Weird West Virginia Laws!
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The law about taking doors off of refrigerators is really quite common. It is mostly to keep children from being trapped and suffocating.
Yeah hide and seek plus fridge with door nearby can equal a death trap.
This is very true...
Exactly
Came here to say this. It's a safety issue.
Great
For once, I actually agree about the fridge door law. Kids kept hiding inside thrown out fridges and freezers and would get stuck. And sadly a few died. So now the doors are removed.
That was only a problem for old fridges the new sealed ones open from the inside now
@@jackstewart2258 Yes but a lot of children aren't strong enough to do so while trapped in a dark space, especially if its laying on its back
@@wouterkessel4852 Or if something is moved in front of it and blocks the door from the outside
January 1954 to June 1956 33 deaths none sense then but every ten years or so a new law in design has been made mostly do to Confirmational bias. The new systems no longer require air tight to function.
Now the doors don't lock like that. Welcome to the 21st century.
For those of you who don’t know: ginseng is called “hillbilly gold.” You can trade ginseng for about anything. You can use ginseng for about everything. From fevers and rashes to anxiety and rabies (not so sure about rabies but that’s what my grandma said she used when she was a kid).
And in 2018 it was selling for $800/lb
I can promise you that ginseng does neither jack nor shit for rabies
Somebody stole my grandpa’s whole patch overnight. Decimated the hillside and didn’t leave ANY behind.
Ginseng hunting is a huge money maker there. My uncle, who lives in WV, told us the ginsengers were as bad as the moonshiners were about protecting their " territory".
Yellow root too
So that last one probably dates back to when ether was first introduced as a general anesthetic and cases of doctors being… let’s say horribly unethical.
morally ambiguous..?
Yeah, that would be my guess, and probably for the better tbh...
That's what I was thinking
Rherevhave been cases of doctors taking advantage of women under anesthesia with more modern agents. But I get the point that men may need protection as well.
Probably and let's be honest men are less likely to report those sorts of assault now. If this law goes back to when ether was first introduced I imagine the number would have been much lower. Probably didn't occur to lawmakers at the time
Honestly it sounds like that 3rd person anesthesia law was put there for an... unfortunate reason. Like I feel like there was a criminal case attached to the reasoning.
True but it is also good for both sides. It is not impossible for the patient to enter a dream state.
yes, but such a law should be extended to apply equally to anyone sedated.
It definitely needs an update to protect everyone.
Could be foresight considering how gender roles were in the past. Women couldn't go put without chaperones for example.
Yeah, some creepy bastard was molesting his patients.🤮🤬
The last one feels like they were trying to do something good but then legal terminology made it seem all weird. Vague laws are sometimes the most useful
I saw that and went " I know your trying to do something good and I understand the reasoning, but the writing is just bad"
A classic law book snafu. You can tell the good intention but it just wasn’t specific enough
It sounds to me like the law was saying 'a doctor cant put a woman under anasthesia without a 3rd party present' likely to prevent sexual misconduct when the woman is under anasthesia. Literally nothing wrong or all that weird with the law if so, though it would be good practice to make it apply it to both sexes.
@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 Yeah it's a really good idea for a law, and I think it would be a good idea to make it apply to everyone. I feel like that law was just made awhile ago and it needs a quick update.
@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 that's the issue with it. It should apply to both sexs but doesn't. It's clearly there to stop sexual misconduct. In a world now open to female doctors and people being openly gay a law like that needs to be updated
The Ginseng one is still really necessary because people ask if they can dig for it on our an other peoples property only for some of them to then trespass and dig for it anyway. And ginseng was once a big part of the Appalachian flora but now it has become rare.
i'm really surprised they used to have a "swear jar" law, and baffled at how my uncle didnt go broke because of it
I swear like I'm the god of sailors and people who hit themselves in the thumb with a hammer, so I'd be dead broke in a day
The ginseng law makes sense in that collection of that is lucrative (or was up to the 90s, I'm "city folk" now) and we had 'poaching' problems in Arkansas so I imagine WV did, too.
Kentucky had/has similar issues with it also. Ginseng is still a lucrative crop and people have been murdered over it.
My late grandfather grew it decades ago, and more than once scared off trespassers that were attempting to steal his crop.
“God willing and the crick don’t rise” has migrated into my vocabulary since moving to WV in 2020.
The 3rd person present for anesthesia thing protects women from being "taken advantage of" while under the influence of anesthesia, and protects doctors from false accusations by patients. It's a good law - maybe WV should apply it to the men, as well? Just a thought. Lol... Great job as usual, Ben!
Generally speaking, anesthesia should be handled by a specialist, not the doctor performing the surgery. It can be incredibly dangerous, and potentially fatal, if you get the dosage wrong. I say that law should apply to everyone, but not necessarily because of people being "taken advantage of".
When Aaron Burr tried to commit treason, he went to an island in the Ohio River that is now part of West Virginia. They might be right to want to make sure duel participants can’t be in public office.
Aaron Burr, sir!
Illinois has an almost identical law regarding roadkill. Lol!
And the removal of doors on freezers is also listed in Illinois, but it's to keep kids playing in them from closing the door and suffocating.
IIRC the one related to ginseng has to do with it being a valuable crop and literal poaching of it.
Then why not write the law to make it illegal to harvest ANYTHING from another person's land without their permission?
Do other states not do road kill tags? That's how we do it in ND to make sure the animal wasn't poached and can still be salvaged.
I'm pretty sure there's a similar law in Michigan. I know in my hometown if you call the cops after hitting a deer the likely first question when they get there will be if you want the meat.
I think you can get tags for road kill in Minnesota, I just don't think they're functionally distinct from the hunting tags.
It’s actually illegal in Texas to pick up any roadkill off the road… you can technically move it off the road but it’s illegal to take it or even antlers or skulls too apparently.
Some yes other no. Some flat out refuse to allow you to claim roadkill for consumption.
thats how it is here in missouri. you can not run over a deer and then pick it up...but the guy following you can but has to get the tag.
*WHY* does the lack of 'animal husbandry' laws in West Virginia *NOT* surprise me. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
Who needs them laws in the first place, if yer honest to god, yer not doing that stuff, and if you're not doing that stuff, you ain't need a law about it.
Technically, according to uncited weird laws, it's illegal to do it to any animal over 40lbs under is perfectly legal 🤢, if you are a male
At one point it was on the books animal weighed more than 20 pounds it was fair game
From what I heard "animal husbandry" or something like that is legal in D.C. however I could be wrong
Because they don’t care about the animal they just care about there cousins 🤣
The refrigerator door law was started in Mississippi when 3 kids died outside of Philadelphia Ms. on the Choctaw reservation. I met the children's father in a pool hall in Carthage Ms. when I was a teenager. It is a sad story.
here is one from Minnesota for ya
No person may be charged with or convicted of the offense of drunkenness or public drunkenness.
Sounds like something for Wisconsin… Hm.
I've been living in WV for almost 10 years and some of these laws are ones that outsiders just won't understand😶😆
I've never set foot in West Virginia. Can you try to explain?
So I could stll duel someone in West Virginia.
Exactly. Like I love to do the naughty with a squirrel, run over it with my car, then take it home and eat it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. PS that's what I'm doing for dinner tonight.
WTF you f'ed then killed then ate a squirll for dinner?
@@LtexprsGaming Ah yes, a hot W. Virginian date. I hope it went well!
That ginseng law isnt that weird when you know how much money ginseng is actually worth
2:40 actually makes sense. Lots of states have these types of laws it so kids don't get trapped in them and suffocate
West Virginia has been special since the day they seceded from Virginia and the Confederacy to become their own state. Loyal to the Union since 1863
You have West West Virginia, you have North West Virginia, you have East West Virginia, South West Virginia... You have North Virginia, East Virginia, South Virginia, but no West Virginia... cuz it's gone off.
And yet they still fly the old battle flag of the confederate states
Best thing they ever did! But now they fight to protect their statues of Confederate generals. Somewhere along the way West Virginians lost their way.
Tell that to the southeastern portion of the state.
Eh, illegally created from held territory in a time of war.
The fridge door law is pretty common, but I think it originally started with kids playing hide and seek and one hid in a fridge being thrown out. He suffocated in there, and no one realized it.
Hey! Ben! The ginseng one is really important.
It's hard to grow, really expensive per pound, and an Appalachian heritage!
That one is actually not worth making fun of. It's regular poached, and has created a dirth of a real medicine.
Also, here to say eating salvageable meat from the road ain't gross, it's just not wasting it. There are plenty places that will take large game from the road, process it, and feed those that need
I think he is just making fun of it for its specificity other laws would probably be enough to deal with it. and sure Appalachian heritage that they stole from the Natives lol
"Am I reading this right?!"
"Yes you are, and I'm very proud of you!"
the ginseng one isn't weird if you're vaguely familiar with like foraging stuff, because people will dig up all the ginseng to sell it, which has resulted in it (American Ginseng) being listed as a threatened or endangered plant species in some states here in the US. It's Endangered in Canada too.
Amd the fact that it has a legal season in WV, but in 2018 was selling for $800/LB. People support their entire family off of one season of digging, and they will VIOLENTLY defend their patches.
Technically it isn't, since it's a voluntary activity with an advanced knowledge of possible consequences...
I thought the anesthesia thing was to prevent doctors from taking advantage of them, but it was something about being sexist instead.
No you are correct, that was the intent but the way it was written along with exclusion of it applying to male patients does not help how it looks on paper.
Yeah the intent of good was there but boy did they leave out important details
The sexist part would be the built-in assumption that only women are in danger of abuse when unconscious.
@@NeilSonOfNorbert the lack of acknowledgment of men being victims of sex crimes is an entirely other can of worms
@@Broomer52 can't wait till we as society finally open that can of worms so people realize it stopped being a can of worms and is now a 55gallon drum filled with human bodies
The one about being in public office and saying you’ve never participated in a duel. Yep that’s the thing it Kentucky steel, also it is illegal to fish with dynamite, yep
That last one sounds straight out of a Looney tunes episode
The fridge door one probably comes from the time when fridges didn't have magnetic doors, so they had latches on them that could only be opened from the outside.
The ginseng one makes sense because ginseng is highly valuable, so a bunch of people steal it to sell...kind of like how some people steal catalytic converters.
3:19 - NC also has Ginseng specific laws. You need written permission to forage for it on someone else's land, there's a harvest season and a requirement to replant the seeds/berries when you pull the roots. And it's a felony to steal it. Normally in NC "damage/removal of crops and trees" is only a misdemeanor, but ginseng is very valuable stuff. I found one site saying the price for dry leaves this season was $400/lb.
I sent Ben a book of weird laws- I wonder if any of these came out of it..
Appalachee ginseng currently sales for $750 to $800 per pound. A law prohibiting you removing that from your neighbor's property is not only a good idea it's a humanitarian life saving concept.
Hi! formerly from TN here, That ginseng law makes complete sense! Ginseng's expensive don't y'know. Back before they outlawed it, my grandfather and his relatives used to go ginseng digging all the time to make money! Course they outlawed it several decades ago, so nowadays that'd be poaching.
“Oh my god”
“Correct. Yours, mine, He’s all ours”😂😂😂
For further clarification on the fridge one, kids got locked in fridges because they used latches meaning they couldn't be opened from the inside
Remember, the law about anesthesia might have been for assault, with a third party present, women might be safer. And while it can happen to men, or anyone else, this probably wasn’t considered.
On the note of the removing door to refrigerator and what not Considering how a child can get trapped inside a refrigerator I think it makes perfect sense to make it a law to remove the doors before disposing
Oregon in 2019 *passed* a law relating to roadkill. If you hit a deer with your car, you're allowed to keep it but you have to fill out a permit after the fact and surrender the antlers.
Before you just had to leave it to rot.
How come you have to surrender the antlers. Does it have to do with trophy purposes and where you obtained it?
The one about ginseng makes sense, because wild grown ginseng sells for $200-$400 an ounce last I checked.
From Wisconsin here. We have similar non-hunting road kill tag rules and they are followed strictly (when it's a deer). Why would someone go through that, you might ask. Because Wisconsin DNR will take anything and everything away from you if they catch that you harvested a deer and didn't have a tag for it.
New Jersey should be here. You can't legally answer a cop who says "D'you know why I pulled you over?" with "Why should I tell you if you don't know?"
Some of the dueling laws I can understand: a duel is an agreement between people while murder is not, and a person who's willing to shoot you because they disagree with you shouldn't be in office.
Removing doors off the fridge is to prevent kids from getting trapped in there.
Weird West Virginia law: the law that says you have to follow West Virginia laws
Here’s one from Texas: You can’t drive without windshield wipers but the actual windshield isn’t required.
"Those robbers took my tv, my bed and my dog, but at least the ginseng is still in the fridge!"
"Yup, that's legal."
Fun Fact: In many european countries the "trial by combat" is still legal and just doesn't get used any more. There were some recent cases in France how ever.
If I had to pay a dollar every time I swore in public I'd be bankrupt in a week.
As a native, and current resident of WV… yeah… The ginseng one I get. People will wear their sidearm while going hunting for it and I’ve heard of more than a few tense moments happening
Yesss!!! The weird law series is back!! AZ and ID needs this
You should do weird laws for Missouri and Utah. Come in and ask Missouri, "are you going tell about Missouri Executive Order 44." and Missouri responds, "nope, we stopped that order in 1976."
Hopefully he talks about how Illinois is basically making the Purge a real thing. Here we all thought it be Florida.
back in the day your fridge had a latch to hold it closed. today all fridges have that magnetic strip to keep them closed. i am old enough to remember news storys of kids being trapped in fridges that died. you dont have to remove the doors anymore by law where i live but still not a bad idea anyway.
If you need a might-become-a-law for Maine there's a bill that was introduced in 1939 to make it illegal to add tomatoes to clam chowder
I love this one. I think you should do one's for Oregon, Washington, state jail, island's, 18 wheeler truck travel through states and the recent Oregon duck football game. I hope you are feeling better and hopefully the weather isn't causing to much trouble.
As a WV! Thank you! From Ohio to WV it was a move up. No river fires to bad yet. Or balloon issues.
You got to include the "No ice cream cones in the back pockets" law that a good bit of states including GA has in one of these videos.
And have have said state explain the connection to horses is.
Great job but as a West Virginia history teacher I have to say there are several more that you missed that need mentioned. Like you can legally beat your wife on the court house steps on Sunday but only in Huntington. It’s illegal for firefighters to whistle or flirt with any woman who walks by the firehouse, lastly it’s also illegal to whistle underwater.
You should do a skit about Montana’s weird laws
Thank you for always captioning your videos right away. I love your comedy and send your videos to my friends all the time :).
Im from WV. So thank you for this.
I feel like the no red or black flags one has to do with the battle of Blair mountain.
1:55 Gov: You don't have laws against that?
WV: It happens often enough where you live that you think you have to have a law about it?
If you ever get around to a town names of West Virginia video, I hope you include the county of Monongalia - names by misspelling of the Monongahela River. And in close proximity, you have Morgantown named after the founder… Morgan Morgan.
I agree with the fridge one before it's taken to the dump it's usually rolled with door face down
The fridge one is totally reasonable.
I legit didn't realize WV had dueling laws, cuz I now live in Tennessee, the home of the most famous dueler, Andrew Jackson!! Dude legit wanted to duel everybody who disagreed with him. And did, quite often! He went to Kentucky to duel, cuz it was illegal in TN.
I do have to give props to West Virginia for making exceptions for people who rest on Saturdays.
OKay the ginseng one is good my grandpa shot at people stealling sassafras off his property and the police where like "Thats fair". being able to arrest them will will probably keep them safer.
I have a feeling that the red flag not being allowed to be displayed along with the black might have something to do with Blair mountain.
Marx along the back?
west virginia BEST VIRGINIA
Great as always ben!!!
the ginseng one is because ginseng is a: super profitable and b: hard to cultivate so there is a whole bunch of people that steal ginseng so they don't have to put in the effort but get all the profit. ginseng bandits lol
'No I don't, enlighten me' man if looks could kill🤣
I love this series so damn much
Bergen County NJ has the same Sunday laws. They are very popular with workers in retail as it guaranteed them one weekend day off each week.
The anesthesia law is to protect doctors from false accusations. Very common in hospitals.
Love the videos
Haven’t been this early before. Lol! Great to see your vids Ben. 😁
Great video.
There are honestly some pretty weird laws here. Thank you for highlighting some of them in this video.
RI has the same tag system for when you hit a deer with a car. You can claim it, if you hit it. If you refuse, the local PDs have a list of people interested in roadkill deer OR random passers-by can see it and claim it.
If you want weird laws, look into specific townships, counties, etc. Gilmer County, WV still has laws from before automobiles were invented that haven't been struck from the law books....
It’s legal in Ontario to get the roadkill so long as you report the “accident”. I don’t recall hearing or seeing if acquiring a tag is needed though.
" oh my god"
Cirrect yours mine all of ours"
The third to last part made me proud. No one hits any animals with their car.... Legally
Colorado has a law that you can't hang out in cemeteries past midnight
The law for dueling makes sense because both parties must be in agreement that one will die
i think in mississippi there's still a law about being fined if you swear in front of more than 3 people in public but i don't think its enforced (at least not where i live)
Hearing you pronounce genseng instead of how I've always heard it "gen-sing" takes me back. As someone from southern WV if you've never been ginseng huntin your missing out!
Haha 😂 thanks for the laughter! 🙏 Ben 🙏
WV is a crazy state, Florida and New York are the only two who could beat them in sheer craziness
Sheriff's will give roadkill tags in ND too.
I used to live in west virginia and the area I was in had so many homeless people because of the opioid crisis. Whenever an animal got hit by a car these drug addicts would scurry out of the woods and drag it back in for food. Also my dad was shocked when his coworkers would boast about hitting a deer and throwing it in the bed of their truck. So you would be supprised how often that road kill law actually comes is used.
The roadkill one is in Minnesota too. If you hit a deer you can claim the meat.
I mean, if you agree to a fight with somebody and tell the police you will be having a fight, no matter the outcome you shouldn't be able to be charged with a crime. If both parties agreed to the terms, they agreed to the consequences.
that challenges the state monopoly on violence
I feel like doing gross stuff to animals should fall under “cruelty to animals”
For that last one, I think it's more, "you know how people can be." Think about it.
I'm from West Virginia and I have never heard of these laws
The old refrigerator had a latch