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A large number of hoax or exaggerated dumb laws are circulated on the internet and in the print media. [1] [2] Several books have been written and numerous listicles exist on the internet purporting to list "dumb laws" in various jurisdictions. The "dumb laws" are also often circulated via e-mail chain letters. [1]
It may be 2021, but some of the antiquated and downright bizarre laws that remain in place around the world (or that have recently been enacted) would make you think otherwise. From bans on what ...
Republicans in Congress are hellbent on keeping the AR-15 on the market. So here's a look at all the dumb laws they've passed when they should've been banning assault rifles.
15 strange enforceable laws in Texas No. 1: Selling your organs Tex. Pen. Code. §48.02 says it's illegal to sell human organs in Texas: your eyes, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin, and other ...
Joule's laws are heat laws related to electricity and to gasses, named for James Prescott Joule. Joy's law in management: the principle that "no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else", attributed to Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy. Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the motion of the planets around ...
From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. [1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people . For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or ...
These days, you can find everything online, including information on dumb laws that don't make much sense. While many of these laws imposed by states are designed to keep citizens safe, others are ...
Unenforced laws may be enacted purely for symbolic reasons, with little or no intention of enforcement. [5] There are also circumstances in which an otherwise enforced law is not; for example, speeding in a motor vehicle is illegal in most jurisdictions, however law enforcement may choose to ignore motorists who only slightly exceed the legal speed limit. [6]