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United Kingdom: Drivers who splash pedestrians with a puddle can be…
The Crown Prosecution Service lists driving through a puddle and splashing pedestrians as inconsiderate driving; the donkey-in-the-bathtub law, meanwhile, appears to be pure myth.
Watch it as it aired: Gloria Vance and Dale Bearman on this story, from Best of BBN at 2:15 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are cps.gov.uk's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by cps.gov.uk: “United Kingdom: Drivers who splash pedestrians with a puddle can be prosecuted.”, with reporting from phoenixnewtimes.com and Wikipedia.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 2:15 AM ET on Best of BBN, by Gloria Vance and Dale Bearman.
- Topics: Man United.
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What BBN said about it

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFirst exhibit, from the United Kingdom: drivers who splash pedestrians with a puddle can be prosecuted.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. No government is organised enough to police a puddle. They cannot even police the potholes, and that is how it begins.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. The Crown Prosecution Service lists driving through a puddle causing pedestrians to be splashed as an example of inconsiderate driving.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the splash is on file. Somewhere, a clerk is measuring the spray.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSecond exhibit, from Arizona: donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. A law that specific means something terrible happened in a bathtub, and I will not be told otherwise. The parents fought back with forty-three characters of pure chaos.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. No such statute has been found, and the Phoenix New Times says you can legally put a donkey in your bathtub.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLegally.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLegally. I have seen real tribunals, Dale. You are a man in a wig.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA wig that is now losing faith in the donkey situation. Nobody is guarding the bathtubs of Arizona.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThird exhibit, from Sweden: a court can turn down your baby's name, however artistic it is.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. Parents are free to name children anything. Once they are not, we are one step from the state naming the dog.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. In nineteen ninety-six, Swedish parents fined under the naming law submitted a forty-three character name in protest, calling it an artistic creation.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer Wikipedia, the court rejected it and upheld the fine.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorForty-three characters. I have seen spam folders with more restraint.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTwo real, one myth. Dale, any closing remarks for the bench?

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI rule this entire court Internet. Nothing this orderly survives, and frankly I will be wearing the wig at the end.
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