Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 08, 2015
October 07, 2015
October 09, 2015
Transcript:
In 1998, the city of Wilson, North Carolina, outlawed the keeping of upholstered furniture on front porches- on the basis that it was tacky. More books have been written with Napoleon in the title than there have been days since his death in 1821- over 300,000 volumes have been written about the Emperor! Small Fry lands big guy! Keegan Rothman, 9, spent two hours reeling in a 600 LB, 10 foot long white sturgeon from British Columbia's Fraser River. The fish was nearly eight times the boy's weight!
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Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
How ludicrous is it to have “tacky” furniture?
Rob Rex over 8 years ago
Did Keegan get help from anyone else? A fish that size is hard for grown men with decades of experience.
JaneCl over 8 years ago
Where will the dogs in NC sleep????
CeeJay over 8 years ago
There is a similar law in Allentown Pa. People were just dumping old furniture on their porches rather then getting rid of it.
Old Texan75 over 8 years ago
Wow. I’m amazed that President Obama was worrying about furniture in Wilson, NC 1998. And the sheer power he wields. He can get laws passed 10 years before he was elected president.
Anyway, the Republican Legislature in North Carolina is so out of control that even their Republican governor is admonishing them.
Old Texan75 over 8 years ago
The thing about Napoleon is that the European history the USA gets is filtered throught Great Britain. Because very few people in the US can read any language besides English.Not everyone hated Napoleon. But he threatened the British Empire by making a French Empire, so he had to be evil and the Brits saw it as an Evil Empire….gee has history repeated here somewhere?
SharkNose over 8 years ago
Keegan and the sturgeon both look a little green behind the gills…
Bandusia15 over 8 years ago
Tom, you are going to be absolutely beside yourself when your country goes socialist.Say it with me….“President Sanders”….
lovelymajorhoople over 8 years ago
but keeping a rusty pickup truck on your lawn is practically a birthright in the south-also putting a working tv on top of a broken one
boldyuma over 8 years ago
“If your front porch awning falls and kills at least 3 dogs”“You might be a redneck”…..——Jeff Foxworthy
IQTech61 over 8 years ago
Obama took office in 2009. This law passed in 1998 – that means the law was in effect in Clinton’s America and Bush’s America.
arthurseery over 8 years ago
A— They have a similar law in Atlanta, GA… And yeah, the Fine you. Leave the couch on your porch… They fine you again. Eventually you will serve time in the Atlanta City Prison.Oh… And you cannot blame everything on Obama, He was not president in 1998.
cameron.hall over 8 years ago
That is why back porches became popular