미국에서는 칸트라는 이름을 경찰에게 이야기하면 체포한다고 하네요. Yeah, yeah로 유명한 Morgenbesser의 일화. 경찰이 Kant를 C-word로 알아듣고는...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sidney-morgenbesser-550224.html

Another unfortunate encounter with the police occurred when he lit up his pipe on the way out of a subway station. Morgenbesser protested to the officer who tried to stop him that the rules covered smoking in the station, not outside. The cop conceded he had a point, but said: "If I let you get away with it, I'd have to let everyone get away with it." To which Morgenbesser, in a famously misunderstood line, retorted: "Who do you think you are, Kant?" Hauled off to the precinct lock-up, Morgenbesser only won his freedom after a colleague showed up and explained the Categorical Imperative to the nonplussed boys in blue.