Insane Laws that Still Exist in USA
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2021
- There are so many laws out there it's hard to keep them all straight, but if you break even one of these weird laws you will be paying for it in jail. Did you know it's illegal for ketchup to be runny? Check out today's list of the weirdest laws that still exist in the United States. Isn't it about time to retire some of these ridiculous laws?
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POV: You’re 4 years old and sang “Rain Rain Go Away”
“FBI OPEN UP!!”
I still remember at elementary school
Me: Singing "Rain Rain Go Away"
My friend: hey i bet if the rain started as soon as you stop singing
Rain: Actually start (by luck probably)
My friend: 😳
Yes i probably should get arrested
Im the 70th like
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As a European, I think the most insane US laws are: no alcohol under 21, checking the ID of a middle aged man who buys alcohol, making prostitution illegal unless you film it and share it on internet.
I can't wait to drink next year
they only ask for id if the person looks young
Yeah, we can send an 18 year old to die in the heat of battle, but that 18 year old cant drink. Ironic, huh?
@@MrJp990 most military jobs dont fight
Also alcohol can cause harm to your brain
And its literal poison
Also nobody is going to know your age until you show your card
Its not a good idea to rely on looks
Can we just appreciate that Infographics really posts twice a day still...
I mean its cool and all, but it also pays for them.
The determination kinda scares me, to be honest
@Negative Perspective F
But unfortunately the quality of the content has been on a constant decline.
Reused content a percentage of the time
You forgot the most insane one of all.
“Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.”
Why would you lick a doornob anyway
(I mean doorknob)
@@bitonic589 It's a quote from Spongebob SquarePants
LOL SPONGEBOB
Read the title. It says laws that still exist in the USA
The strangest one is the law that prohibits a child from playing pinball in South Carolina. They’re actually games of skill, not chance. I wonder who in South Carolina thought about such a law.
The law exists probably because when most states made it Illegal because there where no Flippers on them yet in the early 1900s and were much more akin to actual gambling. Around the 70’s a lot of places made it legal because it was clearly a game of skill due to underground improvements to the mechanics of the machines while they were Illegal. It’s odd that it’s still Illegal there but it was far spread in the early to mid 20th century with Prohibition style raids being commonplace it machines were discovered being used or stored.
@@Rwtheking what?
@@Rwtheking flippers were introduced in 1947, with Gottleib’s Humpty Dumpty, which added a skill element. It was thought that pinball was gambling, and so it was banned until 1976, when a man named Roger Sharpe proved that pinball was a game of skill, not chance. The ban was lifted after that. But yes, in some parts of the United States, there are still pinball bans. Here in Hawaii, it was illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to play pinball, which is no longer the case.
@@mr_anone alimony can be harsh, but it's essential. Iv always said we need to change the laws on how we view woman not the need to support the kids, since the laws for support were made when woman were considered incompetent and unable to support themselves
@@mr_anone I was thinking of child support not alimony. Nvr mind
Here in England it's still law that men of fighting age have to report for archery practice every week, it's from the medieval times but still technically law
The fact that this isn't a law in the US, but selective service is, tells me a lot.
@@lazarus8018 cause one is logical and the other no longer makes sense?
@@montanamike7948 in a "free" country compulsory service is not logical. While I understand the need for it that doesn't mean it isn't as opposed to our supposed ideology as possible
I take it that the law you’re talking about goes unenforced?
I remember when I was in my 20s (1980s) there was a news report about an ancient law that England had removed from the books. The law stated that if a an could prove that his wife had taken a bath in order to get him to marry her it was grounds for divorce
Here are 4 strange laws in the U.S.
1. It's illegal to sell your eyeballs in Texas
2. In New Jersey you can't wear a bulletproof vest while committing a crime
3. In Missouri you are not allowed to have yellow margarine
4. In Nebraska you can't go whale fishing.
My dad works for the FDA and "the government takes food seriously" might be the understatement of the year.
Food safety laws in the USA are strict I grew up in a dairy farm your family member is right farms are regulated by both the FDA and the USDA do a dairy products and me and regulated FDA and grain to regulated by the USDA they are serious about who regulates what
I'm a simple Romanian man, but when I see a video about the crazyness of the USA, I click and like immediately.
immediately* sorry
Interesting. I've heard Romania can be pretty crazy too.😜
Yea there’s this game called grand theft auto and it accurately represents California
@@ella17734 not as crazy as the USA 😜
(I’m not from either of the prior so I’m not biased :] )
@@LilacMorelli plenty of crazier places 🤪
You know you're special when there's a law that protects you from hunters even if you don't exist.
Unlike raccoons who actually exist
it was probably made because some idiot actually thought he was real and shot another idiot in a gorilla costume
1:30 - Caught a whoopsie! Delaware is NOT a Northwestern state; it is in the Northeast, just below New England.
In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for people to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors
Huh?
Indiana Jones would be sad
in WV it's illegal to whistle underwater (note: I've tried it, indeed impossible)
Yep, my state. Not great.
Why
Ngl that is the saddest cartoon raccoon I've ever seen. He's just so destitute.
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Sometimes when I here of weird laws and weird warning labels, I think, somebody, somewhere, did something so dumb, they had to put a warning labels or a law in place. I don't think they just make up the most ridiculous thing a person will do, with specific things, and put it there, just to be on the safe side.
Yea and a lot of weird laws are laws that are super old and completely outdated and not actually enforced
I live in NY. It's illegal to wear slippers past 10pm, put an ice cream cone in your back pocket and up until recently get a haircut on Sundays.
Some more wired Alabama Laws:
-You can’t have an ice cream cone in your back pocket (thieves use to use this method to lure away horses so they couldn’t be charged with stealing.
-You can go the opposite of a one way street if you have a lantern in front of your vehicle.
-You can’t put an elephant in a microwave.
-Can’t buy or sell “adult” toys.
-Putting salt on a railroad can get you a death sentence.
-you can’t flick boogers into the wind.
-you cannot impersonate a priest.
-Can’t wear a fake moustache in church because it may make people laugh.
-it’s illegal to open an umbrella on the street in Montgomery because it may scare horses.
-in Lee county you can’t sell peanuts after sunset on Wednesday.
-Can’t wear blue jeans while walking down Noble Street In Anniston.
-Now for the women: in case of divorce women are entitled to all the property that they owned before the marriage , but the men are not.
Ah yes in inida always put my elephant in microwave to store it
What
America is weird 😂😂😂
I mean all of these are so lame, but the lamest one is the one where u can't put your elephant in the microwave who tf does that
@@randomuser6544 You don't???
I guess Delaware is part of the Pacific northwest now lol
The infographics explains very well. I wish my lecturers were like that back in the days lol
Some of these are the at most weirdest laws in history.
“Some of these are at most, the weirdest laws in history” just wanted to correct your grammar for you!^^ yeh somtimes I make grammar mistakes lol
2:45 Now I wish the guy who runs that Bigfoot that lives in the forest account was still around. This part is just perfect for his response. Lol
Yeah
lol there's a "Bigfoot with Internet Access" account that regularly posts comments on scary story channels like
Darkness Prevails is that who you mean? (I agree that person is hilarious)
The drunk driving law makes sense anyway. It's best to either have someone give you a ride or be sober. Also, bear wrestling is animal cruelty. It's perfectly reasonable to outlaw that.
*laughs in putin*
it wasn't about drunk driving cars. the laws they were getting to were more things such as using skis while intoxicated
@@alwaysloaded4585 wrestling*
@@10tailedbijuu They banned the BWE?
@@demonkingt It also makes sense in a way
The law about controlling the weather reminded me of a strange phenomenon during the American Dust Bowl.
While the South was suffering from terrible drought, dust storms, and the Great Depression, charlatans would travel the south promising poor farming regions they would summon rain “with science”. They would launch fireworks into the sky in a big public display, claiming they were seeding clouds or something of the sort. A lot of very vulnerable people were taken advantage of during their lowest point, and the charlatans pocketed the money and fled to the next town before the townsfolk could realize no rain was coming. I wonder if local municipalities passed similar anti-weather-control laws or ordinances in the wake of these con men.
Source: Timothy Egan, “The Worst Hard Time.” It’s a great book and a quick and easy read.
But what if the weather control service or equipment is free or paid for by a federal grant? Government officials should know about this book!
Good to know that frog athletes are respected.
RESPECT THE FROGS
Bro what 🤣
Ate a frog before
@@alternativeaccount4954 Yes
It's probably an animal cruelty thing.
I love this channel! Thanks again guys and gals
Delaware isn’t in the northwest. Source: am from the northwest.
Yeah I had to back up to hear that again
Yea, that one made me pause.
Yeah I rewound that one to see if I heard the state wrong but nope
I also caught this I was like wait what cause I live 15 min away from delaware
I live in Alabama
My friend got put in county jail for 2 weeks for crashing his car into a parked school bus while blindfolded and strangely, he was 17 which is below the minimum age to put in jail, but he was 2 months from 18 so maybe thats why
In Indiana, anyone who is 16 or older is automatically tried as an adult if they committ a crime which involved violence or gross negligence. If you're friend was from Indiana, he would have been sent to prison, because gross negligence in the use of a automobile causing damages is a felony in Indiana.
For the drunk 'driving' laws in Wyoming, you can get tag on bikes and horses too. Lol it's to prevent people from getting lost in the vast wilderness between towns we have. The winter can get a little rough here.
I’m from SC and I can tell you Pinball was fun until the cops showed up. The adults made us move away from the machine, but in highschool Pinball was the #1 game!
Hello my fellow south Carolinian. Lol
Don't forget to bring your rifle with you Sunday if you go to Church. As this is still a law here apparently
now I'm just imagining the cops saying "put you're hands up and back away from the pinball machine"
Love this channel!
The Virginia hunting law changed a year or two ago, now you can hunt on sundays here
I live in Karachi Pakistan and I like your comment
In Scotland it's illegal to fish on Sundays.
@@hannah.lindseyy All of the grandpas in Scotland: Welp now I'll just die now
In my home town, in Canada. It is still illegal to drive a hoarse drawn fish cart on Wednesdays
I like the "who knows why" with the skydiving one. I mean I think it's a little self-explanatory haha
I love these videos.
ive fact checked most of these laws because it was hard to believe that they were actually true 😂 im dead. it is important to note that the bingo and alcohol law was repealed in 2019 but the fact that it was even a thing floors me
Can u make this a series, but make it for every state? 🙏🏼
Wow Infographics Show actually got one wrong...Delaware is in the Mid-Atlantic.
i caught that too. i was genuinely confused & started thinking about oregon.
Love u guys!
The California Frog law comes from the Frog Jumping competition they hold every year in the town of Angels Camp! There's an entire fair held around it and even the local high school has the jumping frog as it's mascot!
Maybe the onion ring law was inspired by Burger King. About 15 years ago I bought some “onion rings” there and was extremely disappointed to find that the rigs weren’t filled with onion, but with onion flavoured paste. I guess it changed several years later, but this was one big letdown when it happened
In Seattle it was illegal for anyone under 18 to play pinball until 1974. Sometimes on Christmas Day, the staff at Lake City Bowl would look the other way...
Nice Bob Heironimus reference, that's a deep cut lol 🤣
That drunk laughing audio during the ski segment had me in tears 😂
How do you get 3 Grandmas to drop the F Bomb?
You yell BINGO
This was a good vid. Here in NH Docking the Tail of a Horse is a Misdemeanor.
I love this channel 👍
I remember making a slideshow on Connecticut's bouncing pickles law, still have the slideshow in my drive to this day!
My dad grew up in South Carolina and one of the silly laws was that all men had to carry a firearm into church for fear of an Indian (Native American) attack, still exists today, and was created around 1776.
That’s pretty funny but makes sense for the old days
Dylann Roof sure didn't violate that law when he murdered 9 people in a chuch in Charleston.
I grew up in Northen Michiga, graduating in 1987 and back when video games were coming out and gettin popular in arcades and bowling alley's my parent's allowed me to play any of the games EXCEPT pinball. They had the idea that all pinball games were owned and operated by the Mafia, even in our little town of less than 1000, and they were very much against that. Strange but true...😂😂😂
Day 12 ( I think ), of requesting infographics to cover: you Vs Terror Billy
Sounds like a good idea
I dont know of this terror Billy but yes make the show.
I actually knew a road on my old rural news route so we'll I accidentally ended up driving it ASLEEP! I ended up waking up when it was time for me to turn right off of the road
I wonder if that dog/cat hair law is because someone was like putting it with wool and selling it as pure sheep wool so it was created to stop things like that. It's a really weird law! Kind of makes me want to become an illicit cat hair dealer! 😜
*Fact: The Infographics Show shows INFOGRAPHICS!!*
PLEASE do more serial killer and kidnapping episodes! I would love to see one on the man who kept those 3 women prisoner in Chicago for over a decade. Or one about 9/11 and everything that happened that day (may everyone who passed rest in peace). Or the Craigslist killer.
Hey @TheInfographicsShow,
Have you covered the with it being illegal to collect rainwater?
I want to know because its *REALLY* interesting to me, for better or for worse.
(If not, please cover it. And I'm not sure with state it is.)
It's illegal to collect rain in California. It falls under their water rights laws.
What? I do that all the time just so water bills won’t be too high.
Once in an Infographics video, a man got arrested for collecting rainwater
That's crazy, I didn't know this.
Awesome 😎
5:42 It’s not just in North Carolina where it’s illegal to sell alcohol at a bingo hall. When my grandfather (may he rest in peace) used to live close to me, he would sometimes take me to one and since I was above 13, I was considered old enough to play per Colorado state law, and the place we went to NEVER sold any alcohol. They only sold water or soda for drinks
The one about pinball in South Carolina stems from the fact that back in the 70s, when the law was passed, pinball machines dispensed tickets to redeem for prizes, which included money. Because of that, numerous states passed laws making it illegal for children to play pinball, but then all but South Carolina repealed the laws when evidence was brought forth that pinball is a game of skill, unlike slots which are a game of chance, which is what gambling is based on. They also removed ticket dispensers from pinball machines and removed money from the prize counters of arcades.
Any new challenge shows coming up? Could there possibly be a poll for the fans? 🥴🍿🛸🏴☠️
Ngl the infographic show use to be a respectable channel but nowadays it's just sad watching them they are slowly falling also all the stuff they are talking about is cap most of it is
Better be claiming to be draper then the drester
SHEESH I thought it would be a warzone in here
@@ddg3803 same
Ight subbing
Haha, guess I was a little criminal growing up then! I was a kid in South Carolina, and played pinball all the time, since my dad owns a pinball machine.
Hope you enjoyed your freedom while u had it
Delaware is a northwestern state, learn something new every time I watch this channel thank you!
The weirdest one: requests to all teen boys to have a genital exam just to play sports. It’s unnecessary & uncomfortable
Stop using the cancer excuse, ( 2 in 200,000 boys under 19 yo ) could develop testicular cancer, so it’s not fair annoying 200,000 In The name of 2 possible patients
well what if those 2 patients didn't get checked and died?
I was going to play sports, will they ask to give me a genital exam?
Never heard about this before, I wonder what kind of mental strain/abuse the person(s) responsible for the inception of this law endured to say 'Any young man whom wishes to compete with and against other young men, must first be molested'.
Actually, it’s to check for hernias, of which I had one that was found by a high school physician
Yeah. I half half agree. I feel like it should be up to the patient. Instead of definite.
Tbh that law about conroling the weather kinda reminds me of that green dance powder stuff crocodile was using to make it rain in alubarna during the alabasta arc of one piece
Oh you’ve gotta love the USA.
Sometimes.
I live in USA
Wow- I’m from SC and I’ve never heard of the pinball law 😳
Dang dude. I live in Delaware. I thought we were in Mid Eastern US. Glad you were here to correct me.
4:56 can I just say that in Mississippi that's really not safe, alot of people have diabetes and need to know the calorie count to properly take enough insulin to yk survive. It shouldn't have to be a hassle for them to find out the calorie counts.
That's on the people buying the food, not on the people selling it. Also, calorie counting is a debunked thing. No one actually knows how many calories are in any given sample of food without scientifically testing it, which destroys the food sample in the process. Hamburger A might be as close to Hamburger B as possible, and yet they may have wildly different calorie counts. The government doesn't need to be telling us what to buy. It's OUR job to decide that, and as such it's OUR responsibility to not go around eating Grease Meal #5 if we've got a condition that it might affect.
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4:27 Pinball on the same level of gambling? Definitely makes sense that it’s on this list. I bet they either never played or they always lost.
Tiny Northwestern state of Delaware.. It was on the east coast last I checked.
Step one: shoot big foot
Step two:don't collect samples
Step three:walk off Scott free because you can't get arrested for somthing they have no proof for
Step 4: Get rid of your rifle because they can link the bullets found in (or around) the corpse of Bigfoot to your rifle.
You can hunt raccon on Sunday in VA because hunters start on Saturday night on into Sunday. But they changed the law a few years ago to hunt anything on Sun.
1:30 Delaware is a "Tiny Northwestern State"? lol
To the first "insane law" just so you know being drunk in public itself is illegal as it's considered public intoxication.
@6:53
That was* on my Bucket List. bummer
U can’t have a ice cream cone in ur back pocket in ky... can’t believe u missed that lol
In Sarasota, Florida (former winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers circus), it’s illegal to double-park your elephant.
I actually like that the government regulates food. Otherwise we could be scammed with bad products or worse, poisoned
*Virgina went no mercy mode on poor Rocket*
Delaware is not a northwestern state lol but I don’t blame you, no one else knows where it is 😂😂
Northeastern.
Hahaha I’m hammered every time I board 🏂😂
Good thing you know about the Washington Bigfoot law, since you just were out there looking. I’m guessing this fact was found while preparing for that trip…
I think you beat us up enough
I can already modify the weather lol
I'm a wizard harry.
"Who calls ketchup ketchup?"😂😂😂😂😂
burger king uses dehydrated diced onions in their onion rings, and nowhere does the menu say that.
5:48
as a North Carolinian, this is hilarious
Imagine being so analy retentive you regulate how fast ketchup runs. 😂 I'd really love to know if and where this is a weird law elsewhere in the world.
didn't think half of these laws even could exist in the USA.i guess it's true you learn something new every single day
It is awesome to watch infographics show on youtube I like what would happen if you didn't brush you're teeth for 1 week
Delaware in the NW? Did you guys move it? I could have sworn it was in the central east coast.
Love it
Ursa ultimate sound effect at 6:59?
1:25
>delaware
>northwestern state
I don't like how you can create another human at 18. But can't drink till 21.
I live in New Jersey and our crazy law is that criminals are not allowed to wear bulletproof vests committing a robbery or crime.😅🤣😂
illegal to mess with the weather without notifying secretary of Commence. I like this, but yeah they keep thier info well secret since I wonder how many people do get to notify the secretary first.
1:14 Yeah....Delaware!!! 👍👍👍
I live in Wyoming and I didn't know that was illegal about skiing