Boring Statistics and outdated laws of home town

Launch gallery slideshow

Swap Coordinator:	Kay (contact)
Swap categories:	Newbie Email
Number of people in swap:	6
Location:	International
Type:	Type 1: Electronic
Last day to signup/drop:	September 3, 2010
Date items must be sent by:	September 17, 2010
Number of swap partners:	2
Description:
I love facts and figures. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who wants to swap numbers or outdated laws about where they live or where they were born. Email at least 2 delicious (well for me anyway) snippets of information to 2 partners. As an example the town where I was born in 1959 had a population of 140000. Up until 2000 it still had a law saying a man, notice it had to be a man, had to walk in front of a motor vehicle waving a red flag if it was being driven over 10 mph. This was so it did not frighten carriage horses. They must have walked a lot faster then. It was also the last town in this country to dump prohibition, probably to make sure that man with the red flag wasn't drunk.

Discussion

dizzysgram 08/21/2010 #

Sounds like fun but where in the world do you even look for stuff like that? Help me out and I'll see what I can find.... :-)

Kay 08/21/2010 #

Just anywhere really, use the net or walk past a significant building if you like and look for a plaque to see when it was built. For example the church I was married in has a foundation stone, which states it was opened in 1922 by J. Tennent, as it just turns out is one of my husband's relatives.

Any boring old fact will do. How many disability parking spots are there at your local supermarket? My home town has 1 McDonalds and 1 Kentucky Fried, but no Burger King.

It can be really silly, like the sign on one of the moutain passes here: "Elevation 1" because a car wiped off the other numbers when it spun out of control. (Does this mean our mountains have shrunk?)

We have a park here, swarming with ducks, swans, oyster catches, dotterels, everyone used to feed them. There are 12 types of wild birds. 2 years ago a sign was put up "Do not feed the ducks". (So do we keep throwing out the feed for the swans and tell the ducks they aren't allowed any?)

Ogma 08/21/2010 #

What a GREAT swap! :-D

Ogma 08/21/2010 #

LOL! I just read your "Do not feed the ducks" comment. I think I can find some really outrageous laws from "America's Hometown". Let's see. ;-)

Kay 08/23/2010 #

That sounds interesting.

On one of our passes we have a sign "DO NOT FEED THE KEAS". Keas are large mountain parrots, and if you don't feed them they eat the rubber off your windcreen wipers for spite. Since they are such lovely, cheeky birds that eat from your hand many people sit on the sign with one leg over the "NOT" so it reads "DO FEED THE KEAS". Their wipers remain in tack. Not that I would ever dream of doing this of course, never, no, not me.

Kay 08/24/2010 #

Good Grief I meant "intact", not "in tack". Brain was not in gear.

Kay 09/ 9/2010 #

I sent my info a few days ago but have only clicked the "sent button today. I am especially scatterbrained this week.

You must be logged in to leave a comment. Click here to log in.

Top Swaps

Newest Swaps

Boring Statistics and outdated laws of home town

Launch gallery slideshow

Discussion

Leave a Comment