I am a retired police officer here in Michigan and years ago I was reading my criminal law book and found that it’s a misdemeanor crime to sell unripened green tomatoes, my sergeant told me to stay away from the farmers market.
In Maryland, it is illegal to bring a Lion to the movie theater. Lions can’t be kept as pets in Maryland, so you’d be breaking two laws at once if you commit the first one
After hearing the one about making ugly faces at dogs in Oklahoma, I went to my two Beagles on the couch (yes, in Oklahoma) and made ugly faces at them. One of them looked at me like he was concerned about me and the other thought it was playtime. It didn't seem to affect their self-esteem so Idk.
If I remember correctly, the reasoning was because an idiot aggravated a dog so much it became aggressive toward him, and when he came by once when the dog was outside his fence, the dog attacked him, and his claim was that he'd been making faces at the dog.
@@boatmermaid6732 Not mine. When I go outside they start whining, "I want my momma." My cats on the other hand...I have no doubt they're plotting against me 😆
Just a clarification- the sunshine law in San Francisco is about building ordinates that restricts construction of buildings that cast shadows and obstruct the sunlight over other buildings in certain parts of the city, and it's the reason why some parts have strict height limits, particularly in the western residential parts of the city (especially the sunset district)
In Kansas it's illegal to serve any pie Alla-Mode. A lawmaker in the early 1900s burnt his mouth when he tried this new craze called iced creme, so he made a law making it illegal to serve.🤣
Another Ice Cream law. (not enforced) In Oregon, it is illegal to eat ice cream on Sunday. However, despite popular belief, and sometimes attempted enforcement. There is NO LAW, state or federal, in all 50 states, that makes it illegal to drive while barefoot. I have researched this quite a bit because I do drive barefoot somewhat often. It is LEGAL in all 50 states. Great video! Very funny! 👍
For the ladies' sake I hope that remains. Wearing uncomfortable shoes all day and having to keep them on even on the drive home would be awful. Not to mention tall shoes, which would make working the pedals more difficult...
The ice cream law that says you can’t have a icecream in your back pocket was bc people would steal horses in the western days that way so they made it a law! I guess you can walk away nonchalantly while the horse follows you to get the ice cream😂
In many states, if an animal (such as a horse) followed you home, you could legally keep it. However, you could not actively tempt the animal into following. Horses love the salt content of ice cream, so sticking ice cream in your back pocket would trick the horse into following you, without you being "active" in the endeavor.
Denzy says "Why make it a law if it's a robber? If he's a robber, he's going to steal it anyway." Smaarrrrrrt kid!!!! I'm on board with you there buddy lol. Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
I heard about the whistling under water back in high school, like 1973. For the life of me I couldn't remember the state. I don't know about their reason for it, I don't remember that either. What I DO know, that's something NEVER would have crossed my mind to do, UNTIL I heard it was illegal. I couldn't wait to get home, jump in the pool, and see if it was even possible...Fun fact...It's absolutely possible....
In Pennsylvania there is a law where you cannot sing in the shower and that you also cannot live in a refrigerator. It’s odd but also funny. I also love how the guy presenting the video is also having a hard time keeping in his laughter.
Regarding the whistling underwater, there are whistles, like the Storm Whistle, which work underwater and can be heard underwater if used on the surface, which are marketed to scuba divers as a safety device to be able to alert other divers. They're actually against the law to use underwater in several east coast states because of concern from whale activists.
Imagined conversation on street of a town in South Carolina, "but officer, it's not an alligator. It's a crocodile. You can tell by the pointier snout "
I saw a sign at the start of a walking trail here in Texas that listed all the things you cannot do if you see an alligator. One of the things listed was “molest it”. I was like, “who would even want to attempt that????”
@@twinkstar7738 Molest also means to disturb, interfere or annoy. Brain dead people do that to me without half trying. I suppose the alligator would have the same opinion.
My adventure was all about the Y2K bug instead of a law. Local city officials were afraid they would lose all records because of the Y2K bug so they rounded up everyone who were paying off tickets or fines. I had simple traffic tickets but was thrown into the pokey with about 150 angry citizens, many of whom were retirees in their 60's and a few that were 70+. We weren't allowed to bond out and tickets could not be paid off until the judge showed up for work the next day. We had people sleeping in hallways and in unused rooms of the ancient,dilapidated building the jail was in. It was a mess to say the least.
I know there's recently been news of an elderly woman in Arizona who was arrested for feeding the homeless. It's rough bc she was just trying to help people & didn't even know what she was doing was illegal
That was fun and ridiculous at the same time. I'm originally from Ga., so I knew about the one about eating chicken. Although, I would say it depends on how it's cooked. Fried chicken, most definitely eat with your fingers!! LOL Merry Christmas! Love your videos.
Bear fighting and bear baiting was actually a really popular sport in much of europe for centuries. I forgot it made its way here long ago, but it's hard to think there were that many bear fighting arenas when that law was passed in 1996!
In Muncie, Indiana, it used to be illegal to eat a sandwich in a cemetery on Sunday. Not sure why only on Sunday but whatever. Also in Indiana, inmates who were released from prison used to receive an ounce of gold and a horse. I'm still waiting on my ounce of gold and my horse lol
In Texas it is illegal to carry a pair of pliers in your hip pocket. It's a little out of date. But it makes sense. Cattle ranchers would drive the herds to the trains/market while farmers tried to protect their crops. The farmers fenced the crops to keep cattle from destroying them. Ranchers would use the cutting section of pliers to cut the fences of farmers and drive herds across the farms. This destroyed the crops. Thus the restriction of pliers in the hip pocket.
I live in No. Ca. We often don’t get sunshine in the winter or when there are wild fires. Until today I had no idea my guarantee had been breached. I feel like I should talk to a lawyer about this🤔
the woman arrested in Georgia for the chicken infraction was 91 year old Ginny Dietrick. It was her birthday and her friend set up the practical Joke. Her citation read exactly as: G. Dietrick is not to get up from the table until she masters the proper techniques for consuming this succulent delicacy, “down to and including the licking of the fingers upon the ingestion of the last available morsel.” The mayor was there that day to dismiss the charges right after the photos you see there and also named her Honorary Georgia Poultry Princess. She let her go with a warning and a mandate that she was required to go back to Gainesville often and eat lots of Gainesville chicken.
In Kentucky we also had a law that said you couldn't carry an ice cream cone in your pocket. This must have been a real problem nationwide! LOL I actually saw bear wrestling at the Kentucky State Fair in the 1980s so it was still a thing as late as that. There was a lot of slobber involved. It was pretty gross.
The law against stealing grease is because people were stealing the used fryer grease from restaurants. Used fryer oil is used to create bio-diesel fuel for cars and people were stealing it to run their cars. Some businesses have installed systems that allow them to filter the used oil and use it to heat the building. The ice cream cone law came about because there was not enough places to tie up horses outside a church and thieves would stick an ice cream cone in a back pocket to lure horses away from the church so they could steal the horses. The horses would follow the their away from the church and then the their could take the horse with much less chance of being caught. Stealing a horse in the 1800s in the United States usually resulted in the their being hung or shot to death. Hence the only reason to have an ice cream cone in your pocket was to steal a horse. The law against spotting animals from an aircraft in Alaska is because people used to find the animal from the air and would immediately land to shoot said animal. But the real reason is to prevent hunters from shooting the moose or bear from the airplane as it is unfair to the animal and resulted in too many being killed which endangered some kinds of animal to the point of extinction.
Sam, to improve audio quality for the viewer, you should run the audio from your PC in with your mic, instead of only having the mic pick it up over the speakers. You can use a mixer if needed. Otherwise great job!
Your laughter is infectious! I have never been arrested for any of these laws, but I was given a ticket (infraction) for making a very, very, slow rolling stop & turn, not coming to a complete stop, at a stop light before turning right, at 3 a.m. when literally the only people around were me and a bored police officer staking out this particular stop light trying to catch someone. The light had been a flashing yellow (caution, not stop) for years and as soon as they changed it to a full stop (solid red, not flashing yellow) this small-town police officer no doubt thought it would be funny to catch locals in the middle of the night. Ha-ha! .
@@Jade2016 ya know, I never read into why it's a law but maybe 100 years ago? I'm thinking it has something to do with when alcohol was outlawed in the US
I live about an hour away from Chico, California and that law was passed in the 1980s during the "heat" of the cold war. Chico was not the only one to pass nuclear prohibition laws in California and other states. Rumor has it that farmlands were wanted for research, development, and test sites and we up here are nothing but farmlands, so the citizens in this area back in the 1980s passed laws to prohibit not only the possession of nuclear weapons in this area, but also any research and development of nuclear products unless it was for medical purposes.
I really felt out of pocket as an American with this one. Lol, I just THOUGHT some of us were stupid. Now, thanks to this post, I KNOW some of us are stupid. LOL There are laws that make me ask WHYYYYYYYYYY? Good post, guys.
In the 1800's, the military brought 🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪 to see how they would fare for military use in the West. When the experiment was discontinued, perhaps this law was born & the 🐫🐪🐫 were released to the public domain. I don't know how much is true, but my husband used to talk about the camels when he was alive & he was a big history buff & collector of trivia.
We've got a few strange laws in Wisconsin as well. 1. It is against the law to wear a military uniform in Wisconsin (tell that to our military bases, National guard & reserves!) 2. It is required to serve Apple pie with slice of cheddar cheese on it! (I kinda like that one!) 3. Any mother vehicle must be preceeded by a person, on foot, 30 feet in front of the vehicle carrying a red flag during day light hours or a red lantern during darkness. Try that at 70 mph!
@@stever3658 well...I don't know if that's part of that law, but Wisconsin produces so much, you're be had pressed to find non-Wisconsin cheese in Wisconsin except at a cheese market. Just an FYI Wisconsin was home to so many Swiss immigrants who stated producing Swiss cheese that in the 1800's there was more Wisconsin produced Swiss cheese being sold in Switzerland, that there Swiss produced Swiss cheese! Weird, ya?
Well, I don't know about chickens crossing the road. But my brother was a county deputy sheriff when there was a car crash that broke down a fence to a turkey farm. Everyone was OK, but more than 150 turkeys ran wild. Capturing (or at least shooing) the turkeys back to the farm was a massive undertaking. My brother counted 14 pink blobs on the pavement, and there were a half dozen cars in the ditch to avoid them. He needed people - - so he got the volunteers from the Department of Natural Resources, the Deer Advisory Council and other local farmers to help. Also several deputies from nearby counties. All turkeys were captured, except for two. Wiley critters they were. One deputy got so frustrated, he finally shot both; then paid the farmer for the turkeys; and we had a wonderful weekend grill-out that next weekend.
Many many years ago cheese factories were small buildings in the country often attached to a house. It's illegal to fish from the back of a giraffe in Chicago. Jay walking (crossing the street at a place other than the corner) is illegal in most places but it's rarely enforced.
Ìn my city in missouri there's an old law still on the books. You can ride your horse into town, through town but if you get off you must tie it to a hitching post. The catch is there's not one hitching post in the whole city. Another law is you can't ride a city bus at least 2 hours after eating garlic. It's also illegal to fart in an elevator lol.
That’s not really stupid law if you understand animals, most often birds of any type, were used as a means to spy on military targets. Since the Pentagon is our military headquarters and houses many top secret things, they can’t take chances
The problem in America is that no matter how old, laws never just fall off the books here. They have to be removed, even if a new law is in direct conflict with an old law, the old law will stay in effect until a legal battle removes it, or a higher court finds it un-enforceable or unconstitutional. Many believe this is so that at any given time, it is likely that you are violating some law that makes it possible for an officer to have reason for stopping you and getting your information, which is not legal if you have committed no infraction at all.
“Whistling under water”... sounds worse than “littering” in that “Alice’s Restaurant” song... And I am so proud of Washington because Sasquatch is not the only species in need of protection from poachers BEFORE being recognized as a species. My 3 pound cat named Madeline could have used such protections in 2019. Maybe if New Hampshire had such laws they wouldn’t have been so eager to label her underweight compared to normal weight cats. Maybe she wouldn’t have been abused so terribly for jumping like a Savannah or separated from her family group before the links in her bloodline to meerkats could be established. When the police came to take my cats in 2019 I was upset,and they sat me on the porch with all these officers standing around with their guns at my eye level. When they told me they were going to remove my companions of 8 years I just instinctively put my hands to my head in disbelief. When my hands went up to my head they immediately put their hands on their holsters of their guns thinking I was going for their weapon. Not wanting my brains to enter my living room behind me without the rest of my body attached, I stood up and didn’t dare move my hands for fear I would be shot. I began walking away from my porch figuring if I was going to get shot by police, it was going to be in the middle of the parking lot where at least someone could see an unarmed person getting shot in the back instead of the head where my place on the porch would have produced. The police are calling my name behind me as I walk away telling me first they are going to arrest me for ‘leaving’. I am so angry and frustrated I just grab onto this sunflower plant in a neighbors yard and break it. The police then arrest me for ‘destruction of property’. Mind you this is while they are not done KILLING at least two of my pets ‘during capture’. Despite being able to plead guilty to the ‘destruction of property’ and replace the sunflower plant for the neighbor, the dog officer decides she wants to pursue more charges to deny me access to my emotional support animals and lifelong companions. The courts and the public defender decide they want more than my pets and my whole life at that point and continue to use the mental health system as a weapon against pet owners both my condo board and individual landlords in the park where I live,have gone after. Truth is I DON’T think animal neglect is a stupid law, until it is applied by people who are even more stupid, abusive,AND neglectful towards the people and animals they claim to ‘protect and serve’. That by far, is THE biggest joke New Hampshire has let me in on. As always I enjoy your videos so keep posting!😺
I'm not from there, but in Kennesaw, GA, it is required to fire your pistol into the air when passing through an intersection. The ordinance predates automobiles, and is from the time of ridden horses and horse drawn carriages. But I'm told - from a family member who is a resident - it is still on the books. Naturally... no one does this.
Well, that would be a court battle to listen to. The old law would invalidate the newer law that most places have about discharging a firearm in the city limits. But if it's still on the books it has to be followed even though it is an extremely dangerous practice that can have fatal consequences. The first person to do it and try to fight it in court I can guarantee would bring about the repeal of that law.
We have a lot of silly laws on the books. Laws are seldom removed. I think some were the earliest trolls. One state legislature tried to round Pi off to 3 because 3.14159... was too long a number. Unfortunately, some of the silly laws still sneak through.
Apparently, the whistling under water thing was a result of lobster fishermen dropping loud speakers into the water and blasting loud whistle and bangs to scare sea lions and seals away from their nets. Which still doesn't make sense considering that Vermont is land locked, but maybe it wasn't always that way.
Minnesota has a few really bizarre laws, the one about wearing poultry on your head when you cross into or out of the state is one of the really bizarre ones.
Grease is one of the more simple ways to make biodiesel. All it takes, is adding various alcohols and adding heat. Most biodiesel starts with vegetable oil(s), but animal fats can work also.
8:00. The reason for the ice cream cone law was to stop horse stealing. While it would seem weird to have a lot of horses in NYC the law was passed in the 1800s when horse drawn carriages were a staple form of transportation in NY. By putting the ice cream cone in a back pocket, the horses will follow a person in an attempt to lick the ice cream. Horse thieves would walk around corners of buildings with the horses following them and then just nab them right off the street.
A Chicago law was on the books for many years that you weren't allowed to "ride in a tunnel." You could only walk. Once they realized that meant no one could use the public subway system in 1980, the rule was quickly repealed.
The North Carolina grease law makes a lot of sense. Used cooking grease is an ingredient in making biodiesel fuel, so it actually does have a value. I assume that is what they were talking about.
The cooking grease law is because a lot of people have cars with engines that take the grease as gas. Fun fact. The cars that burn that fuel give off French fry smelling emissions
In Houston, TX it was illegal to spit on the sidewalk. The law was written in the late 1800’s when the sidewalks were made of wood. Diseases were rampant, spitting was believed the be a cause and thus, prohibited.
I don’t remember which state it was, might be Wisconsin or Washington, that you are not allowed to paint a duckling blue and put it up for sale unless you have more than six.
It’s generally accepted that the ice cream sundae came about because soda fountains and malt shops were not allowed to sell malts or shakes on sunday so they needed a work around if they were going to be open on Sunday. I’m not surprised that Nebraska won’t allow whaling cuz they do have an official navy after all. Oklahoma also forbids whaling and it’s also illegal to share a hamburger in that state. Many of these odd laws were put in place by new law makers who wanted to get their name on record for getting something done when they first had the chance. However there is the occasional law that made perfect sense when put in place that seems odd or pointless now. Two that come to mind right off the bat are laws against spitting in public because of spitting chewing tobacco everywhere and not being allowed to run around barefoot (at least partly because of spitting tobacco juice everywhere) both of which seem odd now but at one time were real health concerns.
Regarding suicide getting the death penalty in New York, they abolished the death penalty long ago. So now you'd get life in prison, the ultimate punishment for suicidal people. Now here's some other weird ones: Several states: It's illegal to walk backwards on the courthouse steps with an ice cream in your pocket. (I'd wager someone backed into a judge) Ohio: It's illegal for women to wear patent leather shoes in public. (Because men might see up their skirt in the reflection on their shoes) Marion, Ohio: It's illegal to walk backwards eating a donut. Lexington, Kentucky: It's illegal to walk backwards eating peanuts while a concert is going on. Missouri: When you're released from prison you're entitled to a gun, a horse, and a dollar. (Probably goes back to when you needed that much just to survive until you reached the first town.) Missouri: If you take a barefoot woman across state lines you can be charged with rape. (Goes back to women being taken in the night.)
In Texas, it's illegal to carry wire cutters in your back pocket. It's an old law, created to fight cattle rustling. It's also illegal to leave a dead horse in the road for more than 3 days. FYI, despite tv depictions, we actually don't ride horses everywhere here. Lol
I think a lot of these laws were written by bored legislators. A small law hidden inside a huge bill for another law is called a Rider. Often, the really huge bills don't get fully read by those who vote one it, only the summary gets read. Creating opportunity to let a Rider through. In my home state of Indiana, it is illegal to take a bath without a doctor's written prescription. Showers are apparently fine though. I suspect this law goes back well over 100 years. Bathing practices before the Industrial Revolution weren't all that hygienic with a single tub full of hot bath water being used for the entire family. Bathing order was as follows: The father, then the oldest to youngest son's, then the mother, then eldest to youngest daughters. I believe most likely that that anti-bath law was several Indiana doctors lobbying (petitioning government) in an attempt to improve overall hygiene.
It's illegal to sell Limburger cheese in Houston, Texas, but only on Sundays. And it's illegal to tie your pet alligator to a lamppost in New Orleans, Louisiana. Makes you wonder about the stories behind some of these laws. 😂😂
Oh my gosh. Whistle under water. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a 55 year old American and have never heard of whistling under water. I would think it would just come out as bubbles. But, if it does make a noise, it's a good way to scare the life out of some fishermen.
The ice cream cone in the pocket could lure a horse or cow away from its farm is one reason I read about I don't recall what else that law's reasoning was. No spitting on the sidewalk is still illegal in Oklahoma and other places as well.
I think I remember hearing that the old lady who ate the fried chicken with cutlery actually had "get arrested" on her bucket list and the cops were only playing along. Again, if memory serves, all they did was drive her in the back of the squad car and maybe booked her but then immediately let her go with a warning. They just had to come up with a dumb law for her to break so that they legally could get to the arresting part, so that if just in case it stayed on her record it would be a "well this was CLEARLY a stunt" kind of thing.
One of the comments mentioned blue laws and I thought I'd respond generally about that in case people are wondering what that means. A lot of New England states, maybe others, had a lot of laws prohibiting things on Sunday. There are probably still some on the books but most were repealed because it was considered to be imposing specific religious practices on others. And that is a no-no, especially since the majority premise was so people could attend church but don't try to buy anything. Connecticut tried to have it both ways for awhile by saying stores had to close one day a week. I remember a fabric store that closed on Monday. The alternative law became ridiculous because it was intended to allow the practice of religion and the store owners were Jewish. But they could hire people that would take care of it. Which brings up another practice in New York state. A Jewish family owned a resort and to avoid breaking religious law, they sold their resort to a non-Jewish friend every week just before Sabbath, and bought it back just after. The cost?? $1.00!! My husband was at the resort for a business meeting at sabbath time so he got first hand info about that. I don't think it was technically related to blue laws, but maybe had some commonality.
I live in a small town in Michigan, and we still have an active law that's not really bizarre but more interesting. It says that locals who kill a rat can bring them to the town hall and will get 10 cents for each one. I've always wanted to walk into the town hall with a sack full of rats and see if they would actually pay me
Hello from Alaska! A friend of ours was out fishing and snagged a salmon, which is illegal in most cities here. He actually had to go to court for that. It was a full court room with other cases going on, the judge gets to him and the name of the fine is "molesting a fish"! Well that got the whole court room laughing! 😹
I live in Connecticut. I’ve never heard of these, and they are hysterical! Apparently there’s a regulation in my state against selling pickles that don’t bounce. I’m going to have to be much more careful being an American. Fortunately, I don’t sell pickles.
I print designs on shirts and today I printed one that said “I saw bigfoot” with an image of bigfoot😂 it’s hilarious. And in my state we have a small statue of bigfoot (like 6 feet tall)
The San Francisco sunshine law is to prevent tall buildings and signs from blocking out the sun on the neighbor's property. The sleeping in cheese factories prevents shop keepers from living in their stores, and it prevents workers from being forced to stay in the factories to work long hours. Sometimes they abuse the immigrant workforce.
In Seattle it is unlawful to sleep with your feet hanging out a window. 130 years ago lumberjacks would come into town on the weekend and not bath. There feet stunk so bad they would hang them out a window to sleep.
Some silly laws in California: Baldwin Park: no one is allowed to ride a bicycle while in a swimming pool. Burlingame you are not allowed to spit unless you are on a baseball diamond. Carmel: you are not allowed to eat an ice cream while standing on the sidewalk. Hollywood: it is illegal to drive more than a thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. Lodi: it is illegal to own or sell silly string. In some parts of California it is illegal to set a mousetrap without a hunting license. In Carmel, women may not wear high heels while in city limits.
8:17 the law against having an ice cream cone in your pocket was said to be because horse thieves would put the ice-cream in there back pocket to lure horses away without physically showing that they were stealing the horse
Iowa City, Iowa was declared a Nuclear Free Zone with Signs. The problem was, people loved to steal the Signs which were required by the Law and cost about $800 each
There are so many laws still on the books that have been there for hundreds of years that are hilarious. One thing that makes them so funny is that someone must have done it for them to make a law for it.
In the US, there are things outside of restaurants called a "grease dumpster", where used fry oil is stored until a reclamation company comes to pick it up. This used fry oil can be converted to biodiesel fairly simply as a DIY project and hence makes it something worth "attaining". The side product of biodiesel production is natural glycerine soap, which has also been in high demand. So yeah, the law makes more sense that it seems to.
This is what happens when you elect stupid lawyers which is sadly most of our government! Also, apparently my dad came in the house crying one day (when he was 5 or 6)saying the dog took his bubble gum turns out the dog bit him so he bit the dog back on the head and his bubble gum got stuck.
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In Alaska its illegal to get a penguin drunk and have it dance on a table. I would love to know the story behind this law.
Me too, since you mention it.
I’d like to unknow it
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It's a fowl story!!
Lol 🤣🤣🤣 I never heard of that however I have seen drunk people walk like a 🐧
I am a retired police officer here in Michigan and years ago I was reading my criminal law book and found that it’s a misdemeanor crime to sell unripened green tomatoes, my sergeant told me to stay away from the farmers market.
Love fried green tomatoes....
LOL! Love that!
😂😂😂😂 How are you going to make fried green tomatoes, then???
@@jeanlawson9133 in the Dominican Republic they eat them on salads green Raw
@@jeanlawson9133 Yeah you right!
I was thinking the exact same thing.
In Maryland, it is illegal to bring a Lion to the movie theater. Lions can’t be kept as pets in Maryland, so you’d be breaking two laws at once if you commit the first one
Seriously? Well, the last thing Baltimore needs right now are lions running through town! They might eat the sqeegie kids.
In Maryland it is also illegal to ride a lion down a main Street.
@@bradfordpalmer2795 I don't know which would be more dangerous in the street: the lion or the squeegee kids!
Leave those lions alone. As long as they put the bones of their snacks in a proper trash bin I got no problem with them.
Even in zoos? It’s illegal in zoos as well?
After hearing the one about making ugly faces at dogs in Oklahoma, I went to my two Beagles on the couch (yes, in Oklahoma) and made ugly faces at them. One of them looked at me like he was concerned about me and the other thought it was playtime. It didn't seem to affect their self-esteem so Idk.
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If I remember correctly, the reasoning was because an idiot aggravated a dog so much it became aggressive toward him, and when he came by once when the dog was outside his fence, the dog attacked him, and his claim was that he'd been making faces at the dog.
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Your lucky your dogs didn't call the cops ......be careful the dogs are scheming to own the house ...
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Not mine. When I go outside they start whining, "I want my momma." My cats on the other hand...I have no doubt they're plotting against me 😆
Just a clarification- the sunshine law in San Francisco is about building ordinates that restricts construction of buildings that cast shadows and obstruct the sunlight over other buildings in certain parts of the city, and it's the reason why some parts have strict height limits, particularly in the western residential parts of the city (especially the sunset district)
I’m American 🇺🇸 and even I didn’t know of these dumb laws 😂 when I found out in this video, my reaction was the same as yours 😂
@Zirath Ashe unfortunately no
In Kansas it's illegal to serve any pie Alla-Mode. A lawmaker in the early 1900s burnt his mouth when he tried this new craze called iced creme, so he made a law making it illegal to serve.🤣
A town near where I grew up had a law stating it was illegal to herd cattle through town on Sundays.
Another Ice Cream law. (not enforced) In Oregon, it is illegal to eat ice cream on Sunday. However, despite popular belief, and sometimes attempted enforcement. There is NO LAW, state or federal, in all 50 states, that makes it illegal to drive while barefoot. I have researched this quite a bit because I do drive barefoot somewhat often. It is LEGAL in all 50 states. Great video! Very funny! 👍
For the ladies' sake I hope that remains. Wearing uncomfortable shoes all day and having to keep them on even on the drive home would be awful. Not to mention tall shoes, which would make working the pedals more difficult...
@@KBook20 or you could bring a separate pair of more comfortable shoes to drive in as many women have done over the years
I drive barefoot all the time and I'm a cop.
@@Rockhound6165 Seriously?? I can't imagine all the nastiness that is on the pedals!!! Ugh.....
@@sandraleigh4023 as opposed to the actual ground?
The ice cream law that says you can’t have a icecream in your back pocket was bc people would steal horses in the western days that way so they made it a law! I guess you can walk away nonchalantly while the horse follows you to get the ice cream😂
In many states, if an animal (such as a horse) followed you home, you could legally keep it. However, you could not actively tempt the animal into following. Horses love the salt content of ice cream, so sticking ice cream in your back pocket would trick the horse into following you, without you being "active" in the endeavor.
@@skapapabear1 oh interesting! I didn’t know all of that!
So can you put it in your front pocket?
Denzy says "Why make it a law if it's a robber? If he's a robber, he's going to steal it anyway." Smaarrrrrrt kid!!!! I'm on board with you there buddy lol. Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
I heard about the whistling under water back in high school, like 1973. For the life of me I couldn't remember the state. I don't know about their reason for it, I don't remember that either. What I DO know, that's something NEVER would have crossed my mind to do, UNTIL I heard it was illegal. I couldn't wait to get home, jump in the pool, and see if it was even possible...Fun fact...It's absolutely possible....
In Pennsylvania there is a law where you cannot sing in the shower and that you also cannot live in a refrigerator. It’s odd but also funny. I also love how the guy presenting the video is also having a hard time keeping in his laughter.
Dexter I am going to put my shower in the refrigerator and then live in it and sing. Bloody marvelous, mate.
@@douglasreeves9938 😆 🤣 😂
Regarding the whistling underwater, there are whistles, like the Storm Whistle, which work underwater and can be heard underwater if used on the surface, which are marketed to scuba divers as a safety device to be able to alert other divers. They're actually against the law to use underwater in several east coast states because of concern from whale activists.
In South Carolina, it is illegal to walk your pet alligator down a sidewalk.
Pet alligators were a thing when my mother was young. She told me one of her classmates brought one to school.
Imagined conversation on street of a town in South Carolina, "but officer, it's not an alligator. It's a crocodile. You can tell by the pointier snout "
I saw a sign at the start of a walking trail here in Texas that listed all the things you cannot do if you see an alligator. One of the things listed was “molest it”. I was like, “who would even want to attempt that????”
@@twinkstar7738 Molest also means to disturb, interfere or annoy. Brain dead people do that to me without half trying. I suppose the alligator would have the same opinion.
In Canada there is a law that forbids people of leaving the plane in mid air unless its with a parachute
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Lmao! Seems a lot like the one where you can be put to death for jumping off a building. 🤣
Nanny state! Lol.
I expect very few survive to be prosecuted for the offense.
Is this law directed at wing-walkers? Like daredevils that do extra-aircraft stunts?
My adventure was all about the Y2K bug instead of a law. Local city officials were afraid they would lose all records because of the Y2K bug so they rounded up everyone who were paying off tickets or fines. I had simple traffic tickets but was thrown into the pokey with about 150 angry citizens, many of whom were retirees in their 60's and a few that were 70+. We weren't allowed to bond out and tickets could not be paid off until the judge showed up for work the next day. We had people sleeping in hallways and in unused rooms of the ancient,dilapidated building the jail was in. It was a mess to say the least.
I know there's recently been news of an elderly woman in Arizona who was arrested for feeding the homeless. It's rough bc she was just trying to help people & didn't even know what she was doing was illegal
That was fun and ridiculous at the same time. I'm originally from Ga., so I knew about the one about eating chicken. Although, I would say it depends on how it's cooked. Fried chicken, most definitely eat with your fingers!! LOL Merry Christmas! Love your videos.
Agree. Not tryna eat wet chicken with my hands lol. All about how it’s cooked.
Used cooking grease is sold to collection companies in CA. We had heavy locks on the container lids outside of the restaurants that I worked in.
Bear fighting and bear baiting was actually a really popular sport in much of europe for centuries. I forgot it made its way here long ago, but it's hard to think there were that many bear fighting arenas when that law was passed in 1996!
In Muncie, Indiana, it used to be illegal to eat a sandwich in a cemetery on Sunday. Not sure why only on Sunday but whatever. Also in Indiana, inmates who were released from prison used to receive an ounce of gold and a horse. I'm still waiting on my ounce of gold and my horse lol
In Texas it is illegal to carry a pair of pliers in your hip pocket. It's a little out of date. But it makes sense. Cattle ranchers would drive the herds to the trains/market while farmers tried to protect their crops. The farmers fenced the crops to keep cattle from destroying them. Ranchers would use the cutting section of pliers to cut the fences of farmers and drive herds across the farms. This destroyed the crops. Thus the restriction of pliers in the hip pocket.
I live in No. Ca. We often don’t get sunshine in the winter or when there are wild fires. Until today I had no idea my guarantee had been breached. I feel like I should talk to a lawyer about this🤔
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the woman arrested in Georgia for the chicken infraction was 91 year old Ginny Dietrick. It was her birthday and her friend set up the practical Joke. Her citation read exactly as: G. Dietrick is not to get up from the table until she masters the proper techniques for consuming this succulent delicacy, “down to and including the licking of the fingers upon the ingestion of the last available morsel.” The mayor was there that day to dismiss the charges right after the photos you see there and also named her Honorary Georgia Poultry Princess. She let her go with a warning and a mandate that she was required to go back to Gainesville often and eat lots of Gainesville chicken.
That was hilarious , never heard of any of these laws , but enjoyed watching your family react.😂😂😂😂
Fishing from a lake shore, or riverbank on horseback is something I did all the time growing up in wyoming and rural utah.
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In Kentucky we also had a law that said you couldn't carry an ice cream cone in your pocket. This must have been a real problem nationwide! LOL I actually saw bear wrestling at the Kentucky State Fair in the 1980s so it was still a thing as late as that. There was a lot of slobber involved. It was pretty gross.
I heard way back in the day that is how people stole horses. Get them to follow you with the ice cream usually in the back pocket.
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In Arizona there is a law that there can only be one "personal massager" per household!
Baaaahahaha! I’m sad for Arizonans…they can’t have a backup in case of “mechanical difficulties”! 😂🤣😂
I live in Arizona and never heard that one
Ewww! Family massager? I'm totes not sharing! 🤣
There are many old laws that are still on the books as lawmakers rarely resend the old laws when new ones are created.
It was hilarious watching this video with you guys! LOL
The law against stealing grease is because people were stealing the used fryer grease from restaurants. Used fryer oil is used to create bio-diesel fuel for cars and people were stealing it to run their cars. Some businesses have installed systems that allow them to filter the used oil and use it to heat the building.
The ice cream cone law came about because there was not enough places to tie up horses outside a church and thieves would stick an ice cream cone in a back pocket to lure horses away from the church so they could steal the horses. The horses would follow the their away from the church and then the their could take the horse with much less chance of being caught. Stealing a horse in the 1800s in the United States usually resulted in the their being hung or shot to death. Hence the only reason to have an ice cream cone in your pocket was to steal a horse.
The law against spotting animals from an aircraft in Alaska is because people used to find the animal from the air and would immediately land to shoot said animal. But the real reason is to prevent hunters from shooting the moose or bear from the airplane as it is unfair to the animal and resulted in too many being killed which endangered some kinds of animal to the point of extinction.
Sam, to improve audio quality for the viewer, you should run the audio from your PC in with your mic, instead of only having the mic pick it up over the speakers. You can use a mixer if needed. Otherwise great job!
I wish many reaction channels would take your advice 😊
Your laughter is infectious! I have never been arrested for any of these laws, but I was given a ticket (infraction) for making a very, very, slow rolling stop & turn, not coming to a complete stop, at a stop light before turning right, at 3 a.m. when literally the only people around were me and a bored police officer staking out this particular stop light trying to catch someone. The light had been a flashing yellow (caution, not stop) for years and as soon as they changed it to a full stop (solid red, not flashing yellow) this small-town police officer no doubt thought it would be funny to catch locals in the middle of the night. Ha-ha! .
I live in California and some of the laws are really weird, an example is "you can't eat an orange while in a bath tub"
So, someone is waiting for you to peel that orange, then arrest you on spot; naked or not?
Another good one is that in California there is a city called Arcadia, the law is "Peacocks have the right of way"
@@Jade2016 ya know, I never read into why it's a law but maybe 100 years ago? I'm thinking it has something to do with when alcohol was outlawed in the US
Someone may have choked once and drowned. It would be very disturbing to find them.
@@johnjdumas that makes sense
Super hilarious laws and reactions to them! Thanks for the laugh, guys!
I live about an hour away from Chico, California and that law was passed in the 1980s during the "heat" of the cold war. Chico was not the only one to pass nuclear prohibition laws in California and other states. Rumor has it that farmlands were wanted for research, development, and test sites and we up here are nothing but farmlands, so the citizens in this area back in the 1980s passed laws to prohibit not only the possession of nuclear weapons in this area, but also any research and development of nuclear products unless it was for medical purposes.
I really felt out of pocket as an American with this one. Lol, I just THOUGHT some of us were stupid. Now, thanks to this post, I KNOW some of us are stupid. LOL
There are laws that make me ask WHYYYYYYYYYY? Good post, guys.
I believe there is a law in Jefferson City, Missouri that you cannot tie up your rowboat to a railroad track.
In the 1800's, the military brought 🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪 to see how they would fare for military use in the West. When the experiment was discontinued, perhaps this law was born & the 🐫🐪🐫 were released to the public domain. I don't know how much is true, but my husband used to talk about the camels when he was alive & he was a big history buff & collector of trivia.
Its true.....theres some camels on private property in west Texas, that are apparently descendants of the military camels
@@juliegreen6727 Thanks, Julie, for fact checking this. I appreciate the feedback.
We've got a few strange laws in Wisconsin as well.
1. It is against the law to wear a military uniform in Wisconsin (tell that to our military bases, National guard & reserves!)
2. It is required to serve Apple pie with slice of cheddar cheese on it! (I kinda like that one!)
3. Any mother vehicle must be preceeded by a person, on foot, 30 feet in front of the vehicle carrying a red flag during day light hours or a red lantern during darkness.
Try that at 70 mph!
Does the cheddar cheese have to come from Wisconsin?
@@stever3658 well...I don't know if that's part of that law, but Wisconsin produces so much, you're be had pressed to find non-Wisconsin cheese in Wisconsin except at a cheese market. Just an FYI Wisconsin was home to so many Swiss immigrants who stated producing Swiss cheese that in the 1800's there was more Wisconsin produced Swiss cheese being sold in Switzerland, that there Swiss produced Swiss cheese! Weird, ya?
Well, I don't know about chickens crossing the road. But my brother was a county deputy sheriff when there was a car crash that broke down a fence to a turkey farm. Everyone was OK, but more than 150 turkeys ran wild. Capturing (or at least shooing) the turkeys back to the farm was a massive undertaking. My brother counted 14 pink blobs on the pavement, and there were a half dozen cars in the ditch to avoid them. He needed people - - so he got the volunteers from the Department of Natural Resources, the Deer Advisory Council and other local farmers to help. Also several deputies from nearby counties. All turkeys were captured, except for two. Wiley critters they were. One deputy got so frustrated, he finally shot both; then paid the farmer for the turkeys; and we had a wonderful weekend grill-out that next weekend.
I'm from Ohio and didn't know that police biting a dog was a thing since I've never seen one do it. 🤣😂
I didn't know it was illegal for me to walk around my home state with ice cream in my pocket.
@@russellhoyt588 even without the video I know that laws from Kentucky 😂
Looking up dumb laws is a pastime
I trained one of my male dogs to see me as alpha male by biting his ear just hard enough for him to get the point. Worked!
Because they don't anymore they will just shoot it instead
Many many years ago cheese factories were small buildings in the country often attached to a house. It's illegal to fish from the back of a giraffe in Chicago. Jay walking (crossing the street at a place other than the corner) is illegal in most places but it's rarely enforced.
It’s amazing how many laws we have but a lot are not enforced anymore!
Ìn my city in missouri there's an old law still on the books. You can ride your horse into town, through town but if you get off you must tie it to a hitching post. The catch is there's not one hitching post in the whole city. Another law is you can't ride a city bus at least 2 hours after eating garlic. It's also illegal to fart in an elevator lol.
11:57-12:04 Yes! Thank you! Half of America doesn't have this logic!!! You are one bright young man! Please come live in America to make it smarter!
Speaking of stupid laws, I remember reading once that a chicken broke into the Pentagon and was arrested and interrogated because of it
That’s not really stupid law if you understand animals, most often birds of any type, were used as a means to spy on military targets. Since the Pentagon is our military headquarters and houses many top secret things, they can’t take chances
This video was 1,000% hysterical but I can't help but agree with "no ugly faces at dogs".
The problem in America is that no matter how old, laws never just fall off the books here. They have to be removed, even if a new law is in direct conflict with an old law, the old law will stay in effect until a legal battle removes it, or a higher court finds it un-enforceable or unconstitutional. Many believe this is so that at any given time, it is likely that you are violating some law that makes it possible for an officer to have reason for stopping you and getting your information, which is not legal if you have committed no infraction at all.
“Whistling under water”... sounds worse than “littering” in that “Alice’s Restaurant” song... And I am so proud of Washington because Sasquatch is not the only species in need of protection from poachers BEFORE being recognized as a species. My 3 pound cat named Madeline could have used such protections in 2019. Maybe if New Hampshire had such laws they wouldn’t have been so eager to label her underweight compared to normal weight cats. Maybe she wouldn’t have been abused so terribly for jumping like a Savannah or separated from her family group before the links in her bloodline to meerkats could be established.
When the police came to take my cats in 2019 I was upset,and they sat me on the porch with all these officers standing around with their guns at my eye level. When they told me they were going to remove my companions of 8 years I just instinctively put my hands to my head in disbelief. When my hands went up to my head they immediately put their hands on their holsters of their guns thinking I was going for their weapon. Not wanting my brains to enter my living room behind me without the rest of my body attached, I stood up and didn’t dare move my hands for fear I would be shot. I began walking away from my porch figuring if I was going to get shot by police, it was going to be in the middle of the parking lot where at least someone could see an unarmed person getting shot in the back instead of the head where my place on the porch would have produced. The police are calling my name behind me as I walk away telling me first they are going to arrest me for ‘leaving’. I am so angry and frustrated I just grab onto this sunflower plant in a neighbors yard and break it. The police then arrest me for ‘destruction of property’. Mind you this is while they are not done KILLING at least two of my pets ‘during capture’. Despite being able to plead guilty to the ‘destruction of property’ and replace the sunflower plant for the neighbor, the dog officer decides she wants to pursue more charges to deny me access to my emotional support animals and lifelong companions. The courts and the public defender decide they want more than my pets and my whole life at that point and continue to use the mental health system as a weapon against pet owners both my condo board and individual landlords in the park where I live,have gone after.
Truth is I DON’T think animal neglect is a stupid law, until it is applied by people who are even more stupid, abusive,AND neglectful towards the people and animals they claim to ‘protect and serve’. That by far, is THE biggest joke New Hampshire has let me in on.
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I'm not from there, but in Kennesaw, GA, it is required to fire your pistol into the air when passing through an intersection.
The ordinance predates automobiles, and is from the time of ridden horses and horse drawn carriages. But I'm told - from a family member who is a resident - it is still on the books.
Naturally... no one does this.
Well, that would be a court battle to listen to. The old law would invalidate the newer law that most places have about discharging a firearm in the city limits. But if it's still on the books it has to be followed even though it is an extremely dangerous practice that can have fatal consequences. The first person to do it and try to fight it in court I can guarantee would bring about the repeal of that law.
In Kansas City, Missouri, children are prohibited by law from buying cap pistols... however the law does not restrict them from buying shotguns.
We have a lot of silly laws on the books. Laws are seldom removed. I think some were the earliest trolls. One state legislature tried to round Pi off to 3 because 3.14159... was too long a number. Unfortunately, some of the silly laws still sneak through.
That's funny since they never have a problem adding 0s to the numbers in tax bills. Those numbers never seem to be long enough.
Apparently, the whistling under water thing was a result of lobster fishermen dropping loud speakers into the water and blasting loud whistle and bangs to scare sea lions and seals away from their nets. Which still doesn't make sense considering that Vermont is land locked, but maybe it wasn't always that way.
Minnesota has a few really bizarre laws, the one about wearing poultry on your head when you cross into or out of the state is one of the really bizarre ones.
IF you're ever caught whistling under water, just claim you were trying to blow bubbles!!! LOL
Grease is one of the more simple ways to make biodiesel. All it takes, is adding various alcohols and adding heat. Most biodiesel starts with vegetable oil(s), but animal fats can work also.
8:00. The reason for the ice cream cone law was to stop horse stealing. While it would seem weird to have a lot of horses in NYC the law was passed in the 1800s when horse drawn carriages were a staple form of transportation in NY. By putting the ice cream cone in a back pocket, the horses will follow a person in an attempt to lick the ice cream. Horse thieves would walk around corners of buildings with the horses following them and then just nab them right off the street.
In New Orleans, LA you cannot have a bakery and a horse stable in the same building ...
A Chicago law was on the books for many years that you weren't allowed to "ride in a tunnel." You could only walk. Once they realized that meant no one could use the public subway system in 1980, the rule was quickly repealed.
Hello from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The North Carolina grease law makes a lot of sense. Used cooking grease is an ingredient in making biodiesel fuel, so it actually does have a value. I assume that is what they were talking about.
The cooking grease law is because a lot of people have cars with engines that take the grease as gas. Fun fact. The cars that burn that fuel give off French fry smelling emissions
In circleville Ohio it's illegal to drive around the city center ( basically a roundabout) 100 times in a row
In Houston, TX it was illegal to spit on the sidewalk. The law was written in the late 1800’s when the sidewalks were made of wood. Diseases were rampant, spitting was believed the be a cause and thus, prohibited.
In Charleston, SC, no building can be higher than the bottom of the shortest church steeple
In France we have this funny law that says you cannot name your pig Napoleon. Gotta look into more peculiar regulations here.
I was caught whistling "Oklahoma" under water in Vermont. A bass complained to a conservation officer.
We've got a newer law here that just passed a few years ago and Kennesaw Georgia which states each household is required to own one gun minimum
I don’t remember which state it was, might be Wisconsin or Washington, that you are not allowed to paint a duckling blue and put it up for sale unless you have more than six.
It’s generally accepted that the ice cream sundae came about because soda fountains and malt shops were not allowed to sell malts or shakes on sunday so they needed a work around if they were going to be open on Sunday. I’m not surprised that Nebraska won’t allow whaling cuz they do have an official navy after all. Oklahoma also forbids whaling and it’s also illegal to share a hamburger in that state. Many of these odd laws were put in place by new law makers who wanted to get their name on record for getting something done when they first had the chance. However there is the occasional law that made perfect sense when put in place that seems odd or pointless now. Two that come to mind right off the bat are laws against spitting in public because of spitting chewing tobacco everywhere and not being allowed to run around barefoot (at least partly because of spitting tobacco juice everywhere) both of which seem odd now but at one time were real health concerns.
Regarding suicide getting the death penalty in New York, they abolished the death penalty long ago. So now you'd get life in prison, the ultimate punishment for suicidal people.
Now here's some other weird ones:
Several states: It's illegal to walk backwards on the courthouse steps with an ice cream in your pocket. (I'd wager someone backed into a judge)
Ohio: It's illegal for women to wear patent leather shoes in public. (Because men might see up their skirt in the reflection on their shoes)
Marion, Ohio: It's illegal to walk backwards eating a donut.
Lexington, Kentucky: It's illegal to walk backwards eating peanuts while a concert is going on.
Missouri: When you're released from prison you're entitled to a gun, a horse, and a dollar. (Probably goes back to when you needed that much just to survive until you reached the first town.)
Missouri: If you take a barefoot woman across state lines you can be charged with rape. (Goes back to women being taken in the night.)
In Texas, it's illegal to carry wire cutters in your back pocket. It's an old law, created to fight cattle rustling. It's also illegal to leave a dead horse in the road for more than 3 days. FYI, despite tv depictions, we actually don't ride horses everywhere here. Lol
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I think a lot of these laws were written by bored legislators. A small law hidden inside a huge bill for another law is called a Rider. Often, the really huge bills don't get fully read by those who vote one it, only the summary gets read. Creating opportunity to let a Rider through.
In my home state of Indiana, it is illegal to take a bath without a doctor's written prescription. Showers are apparently fine though.
I suspect this law goes back well over 100 years. Bathing practices before the Industrial Revolution weren't all that hygienic with a single tub full of hot bath water being used for the entire family. Bathing order was as follows: The father, then the oldest to youngest son's, then the mother, then eldest to youngest daughters. I believe most likely that that anti-bath law was several Indiana doctors lobbying (petitioning government) in an attempt to improve overall hygiene.
It's illegal to sell Limburger cheese in Houston, Texas, but only on Sundays. And it's illegal to tie your pet alligator to a lamppost in New Orleans, Louisiana. Makes you wonder about the stories behind some of these laws. 😂😂
Oh my gosh. Whistle under water. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm a 55 year old American and have never heard of whistling under water. I would think it would just come out as bubbles. But, if it does make a noise, it's a good way to scare the life out of some fishermen.
In the state of Nebraska it's illegal to bait wild geese with corn and hunt them. I'm with the geese on this one.
Vermont indeed has a waterway that leads from the ocean to Lake Champlaign but pretty sure it's still a crazy law. lol
The ice cream cone in the pocket could lure a horse or cow away from its farm is one reason I read about I don't recall what else that law's reasoning was.
No spitting on the sidewalk is still illegal in Oklahoma and other places as well.
I think I remember hearing that the old lady who ate the fried chicken with cutlery actually had "get arrested" on her bucket list and the cops were only playing along. Again, if memory serves, all they did was drive her in the back of the squad car and maybe booked her but then immediately let her go with a warning. They just had to come up with a dumb law for her to break so that they legally could get to the arresting part, so that if just in case it stayed on her record it would be a "well this was CLEARLY a stunt" kind of thing.
One of the comments mentioned blue laws and I thought I'd respond generally about that in case people are wondering what that means. A lot of New England states, maybe others, had a lot of laws prohibiting things on Sunday. There are probably still some on the books but most were repealed because it was considered to be imposing specific religious practices on others. And that is a no-no, especially since the majority premise was so people could attend church but don't try to buy anything. Connecticut tried to have it both ways for awhile by saying stores had to close one day a week. I remember a fabric store that closed on Monday. The alternative law became ridiculous because it was intended to allow the practice of religion and the store owners were Jewish. But they could hire people that would take care of it. Which brings up another practice in New York state. A Jewish family owned a resort and to avoid breaking religious law, they sold their resort to a non-Jewish friend every week just before Sabbath, and bought it back just after. The cost?? $1.00!!
My husband was at the resort for a business meeting at sabbath time so he got first hand info about that. I don't think it was technically related to blue laws, but maybe had some commonality.
Here in Oklahoma city, it's illegal to eat a cheeseburger downtown while walking backwards. One day, I will test this out.
I live in a small town in Michigan, and we still have an active law that's not really bizarre but more interesting. It says that locals who kill a rat can bring them to the town hall and will get 10 cents for each one. I've always wanted to walk into the town hall with a sack full of rats and see if they would actually pay me
Hello from Alaska! A friend of ours was out fishing and snagged a salmon, which is illegal in most cities here. He actually had to go to court for that. It was a full court room with other cases going on, the judge gets to him and the name of the fine is "molesting a fish"! Well that got the whole court room laughing! 😹
I live in Connecticut. I’ve never heard of these, and they are hysterical! Apparently there’s a regulation in my state against selling pickles that don’t bounce. I’m going to have to be much more careful being an American. Fortunately, I don’t sell pickles.
I print designs on shirts and today I printed one that said “I saw bigfoot” with an image of bigfoot😂 it’s hilarious. And in my state we have a small statue of bigfoot (like 6 feet tall)
New Jersey, in Bergen County we do not shop on Sunday’s only for food.
The San Francisco sunshine law is to prevent tall buildings and signs from blocking out the sun on the neighbor's property. The sleeping in cheese factories prevents shop keepers from living in their stores, and it prevents workers from being forced to stay in the factories to work long hours. Sometimes they abuse the immigrant workforce.
In Seattle it is unlawful to sleep with your feet hanging out a window. 130 years ago lumberjacks would come into town on the weekend and not bath. There feet stunk so bad they would hang them out a window to sleep.
Some silly laws in California: Baldwin Park: no one is allowed to ride a bicycle while in a swimming pool. Burlingame you are not allowed to spit unless you are on a baseball diamond. Carmel: you are not allowed to eat an ice cream while standing on the sidewalk. Hollywood: it is illegal to drive more than a thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. Lodi: it is illegal to own or sell silly string. In some parts of California it is illegal to set a mousetrap without a hunting license. In Carmel, women may not wear high heels while in city limits.
8:17 the law against having an ice cream cone in your pocket was said to be because horse thieves would put the ice-cream in there back pocket to lure horses away without physically showing that they were stealing the horse
On the dog biting law. An old dog training tactic was biting them on the ear or neck to act like a dog and assert dominance.
Iowa City, Iowa was declared a Nuclear Free Zone with Signs. The problem was, people loved to steal the Signs which were required by the Law and cost about $800 each
There are so many laws still on the books that have been there for hundreds of years that are hilarious. One thing that makes them so funny is that someone must have done it for them to make a law for it.
In the US, there are things outside of restaurants called a "grease dumpster", where used fry oil is stored until a reclamation company comes to pick it up. This used fry oil can be converted to biodiesel fairly simply as a DIY project and hence makes it something worth "attaining". The side product of biodiesel production is natural glycerine soap, which has also been in high demand. So yeah, the law makes more sense that it seems to.
This is what happens when you elect stupid lawyers which is sadly most of our government! Also, apparently my dad came in the house crying one day (when he was 5 or 6)saying the dog took his bubble gum turns out the dog bit him so he bit the dog back on the head and his bubble gum got stuck.