Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:12 am, February 24th, 2021 - 15 comments You can’t read legislation for very long without finding instances of weird edge cases. My favourite used to be the old Summary Offences Act which had prohibitions against wearing carpet slippers in public. Simon Collins at NewstalkZB writes about an example. Why we have kids trying to walk or bike on gravel roads with no sidewalks to get to school. When modern cars travel these narrow lanes at up to 100km/hour. Hundreds of children living on rural roads near towns are being barred from school buses under a law that hasn’t changed since 1904.