“That humpback owes us money!” This next law is not only weird, but also physically impossible to break. Apparently, it is illegal to shoot any animal from your car in Tennessee, unless it’s a whale. Now I don’t think that’s a euphemism for an overweight person, but whales also don’t live in Tennessee being that [...]

Campaigning for any election can certainly be a battle, but it can all be for naught if you’ve been in a real battle. In Kentucky, you can not run for governor if you’ve been involved with a duel. In fact, it’s so serious the issue has been included in the oath of office which states, [...]

Voting is inherently American. We’ve literally been doing it longer than we’ve been a country. Sure, not all of us have always been able to do it, but we slowly came around to dropping those barriers. But that doesn’t mean that you have all day to vote, especially not in Alabama. According to official voting [...]

There are few things in life that are truly free, but the weather normally is counted in that group. In the winter, that means shoveling the snow, in the summer that means free car washes when it rains. And if you’re enterprising enough, old Ma Nature can provide a fair bit of water for your [...]

In the Alabama Criminal Code, there is one section that is sure to raise a couple of questions. Questions like, “Can a law be that specific?” and “Huh, are dominoes dangerous when mixed with billards outside of carefully controlled environments?” I speak, of course, of section 34-6-12 which goes as follows: “In counties having populations [...]

In Missouri, the law is quite clear – you can have yellow butter or white margarine, but yellow margarine is just not welcome. Today the idea seems quite insane, but when the law was originally created, around 1895, it was actually pretty common. Missouri law makers were trying to protect the products of state dairy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]