How crazy is your country laws?
Eg.
In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet
How crazy is your country laws?
Eg.
In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet
Some laws from Wisconsin
-In Sheboygan, it’s illegal to shoot birds in the city unless you’re a police officer.
-In Sheboygan, there is a Fountain Park with a fountain in it, it is illegal to swim in this fountain.
-In Racine= Women, no walking on the street at night, without being accompanied by a male.
LOL It seems my adopted state has -or had at one time- a serious issue with butter. This one site has a lot of silly laws that concern butter=
-Prisoners must be served real butter.
-Yellow butter substitute is banned.
-At some point, margarine was banned.
….of course reasons for the butter laws could be that Wisconsin is identified as 'Dairy state' so they were 'protecting their business' ...still makes it sound silly as banning a woman from wearing red in public (was/is law in St.Croix, WI )
How crazy is your country laws?
Eg. In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet
Wat.
I.
I didn't even know this and I live in the UK.
Well damn.
I can't think of any more really in the UK…
Bit of California:
-One may not use one’s own restroom if the window is open.
-It is illegal to shoot jackrabbits from the back of a streetcar.
-The owners of houses with Christmas lights on them past February second may be fined up to $250.
I'd be screwed with the last one, we haven't taken them down since Christmas 2011.
http://koffeeklatchgals.hubpages.com/hub/Maryland-Crazy-Laws-Fun-Facts-and-Trivia
-In Halethrope, kisses lasting longer than one second are illegal
-It is illegal to sell condoms from a vending machine unless the vending machine is in a place where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption
http://koffeeklatchgals.hubpages.com/hub/Maryland-Crazy-Laws-Fun-Facts-and-Trivia
-It is illegal to sell condoms from a vending machine unless the vending machine is in a place where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption
that's like asking for trouble
-In Racine= Women, no walking on the street at night, without being accompanied by a male.
LOL It seems my adopted state has -or had at one time- a serious issue with butter. This one site has a lot of silly laws that concern butter=
Racine or Riyadh?
For Connecticut loll.
-In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.
-You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour.
-Milford: It is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.
-Hartford: You may not educate dogs.
-Meriden: The use of a bean whistle in public is prohibited.
-Rocky Hill: An arcade may not have more than a total of four amusement devices such as ping-pong tables, pinball machines, or shuffleboard tables.
-Waterbury: It is illegal for any beautician to hum, whistle, or sing while working on a customer.
@Monkey:
Racine or Riyadh?
Site said its Racine. I've a vague idea of where the town is, (Eastern side of the state - I think) but not for Riyadh
Why are there no silly laws in Switzerland, even the ones listed as odd are semi-plausible.
Damn this sensible and grounded country
Site said its Racine. I've a vague idea of where the town is, (Eastern side of the state - I think) but not for Riyadh
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Why are there no silly laws in Switzerland, even the ones listed as odd are semi-plausible.
Damn this sensible and grounded country
Have you googled "crazy laws" or "dumb laws" + "Switzerland"? For me I got different results when I used dumb instead of crazy
@Monkey:
-In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.
-Hartford: You may not educate dogs.
I…...really have no words.
Why are there no silly laws in Switzerland, even the ones listed as odd are semi-plausible.
Damn this sensible and grounded country
These aren't active laws here XD
They're left over from strange incidents possibly over a century ago that no one bothers to get rid of because of them being ignored.
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I…...really have no words.
I love imagining some super serious Puritan looking dudes standing around in colonial Connecticut checking a barrel of pickels by dropping them on the floor.
"It taint bouncing Proctor Mathias!!"
@Monkey:
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia.
LOL :happy: NOW I get the joke
Why are there no silly laws in Switzerland, even the ones listed as odd are semi-plausible.
Damn this sensible and grounded country
I found a few sites for you= Try these sites. The first one does have some good ones - just read the first one! XD = http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/switzerland http://www.stupidlaws.com/laws/countries/switzerland/
Why are there no silly laws in Switzerland, even the ones listed as odd are semi-plausible.
Damn this sensible and grounded country
Huh and here i thought you were from somewhere in the Balkans
@wolfwoof:
Huh and here i thought you were from somewhere in the Balkans
He's an immigrant. Or the children of some.
Aha that explains it.
"While prostitution is legal, it is illegal to use the services of a prostitute."
Was the only really funny one i found on Sweden
@Monkey:
These aren't active laws here XD
They're left over from strange incidents possibly over a century ago that no one bothers to get rid of because of them being ignored.
I assumed so
I remember when I was young and we looked through some trivia book with a section containing silly US laws by state, and everybody was like "man, the USA sure are weird, why is it forbidden to give alcohol to moose, that's seems weirdly specific."
I thought that was kind of unfair, because forbidding to give moose beer actually seems smart, giving animals booze seems hardly like a good idea, but you know, snobby Europeans, lol
oh, and I actually found something really weird for switzerland; _It is illegal to ski down a mountain while reciting poetry
…_good to know
@wolfwoof:
Was the only really funny one i found on Sweden
How about "It's legal to feed your guests the rotten leftovers of the fish you had last month"? :ninja:
@wolfwoof:
"While prostitution is legal, it is illegal to use the services of a prostitute."
Sooo…..a prostitute can be on the streets, but a customer just can't accept the offer?
Some stuff just on the first page…Washington State. My favorite is it being illegal to pretend your parents are rich.
The harassing of Bigfoot, Sasquatch or other undiscovered subspecies is a felony punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment.
It is illegal to entice girls away from the Maple Lane School for girls.
X-rays may not be used to fit shoes.
No person may walk about in public if he or she has the common cold.
All motor vehicles must be preceded by a man carrying a red flag (daytime) or a red lantern (nighttime) fifty feet in front of said vehicle.
When two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.
You cannot buy meat of any kind on Sunday.
All lollipops are banned.
A law to reduce crime states: “It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.
It is illegal to pretend that one’s parents are rich.
City Laws in Washington
Bremerton
You may not shuck peanuts on the street.
Everett
It is illegal to display a hypnotized or allegedly hypnotized person in a store window.
Lynden
Dancing and drinking may not occur at the same establishment.
How about "It's legal to feed your guests the rotten leftovers of the fish you had last month"? :ninja:
I'd be more worried about the smell than anything else
It's amazing that in all this time there hasn't really been any attempts to get rid of that
Sooo…..a prostitute can be on the streets, but a customer just can't accept the offer?
Yup. It's not illegal to offer and market your sexual services to anyone. It only becomes a crime when a man offers to buy it
And if i'm not mistaken in Norway it's illegal to even visit prostitutes in countries where prostitution is legal
Okay, I posted a few of my adopted state, Wisconsin. Now I looked up a few from my former state Texas. =-One must ask permission to eat someones garbage.
-It’s illegal to do U-turns in Richardson, Texas.
-No Shaved Heads or Mohawks for kids
-The city of Mesquite deemed it illegal for children to have unusual haircuts. ======
This one reminds me of a case in Carrollton where I grew up, its a northern suburb of Dallas. It was mid-80s {1980s} and a girl was suspended from school because she went to school with a Mohawk, saying she would be allowed to return once she "had a normal hairstyle, such has grow ti out or shave it off". Her mom fought for several weeks with the school board, saying that her unusual hairstyle was not against the rules of the school nor were there any laws against it. After 3 weeks the school allowed the girl to return. She didn't have to shave ti off, she just did not gel it up ….turns out the girl's hair in that Mohawk was quite long and stood up a foot when she gelled it
Virginia:
-No animal may be hunted for on Sunday with the exception of raccoons, which may be hunted until 2:00 AM.
Culpeper - No one may wash a mule on the sidewalk
Norfolk - Spitting on a sea gull is not tolerated
Prince William County - No person may keep a skunk as a pet
Richmond - It is illegal to flip a coin in a restaurant to see who pays for a coffee
Stafford County - It is legal for a man to beat his wife on the courthouse steps so long as it is before 8:00 pm.
Honestly, that last one is, like, borderline Old Testament.
Whoah, I narrowly missed breaking the law in Texas… good thing I waited until I was in Oklahoma to go to a blood bank to sell some plasma. (That was one way some collage kids and kids at job corps made some extra money - sell blood/plasma at blood blanks/licensed clinics)
In Texas=" It is illegal to sell any organ of the body including your hair and blood!" It expands on that with=a) “Human organ” means the human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, eye, bone, skin, fetal tissue, or any other human organ or tissue, but does not include hair or blood, blood components (including plasma), blood derivatives, or blood reagents. "
So while Texas allows blood drives and donate blood, it doesn't allow blood banks/clinics to pay people for their blood/plasma. I thought it was an old, out dated law .... nope! =
"Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 40, � 1, eff. Aug. 26, 1985. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, � 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994."
@wolfwoof:
Aha that explains it.
"While prostitution is legal, it is illegal to use the services of a prostitute."
Was the only really funny one i found on Sweden
Honestly, I don't really find this particularly weird at all. Basically, it should, at least in theory, have the same deterrent effect on prostitution as making prostitution itself illegal, while in practice making any consequences come down on the people that use the service, rather than the prostitutes themselves, who most likely have more than enough issues to deal with already without having criminal charges pressed against them.
What's begin recently discussed here is the following: our penal law can only allow the imprisionment of criminals over 18 years; a man, atleast now, killed a student and he'll not be judged by the standard penal law because he only turned to be 18 years old TWO days after the day he committed the crime. It's crazy in a really bad way.
Also, we got this law that we can't listen music, radio or anything that can make sounds inside buses and subways without earphones.
Also, we got this law that we can't listen music, radio or anything that can make sounds inside buses and subways without earphones.
Sad how things that should just be good manners need to be laws
Wish that law would be in effect in my country
There is only a certain amount of really bad pop I can stomach during one day, before I snap and run amok
@Panda:
Honestly, I don't really find this particularly weird at all. Basically, it should, at least in theory, have the same deterrent effect on prostitution as making prostitution itself illegal, while in practice making any consequences come down on the people that use the service, rather than the prostitutes themselves, who most likely have more than enough issues to deal with already without having criminal charges pressed against them.
In practice all it did was drive the prostitution deeper underground.
Sad how things that should just be good manners need to be laws
Wish that law would be in effect in my country
There is only a certain amount of really bad pop I can stomach during one day, before I snap and run amok
I feel like this law harkens back to the 80s where people walked around with giant boom boxes.
Sad how things that should just be good manners need to be laws
Wish that law would be in effect in my country
There is only a certain amount of really bad pop I can stomach during one day, before I snap and run amok
If it was only bad pop we would be cool with it. Our worst genre of "music" made this law happen. Like, seriously.
Where I live you have to pay taxes for owning donkeys
it's a really old law that's no longer in use, but the legislators have been too lazy to get rid of it.
[http://www.123scoop.com/2013/01/30/the-price-of-having-a-donkey-in-mexico/
I](http://www.123scoop.com/2013/01/30/the-price-of-having-a-donkey-in-mexico/)t was recently brought up in a scandal to make the current governor of my state to look like a greedy idiot. Most news articles conveniently left out that the law had been there since the days of Porfirio Diaz.
Where i live you can only buy (highly taxed) booze at the government owned outlets.
Which close at the latest at 18.00
@wolfwoof:
Where i live you can only buy (highly taxed) booze at the government owned outlets.
Which close at the latest at 18.00
seems like an interesting option to discourage people to drink less, but it's probably just charlatanry sanctioned by the state, right?
Just like the government here wants to make people less smoke, thus raise the taxes for imported tobacco products, with only raising the price of each package for 50 cents or 1 euro (about 1,20 CHF)
If it was only bad pop we would be cool with it. Our worst genre of "music" made this law happen. Like, seriously.
alright, I'm intrigued, what kind of music is so awful it justifies laws that forbids listening to music in public transportation vehicles?
I don't think lolicore is big in brazil, lol
Well the taxes levied are quite severe. But it doesn't really make people drink less
So it's not exactly hypocriscy. Just an in-effective measure
@wolfwoof:
Well the taxes levied are quite severe. But it doesn't really make people drink less
So it's not exactly hypocriscy. Just an in-effective measure
I feel like this is often the story with things; the people that make laws are not necessarily malicious, just somewhat incompetent at actually thinking through what effect, if any, a law they pass will have.
It reminds me of something I'd actually never heard of until recently. Evidently some cities (or states, I'm honestly not sure what level it operates at) in the U.S. will sometimes run 'guns for cash' programs, where, just as it says, people can trade in a gun for cash, no questions asked. The programs are, of course, supposed to work as a form of gun control. It absolutely baffles me that anyone could possibly think that is a good idea after giving it even the most cursory amount of thought.
New York lol
And here's an cool one from Staten Island:
@wolfwoof:
Where i live you can only buy (highly taxed) booze at the government owned outlets.
Which close at the latest at 18.00
Sounds like Pennsylvania. Same basic idea (alcohol is illegal to buy from anywhere other than a State-owned liquor store, and importing it from another state is illegal) though getting rid of that law is actually high on the legislature's priority list right now.
Also I can't remember where I heard it, but I think there's a law somewhere that states a woman can't be raped more than three times in a day without a permit.
@Panda:
I feel like this is often the story with things; the people that make laws are not necessarily malicious, just somewhat incompetent at actually thinking through what effect, if any, a law they pass will have.
The cynic in me often think that they don't really care that much as long as they still get patted on the back all the same
Moral crusaders who are only as moral as what they can get out of it
There's a term for it. And I forget what it's called but lawmakers will try to get one particular law passed, but they'll offer up extra crazy laws so what they want seems more reasonable.
alright, I'm intrigued, what kind of music is so awful it justifies laws that forbids listening to music in public transportation vehicles?
I don't think lolicore is big in brazil, lol
At your own risk, make a youtube search with "funk brasil". I'm serious, it can be NSFW (the search) and I don't dare myself to bring a single "music" of it here.
Some from Florida:
-You may not fart in a public place after 6 PM
-It is considered an offense to shower naked
-Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dresser, as can the salon owner
-You are not allowed to break more than 3 dishes per day, or chip the edges of more than 4 cups and/or saucers
-Daytona Beach: the molestation of trash cans is banned
-Tampa: women may not expose their breasts while performing topless dancing
-Destin: It is illegal for an owner of a store to allow another person to pass out free ducklings in front of the store
@Medical:
-It is considered an offense to shower naked
Does this make Tobias Fünke the only sane man?
In france an old law forbidding women to wear pants was revoked in February.