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peachexploration
07-17-2006, 08:02 PM
From Crazylaws.com

New York
• A fine of $25 can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking "at a woman in that way." A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a "pair of horse-blinders" wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll.
• A license must be purchased before hanging clothes on a clothesline.
• A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket.
• Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog
• Donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Brooklyn, N.Y.
• During a concert, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalks.
• In New York State it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car. :lol:
• It is illegal to jump off the Empire State building. :lol:
• It's illegal in New York to start any kind of public performance, show, play, game or what have you, until after 1:05 p.m.
• Jaywalking is legal, as long as it's not diagonal. That is, you can cross the street out of the crosswalk, but you can't cross a street diagonally. :?
• The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a cigarette, then we would take action." Smoking is not allowed in the subways. :lol: :lol:
• The New York State Senate passed a resolution to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1955 world championship and expressed a longing that someday the Dodgers will return to "their one and only true home."
• The penalty for jumping off a building is death. ( :lol: No Kidding!)
• To cut down on its once-horrific graffiti problem, New York City several years ago made it illegal to carry an open can of spray paint.
• While riding in an elevator, one must talk to no one, and fold his hands while looking toward the door. (Ohhh, now I get it. :lol: )
• Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a business.
• You may not smoke within 100 feet of the entrance to a public building.
• You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your hand :lol:

Claude
07-18-2006, 04:05 PM
As a European,

I can't but keep my loud laughter at compiling the green immigration leaflet when landing to the States.

"Are you coming to the Usa in order to leave yourself to illegal actions?"

"Have you ever perpetrated any genocide between 1933 and 1945 on behalf of Nazi Germany or its Allied?"

"Are you contagious sick?"

In case you have answered YES to one or more of these questions, pease contact the nearest immigration center: you know... your access to the States MIGHT be refused!!!

I apologize with US citizens, but we European find these questions really comic!

peachexploration
09-23-2006, 11:56 AM
Thats really funny, MamboItaliano. Do they really expect people to tell the truth? :nope: :lol:

Claude
09-23-2006, 03:07 PM
Thats really funny, MamboItaliano. Do they really expect people to tell the truth? :nope: :lol:

That's the same reason why I dont understand the MEANING of asking SUCH information.

Perhaps there is something of US culture I'm not aware of.

Can you help me understand?

I am the first one to know that in the NOrth European countries as well as in the US there is a stronger concept of "loyalty" than the one we have in Italy; I have no problem to say that we sometimes cheat people.... but only regarding not serious topics!!!

Yet, when we deal with illegal people, I think that loyalty has nothing to do with them, whichever be the country.

So; why this questionary?

peachexploration
09-23-2006, 03:42 PM
I have no idea. Who knows who even thought of it. Just wierd. :?

SDsalsaguy
09-24-2006, 08:48 PM
Thats really funny, MamboItaliano. Do they really expect people to tell the truth? :nope: :lol:

That's the same reason why I dont understand the MEANING of asking SUCH information.

Perhaps there is something of US culture I'm not aware of.

Can you help me understand?

I am the first one to know that in the NOrth European countries as well as in the US there is a stronger concept of "loyalty" than the one we have in Italy; I have no problem to say that we sometimes cheat people.... but only regarding not serious topics!!!

Yet, when we deal with illegal people, I think that loyalty has nothing to do with them, whichever be the country.

So; why this questionary?
Good question(s) Mambo Italiano. I could be wrong, but here's my theory.

(A) they don't really expect people to incriminate themselves on the forms but, (A.1) every now an again someone may/will.

(B) they're hoping that those who have not answered honestly will be a bit more nervous/anxious/twitchy when asked if all of the information on their card is correct, and therefore easier for security to spot as worth investigating.

(C) and I really think this is the big one, if someone is found in the midst of criminal activity they can go back and look at their initial forms and, assuming that the forms have not been answered honestly (as in A.1), they now have a confounding charge of deliberate falsehood and deception that can be added/used to exact more stringent sentencing, etc.

ville
09-25-2006, 04:23 AM
"Have you ever perpetrated any genocide between 1933 and 1945 on behalf of Nazi Germany or its Allied?"


LOL :)

Claude
09-25-2006, 03:40 PM
Even I had thought that C) could be a realistic reason

SDsalsaguy
09-26-2006, 02:24 AM
That's my guess really, as well.