The Wild and Wacky Laws of Missouri

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  • @SauceKingg
    @SauceKingg 9 місяців тому +339

    Misrepresenting margarine as real butter being illegal is a good law

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 9 місяців тому +10

      I agree.

    • @Stevarooni
      @Stevarooni 9 місяців тому +14

      U.S. federal Code mandates proper labeling of butter and margarine.

    • @rubberduck2.0
      @rubberduck2.0 9 місяців тому +10

      As a Missouri resident i agree with your statement.

    • @paulregarg7455
      @paulregarg7455 9 місяців тому +8

      It was the dairy farmers that got that passed

    • @lavadasnjokorn4732
      @lavadasnjokorn4732 8 місяців тому +1

      Came here to say this. 👍🏻

  • @LinoWalker
    @LinoWalker 9 місяців тому +686

    Well, there goes my side hustle idea of using model glue to surgically alter bears and organize a bear wrestling tournament!

  • @audreyrasmussen540
    @audreyrasmussen540 9 місяців тому +836

    You thought the fence law video was an April Fool's joke...Suprise! It was a pilot episode!

    • @asdcdweadasd
      @asdcdweadasd 9 місяців тому +5

      It was really interesting too 😁

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 9 місяців тому +4

      He knows what his viewers want.

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +1

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I want more and longer videos of useless facts. The first 3 weren't enough.

  • @ryurc3033
    @ryurc3033 9 місяців тому +76

    Yard sale law is funny as hell.
    My retired neighbor had a garage sale sign up for 8 years. He would just open the garage door every morning. It was practically a thrift store in his garage. And his wife would go to other local thrift stores to restock.... No business license, no tax, always cash. And he always had someone to talk to.
    Seemed to be the hot ticket

    • @SoulSlugArts
      @SoulSlugArts Місяць тому +2

      I have to respect the hassle

  • @4fives992
    @4fives992 9 місяців тому +249

    Some bureaucrat in Springfield really hated kids huffing glue and/or model train/airplane/boat/etc enthusiasts.

    • @nicholasfarrell5981
      @nicholasfarrell5981 9 місяців тому +27

      "They'll buy the snap-together models and they'll like it!"

    • @luke-i1w
      @luke-i1w 9 місяців тому +9

      At that point its probably easier to get high off of things that are actually illegal.

    • @YSLRD
      @YSLRD 9 місяців тому +5

      A kid likely died.

    • @ozarkrefugee
      @ozarkrefugee 9 місяців тому

      Socialists run Springfield.

    • @schirpik
      @schirpik 9 місяців тому +4

      Being from springfeild i can say starting around age 10 i built my first model kit (the Enterprise) till my 18 th birthday i built and repaired many kits and never got hassled over buying glue guess the Spld pd didn't care to mess with it.

  • @SeanLamb-I-Am
    @SeanLamb-I-Am 9 місяців тому +99

    "Sniffing glue" was one of the big antidrug boogeymen I remember hearing about in the 1907s and 80s. At least the lawmakers drew out the exception for model building, the glue's legitimate use, when crafting the bill.

    • @Mistwolfss
      @Mistwolfss 9 місяців тому +24

      Wow you must be ancient you were alive from 1907 to now!

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 9 місяців тому +5

      Sniffing glue is a bad idea.

    • @Pantheragem
      @Pantheragem 9 місяців тому +11

      The 1907's was truly a wild decade.

    • @BasicWorldbuilder
      @BasicWorldbuilder 9 місяців тому +3

      Man I miss the 1907s. 😔

    • @thomaseriksen6885
      @thomaseriksen6885 9 місяців тому +4

      Mostly forgotten now of course, the 1907's were absolutely bonkers

  • @lorensims4846
    @lorensims4846 9 місяців тому +48

    When we moved to Springfield in 2002, they still had a law that said it was OK to have an open container of alcohol in the car just as long as the driver wasn't holding it.
    I calle this the "hold by beer" law.

    • @williamgosvener47
      @williamgosvener47 9 місяців тому +5

      That's a still valid state law

    • @painmt651
      @painmt651 9 місяців тому +2

      Up until about 2012, in Montana. It was legal to drive and drink, as long as you were not intoxicated. There was no open container law.

    • @SylersGarage
      @SylersGarage 9 місяців тому

      You live in Springfield Missouri?

    • @mabuchikyouma7674
      @mabuchikyouma7674 5 місяців тому

      Missouri doesn't have a open container law

    • @VelvetCzar
      @VelvetCzar Місяць тому

      Connecticut and many other states have that law. And CT is about as polar opposite of Missouri as humanely possible. Just having a can in the trash in your car here in PA, the feds will charge you drunk driving WITHOUT any proof of drinking. I have no DUIs and I'm a truck driver, but open container states can get fucked lol

  • @dariocaporuscio8701
    @dariocaporuscio8701 9 місяців тому +101

    I found a law from around 2012 (!) about playing in the street in Rome, saying "it's forbidden to play instruments that are annoying by nature, such as the trumpet"😂

  • @MortexBerri
    @MortexBerri 9 місяців тому +874

    Hes a Missouri law channel now.

  • @TheSchmitt
    @TheSchmitt 9 місяців тому +13

    The model glue one is actually based in tragedy. High school students in Springfield started huffing the stuff and several died from the effects…

  • @bryantzad1724
    @bryantzad1724 9 місяців тому +83

    As a resident of Missouri, I find this very informative. There is a law that is also goofy in Rolla. You are not allowed to drink any alcoholic beverages out of a 5 gallon bucket on any city curb on a Sunday morning. Also a little side note the the Night host of KSHE 95 a local station out of St.Louis actually engaged in hand to paw combat with a bear and won. What a badass

    • @lawrenceredmacher4382
      @lawrenceredmacher4382 9 місяців тому +1

      that rolla thing doesn't exist

    • @melbapeters5457
      @melbapeters5457 6 місяців тому

      The Law in Missouri about drinking beer out of a bucket came into existence because beer is served in buckets during the 4th of July festivals and the VP Fair etcetera etcetera. I don't find this weird at all.

    • @jack002tuber
      @jack002tuber 5 днів тому +1

      real rock radio - KSHE 95

  • @spacecowboy2957
    @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +68

    A shocking number of obscure laws that have been on the books in all states and are most often still in effect simply due to having been long forgotten are, unsurprisingly, the direct results of the actions and behaviors of individuals who, either intentionally or unintentionally, managed to upset a large number of other citizens who, for whatever reason, have agreed that the stated actions are unacceptable. For instance, in Nevada, it is prohibited to drive your camel on interstate freeways. There's only one plausible explanation for this, that someone who owned a camel rode said camel on the freeway to which a majority of other people objected.

    • @hanifarroisimukhlis5989
      @hanifarroisimukhlis5989 9 місяців тому +12

      It's _very_ unlikely that an entire majority demands such law. More likely is that it upsets a senator, which they put a bill and rubberstamp it.

    • @dimesonhiseyes9134
      @dimesonhiseyes9134 9 місяців тому +1

      I have not looked up the actual law for Nevada but I highly doubt there is a law that makes it illegal to ride a Camel in a freeway. Or only singles out camels. In reality with nearly every single one of these supposed strange laws camel was added to a list of other animals like horses or cows.
      Source? I've actually looked up a lot of these strange laws before and most are not very strange and are intentionally misrepresented or taken out of context to make them look strange. Most are actually quite lame.

    • @MmmHuggles
      @MmmHuggles 9 місяців тому +1

      The gong sounding one is obviously caused by a troll going around sounding their gong to scare and annoy people lol

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому

      @@MmmHuggles Quite possibly.

    • @ColonelSandersLite
      @ColonelSandersLite 9 місяців тому +1

      @@dimesonhiseyes9134 "are intentionally misrepresented or taken out of context"
      This is true enough and I think that a lot of the time this is down to a game of telephone.
      There's a good example of how this might happen in this very video. @6:00 "Maybe you're a missouri resident looking to buy a car. Better not do it on sundays". Yeah, the law is 'kind of weird' on it's own. It's easy to see how exaggerating it into something 'really weird' could happen through regular ol' laziness.
      A bad writer who isn't doing any research could easily take that segment to mean that you can't buy a car on sundays *or* that you can't sell a car on sundays. Neither is true, but that won't stop him from printing something to that effect.
      RSMO 578.120 explicitly applies to licensed car dealers, distributors, and manufacturers. If I, as a missouri resident, privately sell a car to another missouri resident on sunday, that's completely legal.

  • @Oldney
    @Oldney 9 місяців тому +51

    Perfect timing, I head for Springfield day after tomorrow. Time to learn me some stuff likely to never come up in conversation.

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +13

      And you can learn how to keep yourself out of jail at the same time. Two birds, one stone.

  • @kwelchans
    @kwelchans 9 місяців тому +278

    The model glue law is likely due to kids using it for huffing.

    • @skortyspice
      @skortyspice 9 місяців тому +24

      Yeah it's pretty sensible. Solvent abuse can unalive you instantly

    • @Lithdren
      @Lithdren 9 місяців тому +16

      Because we all know, nobody above the age of 18 huffs solvents.

    • @germandude5181
      @germandude5181 9 місяців тому +31

      @@Lithdren Well, solvent abuse was a near-epidemic amongst adolescents in the 1980s - 1990s.

    • @hanifarroisimukhlis5989
      @hanifarroisimukhlis5989 9 місяців тому +6

      @@skortyspice Instantly, no. Chronically, yes.

    • @Gatherway
      @Gatherway 9 місяців тому +3

      I was wondering what kind of nefarious tomfoolery was happening that prompted the stuff to be effectively outlawed. That makes a lot of unfortunate sense.

  • @a-User-
    @a-User- 9 місяців тому +301

    next you should do "A Liquid 15 Minutes of Weird Laws In My Home State"
    Edit: now my comment doesn't make sense, the old title of the video was "a solid 15 minutes of weird laws in my home state"

  • @nickalasmontano1496
    @nickalasmontano1496 9 місяців тому +29

    Surgically altering bears for bear wrestling is very sad. It usually means detoothing and declawing it so that it can't maul the wrestler

    • @twistoffate4791
      @twistoffate4791 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes, exactly. Or they will attach a painful chain to its nose. Bears should remain wild and free, as intended.

  • @catherine6181
    @catherine6181 9 місяців тому +23

    As someone moving to Missouri soon, thanks for the heads up. I was really planning on starting a model glue business

    • @stashagarcia101
      @stashagarcia101 9 місяців тому +3

      I'm moving there next week. Guess I'll have to look for another side gig now.

    • @Emjay_blackdogranch
      @Emjay_blackdogranch 9 місяців тому

      @@Wes-hl9si I’m sorry that’s your experience. I grew up in the Bootheel, and loved it. We moved away then came back to SWMO. We didn’t know anyone here but it’s been lovely. Way better than NY 💯

  • @nromerob
    @nromerob 9 місяців тому +54

    If Austin did audiobooks, I would be listen all day. He's got a great speaking cadence and makes anything sound interesting.

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +1

      Agreed. Also, I'd listen to Hannah Barron doing audio books.

  • @patrickclawson9622
    @patrickclawson9622 9 місяців тому +8

    In the mid-80s, I bought a plastic kit of an M-16 at a Springfield hobby shop. Little did I know that the glue I used was considered far more dangerous to possess than a full-scale replica of a fully-automatic rifle... which I even took to school for "Rambo Day." The times have clearly... changed... a bit, since then.

  • @pickles3128
    @pickles3128 9 місяців тому +156

    AUSTIN Can you PLEASE cover that one time our state elected a DEAD GUY over John Ashcroft? And really odd part: the ded guy's wife, IIRC, became governor instead, like we have a weird gubernatorial monarchy?

    • @vibce
      @vibce 9 місяців тому +15

      It was the 2000 Senate elections, not gubernatorial elections

    • @pickles3128
      @pickles3128 9 місяців тому +18

      @@vibce OK thanks, I was 10: we almost got the day off school, but due to his "love for education" that was decided against last second. He _was_ governor, running for senate; his wife was appointed Lt. Governor for his remaining term. It was still a video-worthy event, IMO. Between our civil forfeiture laws and Todd "legitimate r--" Akin, my state thinking a corpse would be better than John Ashcroft was a rare moment where I was proud to be a Missourian.

    • @ColonelSandersLite
      @ColonelSandersLite 9 місяців тому +14

      There's a specific term for this sort of event in the world of politics - Widow's succession.
      It has officially happened *a lot* in US politics. I'm gonna say that when you get into the weeds, it has happened a lot more than is official. It happens sometimes that an official isn't dead but is fundamentally incapable of their official duties and the wife takes over. Ostensibly until the elected official can return to duty, but that's sometimes not really a possibility. A famous instance of this would be the case of Woodrow and Edith Wilson. Unfortunately, the laws around these sort of things *usually* require nothing more than a heartbeat for a person to fill an office on paper.
      The only unusual part of the ashcroft/carnahan story is that he was dead for nearly a month pre-election. Still, there was an office that needed to be filled.
      In US widow's succession is only allowed up until a special election can be held. Which is what happened with Jean Carnahan. We held a special election for the seat in 2002.

    • @itsjustme6632
      @itsjustme6632 9 місяців тому +5

      ​Missouri has not always been a Republican hellscape.

    • @janel.8921
      @janel.8921 9 місяців тому +8

      I was one of those people who voted for the dead man. I didn’t like Ashcroft.

  • @brandishwar
    @brandishwar 9 місяців тому +29

    We actually do still have a "bachelor tax". It just isn't a direct tax of a specific amount. The income tax brackets and rates penalize being single over being a head of household (single with dependents) or married.

    • @eddybowe2953
      @eddybowe2953 9 місяців тому +2

      that should be illigal.

  • @darthhodges
    @darthhodges 9 місяців тому +6

    I live in Columbia, MO and I know exactly how the largest dealership in the city gets around the no car sales on Sunday rule. He owns 11 different businesses within the city limits (and more in other cities and states) that are all registered as car dealerships. They share inventory so every individual lot can count as a car show involving at least 11 dealerships.

  • @karabean
    @karabean 9 місяців тому +5

    As a non-native transplant to MO, thanks for keeping me safe from possible conviction and/or incarceration. Pretty sure that would have been the ONLY consequence of the bear wrestling match I was organizing! 😅🐻

  • @twistedtick
    @twistedtick 9 місяців тому +20

    The one about carrying a garbage bag containing an EMPTY bottle that once contained alcohol is just plain unhinged.

    • @williamgosvener47
      @williamgosvener47 9 місяців тому +2

      It's the minor in possession law, it's so vague that a minor can be charged if they even touch the container the alcohol container (or former container) is in.

    • @max2562
      @max2562 9 місяців тому +3

      When I was a teenager I was warned from a police officer that if I had a garbage bag in the back of the truck that had smashed up beer cans within it I could be charged with open container. I'm not sure a judge would allow it to proceed, but it likely is still a law. This was in Missouri.

  • @TiredMomma
    @TiredMomma 9 місяців тому +4

    At a Dollar Tree, they did or do sell laser pointers, and I can confirm, I was age checked.
    I won't say which retail store is unknowingly breaking the ridiculous model glue rule in Springfield, but their business name rhymes with Hallmart, lol.

  • @TheSkinniest808
    @TheSkinniest808 8 місяців тому +1

    I’m from Moberly. So, when I was in ninth grade our student body, took to using “stink bombs in random locations in Moberly particularly the vents of public places and the schools. However, MLS a molasses feed producer stinks the whole town up all summer 😂

  • @antoinepetrov
    @antoinepetrov 9 місяців тому +48

    I didn't expect this to be a series, but I'm here for it.

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +1

      I'd tune in weekly for a long-form series covering obscure or silly laws from every state from a number of specified categories.

  • @cp6animation392
    @cp6animation392 9 місяців тому +30

    In Fort Wayne, IN it’s illegal to walk across the street with a watermelon over your head

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +10

      I can do you one better. In Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck atop your head. I win.

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 9 місяців тому

      Learn your commas.

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 9 місяців тому

      @@spacecowboy2957 How would you enforce that?

    • @spacecowboy2957
      @spacecowboy2957 9 місяців тому +2

      @@johnnotrealname8168 Do you have any ideas?

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 9 місяців тому

      @@spacecowboy2957 No.

  • @gronskeibooks
    @gronskeibooks 9 місяців тому +3

    i work at the KC public library. proud to see we're doing the good work.

  • @raedwulf61
    @raedwulf61 9 місяців тому +26

    "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah!"

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 9 місяців тому +3

      It's usually the ppl from Iowa that call it that. Everybody else copy's them. Iowa has it's own acronym that explains the confusion...

    • @raedwulf61
      @raedwulf61 9 місяців тому +3

      @@demandred1957 It's a Simpsons quote.

    • @max2562
      @max2562 9 місяців тому +1

      Nobody from Missouri actually says it like that

    • @kyrataylor2035
      @kyrataylor2035 8 місяців тому +2

      After all, if people are allowed to call it Missourah, they should be required to say Mississippah.

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 8 місяців тому +2

      @@kyrataylor2035 YES

  • @mariacargille1396
    @mariacargille1396 9 місяців тому +4

    I'd really love to hear more about what brought some of these odd laws into being, if you do more videos like this. Some can be reasonably guessed at, others not so much, and I'd enjoy learning more about both. :)

  • @Jessie_Helms
    @Jessie_Helms 8 місяців тому +1

    Every hobby store I’ve been to in Springfield MO is in violation of that law about glue display.
    Maw and paw shop in Brandon, every local game store, Hobbytown, etc…
    And almost every Warhammer player I know has violated the glue law.

  • @PrinceMagnum
    @PrinceMagnum 9 місяців тому +7

    I live in Missouri too, and he's not joking. It gets worse. He could have went another 30 minutes and still not cover it all.

    • @TS-wh4ey
      @TS-wh4ey 9 місяців тому

      Move...go to Illinois....maybe Chicago.

    • @Cloudaddy220
      @Cloudaddy220 6 місяців тому +2

      @@TS-wh4ey why tf would anyone willingly move to that crime infested state?

    • @TS-wh4ey
      @TS-wh4ey 6 місяців тому

      @@Cloudaddy220
      Maybe the commentator would, he or she apparently hates Missouri.

    • @SpaceCoffee700
      @SpaceCoffee700 4 місяці тому

      ​@@TS-wh4eynah Missouri is hella better than Chicago and the state in general especially around the south near table lake

    • @TS-wh4ey
      @TS-wh4ey 4 місяці тому

      I never said Chicago is better than Missouri. I live in the Missouri Ozarks and I wouldn't trade that to live in Illinois under no circumstances. But the narrator of this video can move to Chicago for all I care or anywhere else if he doesn't like Missouri.
      @SpaceCoffee700

  • @randyw617
    @randyw617 9 місяців тому +41

    Ah yes, the Bible clearly states "Thou shalt not sell a Kia Sorento on the Lord's Day." I'm glad Missouri is keeping this day holy.

    • @lyanreehan
      @lyanreehan 9 місяців тому

      youre right, tho it does mention to not purchase anything on the sabbath

    • @Fr331995
      @Fr331995 8 місяців тому

      King of the hill?

  • @mr.metamovies2419
    @mr.metamovies2419 9 місяців тому +50

    "I don't need sleep, I need answers!!!"

    • @bryantzad1724
      @bryantzad1724 9 місяців тому +1

      I’m a resident of this beautiful state I have an answer for you. It’s Missouri you kinda have to live here to get it but all the bear laws which there’s a lot of manly cuz there so common to find people decided to do crazy shit like fighting them which a radio host in St.Louis actually did

  • @Tatourice1
    @Tatourice1 8 місяців тому +1

    Pre-reference: as a Missouri dude, I expect this to be wild and outlandish, just speaking honestly.
    Not even 1/3rd in and wow 😐

  • @marcuslargent876
    @marcuslargent876 9 місяців тому +9

    Please do a video about the history of Missouri bear wrestling! I am super curious why that became a law. That surgical alteration part is especially intriguing

    • @selkie76
      @selkie76 9 місяців тому +5

      It probably simply means removing teeth and/or claws to make the bear less lethal at the sport.

    • @marcuslargent876
      @marcuslargent876 9 місяців тому +3

      @selkie76 I'm sure you're right, but isn't it more exciting to think they're adding lasers and biomechanical implants?

  • @jjm6010
    @jjm6010 9 місяців тому +28

    Considering also the fence law video, one wonders what battles on the homefront Austin is fighting.

  • @BenjaminEarlMusic
    @BenjaminEarlMusic 9 місяців тому +7

    That laser pointer one is super reasonable honestly. You ever see how kids behave with those things?

    • @tenabarnes3269
      @tenabarnes3269 9 місяців тому +2

      The laser pointer law was because children were pointing them at the sky at night and supposedly this caused problems for both private and commercial aviation. Missouri is not the only state that passed legislation on this matter.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 9 місяців тому

      @@tenabarnes3269 Yeah, and in case some people don't know, there are some laser pointers that are more a lot more powerful and dangerous than the ones that are sold as cat toys. Kids would point these at airplanes and actually blind (at least temporarily) pilots.

    • @Emjay_blackdogranch
      @Emjay_blackdogranch 9 місяців тому

      @@tenabarnes3269 I was a flight medic in the 2000s and this was a problem for us on multiple occasions(in MO)

    • @wolfdwarf
      @wolfdwarf 9 місяців тому +2

      mhm, also it's surprisingly to cause pretty serious eye damage with one.

  • @tbaugh82
    @tbaugh82 9 місяців тому +1

    In Malden, Mo, it's against the law to spit on the sidewalk.
    It goes back to being a railroad town, having wooden walkways, and a lack of spittoons causing damage to dresses.

    • @max2562
      @max2562 9 місяців тому

      Yes you get a fine in many cities for spitting on the sidewalk. However, puking is free!

  • @crungushakooter
    @crungushakooter 9 місяців тому +6

    A direct copy and paste,
    "Missouri law does not require employers to provide employees a break of any kind, including a lunch hour."
    This was very fun when I was working 12-16 hr restaurant shifts! 🙂

    • @lawrenceredmacher4382
      @lawrenceredmacher4382 9 місяців тому

      that's true of most states unfortunately. only 21 states have mandated work breaks

    • @brainlock72
      @brainlock72 8 місяців тому

      Try Six Flags. They purposefully understaff, then the under-16s no-show, leaving the rest of the crews woefully short handed, so nobody gets a break, esp on busy days like holiday weekends. I got stuck at the hand stamp exit for almost eight hours straight one day, after the first half hour, all I saw was a wall of hands. Morning shift lead told evening shift lead everybody on her crew was gone. They completely forgot about me. Or even taking hourly number counts. I couldn’t walk for an hour after that, and asked another employee to wheelchair me up to HR where my car was parked. Memorial Day 2017.

  • @danhyatt7083
    @danhyatt7083 8 місяців тому +1

    St John Missouri - first ordinace says that it is a misdemeanor, 3 months in jail $1,000 a day file for failing to follow any order from any city employee.. so if the janitor orders you to strip and do the chicken dance on the rock road.. you have to or go to jail..

  • @TheRealAlpha2
    @TheRealAlpha2 9 місяців тому +10

    If there was a law against run on sentences you could just shut the whole state down based on that alone.

  • @tessiepinkman
    @tessiepinkman 9 місяців тому +2

    I just love these weird laws, and btw; I don't think I've listened as intently to something in a very long time as I did during your fence law-video! My brain seem to really vibe with that subject and the monotony and absurdity of it all.

  • @gender_nihilism
    @gender_nihilism 9 місяців тому +3

    loving all the Missouri content. gives me something to think about my state other than the news lol

  • @SnowshoeAviator
    @SnowshoeAviator 9 місяців тому +2

    The bear wrestling laws are to prevent animal abuse, there are other states that allow some pretty horrific things when it comes to predators. In Missouri we actually have extremely strict laws regarding hunting in general including the ways in which we are allowed to hunt predators/trophy hunt. Other states have wildlife killing contests for coyotes/foxes/wolves/cougars and the like while we do not allow that here.

    • @max2562
      @max2562 9 місяців тому

      This is true. Missouri is a major conservation hub and in general led the way for other industry such as MFA. Also, Missouri usually has the most charted caves, with Arkansas sometimes finding more annually. You used to be able to get a different license plate featuring artwork referencing the cave state.

  • @Max-px3wx
    @Max-px3wx 9 місяців тому +16

    Germany still has a "Bachelor" tax. It's for everyone who is unmarried. not just men. Germany has 6 classes of income tax:
    Lohnsteuerklasse I: Unmarried people, or married people who don't live together.
    Lohnsteuerklasse II: Same as I, but with kids.
    Lohnsteuerklasse III: Married and living together, and the spouse picks V.
    Lohnsteuerklasse IV: Married and living together.
    Lohnsteuerklasse V: Married and living together, and the spouse picks III.
    Lohnsteuerklasse VI: Only used for additional jobs. The first job is always taxed one of I - V, any additional job is taxed VI.
    Based on the class you pay more or less income tax. Generally VI is worst, I is second worst, and the rest is complicated.

    • @ColonelSandersLite
      @ColonelSandersLite 9 місяців тому +2

      It's still a part of US federal taxes and most state taxes too. I'm not really sure where this guy is coming from on that one.
      It's just reworded now. Instead of a tax penalty for being single, you get a tax break for being married. The math is identical no matter how you word it though.

  • @WeChallenge
    @WeChallenge 9 місяців тому +2

    Thanks Austin for the shout out for Perryville MO's silly laws, Strangely I reside in that town due to work, and my sister and her family live near you in Nixa MO also due to their work requiring them to relocate to that area.

  • @GleeChan
    @GleeChan 9 місяців тому +11

    It's a good thing he got the fence laws out the way because this video would be waaaaaayyyyyyyyy longer.

  • @wolfdwarf
    @wolfdwarf 9 місяців тому +1

    Okay. I feel like the whole model glue law thing was a way to say "people are sniffing this glue too much, let's try to find squash this addiction epidemic without letting people know 'hey you can sniff glue' by having the law be blatant about the reason for the law"

  • @esqforhire312
    @esqforhire312 9 місяців тому +8

    In fairness, there are numerous states and municipalities that regulate the sale of model glue due to its potential for abuse as an inhalant

  • @blo0dchild
    @blo0dchild 9 місяців тому +2

    Hi from NJ where buying a motor vechicle is also illegal on Sunday
    ETA most if not all gas stations will be open but most if not all shops will be closed.

    • @nlpnt
      @nlpnt 9 місяців тому

      I try not to gas up when I'm traveling in or around New Jersey.

  • @edwolfe8105
    @edwolfe8105 9 місяців тому +9

    Obviously there is no law about using the phrase "solid 15 minutes" flippantly😂. Thanks for the content Austin. I always enjoy it.

  • @kaleberg1528
    @kaleberg1528 9 місяців тому +2

    I live in excelsior springs mo. I had no idea it was illegal to throw snow

  • @juliaconnell
    @juliaconnell 9 місяців тому +7

    what, wait - _wait_ *WHAT* - Footloose is _TRUE_ Purdy, Missouri actually does have a ban on school dances. I was about 12 or 13 when the movie 'Footloose' was released in 1984 thinking 'what a *ridiculous* concept for a film', only to find out in 2024 that there is some basis in truth, in reality.... (ok, well not the "town limits" - but still...)
    not that I would ever doubt your word or research Austin...
    " _A ban on school dances in a small Missouri town survived Supreme Court review today_
    _Without comment, the Court refused to hear a challenge by a group of students and their parents in Purdy, Mo., to the ban. They argued that the policy, reflecting the Christian fundamentalist view that social dancing is sinful, violated the constitutionally required separation of church and state_
    _Fundamentalist Christians make up a majority of Purdy's residents, and a group of ministers took the leading role in preserving the century-old ban when school officials considered modifying it in 1986_
    _Joan Fox, a parent and plaintiff along with her son and husband, said the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case was ''a real loss for students in this community and around the country.'' Mrs. Fox called on the school board to voluntarily abandon the 100-year-old dance ban. source: New York Times_ "

    • @FallingMoonXofficial
      @FallingMoonXofficial 9 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, my dad was apart of the kids that protested- Also, the footloose thing is kind of an inside joke amongst Purdy residents :)

    • @juliaconnell
      @juliaconnell 9 місяців тому +1

      @@FallingMoonXofficial well done your dad - at least he tried to make a difference. 👍☺
      yeah, I can understand that - better to laugh, make it a joke - than dwell on it 😁

    • @williamgosvener47
      @williamgosvener47 9 місяців тому

      Footloose isn't based on Purdy according to the writers/producers/director, it's based on one of their own home towns.
      But yes, Purdy, you can't dance, I grew up in the county seat, and Purdy did give tickets for public dancing or listening to music. It's a stupid law that generates a lot of money for the village.

    • @williamgosvener47
      @williamgosvener47 9 місяців тому

      ​@FallingMoonXoffical I still live in the area. It's a stupid law that generates a lot of money for the village, and by extention the county seat in event rentals and associated taxs.

  • @TheEpictrooper
    @TheEpictrooper 8 місяців тому +1

    Don't forget about the Mormon Extermination order that wasn't removed until the 70s or 80s, I can't quite recall. Of course it wasn't used after the 1800s but still. XD

  • @georginatoland
    @georginatoland 9 місяців тому +11

    True fact: Sunsets in Missouri are even more beautiful in autumn. On my first trip through Missouri I witnessed a particularly spectacular one. So crazy laws or no, I shall be back.
    9:19 I will have to avoid Overland tho. 😂

  • @wisdomhunter3797
    @wisdomhunter3797 9 місяців тому +1

    Well done Austin 👌
    Give it up to this guy for grinding and producing great content for all of us!

  • @ericn.wilson2345
    @ericn.wilson2345 9 місяців тому +3

    A very compelling follow-up to that fence law masterpiece in April.

  • @LOLVRAZ
    @LOLVRAZ 9 місяців тому +1

    Someone from Missouri I can approve everything you just said

  • @Gldtr39
    @Gldtr39 9 місяців тому +9

    We are learning more and more about Missouri lately

  • @Un0r1g1n4l
    @Un0r1g1n4l 8 місяців тому +1

    Bear wrestling was a big thing in the 90's. The damned parties were releasing bears into our back yards and people where trapping them, removing their claws and fangs and then bringing them to bars for people to wrestle. The winner usually won something like $100.
    Honestly, I'm surprised you didn't mention the legal to shoot Mormons law.

  • @TheTNTPVP
    @TheTNTPVP 9 місяців тому +26

    I love pointless and stupid laws! This will likely be mildly more entertaining then fences and their legality!

  • @jazzgod21
    @jazzgod21 9 місяців тому +1

    the no Car sales on Sunday isn't that weird. personally, i love it. gives you the chance to go look without someone coming to talk to you

  • @acedaryl2
    @acedaryl2 9 місяців тому +24

    The sports official one is legit. Sports parents can be a special kind of crazy.

  • @crystaleevee1334
    @crystaleevee1334 9 місяців тому +2

    It makes one wonder what exactly transpired for some of these laws to be made in the first place…
    Now I’m imagining some random dude having a bear wrestling business, and some law maker’s little pet dog gets out, and one of the bears eats the dog, then the law maker makes a bill to get revenge on the bear guy.

  • @Azvee
    @Azvee 9 місяців тому +5

    Dude, you can't keep releasing these on my days off. People at work are going to think I'm weird if I keep coming back with legal knowledge from Missouri.

  • @BrianRocksNow
    @BrianRocksNow 9 місяців тому +2

    Remember folks, for nearly every law saying you CAN'T do something, someone HAS done it before.

  • @noahmontgomery3879
    @noahmontgomery3879 9 місяців тому +3

    “Enjoying solitude”… Good joke Austin. Good joke. 😂

  • @JoeTheDIY
    @JoeTheDIY 8 місяців тому +2

    Love being based in Missouri. Life is pretty good here despite wonky laws.

  • @soggybaguette8457
    @soggybaguette8457 9 місяців тому +3

    How perfect, I move there next week!

  • @toffeejc
    @toffeejc 8 місяців тому +1

    Tbh, i understand why the ref harassment law was put in place. Never in my life have I seen so many refs get utterly obliterated by a crowd than when I lived in that town😭

  • @MaybeMari97
    @MaybeMari97 9 місяців тому +3

    Stay safe out in Missouri today. As a neighbor in KS, we’re bracing for tornadoes 😅

  • @motherofhounds24
    @motherofhounds24 8 місяців тому

    In some municipal in MO you have to have a permit to hold a garage sale specifically (Valley Park)
    In addition to the car sales it is only referring to dealerships not all car sales. You can sell your car to whomever on Sunday if you please

  • @JinzoTK
    @JinzoTK 9 місяців тому +4

    Finally someone is serious about model glue.

  • @mystuff789
    @mystuff789 9 місяців тому +1

    At least the animal laws sound ok. Give lots of room for the animals, don't harm bears by wrestling them. I guess the place just has problems with having ducks, geese, donkeys, pigs ect. ? I suppose ducks are really good at getting water dirty, geese are loud and can be scary guard animals, donkeys can be loud when braying and pigs are smart and big and would probably escape to eat people's vegetable gardens.

  • @midnightsky8400
    @midnightsky8400 9 місяців тому +21

    As a missouri state citizen, this place is wack

    • @SouthernGround
      @SouthernGround 9 місяців тому +4

      Try Illinois 🤣, you don't know "whacked" you don't know how lucky we have it here in Missouri.

    • @Anarcho-harambeism
      @Anarcho-harambeism 9 місяців тому

      I avoid that state like the plague ​@SouthernGround

    • @kelsynicole9135
      @kelsynicole9135 8 місяців тому +1

      As a fellow life-long Missourian, yes, yes it is 😂

    • @SouthernGround
      @SouthernGround 6 місяців тому

      @@kelsynicole9135 move to Illinois and let us know how it's going in a year or two, you will be running back 😉👍

    • @SpaceCoffee700
      @SpaceCoffee700 4 місяці тому

      Yes but also the place where a home on land is cheap as shit food is generally good due to the farmland legal weed if you rent you ain't paying shit
      Nah it has problems but it's gotten way better since covid

  • @lennyd8337
    @lennyd8337 9 місяців тому +2

    I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!

  • @gamergumilyov8579
    @gamergumilyov8579 9 місяців тому +6

    In Texas, if you get caught with wire cutters in your back pocket, that means you're cattle rustling and you can get hung for that

  • @toffeejc
    @toffeejc 8 місяців тому +1

    Man, bear wrestling must have been a big issue at one point

  • @kristinab8326
    @kristinab8326 9 місяців тому +3

    I would like to hear one on Minnesota 💜

  • @1983McGovern
    @1983McGovern 8 місяців тому +1

    Dang, my gong bong isnt permitted in Missouri! Times are sad.
    Nothing says happiness like sucking down a cloud of sativa express, then upon the seal being broken the gong sounds for that sweet meditation of euphoria bliss.

  • @Silver-Studios
    @Silver-Studios 9 місяців тому +3

    For some odd reason, I feel enlightened in a weird sort of way. Could there be a circle of randomness in which random information could become not so random at all?

  • @ronaldhillhouse8860
    @ronaldhillhouse8860 9 місяців тому +1

    There are people in Springfield who have a yard/garage sale nonstop for years until they pass away or move. Rarely do they shut them down. It takes a neighbor calling daily to get them shut down.

  • @ryanlutes9833
    @ryanlutes9833 9 місяців тому +5

    Some of these aren't too crazy. The model glue one is probably to prevent solvent abuse, especially by minors.

    • @larsg.2492
      @larsg.2492 9 місяців тому

      But why specufically model glue and not other adhesives? Or paints? Sounds more like some people really hated hobby shops.

  • @DanteHavens2009
    @DanteHavens2009 9 місяців тому +1

    13:58 Welp, ive thrown snowballs and thats my hometown.....

  • @icednik
    @icednik 9 місяців тому +9

    You spent a minute and 10 seconds on the intro, as well as a minute on the outro, giving us only 13 minutes of laws. Is there a law that lets me sue you for this ?

  • @lastnamefirstname8655
    @lastnamefirstname8655 9 місяців тому +2

    more minutes of austin talking about things!
    this time weird laws in missouri!
    nice!

  • @AvaThroughFire
    @AvaThroughFire 9 місяців тому +3

    10/10 content as always

  • @FrankMuniz
    @FrankMuniz 9 місяців тому +2

    First, it was the county that tried to take his fence down. Now, it's the state of Missouri who is after him. Watch as this action hero takes the state and, like his fenceline, puts them 'in their place'...
    Austin McConnell as 'Tex' Johnston stars in "Enemy of the State 2 - Electric Fence Boogaloo"

  • @mrdeatheli
    @mrdeatheli 9 місяців тому +11

    I moved from Springfield, MO just over 15 years ago and it was the best decision of my life. I'm 43 now, and the thought of moving back to Missouri fills me with existential dread.

    • @synthetic_creature
      @synthetic_creature 9 місяців тому +4

      would you say living there filled you with.... misery?

    • @baronvonfritz
      @baronvonfritz 9 місяців тому

      You too!? I thought I was the only one that hates Springfield. Left in 01', never looked back. Have to visit family on occasion, but that just reminds me how much I hate it and never lets me get nostalgic.

    • @caiusmadison2996
      @caiusmadison2996 9 місяців тому

      Must not have lived somewhere where the hippies rule then, try Illinois. You request your acre of misery back quickly, bunch of invalid run that state. I've never been happier with the logical downt to earth people of Missouri. Meth addicts discluded, as nobody should count the idiots on speed as a factor, they're now everywhere.

    • @VincentsVideoVisions
      @VincentsVideoVisions 9 місяців тому

      To be fair, Springfield sucks but there's other towns that are much better. I've been in MO since 2009 and it's much better than the other states I've lived in.

    • @max2562
      @max2562 9 місяців тому

      I also have this dread every time I have to go back to Missouri. I like Joplin, but basically everywhere else I hate because of old bad memories. Lots of depression just trying to muster the will to get up and get in the car to go. Stay strong bro

  • @thredbarron
    @thredbarron 9 місяців тому +2

    Firefighting in the 19th century was usually done by private brigades that would be paid by the insurance company only if they saved the building. Dress quickly Sarah! 2:57

  • @Anon_Spartan
    @Anon_Spartan 9 місяців тому +39

    Holy crap Missouri actually made a law against arming bears.

    • @Seethenhagen
      @Seethenhagen 9 місяців тому +6

      More than likely I would imagine its to prevent bears from being declawed in order to facilitate bear wrestling.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 9 місяців тому +1

      @TheFinalFanboy "professional bear wrestler" goes hard.

    • @MeriDoug
      @MeriDoug 9 місяців тому +2

      I had a dog named Bear, and we wrestled all the time. I hope no one noticed.

    • @raimeyewens7518
      @raimeyewens7518 9 місяців тому +4

      @@MeriDougso did I, but he was a Pomeranian

    • @MeriDoug
      @MeriDoug 9 місяців тому +3

      @raimeyewens7518 nice! Mine was a GSD mix. Never met a pom Bear, but I accept xD

  • @jasonutty52
    @jasonutty52 9 місяців тому

    Being from Missouri, this new channel direction is an absolute win.

  • @thelostonetxt8450
    @thelostonetxt8450 9 місяців тому +3

    Why am I sitting here on a Saturday watching this as a non Missouri resident😂😂😂

  • @darthhodges
    @darthhodges 9 місяців тому +1

    New York enacted a similar laser pointer law in the late 90s or so.

  • @OtakuUnitedStudio
    @OtakuUnitedStudio 9 місяців тому +3

    I guarantee the model glue thing is due to hysteria around inhalants during a drug panic.

  • @lynnries7729
    @lynnries7729 9 місяців тому

    About 50 yrs ago we had a family reunion in Anderson, MO. We visited the one small store open on Sunday where my SIL from California tried to purchase some personal care products...deodorant, hairspray, lotion, you get the idea. Anyway, we were informed my the very polite cashier that they could NOT sell any aerosol products on Sunday! No reason given...that's the law! Gave us a good laugh.

  • @haruhisuzumiya6650
    @haruhisuzumiya6650 9 місяців тому +3

    Necromancy 😂

  • @SleepyLeeeee
    @SleepyLeeeee 9 місяців тому +1

    Next time it snows, I'm throwing snow balls in ES.