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Some laws are just laws. Don’t kill people. Don’t steal cars. Or police cars. Don’t deface property. Don’t not pay your taxes. But, with the Halloween season fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to find some laws that are specifically related to Halloween. Some are kind of boring, like in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Filed under Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Stupid Laws · Tagged with Alabama, alternative foods, animal control officer, cali, California, community outreach program, dark sunglasses, deface, eat, food, ghouls, halloween activities, halloween season, happy halloween, huntsville alabama, illegal, law, laws, mask, mom, police cars, rehoboth beach delaware, related articles, timesunion, walnut california, weird, weirder
Just in case you were planning one, it is illegal to cause a catastrophe in Utah. Just in case you don’t believe me, here is the full text of the law, courtesy of dumblaws.com. 76-6-105 Causing a catastrophe. (1) Any person who by explosion, fire, flood, avalanche, collapse of a building, release of a poison [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Filed under Stupid Laws, Utah · Tagged with avalanches, catastrophe, chasers, cherry bombs, class a misdemeanor, collapse, destructive force, dumb, eat, evil genius, explosions, fire flood, firecrackers, glow worms, good fire, ground spinners, illegal, law, laws, misdemeanor, new, poison gas, poison gases, radioactive material, related articles, road, roman candles, stupid, utah avalanche center, whistlers
Washington State Legislature has this whole chapter (Chapter 72.20) about Maple Lane School. The law that brought me to research this Washington piece of legislature and the Maple Lane School for Girls, is section 72.20.065, which states: “Any person who shall go upon the school grounds except on lawful business, or by consent of the [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Filed under Stupid Laws, Washington · Tagged with academic program, boarding school, boyfriends, degenerates, disciplinary problems, drive, ears, eugenics, habitual criminals, lawful business, laws, love, maple lane school, maximum security, misdemeanor, mom, rapists, reform school girls, school, sex, sexual perverts, state legislature, target, troubled girls, Washington, washington state legislature, welfare moms, young girls
Thanks to Dumb Laws, here is the full text of the law: “33-18-105. Purchase from intoxicated persons. No person, firm or corporation engaged in the buying or selling of junk metals, rubber, rags or paper, shall purchase any articles from any person appearing to be intoxicated, nor from any person known to be a thief, [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Filed under Michigan, Stupid Laws, Wyoming · Tagged with direct mail, dumb, dumb laws, fire hazards, intoxicated persons, larceny, law, monkey, person firm, rags, related articles, st clair county, st clair county michigan, stolen property, theft deterrent, thief, vicinity
Minnesota is pretty strict on its vagrancy laws. The full text of law 609.725 states: “Any of the following are vagrants and are guilty of a misdemeanor: 1) A person, with ability to work, who is without lawful means of support, does not seek employment, and is not under 18 years of age; or 2) [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Filed under Minnesota, Stupid Laws · Tagged with boss, breaking the law, fortune teller, fortune tellers, fortunes, immoral purposes, job, Minnesota Laws, misdemeanor, mom, mom and dad, private grounds, prostitute, reasons for laws, rents, true path, unexplained laws, vagrancy laws, vagrants, weird, weird laws
Selling sex is legal in Sweden. However, Sweden has a generally low rate of prostitution as opposed to other European nations. But before all you prospective new prostitutes pack your bags and book your one-way ticket to Stockholm, I should inform you that it is still illegal to purchase sexual services in Sweden. This strange [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Friday, December 30, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Filed under Outside the US, Stupid Laws · Tagged with brothel owners, drug dealing, enforced, human trafficking, illegal, laws, members of the european parliament, Norway, parliament, pimps, prostitutes, sex trade, sexual desires, sexual service, sexual services, swedish government, swedish law
OK. I know I’ve said it before. But I love weird laws. I love stupid laws even more. Check this one out – here’s the full text of the law: “45-5-627. Ritual abuse of minor – exceptions – penalty. 1) A person commits the offense of ritual abuse of a minor if the person purposely [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Filed under Montana, Stupid Laws · Tagged with animal sacrifice, animals, god, gotcha, law, minor, minor exceptions, montana, presence, related articles, religious rites, ritual abuse, sacrifices, simulation, stupid, Stupid Laws, tortures, weird, weird laws
Wedded bliss. Some achieve it, some don’t. We hear a lot about what you should do when you’re planning a wedding – from centerpiece ideas to prenuptial agreements – but we don’t hear much about the weird marriage-related laws that nobody bothered to repeal. In this case, there is a reason nobody repealed it – [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Filed under California, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, Stupid Laws, Texas · Tagged with California, centerpiece ideas, Iowa, iowa iowa, law, laws, marriage by proxy, marriage laws, military personnel, mother of the bride, mother of the bride fashion, planning a wedding, proxy marriage, stupid marriage, wedded bliss
Rhode Island Law 31-15-4 states: “The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall give a timely, audible signal and shall pass to the left at a safe distance and shall not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle. Except when [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 12:00 am
Filed under Rhode Island, Stupid Laws · Tagged with audible signal, bells, drive, driving, good luck, google, horns, law, laws, passing on the left, rhode island law, roadway, speakers
Allegedly, a city law exists in Fairbanks, Alaska that states that it is illegal to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. That law is pretty reasonable. After all, moose are big, and wild, and strong. While they are not normally aggressive, it is possible to provoke them into charging, which would be a really bad [...]
Posted by Stupid Laws on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 3:00 am
Filed under Alaska, Outside the US, Stupid Laws · Tagged with Alaska, Alaska laws, alcoholic beverages, booze, drunk moose, drunken moose, dumb laws, fairbanks alaska, fermented fruit, moose, Norway, scotch whiskey, stockholm sweden, wacky laws, weird, weird laws, whiskey