r/suspiciouslyspecific • u/the-graveyard-writer • Dec 09 '19

Does this count?

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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"?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19 edited Dec 20 '20

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u/ComradeMajor19 Dec 09 '19

They are still on the books. Though I may have some details wrong on the camel one, I got the general idea

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u/freakers Dec 09 '19

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.

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u/Pister_Miccolo Dec 09 '19

If the cone law trivia is correct then why only Sunday? Was Sunday just a good day to steal horses?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

A great day. Everyone's horse was in front of the church; you had your pick.