Lost in the Pond Definitely staying tuned for this amusing topic, but when you finish up the states, pleeeaase do GB? I’ll bet you guys have some awfully strange ones also!
Montana has laws that requires schools to stable horses rode into to town; our locals actually made our school have to do this, back before I graduated in 2012; so sometime in the 09-11 area. The school was unimpressed at having to stable 3 horses, this also requires they feed and water them; while also cleaning up the excrement.
This was hilarious! As a local Iowan, let me explain... fire hydrents used to be made of wood. Ok, it was more like a pump well, but close enough. And Horses, like they do, chew on all matters of plant life, including wood. When they chew on wood, say in their stall, it is called "cribbing". So, yes... some poor, bored horse probably chewed on a few "hydrents" back in the day. Later.
@@JulsLittleBeirutAnarchy Wood does, but these pump wells would be close to the street and not buildings. They would be near hitching posts where horses would be tied up. Hense the law was put in place.
From the Marshalltown webite: The 1937 code prohibited: Fasten, hitch, or tie any horse or other animal to any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or to any fence, tree, shrub or other property. Drive, stop, tie or place any horse, or other animal where it may bite, eat or in any way damage any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or any fence, tree, shrub or other property.
Being from Arizona I had to google the Donkey law. "... There is actually a good story here. It begins back a few years before the law was passed in 1924. It seems that a certain rancher who lived near Kingman Arizona had a donkey that became accustomed to sleeping in an abandoned bathtub on the rancher’s property. This may not seem like such a crime…a little weird, but not something that would hurt anyone else. The problem arose when a dam broke loose and flooded the town and surrounding areas. When the flood reached the rancher’s property, it took his donkey and bathtub for a ride down the wash and into a basin. The story goes that quite a bit of the town’s resources and manpower were spent trying to rescue the donkey from the bathtub. It must’ve made the townspeople pretty upset because not long after the event, the law banning donkeys from sleeping in bathtubs was passed. ...."
If you are female and riding a horse in Omega, New Mexico, you are required to wear a corset. The nearest urban center (Pie Town) has a population of 186, so I doubt they enforce this. But they do make great pie.
@@PongoXBongo Those don't protect you spine. I think it was about decency but still corsets in 🐴 riding are still advice in absence of ( motorcycle) spine protection.
My grandfather was once the postmaster in Pie Town, and if it was the nearest "urban center", then you are truly in the boondocks. 😆 Just be glad they finally got land lines.
The law about conscripted road labor in Indiana was probably invalidated by the 13th Amendment, and just never taken off the books. There are a lot of crazy laws like that; ones that were invalidated by a court decision or later piece of legislation, but the state or local government in question just never bothered to go through the process of repealing them. It's also against the law in Florida to have 'relations' with an alligator, not just exclusively porcupines. You'd think those matters would solve themselves.
The laws about the dyed chicks and baby ducklings at Eastertime are probably because (and my parents told me about this) back in the 50s and 60s, you could buy these at any random five and dime store. However, the dye used (to make them look like Easter eggs, I suppose) was often harmful to the animal and many of these baby birds would only live for a few days or maybe a week because the children simply didn’t know how to care for them or they just neglected to. My mom, however, had a pink chick that she had gotten for Easter when she was about 8 that she DID take care of and it lived well into adulthood...... until one fateful Sunday when her grandma went out back, chopped its head off and cooked it for dinner! My poor mother was absolutely TRAUMATIZED and often told me that story. She refused to eat that particular Sunday dinner too!
I remember that well. I got chicks a couple of times (pink, purple, etc.). They lived, as far as I remember. Then I got ducks, and they were even more hardy! My parents always had to find a farm to give them to when they got bigger.
My mom told me that when she was little they used to sell little ducklings and chicks dyed pink and blue for Easter. The problem was that they often died from being handles too much by children.
Thank you for doing the "no alcohol for moose" law. I haven't watched many videos like this, but they usually bring up the "no looking at a moose from a plane" law. And no, it's not "meeses," but we sure do like to call them that.
This was great! Your wit and penchant for puns really shine on this one. I can truly comment with an LOL! While watching, I was listening through my headphones. My husband came by and said, "The neighbors called, and wanted to know what is so funny." 😆
Here in Bradenton, FL there is a law that states: If an elephant is tied to a parking meter, the meter must be paid as if it were a vehicle. Ringling Bros Circus home base is just south of Bradenton and the train used to end here and they would then walk the elephants from here. (Long time ago)
I just heard about the Hawaii law a few days ago, and believe it or not, it's absolutely true. Just so you don't make yourself look silly when you visit the fair town of Pocatello, it's actually pronounced poke-uh-TELL-oh. This stuff is hilarious!
Idk I read it for the first time now before seeing the and pronounced it right. That is before I seen the phonetic version. Maybe because I am american but came out normal.
You may have a Catholic background, or have some other reason to know about Latin and Greek word roots, if you already knew how to pronounce it. Lol, reading too much Shakespeare could do the same too. Alllllll the names. 🙄
I remember when the blue law was in effect ( in Massachusetts)about everything being closed on Sunday. No lie, stores, etc. I should clarify, I remember when it was repealed and some things were open, some not. Like, I wonder if Spags is open on Sunday ? I better call and check. (No, Spags never opened on Sunday. If you know what Spags was, I love you dearly) Weird stuff.
No picnicking on the highway makes perfect sense during the summer months. The amount traffic going through Fenwick Island DE into Ocean City MD would make it very unsafe.
One of my favorites out of my state is "you can't shoot catapults at buildings" in Aspen, Colorado. Also you can't roll boulders down the street in Boulder.
"You can't shoot catapults at buildings." Well of course not! That would be highly ineffective. You use the catapult to shoot a projectile (usually a rock or firm squash) at buildings. smh
@@HistoryNerd808 In practice this translates to 'all fire hydrants must be checked every hour'. Which is perhaps a bit infeasible but not entirely impossible, especially if the number of fire hydrants in Danville is (/was) is very small.
Planned burns, maybe? They do the same here. 😂 but yeah it would read weird if you’re not from the country. However, PA has a lot of country. Burns in town used to be common. In smaller towns, people still burn their trash. The city and state will burn lots of land as a control method. They are planned and checking the hydrant could be a law for common citizens or burn companies.
I love it. When I was in college we had fo do a speech on laws in the US. I decided to do dumb laws. I was living in Florida at the time. Florida has some interesting laws. It's illegal to tie your alligator to a firehydrant in FL.
Very cute! Hey, when you get to WI, please don't use the one about butter, it's been done to death. IMHO. Thanks for sharing another great video. Looking forward to part two.
My family is from Louisiana. When I was a child, I remember my father and one of his friends being visited by the police at our house and almost arrested for having kidnapped an alligator. It was very alive, tied up in the bed of his pickup truck, and very unhappy. They had to return the alligator to its home. I think my father may have been somewhat immature at that age. He eventually outgrew such risky manifestations and moved on to practical jokes.
I just forwarded a video of yours to Shaun. He was questioning some of the differences in pronunciation between America and the UK, so I forwarded your video with herb and aluminum explained.
Donkeys in bathtubs happened because one slept in a tub out in a field (dunno why it was there, I don't work here), and almost got swept over a waterfall thanks to a flood. Man died saving it, so town was like, "NO MORE OF THIS HABERDASHERY"
Difficult to attribute, I've also heard this credited to Chico, CA. It may be a general California law. It's possible that the intent is to refer to use of any kind of nuclear reactor (and someone misinterpreted 'critical'). It's also possible it's a HEY COULD YOU NOT addressed to nuclear weapons testing.
They could never pass such a law in Tennessee. It would kill their economy. How else would everybody know to visit Rock City and the even more worthless Ruby Falls?
Meriden is pronounced Mair-idden and Berwick is Burr-wick with emphasis on first syllable. Loved this video! These laws are ridiculous! It just reflects badly on our choices of politicians. LOL!!! I also am subscribed to Shaun's channel and love his comparison videos and his Scottish travel videos. He does a wonderful job showing the beauty of Scotland, especially his drone shots!
I've got 1 a pregnant woman was shot and lost her baby, and the person who shot her got off Scot free while the woman who was shot and lost her child, is now in jail because they say she started the argument with her shooter so now apparently its her fault she lost her baby!
The donkey in the bathtub law was because there was a man who had a donkey who slept in his old bathtub. There was a flood and the donkey floated away in the tub. It took several people and a helicopter to rescue the donkey.
In Florida where we lived at the time in the '60's, alligators were still on the endangered speicies list. People actually climbed fences and stole alligators all the time. That law was for those people or anyone else as stupid. They are no longer on the endangered species list due to the protections they had at the time. As you very well have noticed, they are all over peoples yards now.
So the bathhouse one makes some sense for the time it was enacted. If my research is correct they banned bathhouses in the 80s because of the fear of the spread of AIDS. Bathhouses were know for having a lot sexual activity especially within the gay community, so it makes some sense.
Alas, poor La Crosse. ! I knew it, Horatio. The really weird thing is that even if you're familiar with the various meanings of 'worry', the motivation for that law remains obscure.
@@thewilytroutesq5260 I'm sure the squirrel would be much relieved to be approached in that manner, rather than the manner referred to in the law. I wish all of the supposed dumb laws on that web site had citations with them.
99.9999999999999% of youtube viewers seem to have little actual curiosity, expecting everything to be handed to them, and never go hunting for knowledge on their own, such as looking up the various meanings of "worry"... OK I'm dismounting from my high horse, now. If you're offended, good. Here's a demonstration of a dog worrying a squirrel: ruclips.net/video/M2goqwe0emM/видео.html
Well not quite. They are a protected animal. So the law is actually “intentionally injure, kill, or process an alligator or crocodile.” But molest is a funny word so...
Fire hydrants used to be make of wood way back in the day and horses sometimes chew on wood so you had to be careful that they didn't chew on and damage fire hydrants.
The law outlawing bath houses in San Francisco was probably passed in the early days of the Aids epidemic, as they were perceived as being a major hookup place in the gay community.
I believe you are correct. The blood transfusion that infected Ryan White was narrowed down to a gay man who used to frequent the bath houses, and give blood regularly....
The craziest law I've seen from living in England for 30+ years is the one the prevents someone from defending their property. More than one homeowner has been jailed here for killing an intruder, and criminals can have people prosecuted if they get injured as a result of committing a crime on your property.
The same as true of the United States now. The Castle law, or some thing stating that we have to retreat. If they want our things, we are supposed to give it to them. If we kill or harm, we will go to jail we have to prove that we had no choice. It’s terrible shit. Basically, anybody can have our things, if they have the nerve to come and take it.
In the state of Pennsylvania if you're driving along a road and come across a horse drawn wagon, the law states that you must pull off the road and cover your vehicle with a tarp. If the horse still refuse to pass, you then have to take it apart piece by piece and hide it in the bushes It's also illegal for a minister to perform a wedding if either the bride or groom is drunk
The selling of chicks around Easter is most likely prohibited because they don't want people to buy them for decoration and then get rid of them. A lot of animal shelters have similar policies about adopting black cats and dogs around Halloween.
Wow, I live in Colorado, and I always thought our weirdest law was that it's illegal to tie your horse to hitching posts in downtown Denver, when there aren't any hitching posts in downtown Denver. Nor are there very many horses.
Yeah, there aren't many hitching posts because no body was using them, because it's illegal to use them. There aren't any horses because they all ran off because it's illegal to hitch them. I wonder if you can hitch a horse to a bicycle rack?
Lawrence Brown, Have you made that second channel featuring your music a reality yet? I am anticipating listening to it. If you have, please advertise its existence on this channel so we can all enjoy tuning into it.
These are great! Thx. The one law that makes sense to me is the one about not giving alcohol to a moose. Moose are huge and surprisingly fast. They can also be mean-spirited. A drunk one charging around a small Alaskan town would surely be a real hazard.
@@loisavci3382 Drunk people sounds likely. I meant the deer family in general. It's like making it illegal to have a lion drive cars, but why would you put any cat behind the wheel?
Fenwick Island DE is a narrow strip of land between Assawoman Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Considering it's barely 2000 feet across at it's widest point, the highway actually takes up most of the available picnic real estate.
Not sure if you will ever get to Part 2, but in Pennsylvania, there is a strict sales limit of two six-packs of beer at a time. You cannot by law buy more than two six-packs at a time, no ifs, ands, or buts. Now once you leave the store and put said two six-packs in your car, you can go back into the store and freely buy another two sixes. Rinse and repeat as many times as you like!
I live in Joliet, IL in the far SW suburbs of Chicago, where pronouncing the towns name (It's JO-liet, not JOLLY-et) is techinically punishable by a $70 fine.
Love your vid! Point of clarification. The bear fights were not Bear vs Bear. They were Bear vs American. “ Curious crowds attended matches at bars, country fairs or community arenas pitting live bears against professional wrestlers or anyone willing to go a round with a 400 to 700 pound monster with names like Terrible Ted, Sampson, Victor the Bear or Ginger. ... The bears -- some black, some brown some grizzly -- were said to be natural born wrestlers. Even professional wrestlers would often speak of their opponent's surprising skills and moves to take down an opponent. Still most of the matches were an absurd exhibition of trying to get away from the beast in the ring. “ www.al.com/living/2016/03/post_290.html Cheers, don’t mess with Texas, & don’t fw Alabama.
The two laws regarding dyeing chicks and selling chicks to a minor for a week after Easter is due to the large number of people giving chicks to kids and then the animals being abandoned shortly after the holiday.
You are totally right about Meese. It is so much better to have your Moose drink in your presence where you can make sure he's not getting into any shenanigans, and bowing to the peer pressure of his Meese friends, who can be terrible influences if you don't know their parents.
Great topic! Looking forward to part two. But what have you got against Dunkin Donuts 🍩? It would also be fascinating to know the back story on some of these laws if possible. Also, maybe you could explore the strange laws of GB 🇬🇧 next. Praying 🙏🏻 for Kafka! Looking through some of the comments Laurence, I think you have stumbled into donutgate! You just can’t keep out of trouble...😂🤣
Rhiahl Thanks for the reply! I was wondering about that since I live in Cali and was going to look it up but I got distracted by life stuff. The back stories are probably for the most part even stranger than these laws. People be crazy 😜!
I just learned, and I've lived here all of my 56 years, that it is illegal to hitchhike in Minnesota. Thinking about it, it is definitely something you never see.
5:02 Ah -oogha, ah-ooogaah. Language Alert!!! For the first time in history, an English person has pronounced Jaguar correctly. The end times are surely nigh. Well, almost. Still can't seem to master that rhotic ending. 😋
@pisswobble In my experience, people nearly always lead with their strong suit. Your strong suit is an unsupported contrary statement with a personal insult, compounding the error. The end result is your embarrassingly unintentional validation of my statement.
Removing old laws like this actually costs a certain amount of money. There were many old laws regarding cars, such as prohibiting them on Main Street, or having pedestrian escorts waving flags, perhaps even launching flares( ? Unsure of that. Been a long time.) to warn people that a cars was coming. This, in America, arguably the country of the automobile.
The donkey law is only in Kingman. The reason for it is that a gentleman had a bathtub in his front yard as a water trough. His donkey like to lay in it cuz it was cool. One summer there was a HUGE monsoon storm that flooded everyone out. Well, the bathtub with the donkey was washed down stream. The city spent a fortune to rescue his a**.
Not fishing from a giraffe's neck is the one that gave me a big double take. Maybe some guy used to ride around on a giraffe and because it had long legs he could wade way into the river and get the best fish and that outraged the locals? 😮
I was looking to see if someone had said this. Our local animal shelters refuse to adopt out rabbits around Easter for exactly that reason. It's no fun to the animals when the kids "set them free".
They wouldn't have made them laws if someone hadn't done it! That should give you nightmares. Baby chicks - dyed ones even - used to be a big Easter gift thing, and then as they grew people punted them out the door. Some areas had issues with dead chicks all over the place when people got tired of them or realized they required a lot of work/poop a lot.
Moose are mean and nasty and unpredictable to start with. We learned that young when we were kids in MT. Told that one BTW to a friend who lives in Belfast NO Ireland now but was born and raised in Alaska. His reaction was: who the F** would be stupid enough to do that?
@@adriennegormley9358 Who the fuck would be stupid enough to intentionally harass a rattlesnake? Take roughly the same set of people, and keep the factors of boredom and (the fool's own) drunkenness as the fuel, but replace bravado/desire to prove that one isn't a coward with "hey, wouldn't it be funny if . . ." as the spark, and I'd imagine you have your answer.
First I love your channel! Second, in Alaska while the law of giving wild life or moose alcohol might sound crazy, once you’ve spent extensive time in Alaska like I have, it’ll make sense. When I told my neighbors to rent a full sized SUV for their Alaska vacation they bought
Into the idea. Then I spent more time in Alaska during the winter. You don’t want drunk wildlife when you’re out driving around. Nor do you want a moose to come through your average SUV while driving down the road. Moose are massive animals! The only way to keep yourself safe is big vehicle and lots of airbags! Regarding your crazy laws, Missouri we have laws that make oral intimacy illegal. There’s no cure for stupid.
Last I knew - there still are NO billboards in Hawai`i. Makes it a little harder to find some things, but they do have the green/blue information roadside signs. Just no huge billboards spoiling the scenery. 💗💗💗
In part 2, I'll be looking at the craziest laws in states moving alphabetically from Montana to Wyoming. Stay tuned!
ayyyy mini golf is awesome!
Damn, my donkey sleeps in the bathtub all the time! Good thing I don't live in Arizona.
Lost in the Pond Definitely staying tuned for this amusing topic, but when you finish up the states, pleeeaase do GB? I’ll bet you guys have some awfully strange ones also!
Montana has laws that requires schools to stable horses rode into to town; our locals actually made our school have to do this, back before I graduated in 2012; so sometime in the 09-11 area. The school was unimpressed at having to stable 3 horses, this also requires they feed and water them; while also cleaning up the excrement.
Where's part 2??
This was hilarious! As a local Iowan, let me explain... fire hydrents used to be made of wood. Ok, it was more like a pump well, but close enough. And Horses, like they do, chew on all matters of plant life, including wood. When they chew on wood, say in their stall, it is called "cribbing". So, yes... some poor, bored horse probably chewed on a few "hydrents" back in the day. Later.
Anna I thought locals were both dangerous foodies and veggies!
Anna M. Addison Wood catches fire 🔥 though?
@@JulsLittleBeirutAnarchy Wood does, but these pump wells would be close to the street and not buildings. They would be near hitching posts where horses would be tied up. Hense the law was put in place.
From the Marshalltown webite:
The 1937 code prohibited: Fasten, hitch, or tie any horse or other animal to any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or to any fence, tree, shrub or other property.
Drive, stop, tie or place any horse, or other animal where it may bite, eat or in any way damage any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or any fence, tree, shrub or other property.
@@jimp7181 this is what looking for parking was like back then 😂
Being from Arizona I had to google the Donkey law.
"...
There is actually a good story here. It begins back a few years before the law was passed in 1924.
It seems that a certain rancher who lived near Kingman Arizona had a donkey that became accustomed to sleeping in an abandoned bathtub on the rancher’s property. This may not seem like such a crime…a little weird, but not something that would hurt anyone else.
The problem arose when a dam broke loose and flooded the town and surrounding
areas. When the flood reached the rancher’s property, it took his donkey and bathtub for a ride down the wash and into a basin. The story goes that quite a bit of the town’s resources and manpower were spent trying to rescue the donkey from the bathtub. It must’ve made the townspeople pretty upset because not long after the event, the law banning donkeys from sleeping in bathtubs was passed. ...."
Also from Arizona and while this seems like it's an amusing story, it isn't true. Not illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
@@echeblog Prove it by showing the State legislative Information System statute repeal.
If you are female and riding a horse in Omega, New Mexico, you are required to wear a corset. The nearest urban center (Pie Town) has a population of 186, so I doubt they enforce this. But they do make great pie.
Breast health awareness, quite progressive. Wonder if brassieres would qualify now?
@@PongoXBongo
Those don't protect you spine.
I think it was about decency but still corsets in 🐴 riding are still advice in absence of ( motorcycle) spine protection.
Oof. Glad i dont live in that state anymore
My grandfather was once the postmaster in Pie Town, and if it was the nearest "urban center", then you are truly in the boondocks. 😆 Just be glad they finally got land lines.
In Rhode Island, you can’t buy clothes on Sunday. They used to rope off and cover the clothes in the department stores on Sundays.
Did they used to have people buying Sunday Best and then returning it on Monday, maybe?
In Iowa you can't sell cars on Sunday.
The law about conscripted road labor in Indiana was probably invalidated by the 13th Amendment, and just never taken off the books. There are a lot of crazy laws like that; ones that were invalidated by a court decision or later piece of legislation, but the state or local government in question just never bothered to go through the process of repealing them.
It's also against the law in Florida to have 'relations' with an alligator, not just exclusively porcupines. You'd think those matters would solve themselves.
The laws about the dyed chicks and baby ducklings at Eastertime are probably because (and my parents told me about this) back in the 50s and 60s, you could buy these at any random five and dime store. However, the dye used (to make them look like Easter eggs, I suppose) was often harmful to the animal and many of these baby birds would only live for a few days or maybe a week because the children simply didn’t know how to care for them or they just neglected to. My mom, however, had a pink chick that she had gotten for Easter when she was about 8 that she DID take care of and it lived well into adulthood...... until one fateful Sunday when her grandma went out back, chopped its head off and cooked it for dinner! My poor mother was absolutely TRAUMATIZED and often told me that story. She refused to eat that particular Sunday dinner too!
I remember that well. I got chicks a couple of times (pink, purple, etc.). They lived, as far as I remember. Then I got ducks, and they were even more hardy! My parents always had to find a farm to give them to when they got bigger.
I think what I learned today is that a lot of shenanigans with animals used to happen back when most people lived in farming communities.
Lawrence, WHERE IS PART 2??? 😤
Also, do a version of this for Great Britain.
My mom told me that when she was little they used to sell little ducklings and chicks dyed pink and blue for Easter. The problem was that they often died from being handles too much by children.
Also died from neglect.
And the toxic ink covering their pores had nothing to do with their deaths, I assume?
I got one every Easter when I was a child. Mine thrived, and my parents always had to find a farm to give them to when they got too big.
Wow Laurence, this video has really brightened my day and even made your dad laugh.
I live in Mississippi and I'm trying to remember who broke the law by teaching me the meaning of polygamy....
@Leann Webb If your experience was like mine, it was at a Southern Baptist church during an anti-Mormon polemic.
@@AndyMcGehee I was going to say either your brother or your uncle? Or your brother who is your uncle? But I decided to be good. :)
Leann Webb 😂
The only problem with multiple wives is...
Multiple mother-in-law's!
@@AndyMcGehee women outnumber men 7-1 worldwide average.
So think of all those lonely women that become old bitties.
Sad, just so sad!
Thank you for doing the "no alcohol for moose" law. I haven't watched many videos like this, but they usually bring up the "no looking at a moose from a plane" law. And no, it's not "meeses," but we sure do like to call them that.
I always thought it was moosen 😜
@@rd6203 that one too!
This was great! Your wit and penchant for puns really shine on this one. I can truly comment with an LOL!
While watching, I was listening through my headphones. My husband came by and said, "The neighbors called, and wanted to know what is so funny." 😆
Here in Bradenton, FL there is a law that states: If an elephant is tied to a parking meter, the meter must be paid as if it were a vehicle.
Ringling Bros Circus home base is just south of Bradenton and the train used to end here and they would then walk the elephants from here. (Long time ago)
@Rhiahl Yeah, down in Sarasota.
Sad things is there was an appearant need for all these laws at the time they were passed.
I just heard about the Hawaii law a few days ago, and believe it or not, it's absolutely true.
Just so you don't make yourself look silly when you visit the fair town of Pocatello, it's actually pronounced
poke-uh-TELL-oh.
This stuff is hilarious!
So I have been saying it right all these years after all.
Idk I read it for the first time now before seeing the and pronounced it right. That is before I seen the phonetic version. Maybe because I am american but came out normal.
You may have a Catholic background, or have some other reason to know about Latin and Greek word roots, if you already knew how to pronounce it. Lol, reading too much Shakespeare could do the same too. Alllllll the names. 🙄
@@ivechang6720 Pocatello, I believe, was an Indian chief.
"city council grass" has a whole new meaning in Colorado these days. LOL And a "bean whistle" is another name for a billy club.
Massachusetts had an old Blue law until about the turn of the century requiring everyone to bring a rifle to church.
Turns out it might be useful in this day-n-age. 😒
They should now
Heard that one was to protect the ladies from Indian attacks(1600-1700s)
I remember when the blue law was in effect ( in Massachusetts)about everything being closed on Sunday. No lie, stores, etc. I should clarify, I remember when it was repealed and some things were open, some not. Like, I wonder if Spags is open on Sunday ? I better call and check. (No, Spags never opened on Sunday. If you know what Spags was, I love you dearly) Weird stuff.
@@natashadavis2959 Why???
No picnicking on the highway makes perfect sense during the summer months. The amount traffic going through Fenwick Island DE into Ocean City MD would make it very unsafe.
One of my favorites out of my state is "you can't shoot catapults at buildings" in Aspen, Colorado. Also you can't roll boulders down the street in Boulder.
Welp there goes my plans for the weekend
I already set up the catapult
"You can't shoot catapults at buildings." Well of course not! That would be highly ineffective. You use the catapult to shoot a projectile (usually a rock or firm squash) at buildings. smh
When you get to Texas, we are well aware of the law about not bathing in the horse's trough. Lol
wait... that's illegal here?
but... being 6'6" tall, a stock trough's about the only thing I can comfortably sit in!!
When you get to Pennsylvania, include how in Danville "all fire hydrants must be checked one hour before all fires."
How do they expect people to follow that? Maybe clairvoyants can but not average people.
I just happened to read that out of the corner of my eye as i was walking out of my room and had to come back and check. How is THAT a thing? lol
@@HistoryNerd808 In practice this translates to 'all fire hydrants must be checked every hour'. Which is perhaps a bit infeasible but not entirely impossible, especially if the number of fire hydrants in Danville is (/was) is very small.
@@basedeltazero714 Then why word it like that, rather than saying that hydrants need to be checked every hour?
Planned burns, maybe? They do the same here. 😂 but yeah it would read weird if you’re not from the country. However, PA has a lot of country. Burns in town used to be common. In smaller towns, people still burn their trash. The city and state will burn lots of land as a control method. They are planned and checking the hydrant could be a law for common citizens or burn companies.
I love it. When I was in college we had fo do a speech on laws in the US. I decided to do dumb laws. I was living in Florida at the time. Florida has some interesting laws. It's illegal to tie your alligator to a firehydrant in FL.
Moosen!! I saw a flock of Moosen!
🤣🤣🤣 boxen!
Rofl thought the same thing
You are both wrong “moose -sus- siz-is” was decided a long time ago!
One moose, two moose, is correct. Probably several make a herd of moose.
@@grandmajane2593
Yes, several of us have heard of moose.
Too many Arizona donkeys drown in bathtubs so we made a law to protect donkeys
jordan hicks It’s true...I just had to shoo one out of my bathroom this afternoon. I felt bad since it was 113 today but the law is the law 🤷♀️
@@dawndawn2222 at least you didnt turn the power/ac off on it like aps
Yeah that is heartless...
Very cute! Hey, when you get to WI, please don't use the one about butter, it's been done to death. IMHO. Thanks for sharing another great video. Looking forward to part two.
i would watch "Gorillas in the Mitsubishi".
As would I.
Is it a documentary, a music parody, a car commercial, etc.
Same
My family is from Louisiana. When I was a child, I remember my father and one of his friends being visited by the police at our house and almost arrested for having kidnapped an alligator. It was very alive, tied up in the bed of his pickup truck, and very unhappy. They had to return the alligator to its home. I think my father may have been somewhat immature at that age. He eventually outgrew such risky manifestations and moved on to practical jokes.
I just forwarded a video of yours to Shaun. He was questioning some of the differences in pronunciation between America and the UK, so I forwarded your video with herb and aluminum explained.
Did part 2 not happen, or was it taken down for some reason? I can't find it.
I can’t find it either!
I think he might have quit because he might catch wuflu from youtube
Donkeys in bathtubs happened because one slept in a tub out in a field (dunno why it was there, I don't work here), and almost got swept over a waterfall thanks to a flood. Man died saving it, so town was like, "NO MORE OF THIS HABERDASHERY"
Florida Man strikes again! :D
Nice! Haha
I love Simon's 'Adventures of Florida Man' and 'Texas Man' videos. They're hilarious 😂
Wow the English humor in this in incredible hahaha. Must be the trip home and back 😂😂😂
In Torrance, CA, it is illegal to detonate a nuclear device within city limits. Also it is pronounced Derby, not DArby (KS).
@pisswobble And a Bowler hat is not a "Derby". Similarly, a cravat is not an "Oxford".
Difficult to attribute, I've also heard this credited to Chico, CA. It may be a general California law. It's possible that the intent is to refer to use of any kind of nuclear reactor (and someone misinterpreted 'critical'). It's also possible it's a HEY COULD YOU NOT addressed to nuclear weapons testing.
Great concept, delivery, and keeps us all on the edge of our seat for our states (mine will fall into you next list.) Thanks/thumbs up!
Living in hawaii, it is in fact true. There are no billboards in the state.
They could never pass such a law in Tennessee. It would kill their economy. How else would everybody know to visit Rock City and the even more worthless Ruby Falls?
Yes, it’s in place for aesthetic reasons. It’s a good thing! We also have a height limitation on buildings but they change from county to county.
Meriden is pronounced Mair-idden and Berwick is Burr-wick with emphasis on first syllable. Loved this video! These laws are ridiculous! It just reflects badly on our choices of politicians. LOL!!! I also am subscribed to Shaun's channel and love his comparison videos and his Scottish travel videos. He does a wonderful job showing the beauty of Scotland, especially his drone shots!
I've got 1 a pregnant woman was shot and lost her baby, and the person who shot her got off Scot free while the woman who was shot and lost her child, is now in jail because they say she started the argument with her shooter so now apparently its her fault she lost her baby!
You saw that too? Alabamans be crazy!
THE SHOOTER GOT OFF?!? And the poor woman lost her CHILD and gets punished?!? Crazy!!
The donkey in the bathtub law was because there was a man who had a donkey who slept in his old bathtub. There was a flood and the donkey floated away in the tub. It took several people and a helicopter to rescue the donkey.
Seeing as the law is from 1924, I highly doubt a helicopter was involved
In Florida where we lived at the time in the '60's, alligators were still on the endangered speicies list. People actually climbed fences and stole alligators all the time. That law was for those people or anyone else as stupid. They are no longer on the endangered species list due to the protections they had at the time. As you very well have noticed, they are all over peoples yards now.
And, so, what about all those alligator hides used for shoes and handbags? Necessarily from somewhere else, or naugahyde?
So the bathhouse one makes some sense for the time it was enacted. If my research is correct they banned bathhouses in the 80s because of the fear of the spread of AIDS. Bathhouses were know for having a lot sexual activity especially within the gay community, so it makes some sense.
OK, I wondered about that. I had heard that California was rather infamous for its bathhouses, so your explanation makes sense.
Quite right. I was coming to post this very thing.
@Rhiahl Julian, not Joaquin. And what's wrong with a female-to-male transgender person having an abortion?
@TheRenaissanceman65 she specified a biological female going to male...
Californian here, bathhouses still exist. I think they were just rebranded as spa’s. Or they just just don’t enforce this law any longer.
Vending machines get away with a lot of shady things...
In my home city, you could find yourself in trouble if you are playing checkers in a public park or worrying a squirrel
Alas, poor La Crosse. ! I knew it, Horatio. The really weird thing is that even if you're familiar with the various meanings of 'worry', the motivation for that law remains obscure.
This is so funny. I imagine approaching a squirrel and asking, "Are you sure you turned off the coffeepot when you left this morning?"
@@thewilytroutesq5260 I'm sure the squirrel would be much relieved to be approached in that manner, rather than the manner referred to in the law. I wish all of the supposed dumb laws on that web site had citations with them.
How do you worry a squirrel? Tell it about how climate change will reduce the amount of acorns being produced by oak trees?
99.9999999999999% of youtube viewers seem to have little actual curiosity, expecting everything to be handed to them, and never go hunting for knowledge on their own, such as looking up the various meanings of "worry"... OK I'm dismounting from my high horse, now. If you're offended, good. Here's a demonstration of a dog worrying a squirrel:
ruclips.net/video/M2goqwe0emM/видео.html
Shaun's great, I watch his vlogs too. Thank you for the great video!
There is also a law in Florida that prohibits the molestation of alligators.
If you want to interfere with one, you get what you deserve - don't let me stop you! 😋
Well not quite. They are a protected animal. So the law is actually “intentionally injure, kill, or process an alligator or crocodile.”
But molest is a funny word so...
In Miami, the law says if you have an Elephant standing at a parking meter, you must pay the meter as if it was a car parked there.
Mister Meanial nope. You can hitch your elephant anywhere you damn please. You’ll probably come against more mundane laws though.
Mostlyharmless1985 I just saw a few posts down that I had the wrong town. Bradenton is the town
This was hilarious! Thank you Lawrence!
Actually, in many states, there are a variety of laws stating what one can do in the bedroom.
Whatever happened to Part 2? I can’t seem to find it, and I KNOW that Texas alone must have crazy laws enough for an entire episode! 😆
“I swear I didn’t do it your honor!” “Well then why do you have all those quills stuck in your p--?”
Re: Alabama...bear wrestling most often happens between a human and an ursine. Or do I've heard. Johb Bezpiaty
Billboards are also illegal here in Alaska. I'm not sure if you mentioned it though as I'm typing this right after you said it.
Nah; he had enough fun with the tipsy moose issue for AK LOL.
Fire hydrants used to be make of wood way back in the day and horses sometimes chew on wood so you had to be careful that they didn't chew on and damage fire hydrants.
The law outlawing bath houses in San Francisco was probably passed in the early days of the Aids epidemic, as they were perceived as being a major hookup place in the gay community.
I believe you are correct. The blood transfusion that infected Ryan White was narrowed down to a gay man who used to frequent the bath houses, and give blood regularly....
The craziest law I've seen from living in England for 30+ years is the one the prevents someone from defending their property. More than one homeowner has been jailed here for killing an intruder, and criminals can have people prosecuted if they get injured as a result of committing a crime on your property.
The same as true of the United States now. The Castle law, or some thing stating that we have to retreat. If they want our things, we are supposed to give it to them. If we kill or harm, we will go to jail we have to prove that we had no choice. It’s terrible shit. Basically, anybody can have our things, if they have the nerve to come and take it.
It probably depends state by state.
Would love to see a Part 2❤️!
I can't seem to find part 2. Did you ever release it?
Washington here, definitely looking forward to part 2!
Unable to find part 2. Wonder if RUclips got offended & took it down.
Some talented comic artist should make up stories to explain all of these. XD
In the state of Pennsylvania if you're driving along a road and come across a horse drawn wagon, the law states that you must pull off the road and cover your vehicle with a tarp. If the horse still refuse to pass, you then have to take it apart piece by piece and hide it in the bushes
It's also illegal for a minister to perform a wedding if either the bride or groom is drunk
I almost dread what you've found for Utah. It used to be illegal to collect rainwater, but that's been overturned recently.
To water the flowers? 😉
Water rights is no joke.
Mmm, indeed. Have you experienced the process and joys firsthand?
We say a simalur joke here in Kent (England) that you can tell when you cross into Surrey or Sussex cause the roads don't have potholes
You know all of these had to have happened at one point for them to become laws
The selling of chicks around Easter is most likely prohibited because they don't want people to buy them for decoration and then get rid of them. A lot of animal shelters have similar policies about adopting black cats and dogs around Halloween.
"It is prohibited to mispronounce Arkansas"
*Proceeds to mispronounce Arkansas*
Eeyup. That was the punchline.
Welcome to the joke
Well depends, in Kansas that is the correct pronunciation, for like the river and city,
Wow, I live in Colorado, and I always thought our weirdest law was that it's illegal to tie your horse to hitching posts in downtown Denver, when there aren't any hitching posts in downtown Denver. Nor are there very many horses.
Yeah, there aren't many hitching posts because no body was using them, because it's illegal to use them. There aren't any horses because they all ran off because it's illegal to hitch them.
I wonder if you can hitch a horse to a bicycle rack?
I'm not gonna lie, the Harrison Ford bit had me rolling😂
Lawrence Brown,
Have you made that second channel featuring your music a reality yet? I am anticipating listening to it.
If you have, please advertise its existence on this channel so we can all enjoy tuning into it.
Freaking loved the stand your ground/getting away with murder joke/pun
I think meece as a plural of mouse, but I also think it's common sense to not give a moose alcohol. They're terrifying enough without being sloshed.
They are also very tasty.
Billboards are banned in Maine as well
They're banned in a number of states, and that's a good thing.
Man Dunkin' Donuts are delicious! It'd be a travesty to make them illegal.
I love that you follow Shaun and Joel & Lia!
I really like Shaun, but Joel & Lia are typically clueless Millennials. So annoying.
These are great! Thx.
The one law that makes sense to me is the one about not giving alcohol to a moose. Moose are huge and surprisingly fast. They can also be mean-spirited. A drunk one charging around a small Alaskan town would surely be a real hazard.
The question is who would deliberately give alcohol to any kind of deer?
@@BonaparteBardithion Good point. Drunk teenagers, maybe? Not to be picky, but a moose is not a deer: it's way bigger and has scary antlers.
@@loisavci3382
Drunk people sounds likely.
I meant the deer family in general. It's like making it illegal to have a lion drive cars, but why would you put any cat behind the wheel?
Bear wrestling is also on the books in Louisiana
Fenwick Island DE is a narrow strip of land between Assawoman Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Considering it's barely 2000 feet across at it's widest point, the highway actually takes up most of the available picnic real estate.
Have you completed part 2 🤔 ?
If you have 🤔 I can't locate it 👀
Moving on, great job on this 🤗
Not sure if you will ever get to Part 2, but in Pennsylvania, there is a strict sales limit of two six-packs of beer at a time. You cannot by law buy more than two six-packs at a time, no ifs, ands, or buts. Now once you leave the store and put said two six-packs in your car, you can go back into the store and freely buy another two sixes. Rinse and repeat as many times as you like!
I live in Joliet, IL in the far SW suburbs of Chicago, where pronouncing the towns name (It's JO-liet, not JOLLY-et) is techinically punishable by a $70 fine.
I loved this and have looked diligently for Part 2 -- where is it?
Love your vid! Point of clarification. The bear fights were not Bear vs Bear. They were Bear vs American.
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Curious crowds attended matches at bars, country fairs or community arenas pitting live bears against professional wrestlers or anyone willing to go a round with a 400 to 700 pound monster with names like Terrible Ted, Sampson, Victor the Bear or Ginger.
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The bears -- some black, some brown some grizzly -- were said to be natural born wrestlers. Even professional wrestlers would often speak of their opponent's surprising skills and moves to take down an opponent. Still most of the matches were an absurd exhibition of trying to get away from the beast in the ring.
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www.al.com/living/2016/03/post_290.html
Cheers, don’t mess with Texas, & don’t fw Alabama.
The two laws regarding dyeing chicks and selling chicks to a minor for a week after Easter is due to the large number of people giving chicks to kids and then the animals being abandoned shortly after the holiday.
I suppose each state is entitled for one stupid law.
You are totally right about Meese. It is so much better to have your Moose drink in your presence where you can make sure he's not getting into any shenanigans, and bowing to the peer pressure of his Meese friends, who can be terrible influences if you don't know their parents.
they might encourage your moose to bite, and as we all know from monty python telling us.... møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.
Great topic! Looking forward to part two. But what have you got against Dunkin Donuts 🍩? It would also be fascinating to know the back story on some of these laws if possible. Also, maybe you could explore the strange laws of GB 🇬🇧 next. Praying 🙏🏻 for Kafka!
Looking through some of the comments Laurence, I think you have stumbled into donutgate! You just can’t keep out of trouble...😂🤣
Rhiahl Thanks for the reply! I was wondering about that since I live in Cali and was going to look it up but I got distracted by life stuff. The back stories are probably for the most part even stranger than these laws. People be crazy 😜!
Rhiahl 🦌😂🦌😂🍷🥂🍹🍺🤣
Gorillas in the Mitsubishi... OMG! Brilliant! 😂😂😂😂
What happened to part 2?
I just learned, and I've lived here all of my 56 years, that it is illegal to hitchhike in Minnesota. Thinking about it, it is definitely something you never see.
5:02 Ah -oogha, ah-ooogaah. Language Alert!!! For the first time in history, an English person has pronounced Jaguar correctly. The end times are surely nigh.
Well, almost. Still can't seem to master that rhotic ending. 😋
Jag-u-ar.
@pisswobble In my experience, people nearly always lead with their strong suit. Your strong suit is an unsupported contrary statement with a personal insult, compounding the error. The end result is your embarrassingly unintentional validation of my statement.
@@ChrisPage68 I'll take "Jag-war" or "Jag-u-ah" any day, considering the number of people I've heard pronounce it "Jag-wire."
That was so funny. I am from Germany and never thought this laws could exist in our days.
Removing old laws like this actually costs a certain amount of money. There were many old laws regarding cars, such as prohibiting them on Main Street, or having pedestrian escorts waving flags, perhaps even launching flares( ? Unsure of that. Been a long time.) to warn people that a cars was coming. This, in America, arguably the country of the automobile.
A lot of laws are old and just never removed
The donkey law is only in Kingman. The reason for it is that a gentleman had a bathtub in his front yard as a water trough. His donkey like to lay in it cuz it was cool. One summer there was a HUGE monsoon storm that flooded everyone out. Well, the bathtub with the donkey was washed down stream. The city spent a fortune to rescue his a**.
Shaun has an awesome channel
Not fishing from a giraffe's neck is the one that gave me a big double take. Maybe some guy used to ride around on a giraffe and because it had long legs he could wade way into the river and get the best fish and that outraged the locals? 😮
The duckling laws are pretty serious. There are a lot of animals bought for Easter that are abused and/or abandoned 😢
I was looking to see if someone had said this. Our local animal shelters refuse to adopt out rabbits around Easter for exactly that reason. It's no fun to the animals when the kids "set them free".
They wouldn't have made them laws if someone hadn't done it! That should give you nightmares.
Baby chicks - dyed ones even - used to be a big Easter gift thing, and then as they grew people punted them out the door. Some areas had issues with dead chicks all over the place when people got tired of them or realized they required a lot of work/poop a lot.
Feeding alcoholic beverages to a moose😂
Moose are mean and nasty and unpredictable to start with. We learned that young when we were kids in MT. Told that one BTW to a friend who lives in Belfast NO Ireland now but was born and raised in Alaska. His reaction was: who the F** would be stupid enough to do that?
@@adriennegormley9358 Who the fuck would be stupid enough to intentionally harass a rattlesnake? Take roughly the same set of people, and keep the factors of boredom and (the fool's own) drunkenness as the fuel, but replace bravado/desire to prove that one isn't a coward with "hey, wouldn't it be funny if . . ." as the spark, and I'd imagine you have your answer.
First I love your channel! Second, in Alaska while the law of giving wild life or moose alcohol might sound crazy, once you’ve spent extensive time in Alaska like I have, it’ll make sense. When I told my neighbors to rent a full sized SUV for their Alaska vacation they bought
Into the idea. Then I spent more time in Alaska during the winter. You don’t want drunk wildlife when you’re out driving around. Nor do you want a moose to come through your average SUV while driving down the road. Moose are massive animals! The only way to keep yourself safe is big vehicle and lots of airbags! Regarding your crazy laws, Missouri we have laws that make oral intimacy illegal. There’s no cure for stupid.
Florida man, sounds legit to me....😊
Last I knew - there still are NO billboards in Hawai`i. Makes it a little harder to find some things, but they do have the green/blue information roadside signs. Just no huge billboards spoiling the scenery. 💗💗💗
FYI - your pronunciation of Arkansas is perfect if you’re in Kansas and referring to the Arkansas river.