Weird Laws: New York
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Every state his it's fair share of weird laws and New York is no exception! Here are the weirdest laws in New York!
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Legit the hustle in NYC is scary and real. Some jacked dude walked up to my grandparents in a traffic light box jam just last month, cleaned their windshield despite their protests no, then threatened them for $10 (unpaid service????) until the light changed and my grandfather floored it. The SoundCloud rapper thing would 100% be a real issue.
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Live near the city. They do it on busses themselves, trains and time Square. Thank fuck it's illegal
I-
I don’t even know any more 😭
They still try to hustle CDs in time Square
I don't have that problem in the city, but I'm a 6'3" giant ginger beard with a masters in f off face.
In New York State it’s illegal to sell a house you believe is haunted without letting the people know who’s buying it
Why?
@@alyssarains6637 thats how you get an Amityville horror.
@@alyssarains6637 it has to do with this guy who bought a house but felt that weird shit kept happening inside. He sued the seller for not disclosing the strange happenings, the seller was found guilty of that and the court eventually said you have to disclose everything when selling a house, even the little caveat of it being haunted
My sister was leased a haunted apartment without her knowledge. It was wonderful seeing her kid talk to the “nice lady in the pretty white dress” in a dark, empty room at night. It didn’t help that the apartment was near the battleground of Antietam 🥲..I commend New York for this reasonable law.
@@alyssarains6637 we have the same law in Toronto because someone once sold a house they'd been making money off as a 'haunted walk' attraction without telling the buyers. The couple were very, very annoyed to have people constantly taking selfies in their front yard.
As a native New Yorker (yes the city) the brake down on why you can't sing at a bus stop was 1000% clear to me lmao
Ok so was thinking if the train (and you ARE allowed to sing on train platforms) is out of service, and the bus is acting as the train (New Yorkers know what I mean) is it still illegal to sing at the stop because the bus is technically a train at that point?
@@32080ewilliams i think it would still be illegal because the stop would be acting as a bus stop, even if the bus was acting as a train
It's a good law, honestly. I wish NM had a similar law as I am so tired of being hawked at about arts and crafts when I'm just waiting for the bus. No, I have plenty of landscape paintings, my jewelry box is full, and I already have a rock with the zia. Thank you, go away. 😫
@xenon but it stops outside the train stops not the bus stops so I have questions now lol
@@32080ewilliams at the bus stop at the train stop?
I have definitely broken the "no singing at a bus stop" law before
*YOU CRIMINAL!!* 😂
I pulled the same move when I was a kid
From the way he explain why is ilegal, I actually agree with him.
So have i
@@jasperflare I'VE sang AND done regular kinds of dancing~PLUS INTERPRETIVE DANCE at the bus stops as AN ADULT! Hey... I got the music in me baby what can I say?
😉😁❤️🗽🍎😂😎 #Mohawk #NYGenXBIKERLady #Taino
The train thing is to avoid accidents. If a train goes too fast it can derail. The slow speed helps to avoid that. It also helps avoid accidents when people try to beat the train at railroad crossings. I live with train tracks all around me there are tons of speed limitations and rules the trains have to follow. It can be quite inconvenient for everyone involved.
Do you live under a rock or something? The law specified steam powered trains. In New York State trains sometimes go over crossings at 100-110 miles an hour. I’m sure there are many crossings where they also go anywhere between 30-80 miles per house. That law is nill
Always the New Yorkers doing stupid shit like trying to cross the tracks. I LIVE IN NY, DONT GET MAD.
@@Cal90208 steam trains are harder to stop than the "new" diesel-electric. But you're right only a few historic lines are left for steam trains in NY
Also presumably to prevent children from being mulched by a train lol gotta remember this was probably passed at a time before cars existed/were common and the street was still regularly crossed by people outside of crosswalks (which probably weren’t a thing either-if you were to suggest to most people in not just New York but most of the world that they should only cross streets at pre-approved places which are mostly corners, they would have thought you were a crazy person). So they would literally have people ride along side the trains-on horses no less and as such were appropriately nicknamed 10th Avenue Cowboys-to make sure the right-of-way was clear of any pedestrians (or plebeians) so the train could proceed.
When I was really little we almost moved to a place that had train tracks in the backyard I'm 26 years old and I can't figure out where that house would have been located assuming it was located in the city I live in and I can't figure out why my parents would have looked at a house outside of the city that we currently live in because we were moving to a different house in the same city.
I'm from New York. I only knew: Don't sing at bus stops, misdemeanor for a tounge, and don't bother birds. I got yelled at by a cop once because I was walking through an empty lot and wasn't looking and accidentally kicked a pigeon across the lot. The cop saw it was an accident but informed me it was illegal to fuck with pigeons.
Least you wasn't fucking a pigeon
@@rhodawatkins4516 You've never met a pigeon before. From what I can see most of them don't see humans as a threat, just walking food dispensers.
In general you don’t fucks with them pigeons you just get to see them as roadkill cause they dumb birds 😂
I would like to visit new york, gently pick up a pigeon, and leave new york
does feeding them count as fucking with them, because if so i have definitely broken that law. i made sure to feed them a healthy seed bar at least, i figured they get enough junk food as it is.
They used to have endurance dancing competitions with partners carrying each other so one of them can sleep. It' was...bad.
But yeah, New York has had a colorful history.
And people literally died
I actually knew about this.
I posted a comment before reading this with the same content but 3 months late. I appreciate you being on point.
As a New Yorker you forgot my 2 favorite weird laws:
It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket on Sundays. However it is legal for women to go out topless in public
I'm gonna go commit a crime when I'm in new York
Excuse me!
I'm sorry is there a problem with the second one?
@@coolboss999 one of those laws that shouldnt need said, should be common sense that would fall under public indecency but some people think if things are specificly stated, it is legal then... thats the problem with that law being a thing, still goofy that it had to be made a law tho
But why? On the top less thing? Well the alternative is to ban men from taking off their shirts in public. Gender equally I guess.
To anyone wondering why the pigeon law is there: They poop when frightened. So imagine tens of pigeons suddenly making themselves lighter and where it goes...
Is it much different from them pooping everywhere anyway?
@@crazy808ish There's a difference between them doing it because of full bowels/bladder and doing it because someone decided to get them to move because they're taking up their space
thanks, i hate it
So what you're saying is: I should go to New York, look for the most pigeon infested place, and (on the loudest sonic wave inducing speakers ever) play an air horn at the lowest pitch so it sound's like a fog horn?
@@flying_Night_slasher That sounds like it'd take time to set up. And you wouldn't have that much time to escape before angry mob descends
OMG, as a New Yorker I sat here wheezing and yessing to the sound cloud rappers. NOW ADD THE SUBWAY TO IT XD.
ADD TIME SQUARE
I hope he does one on Massachusetts, I want to know all about our weird laws (and I am to lazy to look them up myself). Also I feel like we probably got some good ones.
yes! we've got all those weird blue laws
I looked it up for you.
1.) It is illegal to give beer to a patient
2.) At a wake, mourners may eat no more than three sandwich.
3.) Snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.
4.) Tomatoes may not be used in the production of clam chowder.
5.) It is illegal to frighten a pigeon.
i did a report on massachusetts in fourth grade and if i remember correctly it is illegal to have a goatee without a license
I believe there is stuff like you know when a woman learns how to drive a man have to walk 50 ft in front of her with a red flag you know to alert The Pedestrians there's a woman driving
My favorite stupid mask law is all vehicles must be registered insured and have a valid inspection sticker even when parked on private property
I love how New York just opens. Clearly he wants to be left alone, don’t question him
As a New Yorker, I learned about half about these weird laws from this video. Thank you for the enlightenment 🙏🏾
Same.
Sorry for you then
Just going to mention this before you do the Florida episode, there's a law that requires all public building doors to open outwards... AND IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT.
Fire saftey, people are stupid, that law is smart.
That's a law in a lot of places. It is INCREDIBLY important. It also prevents crushes, when people attempt to flee an enclosed area and people literally get crushed
@@seaborgium919 I assumed so, I just know I learned about it when looking up "dumb laws" like 10 years ago, thinking it was dumb and then realizing it was cited as a fire law.
I though it was because of hurricanes. The wind being able to blow doors inward can get debris inside the building.
A lot of states require doors to open outwards especially apartment buildings for fire safety
@@iyaayas It looks like that law is specifically southern Florida private buildings, like homes.
“It’s illegal to chop up a tongue” Gov seems extremely disturbed by this.
Snitches get stitches
Tongue splitting can only be done by a physician or dentist. This body modification law was signed into law when Pataki was governor.
@@Laura-it2zb Oh, it's about body modifications? I thought maybe it had something to do with butchering cows.
Oh, no, the dance marathon law makes perfect sense.
When I was on a trip to Brooklyn. I saw a guy walking between the subway trains announcing himself to the train then showing everybody a piece of paper with his Spotify and Instagram on it. So the bus stop thing. I get.
You know how you asked Rhode Island if he was run by the mob?
So was New York. They also like to get ahead on things that aren’t a safe idea to be doing.
You forgot that it's illegal to look at/talk to anyone in an elevator. Figured that's fairly on par for New York
So, no literal elevator pitches?
Does that mean Spiderman committed a crime in Spiderman 2
@@bl4ckw1ngz64 👀 Spiderman committed many crimes in Spiderman 2, including that one
I think the puppet show law is something we should all learn about from new York
I will not elaborate
I was confused at that one and I think I finally understand the picture due to your last sentence. THANKS!
(Now I gotta go wash my brain.)
Yep.
@@iyaayas i amconfuslsed but ok
@@ADMICKEY just imagine lots of "passionate affection" occuring in front of a window that anyone insight of the window can observe the events (shades closed, lights in back casting shadows or even full clear view of what's inside). If my kids are playing outside at that time, I don't want them having the opportunity to peep on those private affairs.
It was probably obscene or became a distraction to pedestrians or the/an entertainment industry wanted a monopoly on puppet shows.
2:21 then there's the guys who just hand you a CD and expect you to 'donate' everything in your wallet for it
Man i love New yorks personality so much
It's perfectly preposterous to pee on a pigeon in the park.
Poisoning pigeons in the park is, however, delightful in the spring.
“I’m in danger”
“You called this meetin’”
😂
I love how grumpy New York is
As someone who has done EXACTLY what NY said because it was my first time in NYC (I've lived in VERY upstate NY my whole life) after being swarmed by three guys badgering me to buy their CDs and I was intimidated and overwhelmed, I was relieved, grateful, and immediately understanding when he said it was illegal.
Yeah....I walk BY these people as fast as I can when at NYCC.
New York: doesn’t like puppets
Also New York: has Sesame Street
Me: one of these things is not like the other-
And Avenue Q!
Jim Henson wanted a monopoly on puppet shows, since people were blatantly ripping off his stuff. Simple as that.
I truly appreciate the Bills hat as part of NY’s outfit. Thank you from WNY!
Maine used to have a law requiring people to get off + walk their horses within Augusta city limits. Deep into the 20th century.
That "You forgit who ya talkin' to?" caught me off guard lol
He forgot "It is illegal to wear slippers after 10PM"
I'm a New Yorker, i would know
How the hell would they enforce that
@@solaridastoobid they just do
@@Ben_Brainard www.silive.com/news/2017/05/strangest_laws_in_new_york_sta.html
Got a whole bunch of them
I can confirm said statement
I think that's a good law tbh
The only few who got away with it were the typical musical numbers Done by movies and Broadway show demos
But those were permitted
The thumb on the nose, finger wiggle thing means piss off or FU depending on who sees it. 😂
No dances lasting more than 8 hours is because of the dance marathons from the 30s. They could last from a few days to weeks; unfortunately, people would pass out, wind up in the hospital or die as a result. My grandparents & parents told me about their experiences doing them; though, they didn't push it to the point of passing out 🙂
Take care everyone! ❤️
The dance contest one actually has an interesting history. Apparently during the Great Depression they had these ridiculously long dance contests which ended up being endurance competitions.
"No singing at a bus stop" feels like a thinly veiled ban on panhandling.
Lol I love the wired laws episodes they are hilarious can’t wait to see more like from TX,CALI,CO,WA,RI,NJ,MI, and N&S C and D
I'm guilty of having fallen for those shit CD sellers in Manhattan, but only once.
I got zapped by one in the Atlanta airport in 1985. I was dead tired and had no mental barriers up.
I was also a lot less cynical back then. Now, I have to hold myself back from getting in arguments with wrong number callers.
Always loved these. Never laughed harder LMAO.
Hahah same
Vetinari from the Discworld books would love NYC.
This is the best series ever
The steam train one is due to the steam cars that were used extensively in the city at the turn of the 20th century. They had a tendency to run over people, children especially. My grandpa had his foot run over by one when he was like 8 and lost all the toes on one foot. This is because they would be going too fast in the heavily pedestrianed streets of that era.
New York is my favorite character :)))
[NEW YORK] THOSE SOUNDCLOUD RAPPERS! SOMEONE SAID IT THANK GOD!
What about on a bus, or train?
If I remember correctly it is illegal in New York City to commit suicide the penalty is the death penalty
But… you would already be dead, how would they enforce it?
let the law makers have fun
It's ironic considering the death penalty doesn't exist in New York (another Yorker here).
Yeah, the politicians were having fun that day.
I was confused about the "No singing at bus stops" but when he said the NYC Hustlers I was like "Oh those Aholes that give street vendors a bad name."
Those Buskers are Okay so long as they aren't being annoying about it.
I love the interpretation of my home state 😂
New York, how ya feeling? You can't be sneezin' around these parts.
The hand on the nose gesture isn't that common here in the US, but in some parts of the world, it's like flipping someone off to put it simply.
I'm starting to really like New York and his "don't fucking annoy me" vibe
Just remember that in the town of Cushing Oklahoma one CAN NOT DRINK beer while only dressed in your underwear.
So If im in my underwear but wearing a hat....its legal?
@@ACertainGuy0 maybe
Half the state: welp, there go my day plans
@@ItalyHastaLaPasta no it is a city law. But here is an Oklahoma State law. One CAN NOT transport chickens in one's car.
@@richardmckinney4963 don't forget that it's illegal to go whaling in Oklahoma, as a state law 👀 but that chicken law, I blame Weatherford.
as a new yorker, this all made logical sense. but you forgot one. it’s illegal to jump off a building, punishable by death. so Miles Morales in Into the Spiderverse would’ve been in the electric chair before he could save a soul
So would Daredevil. And Iron Man. And I'm pretty sure Captain America also jumped off a couple buildings in NYC.
@@seaborgium919 send them to the electric chair immediately! they’re criminals!
"I'm in danger"
"You called this meeting"
Well I'm definitely gunna harass my boss about not having a spitton once I get to work today. Lolol
I had forgotten all about the thumb on nose wiggle your fingers thing.
a lot of these laws are actually because New York has a huge population. if one person does it, 40+ have to endure. For example, it's illegal to honk your horn in New York City, because traffic is so bad. If one person does it, everyone will, so now you got tons of people honking and just causing a huge disruption
I think I’m going to have a puppet show in my window now! *muahahaha*
Super excited to see your show in San Jo! Bringing 3 friends! 😁
If only the pigeon was NY's state bird...
I love blue laws. They are just hilarious.
Either because something stupid had to happen to even come up with it or because they are long outdated, but technicly still in effect.
Fun Fact: It's specificly forbidden in Canada to throw a moose out of a flying aircraft.
@@laylafuller686 Probably tied to PETA not understanding that it was moose poo that an Alaskan town was dropping.
Blue Laws?
@@maxrichards3881 In short, it's a name for dumb laws. Mostly laws that were made for a very specific reason, but who are completly idiotic otherwise or laws that were made a long time ago, never got revoked, but are useless in modern times.
Here in europe they are usualy the later, laws from medieval times which never got officialy revoked and are thous technicly useable in court. The "Trial by combat" for example was never abandonded, so you could still demand it in court, which actualy happened in france a couple years ago. The court denied the request and banned the trial by combat from french law. Here in germany it's technicly still prohibited for women to drive a car with more than walking speed and only with male supervision. Our unlimited speed on the Autobshn is also just a thing, because back when the speed limits were set, they didn't expect that cars could go much faster than 100 km/h (~62mph).
@@swordbrethrenmordred1230
Oh, thanks. I was worried that I came across a far-right American lunatic.
Differing terms and rhetoric are kind of mindfucking.
@@maxrichards3881 I don't know why it's called blue laws, but since the term comes from europe, it probably doesn't relate to liberals/democrats.
When you realize New York weird laws make sense.
"Nope."
I felt that 😅
"Thumbing your nose" at someone is the old-fashioned middle finger.
Sounds like New York never tried my Maw Maw's tongue roast recipie
Best start to my morning
Again you should do a video about upstate vs downstate ny!!! I love both but they're like black and white and them arguing would be hilarious
Mostly don't want all the litter and crowded trails from the city folk escaping to the wilderness in non practical footwear
IIRC, the chopped tongue thing refers to meat. It's to keep delis and restaurants from cutting tongue with cheaper meat and selling at full price.
Wow, I'm not sure if that makes it more or less creepy. I guess that's why they are weird laws. Thanks for the correction @@Ben_Brainard
Peeing on a pigeon sounds reasonable to me! LOL good one Ben!
Surprised the spittoon law still on the books. Spittoons were outlawed to combat TB.
"Every corporation, proprietor or other person owning, operating or controlling any store, factory, theater or other building or room which is used in common by the public or any depot or railroad station shall provide a sufficient number of nonabsorbent receptacles for expectoration and shall provide for the thorough cleansing and disinfection thereof at least once in 24 hours."
I just went to NYC Yesterday lol.
When is New Jersey getting one of these, here some samples
It's illegal to pump your own gas here.
In Newark It's illegal to get ice cream without a doctor's note after 6PM.
In Bernard Township its illegal to be sad.
It's illegal to slurp your soup
You put the gas one twice lol
But...the illegal to be sad one is really off-putting wtf
I'm guessing they really enforce the anti-self-service law huh?
@@Heavenlyhounds96 I mean, they did. But the past few months ive been able to pump my own gas here since there's not enough attendants to pump everyone. Yet I always still see the cones and long lines
@@Heavenlyhounds96 I doubt it's enforced but Oregon has a similar law about no Self Service
Regulations! Regulations! Regulations! That NY baby!
0:56 I guess they don't like lengua tacos there... 😂
Bless you.
gosh i've missed this series!
I live in New York and my old high-school does a 12 hour dance contest every year
0:57
My first thought was a butcher cutting up a beef tongue.
The kitten sneeze.
I would love to see more weird state laws.
Although I'm from NJ, I've seen plenty of NY to know those laws aren't quite weird. You'd get it if you were here. I hope he does NJ, we're never too behind NY in being similar
props to you for acknowledging Buffalo as the true football team of NY
Ben you should do a bloopers reel i would watch that in a heartbeat and id say others would too
I'm looking at the Savoy Ballroom in NYC for that ban on 8-hour dance competitions
As someone from the Bronx, I approve of this video
Eww New York seems like such a bad place to live I don’t want to go there
Hahah I had grandparents raised in nyc . They told me all about this. So I totally understand this 😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for repping the Bills. 👏👏
You should minnesota next. There's some weird ones. You can't enter Wisconsin with a chicken or duck on your head and all bathtubs must have feet 🤣
I cannot wait for the Indiana episode. We for sure have a lot of weird laws. My personal favorites include:
1. In South Bend, it's illegal to force a monkey to smoke a cigarette
2. Baths are forbidden between October and March
3. Residents are not allowed to eat their own severed body parts in Fridays
4. It is illegal to sell laughing gas with the intent to induce laughter
5.If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Immoral Practices.
New York doesn't like puppets? How Ironic given that one of the most famous puppet shows is set there. :D
Heres another one: Its legal to mary your cousin in New York.
new york and texas accent is on point sir keep up the good work
The Texas one depends on where you are in Texas
@@emberandfriendsanimations2454 central
Most of these laws seem like they should be in Florida as opposed to New York I mean honestly if the no cutting up the tongue had came from Florida would anybody see it as weird?
Florida and NY are similar in many ways. We have different brands of crazy, but they're about on the same level.
New york is a whole ass mood
Born and raised in Buffalo. Need to find a cop about that first one.
Pretty sure the dance contest one is connected to the Great Depression
Lol I live in NY have done the thumb and finger wiggling thing since I was a really young kid to mess with my aunt.
Such a missed opportunity to say the only puppets we fuck with here in New York is Sesame Street exclusively
Because I specifically DONT LIKE PUPPETS! I feel that one, and I don't like people part too lol
I love how you do all the different states and make all sound not like you! Well done sir! I aspire to your level of impression
NY State Bird is the Eastern Bluebird, not the Pigeon.
It is illegal in DeWitt, NY to own a Shetland Pony.
It is legal in NY for women to go topless anywhere it is legal for a man to go topless, unless she is advertising a business.
It is illegal in Ocean City, NY for a man to go topless.
It is illegal to do anything in an elevator other than stand, face the door and wait for it to reach your desired floor.
It is illegal in New York City to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket on Sunday.
I have never loved NY more…
I love your videos