Make parents who drive on scooters with their children but do not put helmets parade down Jung Shan road in the city they committed said crime with a sandwich board saying “I endangered the life of my child, I am a bad parent”
automatic 500NT for anyone who has a Christmas carol on their phone at any time except two weeks prior to, and one week after Christmas.
Mandatory fines for spitting betel nut juice on the ground.
please feel free to add more.
[quote=“Grasshopper”]1) Make parents who drive on scooters with their children but do not put helmets parade down Zhongshan Road in the city they committed said crime with a sandwich board saying “I endangered the life of my child, I am a bad parent”
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1)The same for any parent who stupidly puts more than one child on the motorcycle with them. (Scares me to death to see young kids just hanging on for dear life as mom/dad zips through traffic 
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Short imprisonment for playing loud club music in nice restaurants or department stores.
Tar and feather the factory owners who pollute the air giving Taiwanese kids breathing problems just so they can make a few bucks. :bluemad:
Don’t matter none… you can have as many laws as you can think of. Taiwan ain’t gonna enforce any of 'em.
The punishment for people who ‘annex’ the colonade sidewalk in front of their store/home forcing pedestrians to walk in the road should be public flogging.
You foreigners just don’t understand Chinese culture.
Spack - YES!!! Holy Christ Mother Fucking YEEESSSS!!! In my neighbourhood, which is the area around the bridge into Yong Ho on Chong Ching South, there are (as a bunch of you will know) second-hand TV repair shops, by the billion, as well as second hand washing machine / refrigerator stores, and other stores selling equipment for opening up a breakfast store. And these fuckers are always washing their stuff all over the pavement, which renders the sidewalk unusable because of this slippery scum underfoot. The TV guys are also all standing around, watching a couple of TVs while fixing a few more in the middle of the thoroughfare. And they give you a dirty look as you pick your way through the detritus!
Anyhow.
How exactly does it work with regards to those vendors who set up their stores on the sidewalk? Clearly it is illegal, because they run from the police, or they just carry on peddling their wares while the cops write out a ticket.
So why doesn’t the city consider renting out sidewalk? They choose appropriate areas (not just nightmarkets) where it happens, and hammer those who do not abide by the rules. Instead of a dinky little fine which can be made back after the next pair of jeans sold, confiscate everything, and a huge fine (bigger than the monthly rent for the space) must then be paid. This would mean an end to those infestations down Zhongshan selling hairclips (another fine/flogging/spanking? for those herds of 18y/o girls who come to a screeching halt every few steps and bottleneck the sidewalk), and the city profits nicely as a result. It is more controlled and more convenient, especially for those of us who have no interest in buying handbags and jewelry in amongst scooters trying to park.
Of course, this could already be the situation, in which case I apologise for stating the obvious above, and say “Well done, Taipei City, everything nicely under control!”
I have asked about the sidewalk situation in the past and the answer I received was this:
Sidewalks are owned by the people who own the building they front. This is why sidewalks are found to be different heights (aughhh!) from store to store. The owners rent the sidewalk out to the vendors, thus getting revenue on the space. Some owners simply extend their space (retail or otherwise) right out to (and some cases on) the street. Scooters park on the sidewalk as they consider it to be “customer parking”. I don’t know if this is the case throughout Taiwan but it appears to be so here in Hualien. By the way, the venders are licensed for the business in many cases, not their location. Therefore, if they get into an argument over non payment of sidewalk rent they simply move on down the street to another accomodating business!
So… I guess, sidewalks are private property and we, as walkers are trespassing? Don’t know… can’t figure out half the rules here anyway!
Yes, Tottallytika. Those ‘sidewalks’ are owned by the store owners. But in Taipei at least there’s also the new public sidewalks, that are usually outside of these.
Brian
Parents who, while out for a drive at nippy speed on a winding mountain road, let their kids stand with half their bodies stuck out through the sunroof to catch the breeze, should have their cars confiscated, be banned from driving for life, and receive six strokes of the cane in front of all the pupils at their children’s school.
New law (or start enforcing it): Whoever is putting whatever in the Tamshui and Keelung rivers to make them polluted, stop or be imprisoned until such time as I can catch a fish anywhere along the riverbanks.
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???..oh, you are afraid they might get a bug in their eye, or a migrating fire ant lodged in one of their ears… I see.
I used to like to ride in the back of my Dad’s 73 Ford pickup.[/quote]Imagine what would happen if they had to break suddenly, or if they hit something. But of course that never happens 
I’m sure your dad never drove as recklessly as the average Taiwanese, with or without their kids in ejection mode. And I’m sure he faced far less likelihood of having to brake suddenly than he would have if he’d been driving on Taiwan’s anarchic roads. Moreover, in these more enlightened times, I imagine that it’s strictly illegal in the US and any other Western country to ride around with kids in the back of a pickup truck, isn’t it?
I agree. Better to set them on top of the car and shut the sunroof. Better yet, why not on the hood?
Quite honestly, the best place for many of those horrible brats woould be in the boot (or “trunk” as I believe you refer to it across the pond).
Strap 'em to the front, Aussie Post-Apocalyptic style… And before this veers too far off-topic (and ac-dropout comes crying foul…)
What are the laws regarding the protection of people’s privacy? I’d hate to be in an accident because someone was turning against a red on a scooter, talking on the phone, lighting a cigarette, and trying to stop the two TVs in his lap from falling off, and then find my bloody, tattered self being shown on the news. After all, foreigners get shown on the news for fairly innocuous things it seems.
Goddammit, I was shown on the news last year during the summer, sitting on the steps at CKS (“And this foreigner was sitting here in the sun today - details at ten!”), not just in a wide-angle panning-around kind of way, but
Whoosh!
Charisma Man mug sweating heavily while watching my little charges dash to and fro. Was quite surprising, talking to my roommate - “Haha! Look at that pasty fu… HEY! Waidasecun!”
Old people and babies and caregivers should be banned from all commuter transportation during morning rush hours.
There should be enforcements to speak at reasonable decible levels at all times, everywhere. Violators fined for disturbing the peace.
Contractors should be enforced to do renovation work ONLY between the hours of 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, everywhere!
Violators fined for disturbing the peace.
Betelnut should be criminalised as a narcotic. Offenders (sellers and users) should be made to lick up splatters on the streets and also serve time.
There should be a fashion police. Anyone violating the boundaries of good taste should be prosecuted and stripped of their wardrobe and ‘restyled’ by a fashion fascista.
Offensive shufflers should be made to goose step for 60 days or until the shuffling problem has been rectified.
Sidewalks. Evenly paved. Skid reisistant when wet sidewalks.
Not this stairmaster, every store different high, break an ankle when it rains, excuse for a side walk we have now.
How old are you? 
How old are you? [/quote]
Not nearly as old as you. Stay off the public transport in the morning, you old geezer! :raspberry: