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Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

What is the silliest law that is still enforced where you live? Why do you think it still exists?

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What is the silliest law that is still enforced where you live? Why do you think it still exists?

Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    Walking across the street outside of the permitted area even if there is not a car in sight.

  • Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu
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    In France, it is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.

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      common france L

  • Skoobie@lemmy.film
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    Can’t buy beer or wine at Walmart before noon on Sundays. But there’s totally a war on Christianity here lol.

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      My entire county used to be dry on sundays,… but I live 2 min from the wv state line and they give no fucks if you Wana get hammered at 7am Sunday so it was pointless. Now we have Sunday sales after like 10 or so I believe, maybe earlier.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Can’t buy beer or wine at all at Walmart in my state. Or any other grocery store, unless they have a restaurant.

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    A dozen states still have sodomy laws on the books and only aren’t enforced because of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 SCOTUS decision.

    Be interesting to see how that plays out the next couple of years.

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    It’s technically illegal to consume alcohol in your own backyard if you can be seen from the outside.

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    deleted by creator

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      I appreciate the law in Massachusetts, USA where jaywalking is so common that the fine was reduced to $1 for the first three times in a year and a whopping $2 for each time after that.

      You can’t remove the law, but you can make it silly enough that it’s never enforced.

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      I think most people don’t know what the jay walking laws are.

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    In South Korea, you cannot marry your great grandma’s cousin’s grandkids.

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    Weed is illegal.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from community
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    The police vow to make a visit if you tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.

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      Where else you supposed to tie a giraffe to?

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Well, the DMCA is ridiculous luddite garbage. But it stopped being silly years ago, and shows us our laws are stupid and made by silly people.

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    Blue Laws

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States

    …Blah blah can’t desecrate the sabbath with alcohol…

    ¯\( ツ )/¯

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    Something about weeing in a policeman’s hat. There’s another one about weeing behind a car as long as you have one hand on it.

    Ooh, source: https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/from-urinating-in-a-policemans-hat-to-wearing-your-sandals-near-to-the-queen-this-country-has-a-host-of-bizarre-legal-offences-2442321 Most other places say that policeman’s hat one is nonsense though.

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