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Photographer Breaks 43 Of The Most Ridiculous Laws In America, And It’s Hilarious
In her “I Fought The Law” series, Olivia Locher has come up with a series of images that creatively poke fun at some of the more absurd laws in effect in the United States. Each photo is a tongue-in-cheek rebellion that intentionally violates some absurd U.S. State law, most of which are outdated or bizarrely specific.
Some of these laws are simply outdated historical laws, while other are total headscratchers. It’s hard to imagine why riding bikes in swimming pools is illegal in California or why wine can’t be served in teacups in Kansas. And it begs the questions – was people working out while driving such a big problem in Oregon that they had to outlaw it? Other laws, while weird, have historical context and are simply outdated. It’s illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your back pocket in Alabama because this was an ingenious way for horse thieves to steal horses. They could lead away horses with the ice-cream without ever having to lay hands on them, thereby not technically stealing the horses until they were “lost.”
To see more of this talented artist’s photography or more of this cheeky series, check out her website!
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#1
In Alabama, It Is Illegal To Have An Ice-Cream Cone In Your Back Pocket
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
Who on Earth thought it could be a good idea to carry an ice-cream cone in his/her back pocket ?
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#2
In Ohio, It’s Illegal To Disrobe In Front Of A Man's Portrait
Lauren Southwood 8 years ago
This was meant to be a wizard law... Accidentally ended up in the muggle offices
Alison Reid 8 years ago
Except if it's a portrait of Mike Pence. Then it's illegal everywhere.
#3
In Pennsylvania, It’s Illegal To Tie A Dollar Bill To A String And Pull It Away When Someone Tries To Pick It Up
#4
In Arizona, You May Not Have More Than Two Dildos In A House
Jonathan Parkin 8 years ago
Your average women has a mouth, pussy, and a**s. That's 3 dickable points of access, and well, Hubby needs at least one after a long hard day's work. So two dildos max.
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Ágnes Királyházi 8 years ago
Who or which authority and how often check this? Who was the first caught who has more than two at home? Please give us the back story.
Wouter N 8 years ago
If you'd be screwed, you would not really need the dildo's, would ya ;)
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Arhythmia Hart 8 years ago
... What if more than two people who want to use dildos live there? Do they have to share? O.o
#5
In Minnessota A Person May Not Cross State Lines With A Bird Atop His Head
Talia Johnson 8 years ago
But walking around within a state with a bird on your head is fine. Okaaaaay.
#6
In Nevada, It’s Illegal To Put An American Flag On A Bar Of Soap
Kelly Cook 4 years ago
well considering that technically a lot of folks break an old federal law about flags as clothing....
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
This will mean a printed or waterslide-transfer flag, not a flag on a stick, it's like the UK law about not defacing banknotes or stamps.
#7
In Utah, No One May Walk Down The Street Carrying A Paper Bag Containing A Violin
Virgil Blue 8 years ago
But all the mafia dudes had bought up the violin cases! Oh well, I'll just get a plastic bag instead.
#8
In Oklahoma It's Illegal To Make Love With An Automobile
Donna Oades 8 years ago
I was just thinking about that guy. I can't say I'd want him anywhere near my car!
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#9
In Connecticut, Pickles Must Bounce To Officially Be Considered Pickles
Robbie Shorley 8 years ago
Her - 'What do you do for a living?' Me- 'I'm a pickle bouncer'. Her - *swoons
Dean DuPont 8 years ago
I'm guessing this one was created so a relative of some state politician could hold a civil service job. Official pickle-tester, a career matching the intelligence of the pol's relative. (There were no openings at the DMV.)
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
At the store : very sorry miss, but I have to check if your selling me real pickles (pickles thrown all over the floor)
#10
In California, Nobody Is Allowed To Ride A Bicycle In A Swimming Pool
Dean DuPont 8 years ago
Michelle? I am 49 years old, and in all that time, I have spend maybe four months outside the confines of California, total. Girl... We do an awful lot of strange things here. I have lived in San Diego, Turlock, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Modesto, Grass Valley, Redondo Beach, and an unfortunate three months in El Centro. Those who weren't behaving strangely just hadn't been here long enough yet.
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Amanda Ellis 8 years ago
This probably intended to keep people from bicycling and skateboarding in EMPTY swimming pools, treating them like a skatepark.
FullSpectrum Survivalist 8 years ago
Never assume anything , there is one state it is illegal to shoot a whale from a moving car, and I think that state is land locked.
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#11
In New Jersey A Person Can Be Arrested For Slurping Soup In Public
Monica Sorescu 8 years ago
Meanwhile, in Japan it's considered rude to the chef not slurping your soup/noodles because it means you didn't enjoy the meal.
Diane Serpa 8 years ago
Yeah, thats not soup. Looks like cream corn. Jeezus, you cant find a stock photo of soup?
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Jessany Trotter 8 years ago
Wow. A lawmaker must have had misophonia to come up with this gem!
#12
In Maine It’s Unlawful To Tickle Women Under The Chin With A Feather Duster
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
Was this an epidemic? Were men showing up in emergency rooms with feather dusters shoved in their ears...or elsewhere?
Jonathan Parkin 8 years ago
Like under their chins? I can see that being a problem if that's where it's stuck.
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#13
In Indiana, It’s Illegal For A Man To Be Sexually Aroused In Public
#14
In Michigan It's Illegal To Paint Sparrows To Sell Them As Parakeets
#15
In Texas, It Is Illegal For Children To Have Unusual Haircuts
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
I wonder who decide what's unusual. I mean if tomorrow Nicki Minaj or anyone else decide to shave her/his head except a blue strand of hair right above the left ear and a yellow one on the back. It would be ugly af, but if few hundred kids copy her/him and it become a trend, would it be punishable by law?
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
This law has been invoked repeatedly to kick kids out of school - even in elementary school - because the entire state is one big bigot-fest. One kid was banned because he was growing his hair out to donate to a cancer charity. The principal and the school board said he looked "like a girl" and expelled (NOT suspended, expelled) him. .... In another school in Dallas, a little girl was suspended because her afro offended some racist parents and they tried to force her mother to get her hair straightened before they'd let the seven-year old back in school. It was a majority white neighbourhood.
The Cappy 8 years ago
Don't want to interrupt your rabid excoriations but dress codes and civil law aren't the same thing.
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#16
In Maryland Hammering A Nail Into A Tree Is Punishable By A Fifty Dollar Fine
John L 8 years ago
This makes practical sense. If the tree needs to be cut down, and a person is using a chain saw, the damage from the chain hitting the nail and then breaking can injure or kill the chain saw user. Makes sense on public lands.
Salma Abidi 8 years ago
it actually does make sense since it can damage the tree seriously. depending on the material the nail is made of, it can even cause the tree to die (i'm not sure... i think copper is the really "bad" one...)
William Smith 8 years ago
The saw concern IS the reason for the law. Hitting an embedded nail with a saw, while felling the tree or milling the log, is dangerous AND expensive.
#17
In Rhode Island, It Is Illegal To Wear Transparent Clothing
Wouter N 8 years ago
Don't think that story happened on Rhode Island.... or maybe it did and that's why it is illegal...
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Taylor Pearson 8 years ago
The thing I noticed was she only has strawberry tick tacks and a calculator in her backpack
Hamlets twin 8 years ago
I wonder how long it took to get that reflection right on her crack... I need more sleep...
Sam Long 8 years ago
It's a rain poncho. It's meant to be worn over clothing.
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#18
In Virginia, Spitting On A Seagull Is Punishable By A Fine
Stewart Leathwood 8 years ago
It was also once illegal in Virginia to hang men's and women's undergarments on the same clothesline.
#19
In Hawaii Coins Are Not Allowed To Be Placed In One’s Ears
Tony Cabré 8 years ago
How can magicians take them out of your ears then ? Not fair, not fair at all
Claire Bear 8 years ago
That makes sense, actually. My friend who lived in Samoa said that people used to put coins in their ears because they were wearing lava-lavas with no pockets.
#20
In Kansas, It’s Illegal To Serve Wine In Teacups
Kikari Grace 8 years ago
Okay, this is dated, but there was a logical reason: People were trying to get around alcohol regulations by sneakily serving alcohol in teacups, so as to make it look like they weren't serving alcohol, and so they made that illegal. The idea being that it must be obvious you're serving alcohol.
FullSpectrum Survivalist 8 years ago
It's Ok, just serve it in the same cups you do grape juice, since it is.
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Randy Stalcup 8 years ago
Wine in a teacup???!!! How uncivilized... lock the barbarians up and throw away the key!
#21
In Kentucky, It’s Illegal To Lick A Toad
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
Any toad that produce hallucinogenic venom with their skin in Kentucky?
Jonathan Parkin 8 years ago
Well if you were a toad, how would YOU like it?
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Arnoud Lievers 8 years ago
It's the the Bufo Alvarius, it has 5-MEO-DMT. Also called the GOD molecule. For people who wanna have a chat with the big G. heavy stuff.
Melissa Harris 4 years ago
i kissed a frog. got that count? but yeah, some toads can make you high if you lick them
#22
In Kentucky It's Illegal To Paint Your Lawn Red
#23
In Wisconsin It Is Illegal To Serve Apple Pie In Public Restaurants Without Cheese
The Cappy 8 years ago
Strange. I'd have thought apple pie with cheese is what should have been outlawed.
Bernard Galewski 8 years ago
“It certainly sounds plausible since after all this is the Dairy State, but the answer is no. “The 1935 Laws of Wis., ch. 106 came close; it required serving a small amount of cheese and butter with meals in restaurants (effective from June 1935 to March 1937). “And, by the way, that was the first Wisconsin law with a sunset provision, i.e. a legislated ending time. Interestingly, Vermont just passed a law in 1999 designating the apple as the state fruit and apple pie as the state pie. It also requires a good faith effort to serve either a glass of cold milk, a 1/2 ounce or larger slice of Cheddar cheese, or a large scoop of vanilla ice cream with a slice of apple pie. (Title 1 Vermont Statutes Annotated, secs. 512 & 513, eff. July 1, 1999)”
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
Yuck. I guess I'll just have to ask for cheese on the side....because that's just gross.
Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Try it with a really sharp cheddar, really good if melted on the crust til bubbly
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Kim Lorton 8 years ago
It's the cheese head state, gotta sell that cheese! Put it on everything!
#24
In Arkansas It’s Illegal To Kill Or Preserve Any Living Creature Without A License
Me. 8 years ago
Noooo I stepped on an ant in Arkansas last year :,( I'm now an international criminal.
Alex Jacob 8 years ago
How do you k ow if the creature has a licence? Do they have to carry it with them? Surely any smart animal will just say 'I don't have one!'
Shannon McKee 7 years ago
That means you can't kill a cockroach or wash your hands since you are killing millions of germs. And forget about slapping a mosquito that has just bitten you. And if your bed is infested with bedbugs or your hair with lice? Too bad.
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Ayla Fecero 8 years ago
Wtf? Look at the antennae - see how they are 'up'? These butterflies appear alive at the time of this shot. Painted, pinned and taped. If that's what she did, ...just to make some silly list, what a malicious, narcissistic a*s of a photographer.
#25
In South Dakota It’s Unlawful To Cause Static
Daria B 8 years ago
If I lived in Dakota, I might as well spend my winter in prison then. I unwillingly cause so much electricity, I sometimes think I'm either a robot or a mutant with electric powers. Wish I could charge my phone batteries with my hands. Okay, I better stop here.
ADHORTATOR 8 years ago
That' s very interesting, tell us more about your Superpowers :-)
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Lucas Weismann 8 years ago
like literally, or in the "sublime" never start no static I just get it off my chest" sense?
Dean DuPont 8 years ago
"So far this year, nine banks in South Dakota have been robbed by men brandishing inflated balloons."
lazy panda 8 years ago
I live in North Dakota and all I can say is HOW? When it's -50, there isn't much you can do about static.
#26
In Washington, It’s Illegal To Paint Polka Dots On The American Flag
The Cappy 8 years ago
The actions which prompted this law almost certainly were not as innocent as a little girl doodling on a flag.
Bruce Kunde 8 years ago
So that's why protesters burn it instead, If they really wanted to be outrages they would paint dots
Melissa Harris 4 years ago
true, but the determination is harder to define exactly burning the flag is legal. protected under freedom of speech
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Trevor Gowe 8 years ago
This is the United States, a free country. Sorry a**l "patriots", you can do whatever the hell you'd like with the American flag.
Dobromir Georgiev 8 years ago
She was afraid to come out of the locker She was as nervous as she could be She was afraid to come out of the locker She was afraid that somebody would see One, two, three, four, tell the people what she wore It was an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini with an American flag pattern as well An itsy, bitsy, teentie, weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini So illegal in Washington state Two, three, four, stick around we'll tell you more
#27
In Colorado, It’s Illegal To Have Weeds In Your Yard
Ordinary Tree 8 years ago
Huh, I just googled the definition of a weed and its a lot different than I thought. "A weed is any plant that is undesirable for a given situation" So yes, grass can be a weed if you're in a cornfield for example, but no plant is necessarily ALWAYS a weed. Neato!
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Jaimeson Rust 4 years ago
We have a few highly invasive thistles. In my city though, it’s not a “fine” in the traditional sense… if you ignore the warning letter, they spray them and send you the bill.
#28
In Missouri, It’s Illegal To Deface A Milk Carton
Jon Watts 8 years ago
yeah, What about the people eating butter substitutes, I'm not kidding their in MO it's illegal to eat substitute butter
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Kyan De Catfish 8 years ago
May the 'half-pint' milk with Vitamin D rest in peaces/cups/in the dumpster...
Rebecca Olberding 8 years ago
I lived in Missouri, this was a regular thing in elementary school. Oops...
Dean DuPont 8 years ago
All those MISSING kids from the Eighties were tired of people putting mustaches on them.
#29
In Nebraska, It’s Illegal For A Parent To Perm Their Child’s Hair Without A State License
Tim 4 years ago
Permanent. It's a way of making your hair curly by applying chemicals and it can be dangerous if not done correctly. VERY popular in the US in the late 70s through the 80s.
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Dean DuPont 8 years ago
It's in the parent's best interest. That way, they don't have to hear "Why the f**k did you decide your daughter would look good as Harpo Marx?" eight times a day.
FullSpectrum Survivalist 8 years ago
Well it's your child's hair, why's this the states business?
#30
Oregon: One May Not Test Their Physical Endurance While Driving A Car On The Highway
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
When I was younger I had a girlfriend who tested my endurance while driving.... Good times.... ;)
Hamlets twin 8 years ago
Was a five year old driving? I just imagine the lawmaker saying "ugh, alright fine! we'll make it a law"
Jonathan Parkin 8 years ago
Well seeing as most places have either outlawed fiddling with your phone while driving or are making legislation to do so, it makes sense that you're also not allowed to do something even more dangerous. BTW, it also oughta be illegal to drive a car that's on fire.
#31
In Florida, A Person May Not Appear In Public Clothed In Liquid Latex
Valentín Clemente 8 years ago
See the irony of "absurd" laws with a Mature Content Warning on body paint
Wanda Queen 8 years ago
Seriously. You could see more in the one about see through clothing!
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Kim Buksch 8 years ago
Yes, at FantasyFest all you have to wear is paint. I have pictures. ;-)
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#32
In Louisiana, It’s Illegal To Gargle In Public
Master Markus 8 years ago
Ugh, who gargles in porn? That's not very sexy.
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Jules Humphries 8 years ago
I feel like this image needs the mature warning more than the latex one...
#33
In Delaware It Is Illegal To Wear Pants That Are “form - Fitting” Around The Waist
Aaaa Bbbb 8 years ago
Nah, you could always rock the baggy-pants-muffin-top-plumber's-crack look with a belt.
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Dean DuPont 8 years ago
So Delaware wants everyone wearing big Clown Pants, held up with suspenders.
Robin McGee 8 years ago
So how do they keep them up, if they don't fit? Suspenders? This one must have been thought up by the "sagging" crowd.
#34
In Wyoming, It’s Illegal For A Hairdresser To Groom One’s Pubic Hair
Andrew Cas 8 years ago
Well we all know what there Wyoming hairdressers look like in a bikini now !
bpanther 8 years ago
Love that look... shaving pubes should banned in the whole universe !!!
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Kristi Zoebelein 8 years ago
I'm curious is it's some kind of anti-prostitution law. Just like a "massage" parlor, maybe you could set up shop as a hairdresser and then "style" men's pubic hair? "Honest officer...she was just,..."curling" it. I swear!"
Jonathan Parkin 8 years ago
Technically she could've done that herself, no indication there was a hairdresser involved. Now if this pic had the hairdresser actually performing the job, well, another story entirely but I get the sense that something like that'd be too hot for BP. BTW, is it legal for a non-hairdresser to do the same job? Or for a hairdresser to do it as long as s/he's not acting in their capacity as hairdresser (i.e. outside the salon)?
Margaret Althea Elvenshadow 8 years ago
A woman's legs (closed) and stomach, painted blue, with a pink heart painted over her pubic area.
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#35
In Tennessee Hollow Logs May Not Be Sold
Jonathan Parkin 8 years ago
Screwing honest firewood buyers out of their money by selling cheap, inferior logs with less wood than their size indicates, that burn faster for a shorter time, and likely carry termites to boot.
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#36
In Delaware It’s Illegal To Serve Perfume As Liquor
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
It's easy to see how some of these came about. The one from Tennessee, this one and some others. They never came off of the books. Several aren't even silly laws.
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
It's prohibition era laws. Bootleggers would sell alcohol in any kind of container that didn't look like a liquor bottle. Recycling perfume bottles allowed pharmacists and drug store owners to make money under the table.
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Josh Derak 8 years ago
What about a single plum floating in perfume, floating in a man's hat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7J7ksopTb8
#37
In Vermont It Is Illegal To Use Colored Margarine In Restaurants Unless The Menu Indicates You Do
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
Margarine is white. There was a time when restaurants and grocery stores would add yellow food colouring to it and sell it - for more money - as butter. The smarter ones would mix in a little real butter to make the fraud more convincing. When I was a kid, it was illegal to sell yellow tinted margarine in grocery stores, the manufacturers would include a little packet of powdered dye for tinting at home. In some places (I think Ontario still does this), margarine can be tinted, but it's a specific colour of yellow that cannot be mistaken for butter. ... NOT a "stupid" law at all.
Marysia Jawłowska 8 years ago
In Europe it's illegal to sell coloured anything edible unless indicated on the label. I think it makes sense.
Kikari Grace 8 years ago
Again, this makes perfect sense if you know what's going on: Margarine, unless you color it, is dead white, and doesn't look like butter. So "colored" margarine is colored *yellow*, to look like butter, and this law is basically saying that if you want to use margarine that is colored to look like butter, you must say on the menu that it is MARGARINE, NOT BUTTER.
Marie Françoise Di Moro 8 years ago
in France margarine is still yellow !!!but animal origin or vegetal origin margarine ?
Robin McGee 8 years ago
Chemical origin. Laboratory origin. It's plastic, not food. Don't eat it.
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The only thing stupid here is the people who eat artificial food substitutes made from plastic. Regardless of the color.
William Bonner 8 years ago
I remember when I visited my grandmother in Canada when I was very young. She came home from the grocery store with a plastic bag of white stuff that had a red dot in the center. She proceeded to knead the bag and mix the red dot into the white until the whole contents turned yellow, like butter. I asked why. She explained that it was margarine. It had to be white when it was sold in the store so that people wouldn't mistake it for butter.
#38
In New Mexico Defacing Rocks Is A Crime
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
Not stupid at all. Inscription Rock anyone??? There are historical rocks everywhere in the desert. The law was put there to preserve historical native american sites and places like Inscription Rock. I get the "humor" part here but....ah, whatever. I guess every state has several silly laws. I don't know if the artist here knew (probably). It's a cool photo anyway.
Ayla Fecero 8 years ago
this photographer doesn't seem to know much. A bunch of these are not researched, serve real, ongoing purpose, and she just shrugged and carried on. For the internet. Sigh.
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Mark Bohrer 8 years ago
...or Petroglyph National Monument. The federal Antiquities Act of 1906 provides protection for "...objects of antiquity...", which arguably applies to petroglyphs, and the engravings at El Morro's Inscription Rock. See https://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/anti1906.htm
Maria Myrback 8 years ago
Considering the historical value of some of the rocks in that state, this is hardly an absurd law.
Jaclyn 8 years ago
It's illegal to draw on rocks in New Mexico. It's a measure put in place to protect our beautiful rock formations and historic sites.
Load More Replies... Dean DuPont 8 years ago
Both Kid and Chris hated playing dates in Santa Fe until this law was passed.
Noah Mcallister 8 years ago
I'm a So Cal desert boy and lemme tell you, rocks out here have more inscribed on them than a North Hollywood community collage campus toilet stall.
#39
In Alaska No Person May Drive A Vehicle When There Are Three People In The Front Seat
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
Maybe you're too young, but there was a superb car called Matra Simca Bagheera with 3 seats in the front, and none in the back...
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Marty Sunderland 8 years ago
No more bench seats in the front, but they used to be. However, in those days, cars didn't come with seat belts either. Or turn signals (you used your arm).
Michelle Geiger 5 years ago
I lived in Alaska and never heard of this law. Even got pulled over with 3 people in the front seat. Of course, not like the above picture!
Sharon Vaughn 8 years ago
Cars used to have "bench" seats in front and back. Sitting in the center front can interfere with the driver's movements.
Danny Root 8 years ago
Cars with bench seats are the best! I've had 4 vehicles with them and always loved how my girlfriend got to sit right next to me so I could put my arm around her while driving. :)
#40
In Mississippi Sesame Street Was Once Banned From Pbs.
Dean DuPont 8 years ago
You know what? To hell with manners: f**k Mississippi. Goddamn genetic mutants who tell you, "Ah'd like you to meet mah sister, mah cousin, and mah wife" and there's only one woman standing there. Mississippi's greatest source of pride is college football. (This surprised me, as I couldn't imagine Mississippi needing colleges to begin with.) Local Chambers of Commerce put signs at the city limits reading, "Over XX Number of Days Without Any Lynchings!" A pastor transferred from out of state told a fourteen year old girl, one of his new parishioners, "Think of me as a brother in spirit." So she sucked his d**k. A fifteen year old girl in Mississippi with only two children is considered a "late bloomer." Mississippi exists mostly so people from West Virginia have someone to look down on. In Mississippi, Larry the Cable Guy is described as "insightful political satire." The other forty-nine states have started a Patreon account to fund Mississippi's secession.
Davorka Banović 8 years ago
wow, it must be Hell to live in and it must keep the people there captured in that box of horrors and social brainwashing because they'll meet violence if they dare be different :(
Load More Replies... Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Actually it was due to a show where Bert and Ernie supposedly got "married"
Jann Provencher 8 years ago
I live in Canada and for a time they had Bert killed (hit by a car) because too many people said it was wrong to have Bert and Ernie live together because they are both same sex and there for must be gay. When i was a kid i always thought that they where brothers and thats why they shared a room because i shared a room with my sister. (Bert is back on sesame Street now)
Aliquid A 4 years ago
Not true at all. Someone likely lied to you about that, and you believed it.
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Sherlock Holmes 8 years ago
One has to wonder what circumstances caused these laws to be passed...
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
My question exactly to lots of them: "why did they had to decide that?"
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B. Considine 8 years ago
"Upskirting" despite its frivolous name, is disgusting and a violation. Shame on Bored Panda for perpetuating the crime as ridiculous
BreAnne Andrews 8 years ago
I'm thinking this particular instance is of two consenting parties. ANY photos like that taken without consent is an invasion of privacy. In this case, I took it to mean even if you want to, those photos are not allowed. I don't believe they are intending to make light of a crime.
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darknessIsMyOutfit 8 years ago
In Toronto Canada it illegal to drag a dead horse down Young Street by a rope I guess you can drag a dead one down any other Street just not Young Street
Melanie Brown 8 years ago
The Massachusetts up-skirt laws were a necessary, and hard fought change in Personal Privacy in Public laws. We had a rash (read: hundreds) of men getting close to women in shops, busstops and other public venues to use their cell phone to sneak photos under a woman's skirt, without her consent. Most of the victims were under age, high school and middle school children. The previous law protected these men under the "no expectations of privacy in public spaces." Most of these photos were being sold or shared via online porn sites. The law still isn't perfect, but at least children are protected now.
Krysten Marie 8 years ago
How the hell is #43 a ridiculous law?! If you have permission, but there have been far too many instances in the news over the years of this happening without the subjects permission for it to be a ridiculous law!
Mark Myers 8 years ago
The upskirt photo one came about for a very good reason. Pervs were doing this to unsuspecting women & girls to get their jollies. The nails in trees came about because environmentalists were spiking trees and later after they were harvest the spikes would damage equipment and sometimes injure the operator during cutting & milling.
Neeah Doash 8 years ago
The Utah rocks one makes complete sense- given that Utah has several national and state monuments that are natural rock formations, and people kept doing cr*p like carving their initials on them, or slapping grafitti down.
Tracey Payne 8 years ago
'Upskirting' is a crime and should be punishable by law. Do you really want someone taking a photo up the skirt of your daughter, mother, sister...any female?
Sherlock Holmes 8 years ago
One has to wonder what circumstances caused these laws to be passed...
Zenozenobee 8 years ago
My question exactly to lots of them: "why did they had to decide that?"
Load More Replies... B. Considine 8 years ago
"Upskirting" despite its frivolous name, is disgusting and a violation. Shame on Bored Panda for perpetuating the crime as ridiculous
BreAnne Andrews 8 years ago
I'm thinking this particular instance is of two consenting parties. ANY photos like that taken without consent is an invasion of privacy. In this case, I took it to mean even if you want to, those photos are not allowed. I don't believe they are intending to make light of a crime.
Load More Replies... darknessIsMyOutfit 8 years ago
In Toronto Canada it illegal to drag a dead horse down Young Street by a rope I guess you can drag a dead one down any other Street just not Young Street
Melanie Brown 8 years ago
The Massachusetts up-skirt laws were a necessary, and hard fought change in Personal Privacy in Public laws. We had a rash (read: hundreds) of men getting close to women in shops, busstops and other public venues to use their cell phone to sneak photos under a woman's skirt, without her consent. Most of the victims were under age, high school and middle school children. The previous law protected these men under the "no expectations of privacy in public spaces." Most of these photos were being sold or shared via online porn sites. The law still isn't perfect, but at least children are protected now.
Krysten Marie 8 years ago
How the hell is #43 a ridiculous law?! If you have permission, but there have been far too many instances in the news over the years of this happening without the subjects permission for it to be a ridiculous law!
Mark Myers 8 years ago
The upskirt photo one came about for a very good reason. Pervs were doing this to unsuspecting women & girls to get their jollies. The nails in trees came about because environmentalists were spiking trees and later after they were harvest the spikes would damage equipment and sometimes injure the operator during cutting & milling.
Neeah Doash 8 years ago
The Utah rocks one makes complete sense- given that Utah has several national and state monuments that are natural rock formations, and people kept doing cr*p like carving their initials on them, or slapping grafitti down.
Tracey Payne 8 years ago
'Upskirting' is a crime and should be punishable by law. Do you really want someone taking a photo up the skirt of your daughter, mother, sister...any female?
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