It is time for Obscure State Laws!

[KitchenWitch]

In California:

No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

I feel so much safer on our freeways knowing this now!

:rofl:

[rug]

1. It is illegal in New York to have sex with a live animal or a dead human

but it is not illegal to have sex with a dead animal.

[Bake]

2. Not a "law" per se, but in KY new attorneys take an oath not to engage in duels.

I guess it's that Burr-Hamilton thing.

Bake

[SoxFan]

12. Losers

If it weren't for duels, I'd never win a case!

[Bake]

31. Damn! I don't want to be on the other side from YOU in court!

:rofl:

Bake

[KamaAina]

3. Think twice before bringing your magic act to the islands

In Hawai'i, it is illegal to place coins in one's ears!

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/hawaii

[mwooldri]

4. Don't sign in as Mr. and Mrs in a hotel register in NC, unless you want to be married.

If you sign in a hotel as Mr. and Mrs so and so, then North Carolina deems you to be lawfully wedded husband and wife.

I don't know how that would work for same sex couples though.

[lightningandsnow]

7. So what happens if you sign in as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head?

Are you lawfully married then?

[mwooldri]

14. I don't know on that one - I just know the crazy law.

[SoxFan]

5. It's illegal for a drunk to be in a bar

Under New Hampshire law, an establishment will be fined if the liquor inspectors find an "intoxicated person" on the premises.

In other words, if someone has a drink too many, you aren't supposed to sit him in a corner, give him a cup of coffee, and let him sober up. That's illegal. The law actually encourages bar owners to let drunks get in their cars and drive off.

It's idiotic, but god help anyone who questions the wisdom of the Lagerfuherer.

[KitchenWitch]

8. that is insane!

:shrug:

[SoxFan]

9. It gets better

The Lagerfuhrer (Chief of Liquor Enforcement) was quoted in the papers as saying he hates the notion of designated drivers. This only means that someone will drive the drunk person home, where he or she will (and I'm not making this up) engage in spousal abuse.

This is the guy in charge of enforcing NH's liquor laws. A guy who works for the same agency that operates a liquor megastore in the middle of a rest stop on the interstate.

:wtf:

Last year, one local police department got fed up with the liquor enforcement officers antics (descending on bars en masse, with flak vests and pistols, demanding to see ID), and decided to do a "compliance check" at a state liquor store. The store didn't ask for ID, and the local paper had a field day.

[KitchenWitch]

10. Wow, just wow!

Lagerfuhrer is right!

[JVS]

25. Did Carrie Nation sieze control of your state?

[SoxFan]

30. The comparison is appropriate

You're not the only person who has put it in those terms.

The most galling party is the selectivity of the enforcement process. If an establishment is viewed as "upscale", then they can literally go years without a visit from the liquor inspectors. Some of these places are just as guilty of overserving and serving intoxicated patrons as anyone else, yet their social standing and pull with the chamber of commerce protects them from facing the music.

[huskerlaw]

6. Hahahahahahaha

Oh dear god.

Although sometimes I think we'd be better off with driverless cars. ;)

[KitchenWitch]

11. I see your point!

I think some cars could drive themselves better than some of the people who drive them.

[huskerlaw]

13. For real.

I had a really interesting experience on Friday. I was heading up Laurel Canyon and right before Mulholland the right hand lane becomes a turning lane, forcing people to merge into the left lane. People are notorious for shooting up the hill in the right lane and then cutting into traffic at the last second.

Well, this asshat in a BMW (why is it always a BMW?) totally cut me off. I mean, he nearly hit my car. So I honked and flipped him off. We end up stopped at the light and he actually got out of his car and stormed over to mine, screaming all the way. He just could not believe that I had the NERVE to honk and flip him off. After all, he had turned on his blinker! I calmly explained that merely turning on one's blinker doesn't magically create a space for his car in the lane of his choice and that he had nearly hit my car, and he could go fuck himself.

He was shocked that I didn't see things his way, so he sulked back to his car. I proceeded to flip him off again. Loser.

[mwooldri]

15. NC has strange laws. Apparently it's unlawful to sing off key here. (nt)

[liberaltrucker]

21. That explains the lack of country music stars from NC

nt

[DarkTirade]

22. ... and up until now I was thinking I DIDN'T want to live there... huh.

[liberaltrucker]

23. There's always NASCAR

Run! Don't walk!

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

26. Yeah, I just spent almost 20 years in Orlando.

None too far away from Daytona.

[liberaltrucker]

27. May the Force be with you

I grew up in north Alabama.

'Nuff said.



:banghead:

[DarkTirade]

29. I'm sorry.

I dated a girl whose parents grew up there, and she spent a lot of time there in her childhood. She had an aunt from there was also her grandmother. And no, I'm not kidding.

[jmm]

24. They should film American Idol there

They'd have to cancel it after the show's employees were all arrested or fined.

[liberaltrucker]

16. Alabama

You may transport no more than 2 cases of beer
or 2 liters of wine or spirits into a dry county
for personal consumption. However, transportation
of any amount is legal if you're transporting from
a wet city within a dry county.

:eyes:

[underpants]

17. Virginia-anything but sex for procreation is still technically illegal

sorry me ladies :P

[liberaltrucker]

19. Virginia, there is no Santa

:rofl:

From here in Wytheville, the TN border is just
over an hour away!

:hi:

[JTG of the PRB]

18. In Colorado, it's illegal to drive a black car on Sundays.

Also, I hear it's illegal to hunt whales in Tennessee.

:shrug:

[fizzgig]

20. my sister has a black car

can i get her tossed in jail? can i get a statutory citation on that one please? :P

[fizzgig]

28. some of these cannot be real!

http://www.persianhub.org/incoming-files/125732-obscure-laws.html

nebraska: It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup. :wtf:

:rofl:

edit for another link: http://www.destincrabisland.com/obscure.html

[commander bunnypants]

32. virginia

we still burn witches

CB