LOL, my husband knew a family who chained their insane father on the porch everyday. The really scary part of it was that they let him keep a loaded gun at all times.
Let me give you an example of this intrusiveness. Last spring I went to a nursery to buy some spray for fruit trees. I generally buy a gallon at a time because that is about what I use in a summer. I like to have fresh spray every year. The clerk said that she could not sell me a gallon, but she could sell me four quarts. I said that I preferred a gallon because you only had to stir it up once and besides the spray costs more by the quart. She said that she would give me the four quarts for the gallon price. I said, " Why don't you just sell me a gallon?" She said, "I can't legally, because EPA has not yet approved the label for the gallon container.!"
This is only a very small sample. I also live on a 90 farm. I have to inform the local fire department when I have a "controlled burn". A controlled burn is an outside fire such as burning a brush pile. I also have to estimate the duration of the fire.
Collectively, this nation is choking in regulations of various types.IMHO