Accompanied drinking of beer and wine at the age of 14.
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The classic: In Germany it is not illegal to escape from prison.
But you can and will be prosecuted for damage to the building or hurting anyone on the way out. Only a total clean getaway won't impact your sentence (if caught). What I'm not so sure about is if it has an impact on a scheduled early release with probation.
Of course. Was asking myself: Do I need to mention that the circumstances of the escape may change things? Naaa, everybody knows by now as EVERY TIME you mention the "escape is not illegal" thing somebody will add that.
Wegbier
Is that a thing in whole Germany? I didn't know this when I was still living in Lower Saxony (where I've seen this doing it by the youth at weekends) but learned that it's totally normal for everybody / everyday in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Wegbier
Is that illegal anywhere except the US?
Just learned about this today)
Ja
By law oxen are horses in Bavaria.
(There has been – or is, I don't know – a regulation regarding the use of horses for forestry work. Because of a forester who prefered to use oxen, rather than changing the complete regulation text they just added an article stating that "oxen are horses within the meaning of this regulation".)
There's literally no general speed limit on the Autobahn. My car has winter tires right now and I'm legally required to have a small sticker on the dash that reminds me not to exceed their rated maximum speed of 230 km/h.
Something that is practically not enforced is that it is a minor offense for barkeepers to give drunk people more to drink.
An important thing to differentiate is the youth protection laws compared with the US. In Germany it is not illegal for minors to be in the posession of alcohol or to drink alcohol. It is the responsibility of the adults around them, to not sell or give them alcohol as well as to prevent them from drinking.
And that is very important, because in the US the teenagers get punished by law for being caught with alcohol, which is completely wrong. The idea of these laws is that minors are not yet responsible enough for handling alcohol properly. So it is logical that it is societies responsibility to protect them from alcohol. But the minors cannot know any better, as is the spirit of the law.
It is completely wrong to hold someone responsible for something that you declare him to be incapable of being responsible for. I think this example illustrates well, how legal systems can focus on deterrence and retaliation or how they can focus on integration and rehabilitation. (It is a spectrum of course)
Bit of a misunderstanding. In the US if a minor is sold alcohol by a bar/liquor store the business will lose their liquor license. This is a huge incentive for adults to check who they are selling to before a cop finds out where they got it.
If a minor is caught drinking the majority of police will contact their guardian. If it’s repeated then they usually issue a small fine that can be offset if they partake in AA.
Idk about where you are, but in my state, you can lose your driver's license if you are under 21 and in possession of alcohol. Granted, I've never known of that punishment ever being enforced, but it is a possibility. That's why young cashiers have to call over someone else to scan my beer.
I think BGB §18 is fascinating:
As far as I understood this, if you have to transport a corpse in Germany, you have to be a trustworthy person according to the German Civil Code (BGB). However, you do NOT have to be a trustworthy person to transport a skeleton. So if you see someone with a fresh corpse in the trunk of a car in Germany, you can rest assured. You can blindly trust this person. If, on the other hand, you see someone with a pile of skeletons in their car, then you should quickly take cover.
I wonder how they define "trustworthy" here and why is trust so important for this task
That's an entire thing in German law. You also need trustworthyness to own a gun or get a drivers license. It basically means that those aren't rights but privileges which can be taken away if you commit an offense which may or may not be directly related.
I'd like to see a person who applies for a gun license and needs to show that they are trustworthy and then says "and I am also going to cary a corpse in my car"
Can you post the original text? according to this official portal the §§15-20 have been removed from the law
Oh, that's a sad loss of a fun law... Well, I don't have an original text, since I was just pointed to a snippet of it a long time ago. It stuck with me because of how morbid it was.
I do have some memories on other fun implications of laws due to how specific they are. I can post some from memory if you like. Something about lawnmowers and defective cars for example.
It is a criminal offense to run out of fuel on the Autobahn
Its a misdemeanor, not a criminal offense
It's not criminal, but you would get points on your licence.
only if you don't pull over and obstruct the flow of traffic
Wrong, even if you pull over it is an offense.
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