wibo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agoif trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?message-squaremessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down146
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareif trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?wibo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squareUniversalFlamingo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoI have heard that when cars were a rare thing in the Old West that drivers had to stop at intersections, get out, and fire a gun to warn any horse-powered cross traffic. It sounds like total bs but there have been stranger laws…
minus-squareJamie@jamie.moelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoOnly in the past handful of years was it no longer made illegal to sneeze in public here in Texas. It was an old holdover law from when sneezing might spook someone’s horse. Not enforced for obvious reasons, though.
I have heard that when cars were a rare thing in the Old West that drivers had to stop at intersections, get out, and fire a gun to warn any horse-powered cross traffic. It sounds like total bs but there have been stranger laws…
Only in the past handful of years was it no longer made illegal to sneeze in public here in Texas.
It was an old holdover law from when sneezing might spook someone’s horse. Not enforced for obvious reasons, though.