Insane Laws that Still Exist in USA

There are so many laws out there it's hard to keep them all straight, but if you break even one of these weird laws you will be paying for it in jail. Did you know it's illegal for ketchup to be runny? Check out today's list of the weirdest laws that still exist in the United States. Isn't it about time to retire some of these ridiculous laws?

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[mrrandom]

As a European, I think the most insane US laws are: no alcohol under 21, checking the ID of a middle aged man who buys alcohol, making prostitution illegal unless you film it and share it on internet.

[DamiMami]

Can we just appreciate that Infographics really posts twice a day still...

[PokespikeShinyHunting]

POV: You’re 4 years old and sang “Rain Rain Go Away”

“FBI OPEN UP!!”

[magnanimus]

Ngl that is the saddest cartoon raccoon I've ever seen. He's just so destitute.

[akirastate]

The strangest one is the law that prohibits a child from playing pinball in South Carolina. They’re actually games of skill, not chance. I wonder who in South Carolina thought about such a law.

[mark_thurwanger]

You forgot the most insane one of all.
“Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.”

[duncanweaver]

Here in England it's still law that men of fighting age have to report for archery practice every week, it's from the medieval times but still technically law

[ComicalRealm]

In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for people to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors

[angrypenguin]

My dad works for the FDA and "the government takes food seriously" might be the understatement of the year.

[afrikasmith]

You know you're special when there's a law that protects you from hunters even if you don't exist.

[prestonestes]

Some more wired Alabama Laws:
-You can’t have an ice cream cone in your back pocket (thieves use to use this method to lure away horses so they couldn’t be charged with stealing.
-You can go the opposite of a one way street if you have a lantern in front of your vehicle.
-You can’t put an elephant in a microwave.
-Can’t buy or sell “adult” toys.
-Putting salt on a railroad can get you a death sentence.
-you can’t flick boogers into the wind.
-you cannot impersonate a priest.
-Can’t wear a fake moustache in church because it may make people laugh.
-it’s illegal to open an umbrella on the street in Montgomery because it may scare horses.
-in Lee county you can’t sell peanuts after sunset on Wednesday.
-Can’t wear blue jeans while walking down Noble Street In Anniston.
-Now for the women: in case of divorce women are entitled to all the property that they owned before the marriage, but the men are not.

[Spirtonus]

I'm a simple Romanian man, but when I see a video about the crazyness of the USA, I click and like immediately.

[frostnyams]

The infographics explains very well. I wish my lecturers were like that back in the days lol

[i.dle.k]

Some of these are the at most weirdest laws in history.

[ianbattles]

1:30 - Caught a whoopsie! Delaware is NOT a Northwestern state; it is in the Northeast, just below New England.

[maxthecharacter]

2:45 Now I wish the guy who runs that Bigfoot that lives in the forest account was still around. This part is just perfect for his response. Lol

[lynnleigha]

Sometimes when I here of weird laws and weird warning labels, I think, somebody, somewhere, did something so dumb, they had to put a warning labels or a law in place. I don't think they just make up the most ridiculous thing a person will do, with specific things, and put it there, just to be on the safe side.

[wolfhurricane]

Here are 4 strange laws in the U.S.
1. It's illegal to sell your eyeballs in Texas
2. In New Jersey you can't wear a bulletproof vest while committing a crime
3. In Missouri you are not allowed to have yellow margarine
4. In Nebraska you can't go whale fishing.

[TheScrowlingFender]

I live in NY. It's illegal to wear slippers past 10pm, put an ice cream cone in your back pocket and up until recently get a haircut on Sundays.

[voguelactose]

The law about controlling the weather reminded me of a strange phenomenon during the American Dust Bowl.

While the South was suffering from terrible drought, dust storms, and the Great Depression, charlatans would travel the south promising poor farming regions they would summon rain “with science”. They would launch fireworks into the sky in a big public display, claiming they were seeding clouds or something of the sort. A lot of very vulnerable people were taken advantage of during their lowest point, and the charlatans pocketed the money and fled to the next town before the townsfolk could realize no rain was coming. I wonder if local municipalities passed similar anti-weather-control laws or ordinances in the wake of these con men.

Source: Timothy Egan, “The Worst Hard Time.” It’s a great book and a quick and easy read.