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Post by Demona on Apr 27, 2009 23:23:47 GMT -5
a-list.msn.com/default.aspx?cp-searchtext=TanorexiaOk, so it's celebrity gossip too, but here's what it's about. Texas is thinking of banning teens under 16 from using tanning beds. Apparently the celebrity women influence them into doing something harmful.  I think it's just a waste of money and obsessive to go all the time, and if the girls are banned from indoor tanning, they'll just take it outdoors. What's the point here, really? It's the same as banning soft drinks from schools and wanting to tax junk food. People will always do what's bad for them, but it's their choice as long as it doesn't harm others.
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Post by Peon on Apr 27, 2009 23:24:53 GMT -5
legalize heroin
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Post by Demona on Apr 27, 2009 23:38:49 GMT -5
(the kids will be doing it anyway and it's their choice as long as they don't harm others) Well, I could have worded it differently. Some things are a bad choice when overdone, but not bad enough to ban. That's going too far and I think you could have summed up your whole post in one instead of two. It doesn't just harm the person, it definately affects others when they pass whatever sh*t they catch off their needles to other junkies who use them. Besides, druggies don't have good sense and either become violent or unpredictable because they're not in their right mind. |
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Post by Phil on Apr 28, 2009 14:15:03 GMT -5
There are some dumb laws. I have read some of what is a law in various places.
There was a law in a town that you can't carry a metal bucket on main street after 11pm and before 5am.
That seemed dumb. And it is. But we didnt' know the story behind it so when we found out there was a guy in 1901 who was bothered by loud saloons on main street. So he threw buckets of water at people who went in and out of the saloon when he wanted to sleep.
In order to make charges against that guy they had to illegalize carrying a bucket of water on main street from 11pm to 5am.
The law was never abolished so it stayed in the law books until 2007 or 2008 whenever this was brought up.
There are many laws like that.
I don't see outlawing tanning for teens as really being a help to teens, it's probably being done because the parents can't seem to get them not to over tan. I think it's a waste of time to go through the trouble of putting it to law though.
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 29, 2009 1:04:17 GMT -5
There is a law in St. Joseph, Michigan that says you can't tie an alligator to a fire hydrant.
It's actually a twisted redirect on the 'real' law that says, "No citizen shall willingly attach any animal to a fire receptacle on a public street."
So, "technically" you CAN'T tie an alligator to a fire hydrant.
Some of those laws can be misconstrued.
....Did you know that an Oklahoma(?) Senate made it a legal holiday to celebrate The Boston Strangler, until they found out who he was? [And then quickly rescinded it.]
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