Weird & Unusual Laws in the US & Around the World

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The discussion revolves around unusual and bizarre laws from various states in the US and other countries. Participants share examples of these laws, exploring their origins and implications, while also engaging in humorous commentary and anecdotes related to legal peculiarities.

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  • Meta-discussion

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants mention specific laws, such as the prohibition of possessing pliers in Texas and the ban on imitating animals in Miami.
  • Others share anecdotes about laws that seem outdated or absurd, like the requirement for a woman in Memphis to have a man warn pedestrians while driving.
  • One participant questions the validity of certain laws, suggesting that some may be more urban legends than actual statutes.
  • There are references to laws in other countries, such as the law regarding pizza size in Italy and the ban on chewing gum in Singapore.
  • Some participants reflect on the nature of laws and societal norms, discussing how laws can reflect cultural values and behaviors.
  • One participant humorously notes that in England, breaking the law is acceptable as long as one does not get caught.
  • Another participant mentions the historical context of laws, such as the safety measures taken in early automobile use.
  • There are challenges to the accuracy of some claims, with participants expressing uncertainty about the truth of various laws shared in the thread.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share a sense of amusement and curiosity about the laws discussed, but there is no consensus on the accuracy or validity of all the laws mentioned. Some participants express skepticism about certain claims, indicating that multiple competing views remain.

Contextual Notes

Some laws mentioned may be outdated, misrepresented, or urban legends, and the discussion does not resolve these uncertainties. The context and origins of these laws are not fully explored, leaving room for further inquiry.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may be of interest to those curious about legal oddities, cultural differences in law, or anyone looking for humorous or unusual trivia related to laws around the world.

  • #31
Kleinwolf you are officially my new favourite person here. That killed me. I'm crying.

kleinwolf said:
Well you know I'm not a Rocco guy...
A what?

kleinwolf said:
but right, the gals become menstrually sychnonized
Didn't we agree to avoid the menstrual cycle discourse? Okay, if we HAVE to talk about it, yes. Women's menstrual cycles, it is alleged, converge when they spend long durations together.

kleinwolf said:
if we apply psychanalitical methods to sexual behaviour, as little babys, some of us were in contact with female breasts, very little babys...(we call those animals, mammals)
I call them "beasts" and "mammaries" rather than "animals" and "mammals" but it's a free country I suppose.

kleinwolf said:
what does this behaviour become in girls growing up if they were feeded by this way at some time of their life ?? I would say this maybe explains why lesbians are less schoking than male homosexuals...indeed why should a young baby be in contact with a male erogeneous organs...?
Uh... nor female erogenous organs. Except that once. Not sure that breastfeeding makes v-love any less shocking, to be honest. I don't think manlove is particularly shocking either. Do women find it shocking? I guess I'd assumed it was always just men that were weird about it, except religious nuts obviously.
 
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  • #32
I wouldn't trust that dumblaws.com site. For example, it says Tennessee (my homestate) has outlawed interracial marriage. But any idiot with a computer can look up the state constitution and see that that particular section has been repealed.
 
  • #33
Zooby, Anyway, he made me get out of the vehicle, held my hands behind my back, and frisked me. Finding nothing illegal or even suspicious he searched the cab of my truck. Here, too, he was dissapointed in his quest for contraband. Begrudgingly, very begrudgingly, he let me go, with a warning to get my license plate lamps fixed.

You have to watch them coppers, some of em love frisking.
 
  • #34
El hombre invisible said:
"But officer it is for show - it's for showing that I'm a transvestite!"

"You're arresting me anyway? Oh don't create such a drama!"
Where does that law apply? I'd say we have every angle covered if we ever fancy parading round there in dresses.
 
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  • #35
El Hombre Invisible said:
Uh... nor female erogenous organs. Except that once. Not sure that breastfeeding makes v-love any less shocking, to be honest. I don't think manlove is particularly shocking either. Do women find it shocking? I guess I'd assumed it was always just men that were weird about it, except religious nuts obviously.
No i meant the baby breast feeding behaviour is repercuted at adult age in male by breast sucking, which is fun...but for women, they need to be lesbian...while guys don't need to suck dicks as a repercution of early years behaviour, because as they were babies, they were not sucking those if I learned animal reign normal behaviour of human well...does this make any sense to you ? Of course you could discuss on vocabulary, and say, like light Clinton version, breast sucking between adults, is not a sexual act, so we don't call them lesbians, but give me the name then...maybe it's a very technical word..(?)Morevover words are local and tribes dependent, but there should exist something in the vein of tribadism, or saphism...a funny word...I don't know if religious nuts are so kind, especially male gang-bangs, which always fall on the same few guys, randomly (?)...which make them be called "trumpeters"...
 
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  • #36
Skomatth said:
I wouldn't trust that dumblaws.com site. For example, it says Tennessee (my homestate) has outlawed interracial marriage. But any idiot with a computer can look up the state constitution and see that that particular section has been repealed.
The site itself states that not all of the laws are verified for accuracy or currency. You can tell which ones are verified.
 
  • #37
matthyaouw said:
"You're arresting me anyway? Oh don't create such a drama!"
Where does that law apply? I'd say we have every angle covered if we ever fancy parading round there in dresses.
Yeah, advice to Californian TVs: carry some Shakespeare around with you. If they try to arrest you, read a bit of Hamlet at them and they have to let you go.
 
  • #38
El Hombre Invisible said:
Those were hysterical, Wolram, though it would be interesting to take up Matt's challenge to research and post the evidence.
The one about the woman drivers in Memphis... the same used to be true in England, although for both men and women. When the automobile took off (in sales, not into the air), there were many accidents due to people being unused to looking our for cars - no road safety in those days. As such, a law was passed stating that a boy carrying a flag had to walk in front the car.
Now we just have congestion instead.

I am way to lazy to research all that, some laws in england have only just gone
from the books, like taxi drivers had to carry a bale of straw in the boot/trunk,
and it was legal to pee up the right side of your car or was it the left ?
 
  • #39
kleinwolf said:
No i meant the baby breast feeding behaviour is repercuted at adult age in male by breast sucking, which is fun...but for women, they need to be lesbian...while guys don't need to suck dicks as a repercution of early years behaviour, because as they were babies, they were not sucking those if I learned animal reign normal behaviour of human well...does this make any sense to you ?
You are not comparing like to like. The lesbian sexual act comparable to fellatio is cunnilingus, which is no more suggested by mother-enfant relationships than fellatio. As such, lesbianism should not be any less shocking than male-male relationships.

kleinwolf said:
Of course you could discuss on vocabulary, and say, like light Clinton version, breast sucking between adults, is not a sexual act, so we don't call them lesbians, but give me the name then...maybe it's a very technical word..(?)
Drunks.
 
  • #40
El Hombre Invisible said:
Kleinwolf you are officially my new favourite person here. That killed me. I'm crying.
It takes a sufferer of Haitian coconut fever to know one.
 
  • #41
? 116-4. Activities inside vehicles prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to live, dwell, cook, sleep, change clothes or use toilet facilities inside any vehicle within the corporate limits of the Town of Fenwick Island, Delaware.
Woe to the man who browns his trousers in a car in Delaware knowing full well there's a spare pair in the back.
 
  • #42
? 198-30. Sleeping on boardwalk.

No person shall sleep, lie or occupy as a sleeping quarter, or under the guise of pretending to sleep on the boardwalk, any bench located on the boardwalk in any pavilion located at the end of any street or on any bench located on any street.
What?!? They need a law against people pretending to sleep on benches? PRETENDING?!? They're just FINDING things to criminalise now.
 
  • #43
zoobyshoe said:
It takes a sufferer of Haitian coconut fever to know one.
:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #44
Has anyone of you tried male strings, or is it forbidden in some states ? I find it quite interesting, but it scratches quite fast...

Did you notice that there are unisexual sexual acts : like anallicking ?
 
  • #45
kleinwolf said:
Has anyone of you tried male strings, or is it forbidden in some states ? I find it quite interesting, but it scratches quite fast...
Did you notice that there are unisexual sexual acts : like anallicking ?

:confused: and even more :confused: as for the last bit
 
  • #46
In Toronto it's illegal to eat ice cream on wall street on sunday afternoon.


Seriously.
 
  • #47
Smurf said:
In Toronto it's illegal to eat ice cream on wall street on sunday afternoon.
Seriously.

Can you eat a popsicle/icelolly ?
 
  • #48
Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.

NOOOOOOoooooooo :(
 
  • #49
moose said:
NOOOOOOoooooooo :(

If the cops ask you what you saw it it was a maryboo, maliboo, or that thing that resembles a moose :confused:
 
  • #50
Carribou (one r?)
 

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