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Real Law or Internet Law: Barefoot, Bins and Trevi

Per Wikipedia, France banned supermarkets from binning unsold food in twenty sixteen, and Rome now charges non-residents two euros by day; the barefoot ban never existed.

On air: Gloria Vance and Dale Bearman on BBN Overnight
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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorExhibit one, from the United Kingdom: a claim that driving barefoot is against the law.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. Bare feet on pedals, no grip. Bare toes, bare brake, bare minimum of order.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. Per Wikipedia, it is legal to drive barefoot in the United Kingdom, and in the United States and Canada too.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo nobody's even checking our feet.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSecond exhibit, from France: supermarkets aren't allowed to throw away unsold food.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. No government on earth is checking the bins behind a supermarket. Who'd have the staff?

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. Since twenty sixteen. France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThey are expected to donate it instead.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDonate it. So somebody does look in the bins. I want it noted that I was wrong and that it's sensible.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNoted. I agree with your suspicion of bins, Mr. Bearman.

  11. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhat? Er. Thank you. That's unsettling.

  12. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThird exhibit, from Rome: tourists must pay to get close to the Trevi Fountain.

  13. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. Charging for water you can see from the street? Next they'll meter the pavement.

  14. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. Since the second of February, twenty twenty-six, non-residents need a two-euro ticket to approach the fountain.

  15. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAfter ten p.m., access is free.

  16. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFree after ten. Real law, then. I'm packing for ten past, and I'm going barefoot.

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