[QUOTE=ewmayer;493036]It's well-known that they hang their clocks upside-down in Oz, less well-known is that they also have their clocks face the wall, like truant children. Might explain the stereotype of Aussies never being on time for anything. :)[/QUOTE]
The clocks deserve to be facing the wall. Being in the Southern Hemisphere, they run counterclockwise -- backwards.

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;493051]The clocks deserve to be facing the wall. Being in the Southern Hemisphere, they run counterclockwise -- backwards.[/QUOTE]

Blaming the Coriolis effect was my fallback position. :)

[url=www.latimes.com/local/la-me-abcarian-hostage-20180803-story.html]The tender, terrifying truth about what happened inside the Trader Joe's hostage siege[/url] LA Times

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-45145522"]This is absolutely wonderful.[/URL]

Where else in the world can you be busted for taking your pig for a walk without a leash but not if has one?

[QUOTE=xilman;493599][URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-45145522"]This is absolutely wonderful.[/URL]

Where else in the world can you be busted for taking your pig for a walk without a leash but not if has one?[/QUOTE]

I suspect that if the guy hadn't been making a pest of himself, he probably would have gotten off with a warning like "leash your pig," if the police had come by at all. As it was,
[quote]Police responded to reports the defendant, of no fixed address, was shouting abuse at members of the public at about 10:10 BST.[/quote]

I did a Google search for

"stray livestock" laws

and immediately got hits for Texas, Delaware, and Alabama.

The Delaware law looked pretty similar to the UK law.

One of the problems with stray livestock is collisions with motor vehicles. Full-size livestock would be more of a problem for the motor vehicle.

For the case in point, under the law cited, the penalty is [quote]a fine not exceeding £20 for a first offence and £50 for a second or subsequent offence[/quote] but there is also a provision for expenses incurred by impoundment. In this case,
[quote]The RSPCA, which is currently looking after the female piglet, said the animal was "only a week old and so will require hand-rearing".[/quote]

So, the guy might get a hefty bill from the RSPCA.

Hey, that pig ain't livestock, it's a "therapy animal", or something.

Hey that can't happen too often -->

[QUOTE=Batalov;493629]Hey that can't happen too often -->[/QUOTE]

And you spoiled it by mentioning it! But now you are one hella super-smooth dude, Serge. :)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;493627]Hey, that pig ain't livestock, it's a "therapy animal", or something.[/QUOTE]The law does not admit of any exception based on how the animal is used (my emphasis):[quote]If [b][i]any[/i][/b] horses, cattle, sheep, goats or swine are at any time found straying or lying on or at the side of a highway their keeper is guilty of an offence; but this subsection does not apply in relation to a part of a highway passing over any common, waste or unenclosed ground.[/quote]So the only exception is for certain types of ground through which the highway may pass.

Besides, the guy already pleaded Guilty.

Karen Lloyd: This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgB2TaYhio[/url]

[size=1]I think some of my minions are related to these creatures; so lazy.[/size]

Obama nation, abomination. And Trump Pence without the second p is trumpence, which means the superior voice of God.

And yet, Obama seems like a good guy, and Trump acts like someone who was never disciplined properly at any age.

So the question is, how do you properly calculate the odds that someone would find meaning in a totally accidental situation?

If this gets enough posts, feel free to make a new thread. I just thought it was something interesting.