Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis breaks 25% of the law.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Three out of four of those corners (including the one in which the gummies are a misdemeanor) are also within the Navajo Nation. Kinda feels like that tribal jurisdiction ought to matter.

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They do. And for most purposes each reservation is it’s own little defacto nation. They aren’t truly, but definitely in spirit lol.

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    • Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Each nation has its own agreement with the USA that defines these things, it’s weird. I think it’s in Wisconsin where tribe members retain hunting and fishing rights to a lake sold as a private lake, when cops showed up, they had to let them fish and hunt or the land would be returned to the tribe. As per the agreement from long ago.

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    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don’t necessarily. Historically they didn’t have jurisdiction over non-tribal members. Now there are some detainment powers, but it is not 100% clear still.

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  • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ummm that is a sold sort of. It is more clear now, but is history tribal police couldn’t reinforce the law or even detain non tribal members. After a supreme court ruling and a new federal law tribal place have some power over non-tribal members. But not to necessarily to the extent of other local law enforcement.

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• Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  However, he is crossing 3 state lines in the process, breaking federal law.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    running in circles at the 4 corners smoking a spliff so i can get the felony high score

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like the old pun goes:
    Crossing (sea)gulls across the state lion for immortal porpoises.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did he not break federal law when purchasing them? Or is it just the sale of that is federally illegal? Never bothered to look.

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    • Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Transporting across state lines is weird and federally regulated.

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    • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Crossing state lines is interstate commerce, and that is federal jurisdiction.

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What happens if you get an abortion on that spot?

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In his order, abortion is: Homicide after 15 weeks and before a 24-hour waiting period, Legal at your convenience, Legal at your convenience but only if the mother is in danger, Homicide after 18 weeks and before a 72-hour waiting period.

    The only way to perform an abortion on that spot that is 100% legal is if it is done before 15 weeks, after waiting 72 hours, and the mother’s life is in danger.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait three days for an abortion and nobody bats an eye.

      Wait three days for a firearm and everybody loses their minds.

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    • Snowyday@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This guy aborts

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Waiting 72 hours? Sounds like you just waited 15 weeks. Let me flush this gummy!

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thermonuclear annihilation

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    • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      youtu.be/kPlcjF5PKP4

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Clouds will form over the spot as a warm wind blows in from the southeast. Flecks of rain will fall and a slow rumble will build from below as the ground shakes and a hole appears from the fallen ground. A representative of each will be sent: a sheriff, an artist, a socially conscious libertarian, and a racist.

    They will each give you one gift and then the sheriff arrests you and takes you to be judged by the racists. The others watch on in quiet disapproval, to the abortion or the arrest it isn’t clear. The racist then says “As foretold, the skies open and you’re on trial in another state.”

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A lot of slack-jawed tourists. Probably some dehydration as well.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Going out of your way to have an abortion exactly there?

    That sounds just like a satanic withcraft ritual.

    Not sure if there more or less steps, maybe it just IS considering abortion used to be a job for the local herbalist women.

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• thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man my brain is toast.

  I was scratching my head wondering which state would ban gummy bears and why no one in the comments seemed curious about that.

  Then I realized weed gummies.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah man, Utah made gummy vitamins a misdemeanor to ensure kids wouldn’t get tricked into enjoying them. /S

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Man my brain is toast.

    Do… erm… gummies have anything to do with it?

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• De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  His pockets are only in two states each. He may be in physical possession of illegal drugs for that one state, but the drugs themselves may not be there. How would that be ruled?

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  • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically they’re on his person which is how possession is usually defined.

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    • flerp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But possession is 9/10 of the law which means means this is only 9/40 or .225% illegal

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe he was spinning around at the time.

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    • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spin Up or Spin Down?

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  • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Schrödinger’s weed

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  • nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    by the judge beating the shit out of you

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Battle judges

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah, you beat me to it. But don’t forget the back pockets.

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Love me some Four Corners mischief. There is usually a food truck there serving Native American frybread - delicious!!!

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do they sell “Indian tacos?” I had that when I was working at a local TV station shooting news footage of a regional powwow and it was awesome. Taco ingredients on the frybread you’re talking about.

    I’m not meaning to be culturally insensitive. They called them Indian tacos, not me.

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re calling them freedom tacos now you god damn xenophobe.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A high quality chalupa.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, American Indians prefer to be called Indians, not native Americans. You’re not being insensitive.

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Holy shit I haven’t thought about frybread in like, a decade and now you made me think about it. How dare you.

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    • AThing4String@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Luckily it is not too hard to make my friend! Whip yourself up a batch tonight.

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  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I miss fry bread sooo much. I always try to tell people it’s like funnel cake but simpler. I haven’t had it since I’ve been to Havasu.

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Go to Tocabe if you’re ever in Denver

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• John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, i always document my crimes.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Those where theoretical gummies to proof a point”

    That why they are “in his pocket” and now openly On display.

    Could also argue my left leg and pocket didnt cross the border, only my right did.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Habeus Corpus. Any judge would laugh a prosecutor out of the court if this was the only evidence.

    Then they would probably be fired.

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    • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What about credit card statements showing purchase history from a dispensary and ai facial recognition cctv footage of him buying it?

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• Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think if the Simpson’s episode with sponge Bob and the 5 corners. I shoot you from here, the bullet passes through there, you die in x and fall into y…

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just saw that yesterday and so I did too. (think of it that is)

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    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      D’oh!

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• nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would not have posted this. The long dick of the law makes an echidna’s look normal.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it would be pretty much impossible to prove he had gummies in his pocket at the time. I also don’t know that Stephan Pastis is the right person to make an example of.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      he also didn’t specify what kind of gummies

      They could have been caffeine gummies and he was talking about them being illegal in the eyes of the LDS church in Utah.

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  • TorJansson@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Err… I meant DUMMIES! These damn dummies in my pocket …

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Better watch out for the long arm of 1/4 of the law.

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s either more or less than 25%, depending on whether he has the gummies in his left, right or back pocket.

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