Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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15 ABSURD Food Laws
Weird laws exist in the United States that range from unmarried women being banned from parachuting on Sunday's in Florida to a bathing prohibition in Indiana. It's one of those things where it's understood that the law no longer holds, but makes you wonder, "Why hasn't it been repealed?" Check out 15 strange food-related laws below:
1.In Greene, NY, it's against the law to walk backwards down the street and eat peanuts while a concert is playing.
2.In Marion, OH, it's a violation to eat a doughnut while walking backwards.
3. In Massachusetts, mourners at a wake cannot eat more than three sandwiches. What would Joey Tribbiani do?
4. In Beech Grove, IN, it's forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.
5. In Boston, it's illegal to eat peanuts in a Church.6. In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for a man to buy alcohol without a note of permission from his wife.
7. In California, it's illegal to eat an orange in your bath tub.
8. In Carmel, NY, it's illegal to eat ice cream while standing on the sidewalk.
9. In Riverside, CA, it is illegal to carry a lunch down the street between the hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
10. In Maryland, it's against the law to eat while swimming in the ocean.
11. In Texas, it is illegal for a person to consume more than three sips of beer at a time while standing up.
12. In Rosemead, CA, it's illegal to eat ice cream in publish with a fork.
13. In Connecticut, a pickle is not really a pickle unless it bounces.14. In Idaho, it's illegal for a man to give a woman a box of chocolates weighing less than 50 pounds.
15. In Gainesville, Ga., it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
Which law is the most absurd to you?
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They're all pretty out there, but I wonder just how many times #6 has been violated and, alternatively, enforced.
I really wonder if these weird laws that people post are even true. Or perhaps at some point they were actual laws, then they were repealed and we had no idea that change even occurred.
For example: 6. In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for a man to buy alcohol without a note of permission from his wife.
I have lived in PA all my life. I've went to buy alcohol with friends plenty of times or happened to be around when my Dad was buying. Never have I heard the cashier ask for a permission slip from the guy's wife O_o This sounds like a law that might have been written during a time when most men were expected to be married, especially at an early age. I don't see how this would work in these days considering people are doing things differently when it comes to marriage anyway.
I'm probably analyzing this a bit too much but the blogs and articles about strange laws always made me call bullshit. I just don't see anyone getting arrested for any of these things even if you managed to pull it off. You'd more then likely get a weird look from a cop rather then a ticket.
And they say there aren't enough laws out there!
I believe number 7 is the most absurd since it's their own bath tub and who's going to spy on them and tell the authorities about that? As for Joey, well, he doesn't live there so he wouldn't care; might freak out a bit and end up having two more sandwiches, though.I guess there aren't enough crimes going on.In Wisconsin it used to be mandatory that when restaurants sold apple pie they had to offer a slice of cheese with it.
Yep. I'm moving to Idaho.
I think everyone is breaking these laws.
I just love #6
Who the hell would make such stupid rules..
#12, **in public, not "publish"
Maybe since these are so obviously stupid, cops aren't told about it or are told to disregard them?
@xnotxbeautifulx@xanga - rofl. ditto.
Huh.
i just want you to know that you're wrong about half of these. number 13? really? how about next time you read a book maybe?
LOL, I'm sure none of these are really enforced. There are tons and tons of laws that have passed through Congress. It's illegal in Virginia to have sex if you're not married (or maybe it's if you're underage--I believe it's the first one though). But what can they do?
I have to laugh at the Pennsylvania law. And the Idaho one. I wonder what the stories behind those are....:P
6 is awesome.
7 is the tube with or without water
14 the box of chocolate can't weight less than 50 pounds or the women?
Most of the alcohol related laws were probably passed during prohibition and then just never repealed or were forgotten about. The wife note law actually makes sense when the general idea was that alcohol was destroying lives and was outlawed.
My favourite's the Alcohol one. :)
The silliest is the ice cream one, I think.
I'd have to say that #14 seems the most absurd because it just doesn't seem possible.
I used to be an Administration of Justice major in college, and some of my classes were taught by a semi retired judge. He and some other retired judges, did some research of weird laws still on the books but no longer enforced. I can vouch that prior to 2001, each of these laws were still on the books and no longer enforced. If anything has changed since 2001, I would have no idea. Some states keep them on the books, so that if they need to hold a suspect, while they gather evidence, they can pull one of these out and use it.
Like did you know in North Dakota, it is illegal to sleep with your shoes on? In South Dakota if there are more than three Indians on your front lawn, it is considered a war party and you can shoot them. (yes I realize that Native American might be more P.C. but I was quoting the law and so I typed what it said)
Now if you want some weird food laws that were not mentioned above.
In North Carolina, it is illegal to throw a rotton pickle into the street.
In New Jersey, you cannot buy Ice Cream after 6pm without a doctor's written perscription. It is also illegal to put the ice cream in your back pocket.
This one isn't exactly a food law, but did you know in Michigan, it is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.
I still want to know what idiot put ice cream in the back pocket and made them pass that law.
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I live one city over from Rosemead, CA! I should go break the food law!
Not sure if it's the custom. But I don't see any of the above made sense and logical.
in kentucky it's illegal to carry an ice cream sandwich in your back pocket
6. In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for a man to buy alcohol without a note of permission from his wife.
I can't believe this one. I was born and raised in PA and have never seen this law enforced.
Hahaha this is too funny! Imagine they were trying to catch a criminal mastermind but couldn't find enough evidence to lock him them. Until he commits one of these ridiculous crimes.