

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

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

@stephjovi

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@exceptionallyriso

Жыл бұрын

@@freemovies411 natural comedian

@callummclachlan4771

Жыл бұрын

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

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

As someone in the UK, due to recent law changes you can now cross wherever you like (apart from the motorway) without looking and if a car hits you, then the car is in the wrong.

@thepsychicspoon5984

3 ай бұрын

I kniw I am late to this, but I am always confused by this statement. I get that if he hit you, he gets in trouble, but if he hits me, Im in the hospital....with a lot of pain.

@ShawFujikawa

25 күн бұрын

⁠@@thepsychicspoon5984 What’s confusing about it? If you get hit the driver is liable for the accident. Liable doesn’t mean he got hurt and you didn’t.

@thepsychicspoon5984

25 күн бұрын

@ShawFujikawa Because while all of you are more concerned about the driver being in legal trouble. I don't care who is liable. I'm more concerned about my own well-being, rather automatically assuming the driver is going to stop for me. I would rather be alive than play a game of chicken with a 2-ton vehicle going 40kph.

@ShawFujikawa

25 күн бұрын

@@thepsychicspoon5984 Literally nobody here is advocating deliberately endangering yourself by throwing yourself in front of traffic, why on earth would you think this?

@thepsychicspoon5984

25 күн бұрын

@ShawFujikawa When everyone states, "I shouldn't have to look out for cars. If he hits me, he the driver in trouble". This is EXACTLY what that means.

You don't get 2.3 million people imprisoned by letting shit be legal ⚖

@epileptictrees5213

2 жыл бұрын

sigma grindset

@zbz5505

2 жыл бұрын

Holy fk, 2,3m? In the country I live in only one city has a higher population than that.

@alexp8785

2 жыл бұрын

@@zbz5505 America has 20% of the worlds prison population

@sorenkazaren4659

2 жыл бұрын

@@zbz5505 yeah we love putting people in prison here. What happens after that we don’t worry too much about though.

@Sableagle

2 жыл бұрын

@@sorenkazaren4659 What happens after that is the loophole in the Thirteenth Amendment. They get rented out by the day as slave labour, making ammunition in Oskar Schindler's factories.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@brennancrazy

2 жыл бұрын

The puns this video were on another level

@cp78912

2 жыл бұрын

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

@nodidog

2 жыл бұрын

Does nebula not have comments?

@MattSeremet

2 жыл бұрын

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

1:45 i love how those kids didn't even ate the chocolate... that's the spirit

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

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

@0816M3RC

2 жыл бұрын

It is definitely Matt Gaetz's motto.

@salemcrow5078

2 жыл бұрын

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

@joedwyer3297

2 жыл бұрын

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

@deldarel

2 жыл бұрын

Some priests too

@Sonny_McMacsson

2 жыл бұрын

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).

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@veryontron4279

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

@@veryontron4279 I lived in Europe, I know

@hangukhiphop

2 жыл бұрын

Also racist moral panics

@epowell4211

2 жыл бұрын

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.

That nervous laughter is everything!!

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@melpomenesnightmare7291

2 жыл бұрын

@@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_

2 жыл бұрын

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

@melpomenesnightmare7291

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@phageling9949

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@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.

10.04 Lol the irony in a doctor showing the dangers of darts almost poking his eye out

The kinder eggs r still here they just took the toys out in the us version lol 😂

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

2 жыл бұрын

I guess your Jay Rolling then

@andredulac4456

2 жыл бұрын

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

@vegasab7186

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@critlv972

2 жыл бұрын

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

I live in Australia. Jaywalking is a crime here too. There is road near me that is not residential that is 3.5km long, it has a total of 4 legal crossings. Oh and it isn't flat. If you only cross roads legally it is just needlessly time consuming. By all means be safe about it, if jaywalking is a crime, give way to cars but it really is a stupid law.

10k for food imports? Thats not food safety, thats industry protectionism. Here in nz we have the strictest rules around bringing food into the country, and we only fine you $400NZD

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

2 жыл бұрын

"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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@swedneck

2 жыл бұрын

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

@edwardallenthree

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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?

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

2 жыл бұрын

Like school shootings

2 жыл бұрын

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

@HotDogTimeMachine385

2 жыл бұрын

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

@mehere8038

2 жыл бұрын

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

I had lawn darts as a kid and the version I had were anything but “razor sharp”. They did have a pointed tip but no sharper than football or golf cleats.

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

@gwaptiva

2 жыл бұрын

Guns: Am I a joke to you?

@bazzfromthebackground3696

2 жыл бұрын

Not enough kids have choked on a juul yet lol

@potatopotatow

2 жыл бұрын

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

@potatopotatow

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThisFinalHandle

2 жыл бұрын

Crack cocaine: yes! Look at the colourful egg.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@medusagorgo5146 Cannot confirm or deny thought eh? lol

@christopherclark4038

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

Always amused me that carrying a firearm is illegal in the US but openly drinking a beer on a park bench is not

Illegal: Kinder Surprised Legal: AR 15, I'm going to school mum.

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

@karlwolfenstein4496

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@ejynk

Жыл бұрын

@@thecomposerchanginggames5250 Ten children have died worldwide from kinder eggs ever. That's roughly how many children die from gun violence every day, in the US alone. but prioritize the cheese, am i right?

@Slurpgerk

Жыл бұрын

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

@radarplotextractor3168

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@insertclevernamehere2506

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ichijofestival2576

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@playc.holder6432

2 жыл бұрын

💀

The package even has a warning on the side of the box and the egg, "shouldn't be given to children below the age of 3"

9:47 OMG! I remember playing with lawn darts as a kid and thinking, “are we sure I should be allowed to do this? What about a helmet?”

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

2 жыл бұрын

I'd take one with me for the memez

@JumblesaurusFlex

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ExperimentIV

2 жыл бұрын

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

@paysonfox88

2 жыл бұрын

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

@atomf9143

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

One I find hard to get used to is being required to carry your driving license while driving in the US. Unless it's changed in the last few years (since I relocated) nobody is required to do that in the UK.

@herculesbrofister265

Жыл бұрын

technically we have the right to travel and don't really need a driver's license. just kidding.

@JaneNewAuthor

19 күн бұрын

You are in Australia too. If you get booked for something and can't show your licence then you have to take it to the police station. Not sure about the time limit though, I always carry mine.

Maggot Cheese: "Tremendous health risk" yet no reported cases of the only health risk associated with it

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

@brianbarker2551

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

Mmmmm 2 year old chocolate probably held in warm room

@DenseMelon

Жыл бұрын

JESUS A 3,000,000 FINE

@shorttbone4193

Жыл бұрын

@@DenseMelon 😅 omg you’re right

@Cupcake_Royale

Жыл бұрын

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

as someone who used to live in Tillamook Oregon, I can conform that life begins at cheese.

My aunt still has an old school original Jarts set. It's a terrifying to play as you'd think.

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

2 жыл бұрын

Sell it to indonesians. They love clove cigarettes.

@poisonedkilljoy9304

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@angolin9352

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@captaingreen4116

2 жыл бұрын

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

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. 😂

"It turns out that eating maggots is actually a major health risk" who would've thought

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Legal eagle: "Everyone knows cheese is so much better in France" Me, a french: "That is right, you uptight yankee hygiene freaks have no idea what you're missing" Legal eagle: "Everybody knows maggot infested cheese is so much better in Sardinia." Me: "Wait..."

@heatherjones6647

2 жыл бұрын

So the Monty Python crew were right about French taunting!

@megaene

2 жыл бұрын

It's true, in Sardinia we have a traditional type of cheese that is let seasoning for so long it gets maggot-infested, and is served with the maggots in it. They make the flavor very spicy, I heard. Never tried it, personally.

@psymcdad8151

2 жыл бұрын

We have Mite-Cheese in Germany. Where is your God now? *scnr*

@lydan5808

2 жыл бұрын

I love how you describe yourself as 'A French' 😀

@Bunny_Aoife

2 жыл бұрын

@@psymcdad8151 i had mite cheese in france, it was good, never had the maggoty cheese, but I'd be down

Legislators absolutely do NOT pull out "all the stops" to protect children.

On my first 'alone' holiday I got a lawn dart in the palm of my hand sticking in there. It was fully made of plastic and ~15inch long. I wasn't involved in the game play. It came ~50- 60 feet flown. They took it out, went to hospital and I got my first stitch. That was 50 years ago. I think those are no kid toys! I can still see the stitch today. I didn't need that. If it would have hit my head and not my hand : It would have been it! Kids don't play by the rules. Imagine before playing outside you just take a dart and let it fall on whatever.There was nobody around. You just drop it and tadaaa. Neighbors boy just came out. He catches it with his head. Ooopsy Daisy: "Mooom".... Kids don't play by rules. Now who's going to jail for killing a little kid huh?

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@JoelMatton

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

I had no idea lawn darts were illegal. We had some before and my youngest daughter through one in the air and it landed in my nephews head. He was fine, it barely cut him, but it really freaked us out.

My drive to school is 10m while a walk would be 1h 45m

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@bruh or if he was deaf

"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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@0816M3RC

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThW5 Lawyers can make a lot of money.

I had a German friend in high-school who used to bring kinder eggs back from visits home and sell them. Never realized that they were a hardened smuggler

In London more people cross the road off road crossings than on them 😂

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.

@leob3447

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that. Not surprised, though.

@th3oryO

2 жыл бұрын

Many jobs here in Canada have the same restrictions.

@velox__

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ungenbunyon5548

2 жыл бұрын

Happens here too in the UK

@inelouw

2 жыл бұрын

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.