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Sup all,
My little brother is doing a report on New Jersey, dont ask me what, cause I never asked him. Anyways, he is on the part of laws, and thought it would be cool to add some stupid/dumb laws. So, I have some here we have found, but dont know how old they are, can you help us out? We need to know if they are still valid:
? You cannot pump your own gas. All gas stations are full service and full service only
? On a highway you can not park under a bridge
? It is against the law to "frown" at a police officer
? If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized plates
? It is illegal to offer whiskey or cigarettes to animals at a local zoo
? Raw hamburger may not be sold

Some of these seem so stupid, help me out

I dunno abou the others, but the gas thing is true.

You can't call your own tow truck on the Garden State Parkway.

highest insurance rates in the land...for autos...or at least it sure does seem that way...

There are some gas stations on the turnpike that have self service....don't ask me where, cuz I don't remember!!

Ha.. Try Los Angeles or San Francisco.. My sister moved to LA awhile back, and actually kept her insurance in NJ, because it would have cost her an additional $5000/yr in LA!

Thanks for the help. I will pass it on to my bro.....

Wow, I thought NJ was like OR and disallowed any type of self serve. Supposedly to create jobs. I have to get out of the car anyway to keep dingus from trying to remove my Perma-Cap anyway.

I don't know how wacky this is, but speeding fines are doubled in 65 MPH zones. On the roads where it is supposed to be safest to travel at a high rate of speed. Why not double the fines in 35 MPH residential areas instead?

Beach Tags: Minimum wagers walk around most of the beaches checking to make sure anyone using them have paid their beach tax. Quick kids, get in the water, here comes a kid with pimples and a red bag and I only bought one tag. :rolleyes: Um, guess what? If you didn't make me pay for the beach, I would be spending money in your town and paying that tax by helping your local economy. Instead, I go to Ocean City, MD - a town with no beach tags and they sweep the entire beach every single night so no buildup of crap that will cut my feet.

At one time, NJ has the worst water quality in the country at their beaches. They now have a top notch monitoring system and will close beaches if enough sewage is floating down from NYC.

Ocean City, NJ is a dry town - no sales of alcohol anywhere in the city proper. Everyone has to go out to the liquor store on the circle to buy booze.

Circles and jughandles: Some idiot civil engineer decided a ways back that people in NJ could not handle making left turns across traffic in most intersections. So they installed jughandles at most major intersections. Take on "off ramp" off to the right and then a left on the perpendicular road. Or even worse, just put a traffic circle in there and let everyone figure t out for themselves. They are undoing as many of those as they can.

The Statue of Liberty is actually on the NJ side of the NJ/NY border, but a recent court case ruled that Liberty Island is actually part of NY. Seems someone let NY assume it was theirs for long enough that they have squatter's rights now.

The only place where I-95 is not contiguous is in NJ. SB traffic from NY will be directed to the NJ Turnpike, which is actually I-295 if I'm not mistaken. They meet up with 95 south of Wilmington. NB traffic from DE will take I-95 through Philly and meet up with the NJTPK above Trenton via I-195 IIRC.

HTH.

Actually, the NJTPK is still considered I-95. I-295 runs parallel to I-95 at some points, but goes towards Princeton and such.