As an American it’s our advertisements for lawyers. There are lawyers who specialize in such specific disputes and become household names for it. Like a law firm in my city specializes specifically in being hit by an 18-wheeler, becoming disabled, missing work, and then your job not paying you disability.
There’s one lawyer in the city near my hometown who specializes specifically in bodies from the local cemetery flooding into your front yard. America is a land of such poor maintenance that a core feature of our culture is that every large business will have years long court battles over something horrible they did, like selling food with poison in it or knocking someone’s house over by accident. And private lawyers do advertisements for their services with butt rock music
Or West Virginia. I was driving to a music festival and I stopped in Dunbar, West Virginia. You can gamble at your own grandmother’s funeral but you can’t buy beer at 10pm on a Friday night
I’m gonna be honest, this one’s not so strange; the law is gigantic with many little details in it that you have to specialize. This isn’t general practitioner level medicine where any dimwit yokel can be like ‘hyuck, put some cream on it!’; this actually takes years of practice and learning to get every little detail of how the laws work, using precedents and fact finding. The law is vast and every area, every little detail contains a world of little laws and how they’re affected, and even different states can have their own versions of those laws; this isn’t just looking at someone’s anus and putting on your big boy hat and saying ‘hurdy hur, thar’s a hemorrhoid!’
Well the legal specialization isn’t that weird but advertising yourself with guitar riffs and crazy nicknames is something I’ve ever heard of outside of America
A friend of mine from New Zealand was visiting once. We put on the radio and an ad for a local lawyer started playing with metal music and an aggressive dude asking if you’ve been injured by inhaling hydrogen sulfide. My friend was slack jawed at hearing it and I couldn’t blame him. It’s very weird.
The insanely specific law is man made and part of culture. So it’s still an example of weird culture. It’s also specifically USian, because other countries have laws too, but not these insanely specialized lawyers to this extend nor their bizarre advertisements everywhere.
As an American it’s our advertisements for lawyers. There are lawyers who specialize in such specific disputes and become household names for it. Like a law firm in my city specializes specifically in being hit by an 18-wheeler, becoming disabled, missing work, and then your job not paying you disability.
There’s one lawyer in the city near my hometown who specializes specifically in bodies from the local cemetery flooding into your front yard. America is a land of such poor maintenance that a core feature of our culture is that every large business will have years long court battles over something horrible they did, like selling food with poison in it or knocking someone’s house over by accident. And private lawyers do advertisements for their services with butt rock music
90% of the billboards in my state are for lawyers or cannabis dispensaries.
and the middle-of-nowhere gas stations have slot machines, yes I’ve been to Navada
Or West Virginia. I was driving to a music festival and I stopped in Dunbar, West Virginia. You can gamble at your own grandmother’s funeral but you can’t buy beer at 10pm on a Friday night
Georgia?
BIG TRUCK LAWYER
Wtf… how often it happens?
Enough that the locals have a term for it: devil’s gumbo
I’m gonna be honest, this one’s not so strange; the law is gigantic with many little details in it that you have to specialize. This isn’t general practitioner level medicine where any dimwit yokel can be like ‘hyuck, put some cream on it!’; this actually takes years of practice and learning to get every little detail of how the laws work, using precedents and fact finding. The law is vast and every area, every little detail contains a world of little laws and how they’re affected, and even different states can have their own versions of those laws; this isn’t just looking at someone’s anus and putting on your big boy hat and saying ‘hurdy hur, thar’s a hemorrhoid!’
i’m ngl i would rather have my improper burial lawyer be some random asshat i found than my doctor
Well obviously; doctors make terrible lawyers
Well the legal specialization isn’t that weird but advertising yourself with guitar riffs and crazy nicknames is something I’ve ever heard of outside of America
A friend of mine from New Zealand was visiting once. We put on the radio and an ad for a local lawyer started playing with metal music and an aggressive dude asking if you’ve been injured by inhaling hydrogen sulfide. My friend was slack jawed at hearing it and I couldn’t blame him. It’s very weird.
The insanely specific law is man made and part of culture. So it’s still an example of weird culture. It’s also specifically USian, because other countries have laws too, but not these insanely specialized lawyers to this extend nor their bizarre advertisements everywhere.