The worst rule/law you ever had to endure...

[micky]

hallpass

 

[Bernzz]

anti-killing laws

God I hate them.

OT: Hair colour rules. WE'RE FRIKKIN TEENAGERS

 

[wildpeaks]

That is the no hitting rule in school. you know the bully hits you etc. and you get pissed off and boom hit the bully in the face. then boom instant detention and maybe expulsion.

Very true, especially as the only way to get rid of a bully is to fight back if you're stucked with him for years (if it's just some temporary annoyance, it's easier to ignore).

 

[traceur_]

I wasnt allowed posters up in my accomodation... i put them up anyway and they CHARGED ME!! £65 for blu-tac marks!!

You actually paid for this?!

Yeah because the university has an interest in keeping those buildings fresh for the next person who is moving in and perhaps doesn't want a room covered in blu-tac marks. The fact is you were warned, you did it anyway, and then you're shocked that you got punished. That's what the fine was, a punishment designed to stop repeat behaviour. The school has to bring someone in to clean those walls, or repaint them, and that costs money. Throw in the cost of having someone inspect the rooms, the cleaners, paperwork needed to hire a firm, the cost of paying the firm, and so on and you're looking at a cost for the university which quickly adds up across multiple rooms.

Those rooms are going to be in use for a number of years yet and the school has an interest in maintaining them in as good a shape as is possible. It's perfectly sensible.

It's only sensible if you think in black&white. He didn't start swinging a sledgehammer around the room and put holes in the walls, then it would be sensible, but being charged for blu-tac marks is just retarded when an easier solution would be to ask him to scrap it off and considering blu-tac marks aren't even noticeable unless you're looking for them, it's even more stupid.

 

[Proteus214]

The fact that just being a police officer automatically qualifies you as an expert witness in a court of law for people being under the influence of various substances. I have had a cop seriously mistake a friend of mine who was a little drunk for being on meth...remind me again HOW the FUCK he was able to make a judgment like that?! They didn't even give him a fucking drug test!

 

[tsb247]

No concealed carry on campus.

This. Some will ask, "WHY?!" and I will ask, "WHY NOT?!"

Depending on the state, if the parking lot is big enough...

My state says parking lots are fair game, however, I am not sure that applies to parking lots that are within 1000 feet of a school, and I am not sure if that applies to colleges since many are state-run and considered to be on federal property.

 

[LaBambaMan]

Oral sex is illegal in Maryland, and it's bullshit.

 

[cappp]

It's only sensible if you think in black&white. He didn't start swinging a sledgehammer around the room and put holes in the walls, then it would be sensible, but being charged for blu-tac marks is just retarded when an easier solution would be to ask him to scrap it off and considering blu-tac marks aren't even noticeable unless you're looking for them, it's even more stupid.

It's not quite as simple as you're making it out to be.
For one thing most room inspections occur after the students have already left i.e. there is no way to politely ask him to clean his walls. If you inspect before they leave you're going to create a logistical nightmare where multiple inspectors are needed to service multiple simultaneous move-out requests. Then there's the problem of kids who cover the problem with carefully placed boxes or whatever and the stains aren't noticed until after they've left. We're then back to square one again.

Despite what you may think cleaning crews are not cheap. This is especially true when you multiply the effect across an entire university. Sure it may only take three minutes to clean the walls in one room but if half the first years at a school did it, lets say two thousand to grossly underestimate the numbers, then you're looking at six thousand minutes or one hundred hours of labour required just to clean some walls. We haven't even considered the opportunity cost of having staff wasting their time cleaning up after kids instead of doing other maintenance.

Remember your moral stand when you move into your uni' residence halls in a few years. The rooms aren't cheap, they're certainly not cheerful, and walking in and being greeted by that oily sheen of blu-tac that's accumulated over the years will be an experience. It's a question of respect for the student who will live in that room in the future, the school which has to pay to maintain and clean it, and yourself as you know a rule exists and should be mature enough to consider the consequences. There's a reason most schools just repaint the rooms rather than trying to scrub them clean.

Again, if he'd just cleaned it off himself there would be no problem. I'm just saying that claiming the rule itself is insane is the easy way out and fails to encourage any kind of intellectual consideration. The rule is logical and its implementation is fair, just because someone couldn't be bothered to at least consider the consequences of their actions it does not mean that the rule was unjust.

 

[radarbsm]

In Green Bay,WI it is illegal to spit on the sidewalk

 

[cappp]

Oral sex is illegal in Maryland, and it's bullshit.

No it's not. The "Unnatural and Perverted Sexual Practice" law regarding oral sex between people of the same gender was invalidated in 1998. There is no restriction on oral sex between those of different genders.

 

[Chipperz]

Uhh... Me and a mate once got an in-class commendation from a teacher when I stabbed him in the leg with a biro?

I'd made her cry the week before when I spent the entire class drawing her dying horribly in different SAW-esque traps and torture devices, so I think she was just supporting anything that involved any of my mates being in pain.

 

[slopeslider]

Ah yes i know one.
School just ended and i was leaving, as i was walkig through the gates i took out my headpones and just then a techer came over and said:
Te"hand over the headphones"
me"why?"
Te"you took out those headphones on school propety"
Me"No i took them out outside the school"
Te*Points to ground*"you were passing through the gates, thats school property"

This is just because it was an ***** of a teacher.

i have teacher that when he gets pissed goes around at lunch time and enforces all the schools rules like crazy. a kid was leaving for a doctors appointment his mom called him just as he opened the door to leave and this teachers comes and confiscates the phone after that he went into the computer lab and busted me and 10 other people for playing the halo 1 demo. the teacher confiscated like 25 phones in 30 minutes. i think even the principal thought he was going nuts

haha EVERY school as that halo 1 demo. and the graphics must always be turned down to minimum if you want more than 5 frames per second.
Worst rule from my old HS is the 'no friends in the elevator' rule. We had a 3 floor school, and the elevator only opened when you swiped a card. staff had cards, and I had surgerey on my back so I had a rolling backpack and a card too. But I always had to check the hall before letting my 2 friends ride up with me to 6th period.
oh yeah and if there's a food fight everyone
EVERYONE
gets in trouble.












EVERYONE.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Speed cameras, there just there to make money, they do not decrease speeding!

 

[data_not_found]

HA!
Mine has a story behind it. My school is by far the worst ever.
After my mom died of cancer I missed two weeks of school. To any one that was human and had a conscience, that would make sense. Not to them =D
I was unceremoniously expelled and have yet to find a new school to go to.
=]
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Well at least you're handling this with an oddly chipper attitude.

 

[Metropocalypse]

Here where I live, until about 20 years ago, there was a "No dancing on Sundays" law and you could be arrested for it. It's also illegal to buy flowers on Sundays.

 

[El Poncho]

Eh my school has it's usual dress code but also we have to wear a badge aswell, wtf a badge? Fuck you.

 

[Roxas1359]

At my elementary school we had to run a lap right after eating lunch to go to recess.

 

[FoxyStig]

You must wait to be dismissed from the caffeteria to play outside. (But I'm finished eating...)

I had the total opposite to that. We weren't allowed in the canteen unless we proved to the dinner attendants (which were sort of like canteen bouncers) that we had money, and intended to pay for food. If you had you're own lunch, god help you, you were fucked. You couldn't sit in the foyet because you'd get crumbs everywhere and it's "Extra work for the cleaners" despite that being their fucking job, you weren't allowed to take it outside because of "litter" and you couldn't get into the canteen because you weren't paying for food. Basically unless you wanted to just shout "FUCK YOU!" right at the deputy head, who was the douche to end all douches, you'd go hungry.

Oh that, and the fact we had 7pm detentions (Yes, 3:10 till 7pm) and if you didn't turn up to them, you were suspended for a week. And they acted on the guilty until proven guilty system.

God how I hated that shithole. AND it was a fucking Catholic school....

God would be VERY disappointed...

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

No Pogs.

Primary school was a cruel time indeed.