Odd Things Other Countries Warn About Travel in the USA

[KamaAina]

http://gma.yahoo.com/odd-things-other-countries-warn-travel-usa-104815846--abc-news-travel.html

Last week, I told you about unusual warnings issued by the State Department for U.S. citizens traveling abroad; warnings like, be alert in certain regions of Norway for polar bear attacks.

Now, it's our turn. What do other countries warn their people traveling to the U.S. about? Short answer: Crime, but also Mother Nature. When she's at her worst....

England and the UK...

Drugs: One more warning. "The plant Khat (or Qat) is an illegal narcotic in the US. You will be arrested and detained with the possibility of a prison sentence if you bring Khat into the country." Consider yourself warned....

Germany

Nudity: This unusual item was brought to our attention last fall by the Washington Post which quoted Germany's Federal Foreign Office: "Nude bathing and changing clothes at the beach stirs up public agitation and can lead to unpleasantnesses."

[Tobin S.]

1. We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee.

[RebelOne]

2. I don't smoke marijuana here in North Georgia.

Some people may, but I haven't seen any recently.

[Tobin S.]

3. We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy like the hippies out in San Francisco do

[Feral Child]

14. Some do.

Hard to find and pricey, but there's a way around that.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. But they do smoke "ditchweed"

:cough: :gag:

[mysuzuki2]

4. and i'm proud to be an asshole from El Paso.

[KamaAina]

5. Where the streets are covered with tacos (t-t-t-tacos)

and the wetbacks still get twenty cents an hour!

mods- that is the actual song lyric, from Kinky Friedman.

[In_The_Wind]

6. yo

the mods all retired ...

[Doc_Technical]

10. Which is better than being a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas.

n/t

[chknltl]

8. Don't Drink The Kool-Aid!

It makes Americans act funny!

[elleng]

9. UNPLEASANTNESS!!!

[LiberalAndProud]

11. DH used to work at a motel next to Disneyland.

Kid friendly and all that, right? Had to discourage some Italian tourists from skinny dipping in the pool. What's indecent to us isn't indecent everywhere.

[mnhtnbb]

12. LOL. Reminds me of a story about the previous owners of the house we bought in St. Joseph, MO

when we moved there in 1988. The woman was German. He worked at the local Bayer plant producing animal meds.
They joined the local country club. In the summer she would come sit by the pool. One day,
she took off her bikini top to sunbathe--face up! ACCCKKKK!!!! Apparently MAJOR uproar
ensued because she didn't understand the problem!

You know what I found left on a shelf in a closet in the house when we moved in? Pictures of her--nude sunbathing!

[Violet_Crumble]

13. I didn't think the Australian advice was odd at all n/t