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To: betty boop
Thank you so much for all the information and insight! I didn't realize that India had abandoned the jury system. How bizarre. It is much easier to corrupt a single person than a "committee" of 12 or so.

Decades ago an attorney friend of mine was laughing about certain laws, regulations and ordinances that were still on the books in Texas - laws which noone in his right mind would try to enforce. And if he did, the jury would no doubt nullify it anyway.

One, he said, made it a crime to wear spike heels (because it could damage city streets). Another had to do with being caught with wire cutters (the suspicion was cattle rustling).

He said there was one little town which really deplored the automobile and passed an ordinance that there would be a speed limit in the town - and that it would not be posted.

But my favorite was a regulation for the railroads that if two trains from opposite directions should approach each other on the same track, that neither could proceed until the other has passed. LOLOL!

162 posted on 09/27/2005 7:41:16 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
But my favorite was a regulation for the railroads that if two trains from opposite directions should approach each other on the same track, that neither could proceed until the other has passed. LOLOL!

How sensible -- NOT!!!!! LOLOL!

Thanks for the chuckle, Alamo-Girl! :^)

163 posted on 09/27/2005 9:27:51 AM PDT by betty boop (Know thyself. -- Plato)
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