Weird Laws: New York
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Every state his it's fair share of weird laws and New York is no exception! Here are the weirdest laws in New York!
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Legit the hustle in NYC is scary and real. Some jacked dude walked up to my grandparents in a traffic light box jam just last month, cleaned their windshield despite their protests no, then threatened them for $10 (unpaid service????) until the light changed and my grandfather floored it. The SoundCloud rapper thing would 100% be a real issue.
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Live near the city. They do it on busses themselves, trains and time Square. Thank fuck it's illegal
I-
I don’t even know any more 😭
They still try to hustle CDs in time Square
I don't have that problem in the city, but I'm a 6'3" giant ginger beard with a masters in f off face.
The train thing is to avoid accidents. If a train goes too fast it can derail. The slow speed helps to avoid that. It also helps avoid accidents when people try to beat the train at railroad crossings. I live with train tracks all around me there are tons of speed limitations and rules the trains have to follow. It can be quite inconvenient for everyone involved.
Do you live under a rock or something? The law specified steam powered trains. In New York State trains sometimes go over crossings at 100-110 miles an hour. I’m sure there are many crossings where they also go anywhere between 30-80 miles per house. That law is nill
Always the New Yorkers doing stupid shit like trying to cross the tracks. I LIVE IN NY, DONT GET MAD.
@@Cal90208 steam trains are harder to stop than the "new" diesel-electric. But you're right only a few historic lines are left for steam trains in NY
Also presumably to prevent children from being mulched by a train lol gotta remember this was probably passed at a time before cars existed/were common and the street was still regularly crossed by people outside of crosswalks (which probably weren’t a thing either-if you were to suggest to most people in not just New York but most of the world that they should only cross streets at pre-approved places which are mostly corners, they would have thought you were a crazy person). So they would literally have people ride along side the trains-on horses no less and as such were appropriately nicknamed 10th Avenue Cowboys-to make sure the right-of-way was clear of any pedestrians (or plebeians) so the train could proceed.
When I was really little we almost moved to a place that had train tracks in the backyard I'm 26 years old and I can't figure out where that house would have been located assuming it was located in the city I live in and I can't figure out why my parents would have looked at a house outside of the city that we currently live in because we were moving to a different house in the same city.
In New York State it’s illegal to sell a house you believe is haunted without letting the people know who’s buying it
Why?
@@alyssarains6637 thats how you get an Amityville horror.
@@alyssarains6637 it has to do with this guy who bought a house but felt that weird shit kept happening inside. He sued the seller for not disclosing the strange happenings, the seller was found guilty of that and the court eventually said you have to disclose everything when selling a house, even the little caveat of it being haunted
My sister was leased a haunted apartment without her knowledge. It was wonderful seeing her kid talk to the “nice lady in the pretty white dress” in a dark, empty room at night. It didn’t help that the apartment was near the battleground of Antietam 🥲..I commend New York for this reasonable law.
@@alyssarains6637 we have the same law in Toronto because someone once sold a house they'd been making money off as a 'haunted walk' attraction without telling the buyers. The couple were very, very annoyed to have people constantly taking selfies in their front yard.
I'm from New York. I only knew: Don't sing at bus stops, misdemeanor for a tounge, and don't bother birds. I got yelled at by a cop once because I was walking through an empty lot and wasn't looking and accidentally kicked a pigeon across the lot. The cop saw it was an accident but informed me it was illegal to fuck with pigeons.
Least you wasn't fucking a pigeon
@@rhodawatkins4516 You've never met a pigeon before. From what I can see most of them don't see humans as a threat, just walking food dispensers.
In general you don’t fucks with them pigeons you just get to see them as roadkill cause they dumb birds 😂
I would like to visit new york, gently pick up a pigeon, and leave new york
does feeding them count as fucking with them, because if so i have definitely broken that law. i made sure to feed them a healthy seed bar at least, i figured they get enough junk food as it is.
I have definitely broken the "no singing at a bus stop" law before
*YOU CRIMINAL!!* 😂
I pulled the same move when I was a kid
From the way he explain why is ilegal, I actually agree with him.
So have i
@@jasperflare I'VE sang AND done regular kinds of dancing~PLUS INTERPRETIVE DANCE at the bus stops as AN ADULT! Hey... I got the music in me baby what can I say?
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As a native New Yorker (yes the city) the brake down on why you can't sing at a bus stop was 1000% clear to me lmao
Ok so was thinking if the train (and you ARE allowed to sing on train platforms) is out of service, and the bus is acting as the train (New Yorkers know what I mean) is it still illegal to sing at the stop because the bus is technically a train at that point?
@@32080ewilliams i think it would still be illegal because the stop would be acting as a bus stop, even if the bus was acting as a train
It's a good law, honestly. I wish NM had a similar law as I am so tired of being hawked at about arts and crafts when I'm just waiting for the bus. No, I have plenty of landscape paintings, my jewelry box is full, and I already have a rock with the zia. Thank you, go away. 😫
@xenon but it stops outside the train stops not the bus stops so I have questions now lol
@@32080ewilliams at the bus stop at the train stop?
As a New Yorker you forgot my 2 favorite weird laws:
It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket on Sundays. However it is legal for women to go out topless in public
I'm gonna go commit a crime when I'm in new York
Excuse me!
I'm sorry is there a problem with the second one?
@@coolboss999 one of those laws that shouldnt need said, should be common sense that would fall under public indecency but some people think if things are specificly stated, it is legal then... thats the problem with that law being a thing, still goofy that it had to be made a law tho
But why? On the top less thing? Well the alternative is to ban men from taking off their shirts in public. Gender equally I guess.
To anyone wondering why the pigeon law is there: They poop when frightened. So imagine tens of pigeons suddenly making themselves lighter and where it goes...
Is it much different from them pooping everywhere anyway?
@@crazy808ish There's a difference between them doing it because of full bowels/bladder and doing it because someone decided to get them to move because they're taking up their space
thanks, i hate it
So what you're saying is: I should go to New York, look for the most pigeon infested place, and (on the loudest sonic wave inducing speakers ever) play an air horn at the lowest pitch so it sound's like a fog horn?
@@flying_Night_slasher That sounds like it'd take time to set up. And you wouldn't have that much time to escape before angry mob descends
I love how New York just opens. Clearly he wants to be left alone, don’t question him
Just going to mention this before you do the Florida episode, there's a law that requires all public building doors to open outwards... AND IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT.
Fire saftey, people are stupid, that law is smart.
That's a law in a lot of places. It is INCREDIBLY important. It also prevents crushes, when people attempt to flee an enclosed area and people literally get crushed
@@seaborgium919 I assumed so, I just know I learned about it when looking up "dumb laws" like 10 years ago, thinking it was dumb and then realizing it was cited as a fire law.
I though it was because of hurricanes. The wind being able to blow doors inward can get debris inside the building.
A lot of states require doors to open outwards especially apartment buildings for fire safety
@@iyaayas It looks like that law is specifically southern Florida private buildings, like homes.
You know how you asked Rhode Island if he was run by the mob?
So was New York. They also like to get ahead on things that aren’t a safe idea to be doing.
As a New Yorker, I learned about half about these weird laws from this video. Thank you for the enlightenment 🙏🏾
Same.
Sorry for you then
When I was on a trip to Brooklyn. I saw a guy walking between the subway trains announcing himself to the train then showing everybody a piece of paper with his Spotify and Instagram on it. So the bus stop thing. I get.
They used to have endurance dancing competitions with partners carrying each other so one of them can sleep. It' was...bad.
But yeah, New York has had a colorful history.
And people literally died
I actually knew about this.
I posted a comment before reading this with the same content but 3 months late. I appreciate you being on point.
Oh, no, the dance marathon law makes perfect sense.
You forgot that it's illegal to look at/talk to anyone in an elevator. Figured that's fairly on par for New York
So, no literal elevator pitches?
Does that mean Spiderman committed a crime in Spiderman 2
@@bl4ckw1ngz64 👀 Spiderman committed many crimes in Spiderman 2, including that one
“It’s illegal to chop up a tongue” Gov seems extremely disturbed by this.
Snitches get stitches
Tongue splitting can only be done by a physician or dentist. This body modification law was signed into law when Pataki was governor.
@@Laura-it2zb Oh, it's about body modifications? I thought maybe it had something to do with butchering cows.
It's perfectly preposterous to pee on a pigeon in the park.
Poisoning pigeons in the park is, however, delightful in the spring.
The steam train one is due to the steam cars that were used extensively in the city at the turn of the 20th century. They had a tendency to run over people, children especially. My grandpa had his foot run over by one when he was like 8 and lost all the toes on one foot. This is because they would be going too fast in the heavily pedestrianed streets of that era.
I love how grumpy New York is
The dance contest one actually has an interesting history. Apparently during the Great Depression they had these ridiculously long dance contests which ended up being endurance competitions.
New York: doesn’t like puppets
Also New York: has Sesame Street
Me: one of these things is not like the other-
And Avenue Q!
Jim Henson wanted a monopoly on puppet shows, since people were blatantly ripping off his stuff. Simple as that.
Man i love New yorks personality so much
I truly appreciate the Bills hat as part of NY’s outfit. Thank you from WNY!
The hand on the nose gesture isn't that common here in the US, but in some parts of the world, it's like flipping someone off to put it simply.
The only few who got away with it were the typical musical numbers Done by movies and Broadway show demos
But those were permitted
[NEW YORK] THOSE SOUNDCLOUD RAPPERS! SOMEONE SAID IT THANK GOD!
What about on a bus, or train?
as a new yorker, this all made logical sense. but you forgot one. it’s illegal to jump off a building, punishable by death. so Miles Morales in Into the Spiderverse would’ve been in the electric chair before he could save a soul
So would Daredevil. And Iron Man. And I'm pretty sure Captain America also jumped off a couple buildings in NYC.
@@seaborgium919 send them to the electric chair immediately! they’re criminals!
If I remember correctly it is illegal in New York City to commit suicide the penalty is the death penalty
But… you would already be dead, how would they enforce it?
let the law makers have fun
It's ironic considering the death penalty doesn't exist in New York (another Yorker here).
Yeah, the politicians were having fun that day.
Just remember that in the town of Cushing Oklahoma one CAN NOT DRINK beer while only dressed in your underwear.
So If im in my underwear but wearing a hat....its legal?
@@ACertainGuy0 maybe
Half the state: welp, there go my day plans
@@ItalyHastaLaPasta no it is a city law. But here is an Oklahoma State law. One CAN NOT transport chickens in one's car.
@@richardmckinney4963 don't forget that it's illegal to go whaling in Oklahoma, as a state law 👀 but that chicken law, I blame Weatherford.
I'm guilty of having fallen for those shit CD sellers in Manhattan, but only once.
I got zapped by one in the Atlanta airport in 1985. I was dead tired and had no mental barriers up.
I was also a lot less cynical back then. Now, I have to hold myself back from getting in arguments with wrong number callers.
I just went to NYC Yesterday lol.
When is New Jersey getting one of these, here some samples
It's illegal to pump your own gas here.
In Newark It's illegal to get ice cream without a doctor's note after 6PM.
In Bernard Township its illegal to be sad.
It's illegal to slurp your soup
You put the gas one twice lol
But...the illegal to be sad one is really off-putting wtf
I'm guessing they really enforce the anti-self-service law huh?
@@Heavenlyhounds96 I mean, they did. But the past few months ive been able to pump my own gas here since there's not enough attendants to pump everyone. Yet I always still see the cones and long lines
@@Heavenlyhounds96 I doubt it's enforced but Oregon has a similar law about no Self Service
I'm starting to really like New York and his "don't fucking annoy me" vibe
As someone who has done EXACTLY what NY said because it was my first time in NYC (I've lived in VERY upstate NY my whole life) after being swarmed by three guys badgering me to buy their CDs and I was intimidated and overwhelmed, I was relieved, grateful, and immediately understanding when he said it was illegal.
Yeah....I walk BY these people as fast as I can when at NYCC.
If only the pigeon was NY's state bird...
I love blue laws. They are just hilarious.
Either because something stupid had to happen to even come up with it or because they are long outdated, but technicly still in effect.
Fun Fact: It's specificly forbidden in Canada to throw a moose out of a flying aircraft.
@@laylafuller686 Probably tied to PETA not understanding that it was moose poo that an Alaskan town was dropping.
Blue Laws?
@@maxrichards3881 In short, it's a name for dumb laws. Mostly laws that were made for a very specific reason, but who are completly idiotic otherwise or laws that were made a long time ago, never got revoked, but are useless in modern times.
Here in europe they are usualy the later, laws from medieval times which never got officialy revoked and are thous technicly useable in court. The "Trial by combat" for example was never abandonded, so you could still demand it in court, which actualy happened in france a couple years ago. The court denied the request and banned the trial by combat from french law. Here in germany it's technicly still prohibited for women to drive a car with more than walking speed and only with male supervision. Our unlimited speed on the Autobshn is also just a thing, because back when the speed limits were set, they didn't expect that cars could go much faster than 100 km/h (~62mph).
@@swordbrethrenmordred1230
Oh, thanks. I was worried that I came across a far-right American lunatic.
Differing terms and rhetoric are kind of mindfucking.
@@maxrichards3881 I don't know why it's called blue laws, but since the term comes from europe, it probably doesn't relate to liberals/democrats.
I was confused about the "No singing at bus stops" but when he said the NYC Hustlers I was like "Oh those Aholes that give street vendors a bad name."
Those Buskers are Okay so long as they aren't being annoying about it.
This is the best series ever
That "You forgit who ya talkin' to?" caught me off guard lol
I have never loved NY more…
When you realize New York weird laws make sense.
Vetinari from the Discworld books would love NYC.
I cannot wait for the Indiana episode. We for sure have a lot of weird laws. My personal favorites include:
1. In South Bend, it's illegal to force a monkey to smoke a cigarette
2. Baths are forbidden between October and March
3. Residents are not allowed to eat their own severed body parts in Fridays
4. It is illegal to sell laughing gas with the intent to induce laughter
5.If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Immoral Practices.
Although I'm from NJ, I've seen plenty of NY to know those laws aren't quite weird. You'd get it if you were here. I hope he does NJ, we're never too behind NY in being similar
New York, how ya feeling? You can't be sneezin' around these parts.
I love the interpretation of my home state 😂
Surprised the spittoon law still on the books. Spittoons were outlawed to combat TB.
"Every corporation, proprietor or other person owning, operating or controlling any store, factory, theater or other building or room which is used in common by the public or any depot or railroad station shall provide a sufficient number of nonabsorbent receptacles for expectoration and shall provide for the thorough cleansing and disinfection thereof at least once in 24 hours."
IIRC, the chopped tongue thing refers to meat. It's to keep delis and restaurants from cutting tongue with cheaper meat and selling at full price.
Wow, I'm not sure if that makes it more or less creepy. I guess that's why they are weird laws. Thanks for the correction @@Ben_Brainard
"Thumbing your nose" at someone is the old-fashioned middle finger.
New York is my favorite character :)))
props to you for acknowledging Buffalo as the true football team of NY
Super excited to see your show in San Jo! Bringing 3 friends! 😁
Thanks for repping the Bills. 👏👏
I live in New York and my old high-school does a 12 hour dance contest every year
Pretty sure the dance contest one is connected to the Great Depression
The kitten sneeze.
New york is a whole ass mood
In Delaware pawn shops can't accept your wheelchair or fake leg/ arm for payment or pawn.
I love the NY persona. Really captures how much we hate each other.
I hate you because I’m a New Yorker I’m kidding fr New York seems like a horrible place I don’t wanna go there
I'm guessing the 8 hour dance contest thing is because those were aactually a thing back in the 1920s. People would have contests to see how long they could keep dancing, and things got....well, ridiculous is putting it mildly.
Such a missed opportunity to say the only puppets we fuck with here in New York is Sesame Street exclusively
0:56 I guess they don't like lengua tacos there... 😂
"...next thing ya know, you're spending money on a CD you're never going to listen to because you haven't owned a CD player since 2004."
Ahh yes New York one of the very few states where the only way to cancel your registration for your car if move out of state is.to mail back the tags...with a form (and you need a copy for each vehicle) with a self addressed prestamped envelope for them to mail the receipt back. Oh and their DMV website will tell you to send it certified so that has to be signed for in case the plates/tags get "misplaced" after they've been received
I'm looking at the Savoy Ballroom in NYC for that ban on 8-hour dance competitions
New York doesn't like puppets? How Ironic given that one of the most famous puppet shows is set there. :D
Idea for a video- the states react to the Monument Mythos series, specifically the monument in their state to see their reaction
gosh i've missed this series!
"You're not good at thinking" Is probably not a line you should accidentally repeat out loud when there's people around you and then laugh. They don't take that well. But I was entertained.
it's also illegal to drive your "horseless carriage' without being preceded by a man carrying a lantern.
Best start to my morning
"Nope."
I felt that 😅
I would love to see more weird state laws.
NY State Bird is the Eastern Bluebird, not the Pigeon.
It is illegal in DeWitt, NY to own a Shetland Pony.
It is legal in NY for women to go topless anywhere it is legal for a man to go topless, unless she is advertising a business.
It is illegal in Ocean City, NY for a man to go topless.
It is illegal to do anything in an elevator other than stand, face the door and wait for it to reach your desired floor.
It is illegal in New York City to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket on Sunday.
Who's gonna tell NY about Big Bird singing at a bus stop?
I think the train one is because of something to do with the tracks that are part of the road, probably excessive wear and tear due to how the road-imbeded tracks are constructed. I...wanna say it's specific to Buffalo and Buffalo area?
Nope, that was Syracuse. East Washington Street downtown used to have railroad tracks running right down the middle of it, and there’s several famous pictures of huge freight trains running down the street next to cars
@@trainmanrobbie3360 Ah. Thanks! Couldn't remember which one. The law I'm more familiar with is no singing at bus stops. (It's a really, really appreciated law that I wish would be enforced in trains and subways too, especially when you're trapped with tourists who don't know better that these are also our seagulls that should not be fed or humored.
@@hannaha4631 No problem! I’m also thankful that up here we don’t get nearly as many of the SoundCloud hustler types, not that I’ve seen at least. And the only tourists that we get are just stuck in our giant mall lol
Lol I live in NY have done the thumb and finger wiggling thing since I was a really young kid to mess with my aunt.
new york and texas accent is on point sir keep up the good work
The Texas one depends on where you are in Texas
@@emberandfriendsanimations2454 central
So I think I actually know where the dance competition law comes from. One of my text books mentioned marathon dances in the roaring 20's. Like 23 hours on the dance floor for the "winners." That's kind of unhealthy to say the least.
If I got details wrong, it's been a while.
As a New Yorker from The Bronx and currently in Buffalo(pls unalive me), all of this is very true and yes the singing at bus stops should remain a thing.
Id loved to see a skit about Arizona's weird laws.
I’m from New York, even the governors are weird.
Because I specifically DONT LIKE PUPPETS! I feel that one, and I don't like people part too lol
Waiting for poor Iowa to join the table...
uh, if you ever do a new jersey one... apparently its illegal to sell a car on sundays and its illegal to sell handcuffs to minors
... I've sang at a bus stop in New York 🤷♂️
Peeing on a pigeon sounds reasonable to me! LOL good one Ben!
About the tongue chopping… what kind of tongue? You know there are people that like beef tongue, right? I used to, as long as it was cooked well.
Does this apply to all tongues? Or just human? I need to know… for reasons.
I'm a new Yorker and while I didn't know many of these were law's I am not surprised. Many of them make perfect sense to me. You don't fuck with pigeons. They will shit everywhere and they aren't scared of you. Like at all. The peeing law makes sense too, way too many people just whip it out and pee against a building or tree in New York and that's rude especially in parks. Parks are weird because at least in the cities they're rare and kinda seen as unimportant but also protected spaces cuz idk it's the park. What kinda asshole fucks up a park? Hustle culture is 110% a thing. I've had people intentionally sing badly in public areas and agree to stop until you left for 5$. People with signs asking for money, selling random shit for money, offering random services for money, everybody has a side hustle that they will tell you about given half a chance. It's even worse in the city. 45 minutes across a few subway trains. 2 parents who just lost their job/house asking for money, 1 middle schooler selling a whole ass candy store out their backpack, 3 different musicians in the stations, and an old lady knitting for her side business complete with business cards. And that's not counting sales carts parked near major subway entrances and exits. Given how much most of us don't want to talk to each other limiting shit like this in at least one form is a godsend.
Overall given how different the culture can be in the different regions causing me to miss half the references, I still relate to and love your new York impression so much. It's great.
Welcome to New York!
Does this mean that New York doesn’t like the Muppets?
It is also illegal to mess with pigeons in Nevada
ps, I'm surprised you didn't mention the cabaret laws in New York City. Its illegal to dance in any bar or restaurant unless they own a cabaret license.
We need more weird laws
I love how you do all the different states and make all sound not like you! Well done sir! I aspire to your level of impression
Ben you should do a bloopers reel i would watch that in a heartbeat and id say others would too
Is it weird that I could immediately see why all of these laws were a thing and agree with them?
I suddenly have the urge to see if these are for all of NY or just the city because I have seen many people bother birds in upstate NY for *New York Speak* and giggles
Well I'm definitely gunna harass my boss about not having a spitton once I get to work today. Lolol
Depending on when the tongue law was written, that could be a holdover from the mid 19th Century panic over the Freemasons. They were well known back then to cut out the tongues of Brothers who spoke of the rites and minutes of their chapter to anyone who was not initiated.