Stupid Laws

[bum-man]

I love reading about laws that are on the books that make no sense at all.  Some are a result of times changing but the laws not being kept up to date.  Others are just the result of stupid law makers that don't know how to write clearly.  Here' s one that apparently makes having an open bag of potato chips in your car illegal.

http://abclocal.go.com/kt...rre/042005_APsn_open.html

[den68]

what's wrong with that law? how many accidents have been caused by someone who's hands slipped off the steering while because they were trying to drive and eat a bag of greasy potato chips at the same time?

it's for our protection after all.

[Izret101]

I use to go to a website that had tons of them.
Some town in California it is illegal to detonate a nuke within city limits.
Same as town in Mass.

[Hydrobond]

Dunno about you, but I think detonating a nuke within the city limits is a good thing to make illegal.

Now in Lima, Ohio, it is illegal to sell maps that do not have Lima clearly marked.  This is a stupid law.

[Odonadon]

In Alberta (a Canadian province for you planet Earth impared people), when you've spent your time in jail you're entitled to a horse and gun from the Provincial government.

There are laws in place to negate that, but it still exists.

OD

[bum-man]

That's cool, sound almost worth getting arested for, but that was proably not the point.

[thx1138]

In the mid 80's, in Scotland, which has a slightly different legal system,, two rogues who had been arrested and put in gaol (yes, gaol - not jail!!!) awaiting trial, challenged the high sherrif to a duel with swords. It was down in black and white as a legal option, and no laws had been drawn up to negate it.


Both men were freed, without a conviction, and the law was repealed.


This is true, without a doubt, I remember my dad and I reading about it in a quality newspaper, altough my explanation of events may be slightly garbled, but it's basically true.

[Izret101]

That is so cool. I wonder how those guys even knew about the law.

In Boston the mayor is suppose to go to every wedding and give the newly married coiuple a hog and/or 1 other barn animal. Needless to say this doesn't happen. But there are no laws that negate it either.


Wouldn't it just be easier to take a law off the books than negate it?

[bum-man]

Wouldn't it just be easier to take a law off the books than negate it?

Nothing that involves politicians is ever easy