The Government is Full of Idiots
This in itself is no surprise. Most
Americans, be they Republican or Democrats, believe that the United States
government is run by the epitome of ineptitude. The only issue is that a lot of
these people actually believe that they can do a better job of it than the
morons already in charge. There's just one little problem with that line of
thinking...
Bizzarely enough, this isn't the only law in Illinois that's effectiveness relies on the obedience of wild animals. In Kirkland, Illinois, for example, bees are not allowed to fly over the village or through the city streets. It makes one wonder, do the people of Illinois know something the rest of us don't?
This law also implies that an unmarried woman does not have the right to drive a car. Which is pretty stupid, because if we're going to make it illegal for unmarried women to drive a car, we might as well make it equally as illegal for married women. After all, it's a known fact that most women are pretty terrible drivers.
the state of Alabama outlawed bear wrestling matches because it was it risked the bears' lives, and subjected them to harsh conditions. Yes... the bears. Not to mention the tamers or the spectators. It probably wasn't uncommon for an unlucky spectator to get swept up in the thrill of things and end up as a human scratching post.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/funny-4595-6-strange-laws-still-books/#ixzz2mmTk6Aom
The inept people in charge were put
there by people as stupid or stupider than they are! And these are the
people who believe they can do a better job running the country. Thankfully for
the rest of us, most of these people are either so stupid that they are
incapable of even attempting to become part of the government, or are too lazy
to try. Unfortunately, however there are people who have enough intelligence to
be capable of running for office, and even more unfortunately, there are people
who are stupid enough to vote for them. As a result we have hundreds of
strange, stupid, moronic, and sometimes downright ignorant, laws still on the
books today. Listing them all would take days, and tons of cracked.com server
space, so this article will confine them down to the top six strange laws that
I could find. They are in no particular order
1.A rooster must step back three hundred feet from any residence if he wishes to
crow.
This one is from Kenilworth,
Illinois and seems to be based on the premise that animals give a shit about
the laws of humans. In addition to this, there had to be enough people in this
town that disliked having a rooster disrupt their early-morning drunken stupor
that a law was made prohibiting roosters from crowing within 300 feet a
residence.
To give a little background on
Kennilworth, Wikipedia describes the town as "a village in Cook County, Illinois, approximately 17 mi (28
km) north of downtown Chicago. It is the newest of the nine suburban North
Shore communities bordering Lake Michigan, and is the only one developed as a
planned community." As of 2000, there were 2,494 people living in
Kennilworth, and it "is known for its affluence and has a reputation as
the richest suburb in Chicago and eleventh wealthiest in the nation."
Well, that makes sense. Only a town
of rich suburban fucks would be troubled enough by the sound of a rooster that
they would go to such lengths as to try to make a wild animal obey a written
law. Something tells me that Foghorn Legorn really doesn't give a flying fuck
about some rich bitch's beauty sleep.
Bizzarely enough, this isn't the only law in Illinois that's effectiveness relies on the obedience of wild animals. In Kirkland, Illinois, for example, bees are not allowed to fly over the village or through the city streets. It makes one wonder, do the people of Illinois know something the rest of us don't?
2.It is illegal for a woman to drive a car up Main Street unless her husband is
walking in front of the car waving a red flag.
This one is straight out of
Waynesboro, Virginia. It seems that some of the men in town got tired of the
female inability to operate a motor vehicle (something that's a generally known
fact), and decided that if they couldn't prohibit women from driving a car, the
least they could do is warn everyone that they were coming; presumably to give
them a chance to get out of the way, lest they be killed or maimed. How
thoughtful.
This law also implies that an unmarried woman does not have the right to drive a car. Which is pretty stupid, because if we're going to make it illegal for unmarried women to drive a car, we might as well make it equally as illegal for married women. After all, it's a known fact that most women are pretty terrible drivers.
Thank you, Waynesboro, for making
your streets that much safer than the rest of the country's!
3.Honking one's car horn at a sandwich shop after 9 PM is against the law.
Hellloooo Little Rock. Yup, this
city in Arkansas has actually made it illegal to honk your car horn at a Subway
after 9 pm. One wonders what the circumstances were that prompted the city to
make this an official law. In fact, if it weren't for the actual wording of
this law, I would never have included it in this list. The law states:
"Sec.
18-54. Sounding of horns at sandwich shops. No person shall sound the horn on a
vehicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 p.m.
(Code 1961, 25-74)"
There's no way that could be any
sort of a misinterpretation of the wording. This law was plainly intended for
this sole purpose. That intrigues me even more; something had to have happened
in order to prompt some city counsilman to propose this as a law. Perhaps he
owned a sandwich shop, maybe he lived next door to one. It's not really clear,
and franky, it doesn't have to be; that's how awesome it is.
4.Persons convicted of felonies may not operate Bingo games.
It appears that the people of
Bensalem, Pennsylvania take their Bingo nights very seriously. So seriously,
they have officially banned felony convicts from calling their Bingo games.
These Bingo games must have some very lucrative prizes, or maybe the town's
elderly are simply too nervous around known felons.
I looked Bensalem up on Wikipedia,
and apart from having "a large and
fast-growing foreign-born population, which includes large concentrations of
Mexicans, Guatemalans, Koreans, and Indians", Bensalem seems to be your
average American town, though it is home to the Philadelphia Park Racetrack,
which leads me to believe that the people of Bensalem take all forms of
gambling way too seriously, not just Bingo.
5.Bear Wrestling Matches Are Prohibited
In the state of Alabama, at one
point bear wrestling became such a problem that a state law had to be enacted
to deal with it. Bear wrestling. The people who orchestrated those matches must
have balls of wrought iron to be able to pit two angry bears against one
another, and then cage up the raging bear afterward, and live to tell the tale.
In other words, they were Michael Vick on crack.
the state of Alabama outlawed bear wrestling matches because it was it risked the bears' lives, and subjected them to harsh conditions. Yes... the bears. Not to mention the tamers or the spectators. It probably wasn't uncommon for an unlucky spectator to get swept up in the thrill of things and end up as a human scratching post.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/funny-4595-6-strange-laws-still-books/#ixzz2mmTk6Aom
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