In Washington state, the 1969 law protecting Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) is a county law, not a statewide law. That's the thing with these lists of "weirdest" laws, the jurisdiction can be either ambiguous or misrepresented. A municipal or county law can be confused for a statewide or national law. In practice, many of these oddball laws are not enforced and only remain on the books because no one wants to make the effort to repeal them.
1:52 i know why this one was put in place, in the major college towns Boulder especially they had an issue of people leaving couches in the lawns of frat houses and other frats would come by and burn the couches. To prevent this all couches must remain indoors 2:28 the reason is cause horse thieves would stick an ice cream cone in their pocket and the horse would simply follow the thief. Horses love ice cream
In South Carolina it's illegal to go to church WITHOUT a gun. It's an old,old law from frontier days in the early 1700's after the Yemmessee Indian wars. Churches were often a target on the frontier as Native Americans knew where and when Frontier families would be.... Love you and your mom reacting, Rick Charleston SC
I live in Maine and I’ve never heard we had to have Christmas decorations down in January. If there is a law nobody knows about it, because nobody follows it.😂
The racing in Pennsylvania was when almost all traffic was by water and "roads" were not good. The "National Highway" - one of the first roads build between major cities - was considered "cleared" because there were no stumps taller than 12 inches in the roadway. Pennsylvania was one of the first states to make what we would consider roads and, just like today, people want to see who has the fastest conveyance. Hence, no horse racing on the highway. The interstate system in the US specifically prohibits horse traffic.
Don't live there so I can't be for sure, but I suspect the Florida law about elephants has to do with the fact that some traveling circuses go to Florida for the winter months. I know Ringling Bros. did.
I can confirm that we do eat frog legs and it's fairly common to catch fish with your hands, it's called noodling. The most common fish that it's done with where I'm from are sucker fish. They're very delicious when canned.
I grew up in rural Kentucky. Some of my fondest memories are of loading up the nets and driving to the creek late at night to go frog gigging with my grandfather. He could fix up a mean batch of frog legs. We also went noodling occasionally in the river. If I remember correctly, we preferred to catch catfish. We did catch suckers but papaw would throw those back. He always said they were harder to clean and didn't like dealing with their bones. He preferred fried catfish anyway. I consider myself very lucky to have had both him and my mamaw to pass on a lifetime of information to me at a young age. He was a WW2 veteran who lost his right hand in the war. Every day was an adventure. I think I'm only person I know who would be able to survive an apocalypse because of the things he taught me. When I grew up, I moved to the city to make a living. So I've had the experience of surviving and living in the middle of nowhere and living in the concrete jungle. I feel lucky to have experienced both. When I tell city people about some of my rural experience, I feel like some of them don't even believe me. They think I'm just joking with them. Noodling is definitely one of the things they aren't sure about.😂
@@TheNewRevolution my husband was from Kentucky. The bones in sucker fish is the reason that we canned them. They become soft, much like the vertebra in canned salmon so they're not a problem. If they're canned properly, I think that they taste better than salmon. My brothers always went frog gigging so I grew up on frog legs in Southwest Ohio. Lots of fun cooking those frog legs!
Here's one that tops all these. Up until 1965 you were to be given the death penalty if your pet were to mate with any animal from the Royal household.
In 1900, a settler living in Cave Creek, Arizona at the time, allowed his donkey to sleep in his bathtub. The donkey, of course, became accustomed to this, and one day, the donkey’s owner fell ill. He was unable to return home to lead his donkey to the bathtub to sleep, the donkey was old and nearly blind. That faithful night, the donkey kicked the door in and went to the bathtub himself. At the time a maid who was hard of hearing was busy cleaning the bathtub, and couldn’t hear the approaching donkey. Since the maid was wearing a white apron, and the bath tub was white, the donkey did not see her (as he was old and had poor vision), so as he climbed into the tub to go to sleep, and crushed the maid, killing her instantly. And that, is why donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Arizona. In Alabama dead people can hold political office. In the past it wasn’t uncommon for the opponents in a political race to kill each other to gain office. From 1900-1935, 12 different murders occurred involving persons running for office; something had to be done. So the legislature passed a law which states if a person wins an election yet dies before being sworn in they will hold that office for its full term. Before that law the person who came in second place would assume the office. While laws may seem ridiculous there is often a logic to the law if the back story is known.
Frog legs are great! Fried frog…. Also in Texas you must have windshield wipers on your car… but you needn’t have a windshield as there is no law demanding that your car have one… as long as it has wipers!
It's not illegal in Oregon anymore. Even when it was, the local or state police wouldn't arrest you or give a ticket for doing it. They weren't authorized to enforce the law.
The Indiana law about catching fish with your hands or a fire arm...I recall a certain person going to a "Blue Gill Hole" (blue gill are a VERY tasty fish that school up in certain places --blue gill holes) and tossing food to them everyday for a week, then using a shot gun to " harvest" a whole bunch of them for a fish fry....
The elephants and Florida parking? I think…just guessing… That there were two cities/towns down here that hosted the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus when they weren’t out on tour. All of the animals, equipment, people were placed here during off-seasons. So it’s possible some of these folks took their elephants for walks into town and enjoyed the free parking, until they made the law!
Besides the outdated laws about a woman can't cut her own hair without her husband's permission, it's also illegal for children under the age of 16 to dance in public and to spit on the road and or sidewalk ( Michigan ).
Most of the more ridiculous ones about elephants is because when circuses traveled they often had to tie their elephants up and so they tied them up in parking spaces. Most of these laws are from the “olden days” such as the 19th century and earlier 20th century. These crazy thing to me though is that someone HAD to had done it to make it illegal lmao 😂 it’s true though most of the laws on here are not enforced (mostly because some of them can’t be logistically) and are now just things for us Americans to laugh at.
The bouncing pickle law is not a law. It was a comment made regarding a food contamination law. It was mentioned as a guideline for judging how fresh a cucumber was before it was pickled, but it was never a law, and plenty of non-bouncing pickled veggies are available.
I don't live in the state where it's illegal, but one night, I heard my neighbor's fiercely arguing because she cut her hair without telling her SO. He was genuinely pissed off.
Being illegal to send a pizza to someone else's house is weird? I think that makes prefect sense. Most of these are really old and would cost more to officially remove them than it does to effectively ignore them.
The frightening part is; all of those laws were probably written in response to a lot of people doing the acts they banned. Here's one for you.. In July 1830, the Michigan Territory passed a law against bowling (both 9 and 10 pin), because it was "productive of great waste of time, and leads to habits of idleness and dissipation". People continued to bowl anyway; and in August 1846; the women of a small village near Detroit having had enough of the men spending their time in the alley instead of on the farm, attacked the bowling alley with axes and hammers in the middle of the night. According to the news reports (the story went international in 1846); "they went at it with much spirit and energy; hacked the bed of the alley, tore down the walls, and razed the roof to the ground." An 80-foot building reduced to splinters in under an hour. [see Coventry (UK) Standard Aug 28, 1846; "Lynch-Law Ladies in Michigan"]
Under UK law, whales and sturgeon belong to the monarch so you have to ask royal permission if you catch one or you want to take it away if it beaches itself. They have royal prerogative on both these Royal "Fish".
Yes. I was hunting in a new place. It was overgrown in a glade, and I was jumping birds. Then I realized that the "rocks" were actually gravestones. I left on my own volition because it didn't seem right, no matter how old and forgotten it was.
just so ya know we have many more. I live in MO. You can't drink beer from a bucket in St. Louis. No claw footed bath tubs and 3 adult women can't live together. Also don't tie the Elephant to a hitching post, which my neighborhood has (hitching posts). In Alaska it's all about Mooses. I think it's Georgia where you can't beat your wife on the court house lawn after 5 p.m.
Something I have heard before, but don't know if it is true, is that because sometimes when we vote in laws if a party trys to pass a law that the other party doesn't like, then the opposing party will put a part in there that is rediculous in hopes that people will vote no to the law. Obviously that is not the case for all of these but it is something I have heard happens. Again, I don't know how true that is. 🤷♀️
Most of these laws were written by new lawmakers who wanted to be able to go home to the voters and be able to say “Look I’m doing something.” The law about elephants in Florida might go back to when a lot of the traveling circuses would winter over in Florida and there actually were more elephants than you would think. If it’s not a state law most counties have laws about hunting in cemeteries. My father got a ticket for that in Nebraska when he shot a pheasant that fell in a cemetery and he went in to get it. Oklahoma has a lot of odd laws that were passed when they first became a state so people could brag about proposing one of the first laws for the state. Good stuff like it’s illegal to take a bite out of someone else’s hamburger or it’s illegal to harpoon whales in Oklahoma. In reality most of these laws are on the books but nobody knows of them or enforces them but nobody wants to spend the time to repeal them either.
I am not sure if these laws are still on the books and which state these laws are is either Iowa or Minnesota. If two of more unrelated women live together in a home it has to be called a brothel and all hotels have to have hitching pots for horses
6:35 - Yes, I agree with Mum that it's good to make that illegal, in fact most jurisdictions used to make it illegal. I'm sure he could've found a much better example of a "weird law" in Virginia.
Growing up I had a friend who went squirrel hunting in the graveyard on a regular basis. I blame him for the fact you almost never see flying squirrels around here anymore. There used to be a law on the books that said if two trains approach an intersection at the same time, BOTH must stop until the other has gone. Hmmm. So, I guess if that ever did happen, both trains are still sitting there, waiting......
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Ppl waking up bears just cuz they want a good pic... they will be lucky to survive to face legal charges. Lol
In Indiana, a bill was introduced to make the number pi equal to 3.2. Fortunately, it didn't pass.
That was good thanks for the laughs on how silly we can be
In Washington state, the 1969 law protecting Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) is a county law, not a statewide law.
That's the thing with these lists of "weirdest" laws, the jurisdiction can be either ambiguous or misrepresented. A municipal or county law can be confused for a statewide or national law.
In practice, many of these oddball laws are not enforced and only remain on the books because no one wants to make the effort to repeal them.
It wasn't presented stating anything other than "in the State of"....They are silly, unenforceable laws, so no need to pick it apart.
1:52 i know why this one was put in place, in the major college towns Boulder especially they had an issue of people leaving couches in the lawns of frat houses and other frats would come by and burn the couches. To prevent this all couches must remain indoors
2:28 the reason is cause horse thieves would stick an ice cream cone in their pocket and the horse would simply follow the thief. Horses love ice cream
Ames iowa, another university town passed an ordinance against indoor furniture left on open porches or in yards
In South Carolina it's illegal to go to church WITHOUT a gun.
It's an old,old law from frontier days in the early 1700's after the Yemmessee Indian wars.
Churches were often a target on the frontier as Native Americans knew where and when Frontier families would be....
Love you and your mom reacting,
Rick
Charleston SC
These laws were passed by state legislatures. Imagine what kind of time on their hands the legislature in Washington DC is exercising!
I live in Maine and I’ve never heard we had to have Christmas decorations down in January. If there is a law nobody knows about it, because nobody follows it.😂
It's probably just a town ordinance from some small middle of nowhere town. Not a state law.
The racing in Pennsylvania was when almost all traffic was by water and "roads" were not good. The "National Highway" - one of the first roads build between major cities - was considered "cleared" because there were no stumps taller than 12 inches in the roadway. Pennsylvania was one of the first states to make what we would consider roads and, just like today, people want to see who has the fastest conveyance. Hence, no horse racing on the highway. The interstate system in the US specifically prohibits horse traffic.
Frog legs are pretty good !
Don't live there so I can't be for sure, but I suspect the Florida law about elephants has to do with the fact that some traveling circuses go to Florida for the winter months. I know Ringling Bros. did.
I can confirm that we do eat frog legs and it's fairly common to catch fish with your hands, it's called noodling. The most common fish that it's done with where I'm from are sucker fish. They're very delicious when canned.
I grew up in rural Kentucky. Some of my fondest memories are of loading up the nets and driving to the creek late at night to go frog gigging with my grandfather. He could fix up a mean batch of frog legs. We also went noodling occasionally in the river. If I remember correctly, we preferred to catch catfish. We did catch suckers but papaw would throw those back. He always said they were harder to clean and didn't like dealing with their bones. He preferred fried catfish anyway. I consider myself very lucky to have had both him and my mamaw to pass on a lifetime of information to me at a young age. He was a WW2 veteran who lost his right hand in the war. Every day was an adventure. I think I'm only person I know who would be able to survive an apocalypse because of the things he taught me. When I grew up, I moved to the city to make a living. So I've had the experience of surviving and living in the middle of nowhere and living in the concrete jungle. I feel lucky to have experienced both. When I tell city people about some of my rural experience, I feel like some of them don't even believe me. They think I'm just joking with them. Noodling is definitely one of the things they aren't sure about.😂
@@TheNewRevolution my husband was from Kentucky. The bones in sucker fish is the reason that we canned them. They become soft, much like the vertebra in canned salmon so they're not a problem. If they're canned properly, I think that they taste better than salmon. My brothers always went frog gigging so I grew up on frog legs in Southwest Ohio. Lots of fun cooking those frog legs!
I have never met one person that eats frog legs or catches fish with their bare hands and I'm in my 60s. Frog legs are disgusting.
Hands yes, but catching with your mouth?
I’ve been to a lot of different states but I’ve never met one person who eats frog legs
Here's one that tops all these. Up until 1965 you were to be given the death penalty if your pet were to mate with any animal from the Royal household.
3:35 - In Minnesota, some people keep Christmas decorations up well into April.
That Wisconsin one about butter substitute is well known here, since we are the Dairy State. And, we actually do take such things seriously. 😊😅
Frog legs are good to eat 👍🇺🇸
It just goes to show, that just like taxes, once enacted they NEVER go away. Even if the reason is ancient, and no longer relevant.
In 1900, a settler living in Cave Creek, Arizona at the time, allowed his donkey to sleep in his bathtub. The donkey, of course, became accustomed to this, and one day, the donkey’s owner fell ill. He was unable to return home to lead his donkey to the bathtub to sleep, the donkey was old and nearly blind. That faithful night, the donkey kicked the door in and went to the bathtub himself. At the time a maid who was hard of hearing was busy cleaning the bathtub, and couldn’t hear the approaching donkey. Since the maid was wearing a white apron, and the bath tub was white, the donkey did not see her (as he was old and had poor vision), so as he climbed into the tub to go to sleep, and crushed the maid, killing her instantly. And that, is why donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Arizona.
In Alabama dead people can hold political office. In the past it wasn’t uncommon for the opponents in a political race to kill each other to gain office. From 1900-1935, 12 different murders occurred involving persons running for office; something had to be done. So the legislature passed a law which states if a person wins an election yet dies before being sworn in they will hold that office for its full term. Before that law the person who came in second place would assume the office.
While laws may seem ridiculous there is often a logic to the law if the back story is known.
Frog legs are great! Fried frog….
Also in Texas you must have windshield wipers on your car… but you needn’t have a windshield as there is no law demanding that your car have one… as long as it has wipers!
In both New Jersey and Oregon, it's illegal to pump your own gasoline
It's not illegal in Oregon anymore. Even when it was, the local or state police wouldn't arrest you or give a ticket for doing it. They weren't authorized to enforce the law.
These are very old laws that they never bothered to change, there's also a law about alligators that's really odd.
should start calling these ones "British Mums React" :O
The Indiana law about catching fish with your hands or a fire arm...I recall a certain person going to a "Blue Gill Hole" (blue gill are a VERY tasty fish that school up in certain places --blue gill holes) and tossing food to them everyday for a week, then using a shot gun to " harvest" a whole bunch of them for a fish fry....
None of these would never be enforced.
They pass moronic laws instead of passing the necessary laws. For instance to finally getting rid of daylight savings time...
The elephants and Florida parking?
I think…just guessing…
That there were two cities/towns down here that hosted the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus when they weren’t out on tour. All of the animals, equipment, people were placed here during off-seasons.
So it’s possible some of these folks took their elephants for walks into town and enjoyed the free parking, until they made the law!
Besides the outdated laws about a woman can't cut her own hair without her husband's permission, it's also illegal for children under the age of 16 to dance in public and to spit on the road and or sidewalk ( Michigan ).
Most of the more ridiculous ones about elephants is because when circuses traveled they often had to tie their elephants up and so they tied them up in parking spaces. Most of these laws are from the “olden days” such as the 19th century and earlier 20th century. These crazy thing to me though is that someone HAD to had done it to make it illegal lmao 😂 it’s true though most of the laws on here are not enforced (mostly because some of them can’t be logistically) and are now just things for us Americans to laugh at.
I am old enough to remember when you could buy color dyed chicks at Easter.
1:57 - I only eat pickles if I can bounce them on the floor first.
The bouncing pickle law is not a law. It was a comment made regarding a food contamination law. It was mentioned as a guideline for judging how fresh a cucumber was before it was pickled, but it was never a law, and plenty of non-bouncing pickled veggies are available.
I don't live in the state where it's illegal, but one night, I heard my neighbor's fiercely arguing because she cut her hair without telling her SO. He was genuinely pissed off.
I think it was California where it's illegal to walk your giraffe without a leash.
Since I live in Oklahoma I'd better not use skunks to make glue.....saw a skunk dive under my house the other day, guess I wont bother him.
Being illegal to send a pizza to someone else's house is weird? I think that makes prefect sense. Most of these are really old and would cost more to officially remove them than it does to effectively ignore them.
Tying an elephant to a parking meter law came about because the circuses wintered in Florida.
Im Missouri it was a law when passing someone on the highway you had to honk your horn while doing it
Well... Im from Georgia and had to look up the crazy law.
ITS REAL
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to race horses on the highway in every state.
Nope... many states have nothing specifically prohibiting it.
The frightening part is; all of those laws were probably written in response to a lot of people doing the acts they banned.
Here's one for you.. In July 1830, the Michigan Territory passed a law against bowling (both 9 and 10 pin), because it was "productive of great waste of time, and leads to habits of idleness and dissipation".
People continued to bowl anyway; and in August 1846; the women of a small village near Detroit having had enough of the men spending their time in the alley instead of on the farm, attacked the bowling alley with axes and hammers in the middle of the night. According to the news reports (the story went international in 1846); "they went at it with much spirit and energy; hacked the bed of the alley, tore down the walls, and razed the roof to the ground." An 80-foot building reduced to splinters in under an hour. [see Coventry (UK) Standard Aug 28, 1846; "Lynch-Law Ladies in Michigan"]
that was california with the ice cream in your pocket
Under UK law, whales and sturgeon belong to the monarch so you have to ask royal permission if you catch one or you want to take it away if it beaches itself. They have royal prerogative on both these Royal "Fish".
In NJ it’s illegal to pump your own gas. And we love it!
I don't know why you couldn't hunt but you would be surprised how many old cemeteries you can run by in the most desolate places over here.
Yes. I was hunting in a new place. It was overgrown in a glade, and I was jumping birds. Then I realized that the "rocks" were actually gravestones. I left on my own volition because it didn't seem right, no matter how old and forgotten it was.
Ha! I live in Virginia and trust me, NOBODY is enforcing that law.
Shouldn't the title be "British Mums React To....."
just so ya know we have many more. I live in MO. You can't drink beer from a bucket in St. Louis. No claw footed bath tubs and 3 adult women can't live together. Also don't tie the Elephant to a hitching post, which my neighborhood has (hitching posts). In Alaska it's all about Mooses. I think it's Georgia where you can't beat your wife on the court house lawn after 5 p.m.
These are crazy!
Something I have heard before, but don't know if it is true, is that because sometimes when we vote in laws if a party trys to pass a law that the other party doesn't like, then the opposing party will put a part in there that is rediculous in hopes that people will vote no to the law. Obviously that is not the case for all of these but it is something I have heard happens. Again, I don't know how true that is. 🤷♀️
Most of these laws were written by new lawmakers who wanted to be able to go home to the voters and be able to say “Look I’m doing something.” The law about elephants in Florida might go back to when a lot of the traveling circuses would winter over in Florida and there actually were more elephants than you would think. If it’s not a state law most counties have laws about hunting in cemeteries. My father got a ticket for that in Nebraska when he shot a pheasant that fell in a cemetery and he went in to get it. Oklahoma has a lot of odd laws that were passed when they first became a state so people could brag about proposing one of the first laws for the state. Good stuff like it’s illegal to take a bite out of someone else’s hamburger or it’s illegal to harpoon whales in Oklahoma. In reality most of these laws are on the books but nobody knows of them or enforces them but nobody wants to spend the time to repeal them either.
I am not sure if these laws are still on the books and which state these laws are is either Iowa or Minnesota. If two of more unrelated women live together in a home it has to be called a brothel and all hotels have to have hitching pots for horses
Virginia's new slogan: Virginia is for (married) lovers 😆😉
These are so funny XD
I'm sure most of these are not enforced.
For most of these, [citation needed].
I live in michigan, dont worry. That law is not enforced haha
I can confirm that everyone in virginia has broken that law lol
Turn up the volume.
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These are called blue laws. Mostly they are no longer enforced, but it would be fun to find out how they came to be in the first place.
The Idaho Lw was actually that its illegal to g8ve a box of chocolate less than 50 plunds.pounds.. but it's just a joke that2ws never actually a law
Behold the fruits of bored legislatures looking for solutions to problems that don't exist!
go moms
This has to be joking rite I’m American I never heard this in my life im 38😂😂😂😂😂
Thwt are old and unenforced
Merica land of freedom and human poop on the sidewalk
Are there any weird laws in the uk
6:35 - Yes, I agree with Mum that it's good to make that illegal, in fact most jurisdictions used to make it illegal. I'm sure he could've found a much better example of a "weird law" in Virginia.
We Americans are Crazy.
Growing up I had a friend who went squirrel hunting in the graveyard on a regular basis. I blame him for the fact you almost never see flying squirrels around here anymore.
There used to be a law on the books that said if two trains approach an intersection at the same time, BOTH must stop until the other has gone. Hmmm. So, I guess if that ever did happen, both trains are still sitting there, waiting......
I've heard of the train law. A railroader friend of mine found it quite amusing!
In Oregon it's illegal to say Ore-gone.