Rex Trulove
I was given a great suggestion by Doc Anderson that I’m going to try here. The focus is on weird, strange, odd, whacky, or stupid laws in the US. I’m going to start specifically with Montana since I live here and no state is immune from laws that are ridiculous.
At the end, in the comment section, please feel free to add any silly laws you know about. These can be on a city or town level, county level, state level, or federal level. It can be any law that you know about that is questionable.
In Montana, it is illegal to:
1. Raise rats for any purpose except as food for reptiles and birds of prey. In other words, it is illegal to own a pet rat.
2. Operate vehicles with ice picks attached to the wheels or tires. I guess that rednecks aren’t limited to the deep south.
3. No items can legally be thrown across a street. What a way to spoil a perfectly good snowball fight with your pals across the street.
4. It is illegal to go to any city council meeting while carrying hand grenades, bombs, rockets, or large caliber weapons. I guess that if anyone wants to disagree with the city council, they have to resort to the old fashioned yelling, screaming, and throwing punches. I do note, though, that this law doesn’t say much about small caliber weapons.
5. All pool tables in billiard halls in Montana must be viewable from the street.
6. It is illegal to annoy anyone using a sidewalk by using a revolving water sprinkler. Other methods of annoying people who are using the sidewalks are apparently okay.
7. It is against the law to throw pop bottles on the ground in Montana.
8. Bands that play in clubs that serve alcoholic beverages can’t leave the stage while they are performing. Duh. Most of the bands I know of don’t leave the stage until intermissions or after the performance is over.
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y’all have some interesting laws. The thought of icepicks on tires is the funniest image! Awesome Rex!
You can’t tell that we get a lot of snow and ice here, can you? LOL
I did get lots of snow impression. I was thinking, you miss measure one side so your car wobbles as you drive on ice picks!
Very interesting. Maybe number 3 is my favorite.
I suspect that the law was created after someone got hit and hurt because something was tossed, or because it caused a car accident. I’m not sure, though.
I think rule number 4 is needed there.
I’m rather thinking that in most towns, carrying around a bomb or hand grenade would be frowned upon even if the person wasn’t going to a meeting of the city council.
I think the ice pick one is specifically only a law in Whitehall Montana. I learned about that one in Montana History.
I can understand why some people might think of using ice picks, however, I can certainly think of better ways to get around in the snow and ice. Ice picks also aren’t nearly as common as they once were.
Good ones. I’ve also posted some that you might want to add to your collection:
* Part 1 – Alabama through Idaho: https://virily.com/culture/bizarre-laws-part-1/
* Part 2 – Indiana through Wyoming: https://virily.com/culture/bizarre-laws-part-2/
* Illinois: https://virily.com/culture/pay-law-makers-big-bucks/
Thank you for the additions!
No problem. I hope you can find some good ones in there.
I chose #6 but they are all hilarious.
Yes, I’ll admit that it has never occurred to me to purposely annoy people that way, perhaps because I’ve never seen a reason to purposely annoy people. lol