law

The vast majority of them are not strictly enforced but you know something really strange had to happen for somebody to decide "there ought to be a law".

In Hinds County, MS — home of Jackson, the state’s capital — the unemployment rate is a staggering 9.1 percent, and more than a fifth of the county’s residents live below the poverty line. But according to some local government officials, more people there would be able to get a job if they’d just pull their darned pants up, so they want to enact a law banning saggy pants.

You've seen it, just like I have--the distracted driver, looking at his or her phone. I have also noticed a recent shift in the typical "offender" from teenager to the 50+ crowd. A few years ago it seemed to be an epidemic problem within young drivers. But, recently I have seen all ages texting or fiddlin' with their phone in some distracted and dangerous fashion.

Citing evidence such as birthday cards that contained no money and a lack of care packages when they were away at college, Steven Miner, 23, and Kathryn Miner, 20, tried to sue the woman who brought them into the world for being “negligent” and causing them “emotional distress.”