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I just discovered this person on YouTube, member name is LegalEagle (real first name is Devin) who is a real life lawyer, and has been doing videos discussing the accuracies (or mistakes) TV shows or movies make when featuring real legal matters.

He already has many videos up, but this video is a good starting point, where he discusses the infamous series finale to Seinfeld.


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Edited by kory on Sep 22nd 2024 at 9:15:19 AM

terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
#3076: Feb 2nd 2025 at 11:27:54 PM

It's one of the reasons why I never let my cats outside at night.

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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#3077: Feb 3rd 2025 at 12:51:28 AM

Just on hearing about it I thought it was a relic from some of the old buffalo "hunts" where they would shoot at them from train cars.

Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#3079: Feb 3rd 2025 at 6:50:25 AM

Sometimes laws are passed as a preventative measure rather then combating an active problem,shooting from a vehicle might not have been a widespread problem but it was probably due to a repeat offender

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#3080: Feb 3rd 2025 at 7:01:49 AM

I mean, I'm totally chill with making shooting guns out of a moving vehicle illegal. Go nanny state!

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#3081: Feb 3rd 2025 at 7:07:00 AM

I have 0 issue believing people shooting guns while driving (while possibly drunk) might've been a recurring issue at some point in American history.

Overlap of gun and car culture seems about as American as anything could be.

Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
I actually wanted to be Resileaf
#3082: Feb 3rd 2025 at 7:30:13 AM

You know the saying; OSHA regulations are written in blood. Sometimes rules have to be made because people will do stupid things and die doing them.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#3083: Feb 3rd 2025 at 8:01:08 AM

Or people will do stupid things and kill people doing them. The only reason it's illegal to store radioactive material in sleeping quarters is because people died. Not the people ordering the material stored there, so they had little incentive to stop on their own.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#3084: Feb 3rd 2025 at 8:08:56 AM

The point being is that if there's a law against something that seems stupid and weird...it's probably because people actually did that.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#3085: Feb 3rd 2025 at 9:43:36 AM

The aforementioned driving laws video

Brandon Deadly Vu! from Between Thanksgiving and Christmas (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Deadly Vu!
#3086: Feb 3rd 2025 at 3:44:28 PM

(Wonders if he could get demonitized for that thumbnail)

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Krory Since: Aug, 2012
#3087: Feb 3rd 2025 at 3:50:16 PM

[up] weirdly, I saw a pair just a couple days ago, and it was the fist pair I'd seen since the Bush administration.

alanh Since: May, 2010
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#3089: Feb 3rd 2025 at 8:51:27 PM

It's rather hard for me to picture "truck nuts" as some kind of artistic or political expression. I don't see them as graphically obscene, either, so laws against them seem spectacularly pointless.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#3090: Feb 3rd 2025 at 10:30:28 PM

Truck nuts are deliberately made to look like a pair of hanging testicles. Two people even engaged in a long and stupid war over who invented them.

Vice (July 20, 2015): The Bitter Battle Between Two Men Who Both Say They Invented Truck Nuts

And yes, the article gleefully engages in a lot of fore — I mean word — play concerning the plastic nutsacks.

The article also notes that the attempts to ban them only made them more popular.

Ironically, the people who were the most offended by the product may have played one of the biggest roles in their success. Before the boom of truck nuts, lawmakers in several states tried to make them illegal by deeming them “obscene.” In 2008, Florida attempted to ban the sacks and soon, politicians in Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina jumped on truck nuts’ proverbial jock. A few states even went as far as ticketing people and in 2011, a woman in Virginia was fined $445 for having a pair of hang-downs swinging from her truck.

In 2012, a man was pulled over in South Carolina and ticketed for his balls. The police’ report had a section that read, “The vehicle was displaying an obscene object from the rear bumper. The object was a pair of large fleshy testicles.” The simple fact that people were attempting to emasculate these trucks almost certainly increased their popularity.

After all, is their a better way to stick it to the man than shoving a big ol’ set of nuts in his face?

Edited by M84 on Feb 4th 2025 at 2:31:51 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#3091: Feb 3rd 2025 at 10:52:44 PM

I agree that I don't see Truck Nuts as having any particularly meaningful political or artistic statement. Are they obscene? Well, they are essentially depicting genitalia in a completely frivolous and superfluous manner.

I'd say it's perhaps too much Poking The Poodle to justify being straight-up illegal but I'd say it's approaching the line of being obscene.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#3092: Feb 4th 2025 at 12:50:02 AM

The only way they'd be more obscene would be if the shaft came with the nuts too. Full package.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ayasugi Since: Oct, 2010
#3093: Feb 4th 2025 at 2:46:25 AM

They're a great indicator of "mentally I'm not old enough to drive".

chino514 (Apprentice)
#3094: Feb 4th 2025 at 3:01:55 AM

I read "truck nuts" and first thing that came to mind was of a can of mixed nuts truckers would eat.

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#3095: Feb 4th 2025 at 5:51:02 AM

I feel like owning truck nuts is an indicator of being a manchild more than anything else.

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Lost in Space
#3096: Feb 4th 2025 at 5:53:05 AM

Lots of things indicate "manchild" status but they aren't illegal. This is a ridiculous argument on all sides.

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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#3097: Feb 4th 2025 at 5:57:43 AM

I didn't say truck nuts should be illegal, just that only manchildren would use them.

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Brandon Deadly Vu! from Between Thanksgiving and Christmas (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#3098: Feb 4th 2025 at 6:33:36 AM

I remember one person pointing out the irony of some of those truck drivers being transphobic, but will call their vehicle by she/her pronouns, and then put nuts on the back of their truck.

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#3099: Feb 4th 2025 at 10:59:48 AM

I've read once that big trucks alone are Affirmative Gender Care for men, with those truck nuts on them, it just makes the whole thing even funnier.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#3100: Feb 5th 2025 at 6:45:51 PM

I feel like owning truck nuts is an indicator of being a manchild more than anything else.

I disagree. Now, owning Truck Nuts, putting them in a sock to create your own Slap-Jack, and then clubbing someone upside the head with them and yelling SLAP NUTS would be being a man-child.

It would also both be rude and hilarious, but those things aren't contradictory.

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