Pennsylvania: Tying a dollar bill to a string and yanking it away is…

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFirst, Pennsylvania. The claim: tying a dollar bill to a string and yanking it away is illegal.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. Once you let people steal the joy from a dollar on a string, there's nothing left. Everything is a prank, then a collapse.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. PBS NewsHour reports that this one amounts to nothing more than a popular myth.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA myth. So the prank is perfectly legal, and the dollar sits there completely unprotected.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSecond, New Zealand. The claim: you can't name your baby Justice.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. No country bans a name. Although names that sound like official titles, now that's a different concern.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. Wikipedia says New Zealand rejects names that resemble an official title, and Justice is the one it rejects most often.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI was right. That's a sign of the apocalypse.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou are unserious, Dale. I have watched real borders close.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd I've watched my career decline. We've both seen better days.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThird, the European Union. The claim: it banned bananas that are too bendy.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. First they straighten the bananas, then the roads, then us. It's a crescent-shaped end of days.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. Wikipedia calls it the stereotypical Euromyth.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe strictest rules only covered Extra class bananas, while Class I and II tolerated minor shape irregularities.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSlight defects allowed. I'm wrong again, and somehow that's worse.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe court has heard all three. Any final ruling?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYes. This whole court is an internet myth, and I'm only wearing the wig because the wig is real.