[al baby]

And in California Illegal aliens get to keep their cars if they are caught driving without a license

[JRandomFreeper]

K. On a normal roadside call where the person goes to jail, the cop calls for a wrecker to remove the car.

WTH does Joe the wrecker driver do when he shows up and there is two horses and a surrey with a fringe on top?

/johnny

[Shadowstrike]

This is beyond being stupid. The triangle is to let drivers see them, so they don’t run up on them especially in the dark.

It is being done for safety, and protection of their horses.

And, before anyone starts about “religious freedom” this has nothing to do with that. I’ve seen what a car can do to a horse, and it’s ugly, very ugly, and God’s noble creature doesn’t deserve to die like that.

[goodnesswins]

Seems like a compromise could be found here...like instead of orange, use those silver/grey reflectors....or is the “state” demanding they be ORANGE??? (I heard the Amish don’t do “flamboyant, bright”...)

[lightman]

The Swartzentruber sect are basically the “Shiite Amish”—ultraseparatist, ultraconservative, living as though it were 1659 AD.

They have run afoul of the law in many states, sometimes over transportation issues, sometimes over sewerage and sanitation issues.

[Revolting cat!]

Dude don't look Amish to me...

... he's white!

[Frank_2001]

Gingerich, eh? Any relation to Newt?;)

[Cyman]

Darn Amish! I don’t trust anyone that just wants to be left alone.

[goodwithagun]

I hired a Swartzentruber family to butcher some chickens for me. When my brother dropped them off the guy demanded to know if I was having my period. Uncomfortable! All my brother could think to say was that I was pregnant, which happened to be the truth. The guy said that pregnant was fine but if I was on my period all the chickens would rot after processing. Very weird sect of Amish. I'm told that they also believe that they can talk to their livestock new year's eve. It's a joke with the other sects of Amish boys to hide in the Swartzentrubers’ Amish lofts and “talk” for the livestock when the believers come out to the barn.

[Entrepreneur]

state law that requires all slow-moving objects on the road to display reflective triangles

Are they required on the backs of cars driven by seniors?

[tioga]

So, they refused an orange triangle, instead getting arrested and having their photos taken. I just find that amusing. Not only that, most of these articles about them and the orange triangles include more pictures.

[jdub]

I sometimes visit the Amish community in Ethridge, TN that is part of this sect. They are very serious about bright, shiny objects. A friend had brought a milk jug to replace the jug she would get for her raw milk, and they wouldn’t take it. Instead they transferred the milk to her jug. The problem was her jug had a gold colored metal lid.