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10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest
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Pfft when i was that little i would wind up in a different city/state unbeknownst to my parents.
That's actually really not good lol
They could have lived in a city that straddles a state boundary. Crossing to a different city/state could be done measured a matter of meters/yards.
At the Four Corners, they could be in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, or Utah in a single step.
More realistically, if you were in NYC, you could hop a train and be in CT, NJ, or PA for a day trip. Or even further, if you started early enough.
I was thinking something like this where you can be TOTALLY INSIDE ONE SMALL BUILDING and be in two different cities/states.
The left side of gas station (QuickTrip) is Kansas City, Kansas. The right side of the gas station is Kansas City, Missouri. So cross state lines going from the chip aisle to the soda refrigerators.
Google Maps boundaries aren't the most accurate. You can look up property records for KCMO and see it's almost entirely inside KCMO (though it does span multiple parcels).
What's more interesting is that while the building is in KCMO, the address of the gas pump canopy is in KCK. I'm sure they all just use the address of the entire business in KCMO for all legal purposes.
Someone below said they charge Kansas taxes
How the hell does this work employment wise? Are employees working in Kansas or Missouri and which state collects taxes? Probably not as big of an issue there, but in my state we have things like income tax while our neighbors don't, which would make situations like this incredibly confusing.
Just a guess, the mailing address probably specifies which state's rules its under. Police enforcement might be interesting though.
In Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, which is essentially one village split between the Netherlands and Belgium in the messiest way possible, I think it's based on where the front door is
Yeah, would pass through Misery for my lunch breaks to get to this Quick-Trip. Too bad they had Kansas taxes. Cigarettes were hella high.
I got a 10-speed bike when I was about 10. A friend and I rode 15 miles to my uncle's house to visit my cousin. Got home that evening and told my mom and she was like "That's a bit too far away. Anyway let's have supper."