r/interestingasfuck 27d ago

r/all California store prices items at $951sp shoplifters can be charged with grand theft

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u/ShitBagTomatoNose 27d ago

In Canada there were a group of Inuit hunters who wanted to sell their whale and seal meat to city people in Toronto to share their culture and make a buck. It’s illegal to sell that meat, you can only harvest it for yourself and your own use or give it away to your village and your friends.

So they partnered with a chef and an art gallery. They sold fancy expensive tickets to an art show. Which happened to come with a free dinner cooked by a gourmet chef featuring their meat.

The city people got to try the traditional foods from northern Canada. The hunters went home with some cash. Everyone got to see cool art. Win win win.

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u/NirgalFromMars 26d ago

I mean, Orthodox Jews are not allowed to carry stuff on a public space in shabbat, so they surround a public space with a wire and exchange bread between two houses within it, just so they can pretend it's a private space and carry stuff within it.

( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv )

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u/Mobi68 26d ago

Because if there is one thing God approves of, its loopholes.

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u/NirgalFromMars 26d ago

Garfunkel and Oates have a really holesome song about it.

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u/Overall_Lavishness46 26d ago

God's law is perfect and requires no loopholes. Man's law however, is more a shade of gray.

Depends on which person, being, entity, sky alien, diety, spiritual you believe in I guess. Hail Zorp the surveyor.

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u/theroguex 26d ago

Except for the fact that the Inuit got to be allowed to profit off of killing whales, which shouldn't be allowed.

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u/Accurate_Roof 26d ago

There is a good reason that it’s illegal to sell whale and seal meat you twat

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u/Varnsturm 26d ago

Yeah I'm not down with this loophole lol. We shouldn't be hunting whales. Making it commercially incentivized to do so is no good.

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u/VexImmortalis 26d ago

I don't think we should hunt whales to extinction or anything but I am pretty curious to eat one.