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Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance
Kevin Underhill - Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance
This is collection of strange laws – outside those "dumb laws" sites where lots of that stuff are actually urban legends and (intentionally?) misundertood case-specific rulings.
Name of the books refers to a county in the Washingtong state where law protects the sasquatch in case they might exist.
Underhill goes as far as Habburabi, who is usually remembered for the law of ”eye for an eye” (and it is usually forgotten that the law was supposed to end vendettas when one eye was not enough for the other party). Hammurabi decreed that judges that made mistakes were removde from the bench (later politicians of course changed that). One could prove their innocence by jumping into river – and result was opposite to those later witch-proving rituals.
Hittites had laws against stealing someone's door. Also; What in the world Hittite men used as a perfume when they had to be concerned about cattle trying to rape them?
I suspect that Salic reference to ”witch eating a man” had, err, oral carnal meaning. And the man who allowed that to happen was fined. No certain substances available for witchcraft.
Of course, we don't know the exact circumstances when the ancient lawas were made and the circumstances that created them so what we see as strange or ridiculous, they might see entirely reasonable.
There is also many American laws regarding atomic weapons which, in real nuclear war, would be, shall we, futile. But when politicians are concerned about something, they use the only recourse available to them – legislation. I just think that Colorado voters would have no time to vote about the use of nuclear weapons against them.
But anyway, politicians often also want to make political points by legislating things they really have no influence over. Or trying to legislate matters that do not matter too much like trying to define proounciation of local names. Just because they can. There are also lots of at least technically unconstitutional laws, some of which are also kind of futile.
Some have obviously political goals, like China wanting to control reincarnation to put their own Dalai Lama in charge in Tibet (current Dalai Llaman has stated that he may not reincarnate again in that case).
It seems to me that many legislators think that people cannot be trusted not to create certain situations themselves for their own benefit – like killing sharks, ostensibly for self-defense, or spreading fallout over their cows for some money. The fact that is (or was?) illegal to maim oneself in Alabama would look stranger if I have not seen number of news items about people maiming themselves in hopes of getting some insurance money. In desperation, probably. I hope.
I just hope that Georgia law about not selling kids under 12 to clowns is no longer relevant.
As for no stealing human body parts from accident scenes; Meddling with potential evidence of foul play aside, I suppose some people still want to do the thing some US soldiers did during the Pacific War – collect body parts of dead Japanese...
In Hawaii, you can take only on gallon of sand from the beach a day. And I thought the sand theft and smuggling is problem mainly in the Arabic Mediterranea, especially Morocco. Dutch at least recycle their own.
In Mississipi it is illegal talk about polygamy (like it is illegal to talk about climate change in Florida?). In Delaware it's ilelgal to tell people about marrage in other states. I also agree with the fact that ”The idea that monogamy prevents despotism is aldo amusing”
In Colorado an officer hold is required to give personal attention to their duties. Kind of makes sense since lots of officials would like to spend their time in high living OR let their subordinates do all the actual work.
In NY strangling is permissible for medical and dental purposes (I know that it is permissible in Hollywood for movie-making purposes). Okay, I was told that some dentists still use total anesthesia in the USA but...
No smoke screens in vehicles in North Carolina (no pimping vehicles?) I wonder what they thought about that South African vehicle with flamethrowers.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, has self-conradictory ordinance about ringing bells and whistles of locomotives in the city area. No wonder Amtrak no longer stops there..
Also, it is kind of understandable that in, New Orleans one cannot use one's power to turn enemies into friends (”Bring together the bitterest enemies to convince them into staunchest friends”) since politics loves conflict and strife to attract voters. Who would need, for example, lawyers after that?
This is collection of strange laws – outside those "dumb laws" sites where lots of that stuff are actually urban legends and (intentionally?) misundertood case-specific rulings.
Name of the books refers to a county in the Washingtong state where law protects the sasquatch in case they might exist.
Underhill goes as far as Habburabi, who is usually remembered for the law of ”eye for an eye” (and it is usually forgotten that the law was supposed to end vendettas when one eye was not enough for the other party). Hammurabi decreed that judges that made mistakes were removde from the bench (later politicians of course changed that). One could prove their innocence by jumping into river – and result was opposite to those later witch-proving rituals.
Hittites had laws against stealing someone's door. Also; What in the world Hittite men used as a perfume when they had to be concerned about cattle trying to rape them?
I suspect that Salic reference to ”witch eating a man” had, err, oral carnal meaning. And the man who allowed that to happen was fined. No certain substances available for witchcraft.
Of course, we don't know the exact circumstances when the ancient lawas were made and the circumstances that created them so what we see as strange or ridiculous, they might see entirely reasonable.
There is also many American laws regarding atomic weapons which, in real nuclear war, would be, shall we, futile. But when politicians are concerned about something, they use the only recourse available to them – legislation. I just think that Colorado voters would have no time to vote about the use of nuclear weapons against them.
But anyway, politicians often also want to make political points by legislating things they really have no influence over. Or trying to legislate matters that do not matter too much like trying to define proounciation of local names. Just because they can. There are also lots of at least technically unconstitutional laws, some of which are also kind of futile.
Some have obviously political goals, like China wanting to control reincarnation to put their own Dalai Lama in charge in Tibet (current Dalai Llaman has stated that he may not reincarnate again in that case).
It seems to me that many legislators think that people cannot be trusted not to create certain situations themselves for their own benefit – like killing sharks, ostensibly for self-defense, or spreading fallout over their cows for some money. The fact that is (or was?) illegal to maim oneself in Alabama would look stranger if I have not seen number of news items about people maiming themselves in hopes of getting some insurance money. In desperation, probably. I hope.
I just hope that Georgia law about not selling kids under 12 to clowns is no longer relevant.
As for no stealing human body parts from accident scenes; Meddling with potential evidence of foul play aside, I suppose some people still want to do the thing some US soldiers did during the Pacific War – collect body parts of dead Japanese...
In Hawaii, you can take only on gallon of sand from the beach a day. And I thought the sand theft and smuggling is problem mainly in the Arabic Mediterranea, especially Morocco. Dutch at least recycle their own.
In Mississipi it is illegal talk about polygamy (like it is illegal to talk about climate change in Florida?). In Delaware it's ilelgal to tell people about marrage in other states. I also agree with the fact that ”The idea that monogamy prevents despotism is aldo amusing”
In Colorado an officer hold is required to give personal attention to their duties. Kind of makes sense since lots of officials would like to spend their time in high living OR let their subordinates do all the actual work.
In NY strangling is permissible for medical and dental purposes (I know that it is permissible in Hollywood for movie-making purposes). Okay, I was told that some dentists still use total anesthesia in the USA but...
No smoke screens in vehicles in North Carolina (no pimping vehicles?) I wonder what they thought about that South African vehicle with flamethrowers.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, has self-conradictory ordinance about ringing bells and whistles of locomotives in the city area. No wonder Amtrak no longer stops there..
Also, it is kind of understandable that in, New Orleans one cannot use one's power to turn enemies into friends (”Bring together the bitterest enemies to convince them into staunchest friends”) since politics loves conflict and strife to attract voters. Who would need, for example, lawyers after that?