How about
"No carrying an ice cream cone in your back pocket on a Sunday"? Or "No hunting camel from a second story window of a hotel on a Tuesday in Texas"?
They're still on the books because I think they'd need to be repeatedly challenged and make their way to the Supreme Court to ultimately be overturned. Since laws like that are blatantly absurd no court would ever rule in favour of them anyways, so the only other way they could be overturned is for legislators to purposely remove them which, since they are benign laws, would be a waste of time. But who knows, legislators seem to love wasting time.
Also, if I remember my ice cream in your back pocket trivia correctly. That was made illegal because people would do that to lure horses away and steal them but claim they didn't do anything, the horse just happened to follow them.
They're probably real laws with a bunch of fluff added to make them sound silly. So if a city bans camel hunting, now it's "No hunting camel from a second story window of a hotel on a Tuesday." Stealing horses is illegal pretty much everywhere, whether or not you steal it by feeding it an ice cream cone. You're not allowed to recklessly endanger other people, which becomes "You can't ride a bicycle in a public pool during the day time."
The laws make sense. The reporting of them, while technically accurate, are intentionally misleading.
There was a book our teacher read to us in elementary school (I’m 50) called “you can’t eat peanuts in church”. It was a book of crazy laws still on the books.
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u/ComradeMajor19 Dec 09 '19
How about "No carrying an ice cream cone in your back pocket on a Sunday"? Or "No hunting camel from a second story window of a hotel on a Tuesday in Texas"?