It is now legal for Wyoming residents to collect roadkill they accidentally hit, or dead animals they find on the side of the road.
Given the number of antelope that throw themselves in front of cars each year, this is a better law than someone in a less rural state might think.
I believe in the UK it is legal to take roadkill home for the pot if it was hit by another vehicle, but not something that you have hit yourself - something to do with anti-poaching laws to stop people going "hunting" with cars
Hunting with cars can be pretty expensive. One of the attorneys I used to work for hit a mountain lion. He called another attorney who had a lion tag. Attorney #2 went out, found the wounded lion, and shot it. Attorney #1 later sent attorney #2 a bill: Fee for locating lion: $0 Guiding fee: 0$ Use of equipment:$1,768.50 That last was the repair bill for his car.
I should have made this post at two minutes and twenty seconds past ten... 22:02:20 22 02 2022 would have a nice palindromic symmetry about it would that work in the US?? 22:02:20 02 22 2022? No, seems not. You'd have to post at... er... oh, I don't know. You guys work it out...
You could have just pretended. The time stamp at the foot of each posts bears little resemblance to the real time of posting anyway. For instance, you say you posted at two minutes past ten, the time stamp says it was fifty three minutes past four. Even allowing for time differences that’s up the wall. ETA: Just read your post again and none of the above makes any sense. I should know better than to try and think at 07:40, when my brain’s still at home, tucked up in bed.
It is a known fact that most celebrities have extensive knowledge and experience when it comes to foreign conflict and world events. I do not understand why we do not consult celebrities before we do most things in our daily and worldly lives. They are a beacon of wisdom and human perfection.
The funny thing about history is that sometimes we forget that the past isn't that far behind us. Take Helen Keller for example. Many might go, 'Oh, she lived in the 1880s, which was a long time ago.' She died in 1968. My parents were *ten*. They would've been able to meet her. Same with Robert Frost. Died in 1968. Ernest Hemmingway died in 1961. These were not folks who lived in 'another age'. These were folks your parents or grandparents would've been able to meet and talk to, though they were all born in the mid-to-late 1800s. Let me put it to you this way: Helen, Robert, and Ernest would've remembered a time without cars or phone lines. They would've remembered a time when TV wasn't a thing. The freaking Cuban Missile Crisis would've been one of the last historical moments they lived through. Imagine being Frost or Hemmingway in 1961, being told on the radio that there's a good chance the world is about to end in nuclear hellfire. Or being Helen Keller, being told that by a close friend. Hell, even Mark Twain (though he died in 1910) would've likely met those folks. And considering how he did basically everything up to and including helping Ulysses S. Grant himself publish his memoir, I would not put it past that man. I'm just saying, history is often not that far away, and it's never in a bubble. EDIT: Fun facts about Hemmingway. The FBI -- yes, THAT FBI -- was convinced he was somehow a Soviet spy so they kept a close watch on him. Oh, and they even kept tabs on Helen Keller herself, believing her to be a political radical in her writings. And Robert Frost actually met Nikita Khrushchev. Even liked the guy, apparently.
Ahem. I remember when Helen Keller died. I was thirteen. My great grandfather was born in 1860. My mother took me to meet him when I was five and he was 100. He told me that when he was my age, the Yankees burned his family farm, killed all the animals, took all the food, and left him, his mother, and a baby brother to starve and without shelter.
It's amazing when you think of the past histories of family and the events that they witnessed. A deep well that many young writers ignore.
the FBI watched a lot of people, including pages upon pages gathered on John Lennon. Lloyd Bridges was accused of being a communist by HUAC. Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney fingered people in front of HUAC. In Disney's case it was animators trying to unionize. Helen Kellar and I share religious views.
I spent several years as a judicial clerk in federal district court and, among other things, my job was to sit up front near the Judge and observe the trial, take notes, etc. Sometimes we would have trials that were long and tedious and would almost certainly be decided from the legal briefs the parties submitted, so there was really not much for me to pay close attention to. This courtroom was a large one, and very well illuminated, by banks of lights overhead. Lots of them. So during tedious trials I would sometimes count them, kind of mathematically, "let's see, each of those fixtures has eight lights, the rows across are 6 fixtures and there are 20 rows" [or whatever the numbers were]. One time at the end of a trial, as we stood in Judge's robing room, I said, "you know Judge, there are 1600 lights in that ceiling." He looked at me, and I thought I was going to get a lecture on paying better attention, but instead he said, "there 1re 1656." In case you were wondering what goes on in the minds of judges and their minions. [Seriously, though, if it were a critical point or something, attention would be paid to it, believe me -- but the parties would almost certainly have flagged it].
I’m sorely tempted to buy one of these. Apparently it will cut through 300 sheets of paper at once. Would it be handy? Certainly, for when I’m making notebooks. Do I need it? No, and it costs £169.
At first, I missed that you were five when this happened (putting this around the time of Sherman's March for your grandfather). So I had no idea when in your grandfather's long life this story happened, so my first vision was of an early 20th Century Yankees baseball team showing up on his farm and burning it and killing the animals à la the Furies from the movie The Warriors.
Probably, but you know how Aldi work. They have these items but only as one-offs special lines. I’m bound to miss it if they ever got them in.
In 1992, Zhang Shan won the mixed Olympic skeet shooting event, blowing out her (largely male) competitors. In response, the International Shooting Sport Federation immediately banned women from competition.
I think I saw a tee shirt to that effect, but not a real café. I also saw, "You kill it; we grill it." That might've been real. When my son and family went deep sea fishing off the coast of Georgia, they took their catch to a local restaurant that cooked part of it for them.
