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mysteryfan (mysteryfan) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-08 09:11:00

Entry tags:

char: superman/clark kent, genre: public service announcement

Superman Saved Me. From Some Hassle!

Reading a comic, came across this PSA.

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	Huh! steverodgers5 2009-11-08 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Excuse my UK ignorance, But is hitch-hiking really illegal in some US states? I mean how would you find out whether the stae you'd crossed into had something like that? Before you're arrested that is.. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Huh! galateus 2009-11-08 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, it doesn't even seem enforceable on its face. I mean, unless you outright tell a cop you've been hitch-hiking like in the comic. It seems like one of those selectively-enforced laws. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Huh!

steverodgers5
2009-11-08 11:56 pm UTC (link)

Jeez that's crazy. One of the few times I'm glad I'm currently living in the UK. At least if I hitchike from Scotland to England I'm not likely to be arrested for it! (Well unless that idiot who's running the Scottish Parliament does anything else to annoy the rest of the UK..which isn't entirely impossible!)

And oh yeah..that poor girl. Guess a sassy mouth doesn't get you very far in Jersey!

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	Re: Huh! mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:17 am UTC (link)
	That poor girl was in 1946. So... 64 years ago. And even within states, you're reminded not to pick up hitchhikers, say, around prisons. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Huh! mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:07 am UTC (link)
	Hmm. Your selectively-enforced law link is from a story from 1946. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Huh! steverodgers5 2009-11-09 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm..Maybe it is a law then that isn't being enforced anymore? After all, this Supes PSA does look pretty dated.. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Huh! icon_uk 2009-11-08 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	That would be seen as YOUR problem, not the polices, and it would be a risk you'd run. You'd be expected to make yourself aware of any state laws that you were travelling through, just as you would in any foreign country you were visiting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Hah! steverodgers5 2009-11-08 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well, so much for it being the UNITED states of America eh? ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Hah! mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:15 am UTC (link)
	The U.S. has always been pretty big on state's rights. Laws vary that way. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Huh! jlbarnett 2009-11-08 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	If you're walking along the side of a major road, such as an interstate, they'd probably stop and find out what you were doing. This has an added bonus of getting you a ride if you were walking away from a broken down car and needed help. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	You know what it reminds me of.. steverodgers5 2009-11-09 12:03 am UTC (link)
	After learning about this today, I keep thinking of the original First Blood movie, where Brian Dennehy attempts to run Stallone out of town, for the simple crime of seemingly passing through. It always seemed a little unlikely when I saw it as a kid. But after finding all this out, it's not seeming so unlikely now.. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: You know what it reminds me of.. jlbarnett 2009-11-09 12:07 am UTC (link)
	the one thing I thought was strange about that was it seemed to me that it seemed the guy walks into town and he turns around and takes him back the way he came. Seems to me taking him to the other end of town and depositing him would be a more effective way of getting rid of him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Heh! steverodgers5 2009-11-09 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	LOL! That would have been more sensible. But I guess it would have been a very short movie then.. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: You know what it reminds me of.. mysteryfan 2009-11-09 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Well--you know--First Blood. And lots of movies about Macon County or Sheriff Buford T. Pusser. Or many, many Westerns. It's an easy story device: Get out of town/Get out of town before sundown/Keep so and so out of town. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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