Dumb Laws in the News
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I’m sure the people who were against this law saw this repel coming. I don’t mean it was obvious to them. I mean they could literally see it. First You Get the Weather, Then You Get the Power
The state of Texas wants to control the weather. That isn’t a set up to a joke or some kind of clever metaphorical jape referring to the state’s never ending battle against political corruption or their need to make everything as big as the sky. If it were, I wouldn’t be writing for this place.
The Texas Agricultural Code literally includes a grant program for finding a way to control the weather.
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When You Mess With the Bear You Get the Horns, If the Bear Has Horns
Some people like to make fun of and ridicule places like Alabama as being a haven of backwards, unintelligent slobs who protest government intervention in private affairs while depending on it for everything else. So if you are one of those people, keep reading because you’re bound to enjoy it.
Alabama has a law that specifically prevents bear wrestling, according to the Alabama State Code.
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Despite All My Rage, I Am Still Just a Pig in a Cage
Some things sound too good to be true. A hottie at the bar who thinks you’re the best looking guy in the world will wake up next to you screaming and keep on drinking to erase the memory. A TV infomercial that promises thousands of dollars in returns fails to mention that the thousands of dollars in returns go into their pocket.
But this law on our books claiming that Florida’s Constitution actually has a prevision that actually protects pregnant pigs also sounds too good to be true, right?
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Put in a Difficult Position
Ain’t love grand? Not in the eyes of the law. To the law, it’s a filthy, disgusting, degrading and repulsive act that reduces human beings to the lowest form of human life, that and murder.
Ancient laws have long forbidden the forbidden acts of the bedroom, but one law seems to have floated around in different forms, the pro-missionary position law, which allegedly states that couples can only have sex in the missionary position.
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Please Don’t Walk on the Butterflies
Every year, hundreds of monarch butterflies make the long arduous trek to Pacific Grove, Calif. as part of an annual mating ritual because if you only had one chance per year to get laid, you’d run 100 miles straight in a blinding snowstorm if you had to.
These critters are so beloved by the town that they had made it a very serious crime if any harm comes to them.
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Is That a Gun Law in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Concealed handguns are getting more and more popular among lawmakers. It’s a wonder if they aren’t packing heat themselves when they aren’t walking up to the podium to give their resolution speeches.
Georgia lawmkers are considering a bill that expands their concealed handgun law, according to CBS Channel 46.
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One of Us, One of Us, One of Us…
Think you’re better than those law breaking criminals who go around disregard every social norm on the books? Well, you’re one of them.
The Daily Mail reports that everyone breaks at least one law a day, according to a new study.
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The Only Sure Things, Death and Stupidity
On the one hand, we can’t totally fault this Democratic Representative from failing to pay his taxes because they are just so cumbersome and difficult to understand. I’d rather wrap my brain around “War and Peace” twice than try to read the tax laws and I mean literally ripping my brain out of my head and wrapping it around the book like it was a bow.
But Charles Rangel might have more explaining to do since he wrote the tax laws, according to the New York Times.
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No TXT Law 4 Ca? LOL
We have nothing against laws that attempt to curb bad behavior that could prevent deadly consequences. We are all for mandatory helmet laws for motorcycle riders. We are all for seat belt laws that give people tickets who don’t wear them while we drive. We are all for laws that require everyone in the country to read the package of something before they eat.
So we’re a little baffled at this editorial complaining about the fact that California is about to pass an anti-texting while driving law.
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