Dumb Laws aren't a just thing of the past. We're tracking down breaking news in the world of crazy laws. Keep checking back, because there are new stories every week. The next one could be in your hometown. Let us help keep you on the right side of the law!
Apparently, someone is spreading some misinformation about some fake dumb laws on the Internet. Don’t look at me.
According to the Canton Repository, some citizens believe some dumb laws on the books that aren’t actually there.
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There’s no worse feeling for a lawmaker than when a law they’ve created doesn’t work at all. Assuming, of course, that they have feelings to begin with.
According to The Northern Advocate, a new law designed to stop tagging won’t stop taggers from doing what their name says.
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Did you know that some countries can ban movies for very little reasons? It kind of makes me wish we had that here, then we could ban every Uwe Boll movie for it’s sheer suckiness until the end of time.
But one country is trying to change that. India, for instance, according to The Telegraph.
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You’ve got to hand it to those guys at the FCC. It’s hard to be really out of touch in this day and age when media is literally all around you every second of the day, but you’re really out of touch when you can’t grasp the media’s biggest problem and you’re the agency in charge of monitoring it.
This week, Congress is considering a bill that would require the FCC to institute laws that would regulate the volume levels of commercials, according to OpenCongress.org.
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If you’re a Congressman and you’re trying to combat a problem that has been combated with countless, unsuccessful laws, what do you do? You use those same unsuccessful laws again. Why? Because you’re a Congressman! No one can stop you! You can declare every May 31 as National Mayonnaise Day and everyone will eat up with a spoon. Plus if you’re the Congressman for Alabama, they will literally eat the mayonnaise with a spoon.
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America isn’t the only country on the cutting edge of technology when it comes to find loopholes that allow federal investigators to get out that pesky Bill of Rights. Say hello to Venezuela!
According to the BBC, President Hugo Chavez has passed a law that will allow for wiretapping.
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Some governments want to take away your guns. This one wants to take your fake guns too, you know, in case you don’t kill someone with it.
Ohio is another step closer to have a law that lets their citizens shoot first without asking questions later, which is kind of how the bill that created the law got to the state level in the first place.
There are a lot of dumb laws in Louisiana. For instance, the state forbids fake wrestling matches, stealing an alligator and biting someone while wearing false teeth. It’s also illegal to give someone a haircut on a Sunday. We know that because someone actually got a ticket for it.
Anti-smoking laws are spreading across this country like a wildfire caught in a heavy cross wind that may or may not have been started by a discarded lit cigarette. If only people didn’t have to smoke outside. Now they’ve crossed the border.