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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.
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.
Has the usa actually signed any human rights?
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.
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.
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.
Could’ve narrowed the lane so the driver has to focus on the road for cheaper
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.
Tickets pay the mayor. Changing a speed limit costs the mayor.
It's much easier to catch and ticket pedestrians.
Car country. Pedestrian and cyclists r nuisances. That's what I get from drivers commenting when those two r around
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?"
I think it's because rules against loitering are on the lower levels like counties, cities or even specific areas.
Don't forget vagrancy. Simply having no money on you could lead to your arrest for vagrancy, up into the 70's.
Apparently inthe US, a no standing sign applies to pedestrians and not cars.
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.
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.
The irony of banning kinder eggs while there are literal guns at school did not elude me.
Guns aren’t allowed at school tho.
@@dkoda840 beacuse its not allowed doesnt mean there arent
Sadly
@@izawa9211 That’s not what he said.
@@izawa9211 gun grabbing isn’t a solution
@@night6724 i think you dont know what he said
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
BLM does that all the time.
Eareaera
Eareaeraea
@@herculesbrofister265 so you’re saying blm are advocates for walkable cities? Sign me up
@@herculesbrofister265 Just a speed bump 😂
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!
In South Carolina you can get a permit to launch a missle
"BuT tHE seCoND AmEnDmeNt"
🤦♂️
It would be funny if it didn't involve hundreds of dead schoolchildren.
America is all about BIG, so the bigger the safer, right?
Gun prevents crime. Kinder eggs do not but I’m not surprised a Bronie couldn’t understand
@@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.
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
Police don't enforce jaywalking unless you are putting yourself or others at serious risk like walking on the highway at night
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
Or cars.
Gotta love America. The only nation dealing with gun violence while having guns being a huge part of our culture.
or priests or politicians
Or pedophiles
Yes
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.
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.
no queen and no pedestrian lights, thats crazy
@@arm4146 there are pedestrian lights you're just allowed to ignore them and most people do if the road is clear
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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.
I was hoping to see you here after the shoutout. *rings bicycle bell*
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.
Gud stuff :D
@@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.
@@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.
It amazes me how so many things become illegal just because people are incompetent.
Truly
Or because 50s parents ignored their kids
@@tannergordon8302 That's incompetence
@@degstoll fair
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
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.
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.
I think it's stupid to make it illegal to remove people from your property.
We have that also in Finnland, the main point its not for profit
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
I hear about Freedom to Roam in Scandinavian countries and yet Iceland had fences everywhere and signs telling tourists not to trespass.
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?
Don't give them ideas!
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)
Georgia would cease to exist lol. But I know what you mean with stone fruit lol (imagine cherries with their hard and smaller pips)
It is a urban legend my mom has bought them from Walmart dozens of times lol
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.
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...
This brown bag to hide the bottle screams bigotry to me.
I just drink, smoke, and walk back home. :)
@@myriamickx7969 how?
add no buying alcohol sunday morning....
@@damp2269 I can buy alcohol sunday morning, what do you mean?
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.
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.
We also only have them in Brasil, probably for the same reason.
when he said they were introduced in 2018 i was confused as ive been eating these things since 2009
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
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
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
That used to be the law in The Netherlands. Just learned from this video it’s abolished. 😀
Jaywalking and Kinder Eggs being illegal is genuinely WILD
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
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.
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.
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
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.
@@emporioalnino4670 If pedestrians and cyclists get hit by someone turning right on red they're crossing against the light.
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.
It’s not crazy. It was initiated by corporations to make money. It’s the most predictable thing in this country lmao
@@manny9323 It's both extremely predictable and crazy as all hell
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
@@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.
@@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
9:20 note if an aerospace engineer says that a flying toy is not safe it is probably not safe
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.
But why is it not okay?
Is it seen as contraband?
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
How many casualties?
@@BobTheTrueCactus Tons, I betcha. One egg and a whole class of kids? There's gonna be a battle royale for the toy.
@@sholahverassa8582 Yeah, american kids would pull out guns and german kid gas canteen. It was bloodbath
@@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
Kinder eggs themselves aren't banned just the ones with toys in them as they're considered a choking hazard
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.
I'm guessing that looking Puerto Rican had a lot to do with that.
That is awful
@@emjayay bro was guilty of walking while brown. That's a class 3 extra-felony
I live in an area that has almost no crosswalks. I don't have a car. I literally can't drive. (health reasons)
Colony moment.
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
Smart phones make difference too, green light = safe, and then just stare at phone, not looking what happens around..
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. 💕
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.
You were in kindergarten for multiple years? Yikes.
@@xczechr In the Netherlands we go for two years. But do please explain why you find this upsetting.
@@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?
@@xczechr Where do you live where kindergarten is only one year lmao
@@xczechr You weren't in kindergarten for multiple years? Yikes.
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
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.
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.
@@williammeek4078 hell do it just for two biggest offenders that are pretty easy to pronounce: Sucrose, Sodium
Everything is a chemical, folks.
@@xczechr some chemicals happen to really not be good for the body, while others happen to be.
Funny how they banned anything with a non-edible object inside the food. All I can do when reading that is picturing an american eating an entire Kinder Egg at once, and choking on the yellow container, instead of a kid choking on the toys inside.
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.
That is sick.
@@woowybaby3064 I'm sure that it was unpleasant for the driver also.
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.
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.
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.
In the US it's better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent.
@@dangerousdays2052 Sadly that is still true pretty much the world over!
@@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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
“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…
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.
"In America guns are spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M."
Or trans people teaching po*n to them in kindergarten.
@@janthecoo4964in blood.
@@joshuahadams oh so much blood
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.)
"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.
Yeah, guns and schools are a perfectly safe combination with no obvious flaws.
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.
Yeah, trucks with a hood twice the higth of a four year old is also legal... somehow.
Unless it is a gun, then we hand them out like candy.. 😭
@@Just_Ve 🤦🏻♂️
Kinder eggs are definitely the biggest threat to children in America.
Yeah....
Eggs don't kill people, people do
Yep, definitely not school shootings, I agree!
@@TomNook. And where do people come from? An egg cell. Point proven.
@@KingsGlaive42 lol 😂😂😂
I love hearing the genuine bitterness of knowledge that you can hear in his sarcastic openings for these
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.
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.
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
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"
Did you give them big bag of glass
@@hankkingsley9300 SNL shoutout. Love it. "We're just packaging what kids want."
It's not only your children who can die when your children do dangerous things
@@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.
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.
Anti-jay walking laws are good. Keep in mind Europe is a very different place with slower traffic and narrower roads
@@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.
@@veryontron4279 I lived in Europe, I know
Also racist moral panics
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.
I remember somewhere in the DMV Driving handbook, pedestrians have "right of way" so a driver has to yield to the best of their ability regardless if a person is jaywalking.
Also, unless the person is intentionally walking into traffic to attempt suicide or fake insurance claims, the driver will almost always be at fault for hitting the person.
that's not true at all. in fact, to refute your hypothetical claim with a real one that actually happened, a friend jaywalked at an intersection and was struck by a car, and got no insurance money at all because he was found to be at fault because he had a "don't walk" light.
Where I live there’s almost no crosswalks, so it’s impossible to not jaywalk if you’re walking anywhere, seems really silly to have something be a crime when you can’t avoid it
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
Guns too. And tasteless, odorless poisons that can be made to look, smell, and taste like lemonade or fruit punch or what have you.
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.
@@medusagorgo5146 Cannot confirm or deny thought eh? lol
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.
@@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
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.
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
You got hit by a car going at 50 mph? Damn, you're lucky to be alive. Did you recover fully?
@@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!
So how do you cross the road legal if there are no traffic lights?
Or were there pedestrian crossings?
@@Jehty21 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
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.
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
You don't get 2.3 million people imprisoned by letting shit be legal ⚖
sigma grindset
Holy fk, 2,3m? In the country I live in only one city has a higher population than that.
@@zbz5505 America has 20% of the worlds prison population
@@zbz5505 yeah we love putting people in prison here.
What happens after that we don’t worry too much about though.
@@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 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.
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.
@@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
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).
We didn’t have lawn darts, and had to play “rock tag.”
@@firstmkb my dad used to love playing “rock wars” when he was a child
Here in NJ, we have a law where people in crosswalk or entering a store have right of way before automobiles crossing. Sometimes i wonder if people are just ignorant of the law, or blatantly refuse to comply.
As a Canadian, this makes me want to go out and buy some kinder eggs. I've taken them for granted!
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.
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.
If you jaywalk how will drivers know when and where to look up from their phone
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
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€?
In Germany, the true punishment is the old ladies scolding you because you are setting a bad example for the children :D
When I was in middle school a teacher snuck kinder eggs into the country for us. Props to that teacher.
What a freaking cool teacher!
Hahah yeah dope teacher man totally rad me too what was his first and last name again and what state?
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 🤔😁
OMG are you alright? How many of your classmates suffered because of this villainous teacher!?
Choking hazaaaard!!!
When you can own an assault rifle but not a chocolate egg
I love your channel. The info is great and fun.
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"
Bleached flour, pork treated with ractopamine, our gmo corn.. all banned is most industrial nations.. but not the us
The puns this video were on another level
Bless you for contributing to Nebula/Curiosity Stream. Great service really.
Does nebula not have comments?
@@nodidog the service while valiant makes the niceties of TH-cam obvious. I bet they're working on it tho
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.
Let's go! Not just bikes not just for Americans too! We still have jaywalking tickets in Poland it's ridiculous!
yes!!!
Damn right. If town planners had followed the strong town model, life would be better in so many ways.
The amount of sarcasm in this video lol. I will be an avid fan from now on
"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
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 😂
@@stephjovi Ayyyy good on you for catching the totally intentional chocolate pun! 0u0)/
@@freemovies411 natural comedian
"Where the hell did the evidence go?"
*Mumbles, "It just disappeared...."
The thing with Kinder eggs is it’s not just about the choking hazard, though that’s been part of the argument used
They also violate our food adulteration laws. These were passed when food sellers were doing things like using plaster or Paris or sawdust in bread and iron shavings in tea. It’s also why if you buy a box of kid’s cereal, the toy prize was always in the box, outside the bag of cereal. It’s because otherwise you’d have nonfood items within your food, making it considered adulterated.
When I was little almost all cereal had a toy in the cereal so you had a treasure hunt to find it. All kids were smart enough to know the toy from the food. Also laundry soap had a free glass or bowl(etc) in the soap. That was fun to find and we didn't accidentally eat either the soap or the glass.
@@lilfoot3660 that must have been quite a while back, or you weren't in the US, because when I was a kid in the 80s the toys were outside the bag.
But either way, it's food adulteration laws, not choking risk, that makes these foods illegal. When you have a certain percentage of non food items within your food, that's considered adulteration. It's the same laws that were passed to keep food manufacturers from doing things like using plaster or sawdust in place of flour in bread or iron shavings in tea.
And that comes from the same country where you can't even drink tap water or eat stuff you buy in the store without risking of getting sick
@@Kyonari what are you talking about dude? The US doesn't have issues with clean drinking water, and the food they sell in our shops doesn't make you sick (unless you're referring to the huge amounts of sugar prepackaged foods have causing obesity and diabetes)
Lead in water is a big problem in the US because of lead pipes, and you would be surprised what stuff you find in some food in the US that are illegal in the EU@@anthonydelfino6171
An interesting thing about jaywalking: when I was like 13 my social studies teacher told us that jaywalking was the only crime in Sweden (where I live) that carried no punishment. Meaning that it is against the law, but there is no way to actually enforce it. I am not sure if this is still the case since I havent been able to confirm it.
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. 😂
"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
Except for the most obvious threats for some reason. Because, you know, money.
"cars kill hundreds of children every year? pffffffft that's fine! This wad of cash that mysteriously appeared in my hand says so!"
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.
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?
Kinder Eggs: objection sustained, trial over, straight to jail.
Juul: I'll allow it.
Guns: Am I a joke to you?
Not enough kids have choked on a juul yet lol
@@gwaptiva no, no, it’s the doors, you see
@Bygotskitz agree. Was referring to US ridiculous right wing politicians (US) insisting that guns aren’t the problem, it’s unsecured doors.
Crack cocaine: yes! Look at the colourful egg.
I love that you know not just bikes. That makes me hopeful of good change for our neighborhoods
That nervous laughter is everything!!
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.
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.
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.
@@thomasdegroat6039 My wife was hit waling in a crosswalk. Never, trust a car will stop.
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.
@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.
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.
I didn't know that. Not surprised, though.
Many jobs here in Canada have the same restrictions.
The concept of drug testing before employment for a large part of jobs is just insane to me.
Happens here too in the UK
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.
Here in Australia, for cigs we now have plain packaging which has full anti-smoking ads (particularly about the health risks) n ONLY those over 18 can smoke (but with vapes much younger people r getting there hands on)
back off my lawn darts... Those were FUN! never had a near miss or anything... and they weren't razor sharp.. they were blunted with a flat tip
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.
Yeah I love being an American child. It helps me so much when people make fun of my country btw
@@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
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
@@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.
@@arandomcomment1092 you… you recognised this is aimed at the Government correct?
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.
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.
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
@@mindblown9 lmao, how’s the court case going?
My aunt still has an old school original Jarts set. It's a terrifying to play as you'd think.
10.04 Lol the irony in a doctor showing the dangers of darts almost poking his eye out
"Young children can choke on it" - The motto of every politician in the US
It is definitely Matt Gaetz's motto.
Yeah, everyone knows children can't choke on bullets, duhhhhh.
@@0816M3RC Nancy wants to let children watch drag shows
Some priests too
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).
The free-est country is some random island in the middle of the ocean
The book, "The Hidden Life of Dogs," followed a dog that would roam freely during the day, and was very savvy about crossing a nearby highway safely. The author pointed out that the dog always crossed streets mid-block and not at the corners where there were too many distractions for drivers and dogs alike.
Yeah, my dad (an engineer) used to point out to me that crossing at a crosswalk was actually more dangerous, because you now had 4 directions that cars could hit you from, not just 2. 🙃
@@kagitsune My dad was (also an engineer), and he would point out that there would be multiple opportunities as you crossed lanes, and dealt with people turning. He taught me to drive and had been a pilot in the Air Force, so he was always thinking in multiple dimensions.
I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the laws of physics that says cars can be stopped by painted lines.
@@MissLibertarian Exactly. We need to kick out these massive corporate interests from our governments. We get stupid laws like these that have shaped the North American continent's infrastructure for a century. 🙃
@@kagitsune I suspect it has more to do with local political ambitions. I've also seen lots of regular people demand ACTION to ensure eternal life (I.e., do something to prevent death), and when lots of people ask government to keep them alive, regulators try their best. Massive corporate interests are answering to their stockholders.
@@MissLibertarian Right, they have no liability for the deaths that their lobbying has caused. 😮💨
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I guess your Jay Rolling then
@@DrRussian they see me rollin', they hatin'
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.
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?
@@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.
"maggot filled cheese" is not something I was hoping to ever find out existed.
I live in a town where we have a university, a community college, and a military college. While the military cadets are rarely seen around town, (first years cadets are required to stay in uniform at all times when in public), the college is on a huge lot and surrounded by enormous parking lots and is a major bus transfer point. But the University occupies a good chunk of southern downtown next to a hospital, several major public parks, and along some very busy roads, most of which contain large sidewalks. Prospective university students are joking told that their student ID doubles as a jaywalking permit (it isn’t). Even local drivers that frequent the university areas jokingly refer to students as, “hood ornaments” given their known penchant for walking into traffic, moving or not.
Homecoming is the one weekend where the university area roads are frequently illegally taken over by students when house parties spill onto the streets and cars fear to drive. It was even cancelled and then moved to the dead of winter a few years back after rowdy students started fires, flipped a parked car and threw beer bottles at police. After that, the city brought in riot squads and mounted units for crowd control for the next several years at tremendous cost to city taxpayers while the university offered to cover a measly portion of policing. Now, both the city and university representatives are out in full force issuing tickets to tenants whose parties get out of control, handing out plastic cups and picking up trash. There was even talk a few years ago about how students were embarrassing the university and should be expelled. The problem was that about half the partygoers were not local university or college students, but rather local and regional high school students, and other college/university student or just plain members of the public. It is a much more contained event now and while many tickets and arrests are made, it is nothing like the drunken mob it had become in the early 2000’s.
Sadly, the majority of pedestrian deaths are among seniors either falling in the winter, or being forced onto roadways due to impassable snow covered sidewalks.
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.
It’s legal to bribe politicians
@@blakekaveny true. Forgot about that one... Still shockes me that it's legal to do so and totally accepted.
And in that vein, slavery! still perfectly legal in the US provided there is some pretext to put you in jail.
@@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.
@@sandshark2 what?!?
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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...
@@asmosisyup2557 Imagine if he just didn’t know english
Love the inference in the title that the US is not a part of this world 💀
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.
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
No right on a red in NYC though, in any borough.
@@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...
@@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.
Maybe lawn darts will become legal again when someone bothers to start “Giant Dart Throwing Training” courses and the government requires children to get “Giant dart licenses”.
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
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 😂😂😂
NOOO! DON'T BURN THE KINDER EGGS!!!!
Mmmmm 2 year old chocolate probably held in warm room
JESUS A 3,000,000 FINE
@@DenseMelon 😅 omg you’re right
@@DenseMelonikr. And all that for a kinder egg?
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.
technically we have the right to travel and don't really need a driver's license. just kidding.
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* ?!
I'm so happy you mentioned Not Just Bikes. North American roads and zoning are inhospitable for people that want to be outside!
i want a crossover about zoning laws now.
The Nebula ad at the end was replaced for even more NJB promotion in the Nebula version.
@@jonasdatlas4668 that would be cracked
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.
Too bad for them. Cars for the win
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.
I'd take one with me for the memez
And yet guns are somehow not a risk to children....
i’ve sent them to american friends in rhe mail before. the first mistake was using a land route 😤
I thought the hateful and resentful eggs would be seized, not the kinder eggs.
Just today, they found over a ton of cocaine at the Mexican border. They probably seized a load of Kinder eggs too.
4:00 That infamous Brie sandwich scene from Twin Peaks just hits differently when you realize that they don't only completely lose their minds over a simple cheese sandwich, but an illegal one at that.
Oh, and I just realized that eating raw-milk cheese that was unrefrigerated for the duration of a transatlantic flight has the potential to mess you up for good.
In France not everyone is refrigerating cheese and we are doing just fine, don’t worry haha
@ufeisen5059 Tell that to a person who never ate raw-milk cheese in their life. If you grow up doing doing stuff like that all the time, you obviously grow a tolerance, even if you keep said product in less than ideal storage.
I used to have a Chinese roommate in college who didn't really know the concept of raw meats and clean dishes being kept in different, let alone refrigerated, cupboards. Most of us found out about this cultural peculiarity by getting sick from unbeknowingly eating off dishes with three-week-old sausage juice stains. Need I even tell who amongst us didn't feel sick at all?
They literally sell kinder eggs at the menards I work at in Wisconsin. They have sold them there since I started in 2020
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.
Sell it to indonesians. They love clove cigarettes.
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
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.
In the early 2000s, I did sample product surveys. I got cigarettes once. Newport wanted to try the idea of fruit flavored cigarettes.
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.
Yeah I remember learning that in about year 2. There was a song too 😂
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
@@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"
“Look left, look right, look left again” was a phrase we were taught in school
I can still visualise the diagrams for the green cross code with the hedgehog crossing the road
Maggot Cheese: "Tremendous health risk" yet no reported cases of the only health risk associated with it
We had Jarts. I really don’t remember playing with them as a kid very often.
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.
Like school shootings
@@goshdarnitman Oh, no, *those* are A-OK, because they're AMERICAN!
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@@goshdarnitman Nah, the country actually did something about kinder eggs
well like he said, it's an IQ thing......
"Hey Steve, should we protect the country from real threats?"
"NO, WE MUST CRACK DOWN ON THE CHEESE AND CHOCOLATE EGGS!"
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!
People have died from both of those things, it was a good move to ban them.
@@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?
@@ejynk It's easier to ban cheese and candy than guns, people will put up less of a fight
I wouldn't be surprised the bans are due to lobbyists paying politicians with money from Hershey and the dairy industry.
I don't know for sure if lawn darts are legal in my country (the Netherlands) but in the past 40+ years I traveled all over Europe and never saw them in the first place. So I guess they are not banned because they aren't /weren't a thing in the first place.
As for jaywalking in the Netherlands (since you specifically stated the repeal of the law, one that I actually got fined for a few times when it was in play, the last time a week before it got repealed)
You are allowed to cross anywhere but using the crosswalk is highly encouraged as it has advantages. In many situations, other roadusers need to give you priority when you want to cross, you basically never have priority when crossing just where ever. And it is the law to give disabled and blind people priority when crossing regardless (unless of course at traffic lights or when part of a military convoy or funeral line)
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.
Bruh when Devin chuckled/nervous laughed after he said "Because Canadian and European children are smarter" I cracked up
Tough call. I prefer to think that is more more that US children are more infantilised by their society than Canadian and European ones.
@@insertclevernamehere2506 : Infantilization is part of it. The US ranks low in math and science among it's student population.
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.
Kids are dumb everywhere. Euros just hide it better. The shroud around canadians is falling, however.
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