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193 points chmaynard | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Jimmc414 ◴[20 Nov 24 18:16 UTC] No.42196673[source]▶
Greatly depends on the state. Louisiana interstates still haven't recovered from the fallout from the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, passed in 1984, which raised the legal drinking age to 21 as a condition of receiving annual federal highway funds. Louisiana was the last state in the U.S. to have a legal drinking age of 18. Louisiana experienced about 9 years of reduced highway funds as a result.
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PaulDavisThe1st ◴[20 Nov 24 19:29 UTC] No.42197275[source]▶
Also the only state I've seen with drive through daquiri service !
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1. Jimmc414 ◴[20 Nov 24 19:51 UTC] No.42197456[source]▶
It gets worse! They tape the lids to the cup and as long as you don’t put the straw in the cup it’s not an open container.

Also, the state legislature ruled that roosters were not animals to circumvent cock fighting laws.

There’s a web of similar Napoleonic Code caused loopholes in Louisiana law

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2. selimthegrim ◴[20 Nov 24 21:30 UTC] No.42198307[source]▶
Coconuts are exempt from injury liability
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3. Jimmc414 ◴[20 Nov 24 21:38 UTC] No.42198373[source]▶
wasn't familiar but wow.

"Twenty-three years ago, Louisiana added coconuts to the list of official Mardi Gras throws protected from personal injury lawsuits, ordering that the public assumes the risk of being struck "by any missile" traditionally thrown, tossed, or hurled by krewe members."

4. rascul ◴[20 Nov 24 23:29 UTC] No.42199250[source]▶
> as long as you don’t put the straw in the cup it’s not an open container.

Some years ago when I was living in Louisiana, the straw could be inserted but the paper has to stay on the exposed end.