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Feedback: You too can be licensed not to drive

15 January 2014

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Licensed not to drive

BUYING some cake in a late-opening shop recently, Feedback encountered a pile of leaflets encouraging young people to apply for a “Validate UK” card to prove their age. Inside, we made the interesting discovery that in the UK you must show that you are 18 or over to buy an axe or crossbow.

This took us back to arriving to work in Pennsylvania some years ago – starting with a trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles to…

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