Originally Posted by CloneAggie 
My German office mate says this isn't true. His initial response:
Then he looked it up.
Well, it is evidently illegal for
American Soldiers to keep their dogs in the back yard, as the local German population makes a hobby of calling the Polizei on them, every time they leave their dogs out.
But that's not surprising, as the amount of hypocrisy in how laws are applied here is monumental. Enforcement is often "special" vis-a-vis Americans. For instance, my German neighbors routinely throw out recycleables in their trash, but whose trash do they go through to make sure there are no recycleables??? Well, me the American, of course.... After all, all Germans know that it's the Americans who don't recycle correctly, after all....
Perhaps there is some other fine point in the enforcement, as I do know of German dogs that run free in the yard, right nearby where Americans are forced to keep their dogs in, because their German neighbors call the polizei every time they let them out. And apparently, the word of a German is superior to the word of an American, in the eyes of the polizei.
