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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
West Virginia Crazy Laws 1.) Roadkill may be taken home for supper. 2.) It is legal to beat your wife so long as it is done in public on Sunday, on the courthouse steps. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
How can I request a ban vote for this West Virginia behaviour? |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
That is A good question! :o) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Those Crazy Texans It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Maine Crazy Laws 1.)Shotguns are required to be taken to church in the event of a Native American attack. 2.)You may not step out of a plane in flight. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
Maine Crazy Laws Hi ! I was wondering.... Can you really find these rules in Maine´s actual up to date books of Laws in a 2008 trial/Court of Law? It seems to me that Native Americans are still considered nowadays potential terrorists/killers/murderes or whatever brought this law into life (if we assume/take the first rule you mentioned as true). When you look back in History only 50/60 years, it is somethimes frightening. I wonder how we will be defined by people of the XXII century! Cheers and thanks. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Maine Crazy Laws I do believe these laws to be true what I find is that the States do not update their laws that they have passed when the United States was formed. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
Maine Crazy Laws Yes,that´s right......that´s over two centuries ago!! A good example was the rules about jewish issues in Germany between 1933/1945! Justice is sometimes blind! Thanks Matthew... |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Maine Crazy Laws At time Justice is Blind all the time :o) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Kansas Crazy Law The state game rule prohibits the use of mules to hunt ducks. Rabbits may not be shot from motorboats. No one may catch fish with his bare hands. Pedestrians crossing the highways at night must wear tail lights LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Tennessee Crazy Law It's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Massachusetts Crazy Laws Bullets may not be used as currency. No one may cross the Boston Common without carrying a shotgun in case of bears. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Colorado Springs It is permissable to wear a holstered six-gun within city limits, except on Sunday, Election Day, or holidays LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Maximus Decimus Meridius Send message Joined: 17 Apr 03 Posts: 370 Credit: 34,749 RAC: 0 |
Illinois: It is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animal kept as pets. My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions. |
John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
Zoot suits are prohibited. (Los Angeles)and so they should be(shudders);) In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates. In Uxbridge, Ontario it's illegal to have an Internet connection faster than 56k!WHY?? 81) In Canada, by law, 1 out of every 5 songs on the radio must be sung by a Canadian and in British Columbia it is illegal to kill a Sasquatch or Bigfoot if one is ever found. In Alberta a released convict is entitled to a gun and a horse to ride out of town on.Thats all for now more later. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
West Virginia: No children may attend school with their breath smelling of "wild onions. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
West Virginia: I'm not surprised they make Garlic smell absolutely delightful in comparison. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Vermont Crazy Law Women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
Hows this for the result of a dumb law Italian style:-) How an Italian judge made the internet illegal By John Ozimek Posted in Law, 26th September 2008 11:40 GMT Italian bloggers are up in arms at a court ruling early this year that suggests almost all Italian blogs are illegal. This month, a senior Italian politician went one step further, warning that most web activity is likely to be against the law. The story begins back in May, when a judge in Modica (in Sicily) found local historian and author Carlo Ruta guilty of the crime of "stampa clandestina" – or publishing a "clandestine" newspaper – in respect of his blog. The judge ruled that since the blog had a headline, that made it an online newspaper, and brought it within the law’s remit. The penalties for this crime are not onerous: A fine of 250 Euros or a prison sentence of up to two years. Carlo Ruta was fined and ordered to take down his site, which has now been replaced by a blank page, headed "Site under construction", and a link directing surfers to his new site. Hardly serious stuff – except that he now has a criminal record, and his original site has disappeared. The offence has its origins in 1948, when in apparent contradiction of Article 21 of the Italian Constitution guaranteeing the right to free expression, a law was passed requiring publishers to register officially before setting up a new publication. The intention, in the immediate aftermath of Fascism, may have been to regulate partisan and extremist publications. The effect was to introduce into Italian society a highly centrist and bureaucratic approach to freedom of the Press. A further twist to this tale took place in 2001, with the realisation that existing laws were inadequate to deal with the internet. Instead of liberalising, the Italian Government sought to bring the internet into the same framework as traditional print media. Law 62, passed in March 2001, introduces the concept of "stampa clandestina" to the internet. The suspicion expressed by a number of commentators is that this extension of the law suited government and publishers alike. The state was able to maintain its benevolent stranglehold on the media, whilst publishers could use the system of authorisation and regulation as a means to extend state subsidies to their ventures on the internet. What few noticed at the time was that this law had the capacity to place blogs on a par with full-blown journalism. It would only take a judge to decide that something as simple as a headline was what defined a "newspaper". One of the supporters of this law in 2001 was Giuseppe Giulietti, now a Deputy with the Italia di Valori Parliamentary Grouping. Back then, he brushed aside criticism of the proposed law with the reassurance that "The Press Law has never had as its objective the regulation of the online community". What a difference a few years make. Earlier this month, the same Giuseppe Giulietti could be found writing to the Minister for Justice that "current logic means that almost the entire Italian internet, by its very nature, could be considered illegal – "stampa clandestina" – which is a complete contravention of the democratic rulebook". So is this just a storm in a teacup? After all, if this law potentially affects some 5 million Italian websites, there are at least 4,999,999 that have not yet been taken down. Why was Carlo Ruta singled out? One clue lies in the location of the court that found him guilty (Sicily). Another, in the fact that his blog contained much detailed research of links between politics and the mafia – always a sensitive subject in Italy. Since May, a Calabrian journalist and blogger, Antonino Monteleone, has also fallen foul of local magistrates, suggesting that the genie is now well and truly out of the bottle. Failing a reversal of the Ruta ruling in a higher court, it is going to need action at the parliamentary level to guarantee an Italian freedom to blog and to return the law to what most Italians believed it to be. ® Yuo have to laugh or else you'd just cry (with frustration) Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
New Jersey Crazy Laws # t is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season. # You may not slurp your soup. # All cats must wear three bells to warn birds of their whereabouts. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
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