Weird State Laws Part 2

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Montana: No “folf”Anyone who’s driven through Montana has inevitably wondered, “how far could I throw a Frisbee over the plains?” Those who seek answers, avoid Helena; it is illegal to play “folf” (that’s “Frisbee golf”) anywhere not deemed a sanctioned “folf course.” Curiosity could cost you $500 or six months jail time.

Nebraska: No marriage if you have VD

Technically, no person afflicted with a venereal disease may get married in Nebraska. Meanwhile, state officials are still unable to get a green-light for their new TV show, Law And Order: VDU.

Nevada: Be selective with X-rays

Say what you will about the vice and commercialism of Las Vegas—at least they’re looking out for your feet. In Nevada, it is illegal to use an x-ray device to determine someone’s shoe size.

New Hampshire: No seaweed collecting

In New Hampshire it is forbidden to collect seaweed from the beach at night. Yes, it’s unfair, but you should’ve thought about that before becoming a nocturnal sushi chef.

New Jersey: No murder while wearing a bulletproof vest

It’s against the law to murder someone, but in Jersey it’s double against the law to murder someone while you’re wearing a bulletproof vest. See if you can follow along: wearing a bulletproof vest while committing or attempting to commit a crime of the first degree, is a crime of the second degree.

New Mexico: Redefining indecent exposure

Let’s take a break to focus on what’s not illegal: walking around with your butt out. In New Mexico, “indecent exposure” is defined as “intentionally exposing [one’s] primary genital area to public view.” Buttocks are nowhere to be mentioned.

New York: Sales tax for sliced bagels

If you order a sliced bagel in New York City, fuhgeddabout a square deal: “altered” bagels (sliced, toasted, or served with cream cheese, etc.) carry an eight-cent sales tax. Uncut bagels are typically tax exempt.

North Carolina: Be careful with your doggie bag

Be careful what you put in your doggy bag: In North Carolina it is a felony to steal more than $1,000 worth of grease, and a misdemeanor to steal under $1,000-worth. Grease theft, it turns out, was a huge problem in NC before this 2012 law passed, with midnight grease-bandits persistently preventing Biodiesel companies from purchasing restaurants’ excess oil to convert into fuel.

North Dakota: No late-night fireworks

Happy almost New Year! Despite a 1999 amendment allowing the sale of fireworks temporarily from December 26, 1999 through January 1st, 2000, it is illegal to set off fireworks after 11p.m. in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota.

Ohio: Toilet paper in coal mines, please!

Operators of underground coal mines must provide “an adequate supply of toilet paper” with each toilet. It’s too bad the letter of the law here stops at coal mines.

Oklahoma: No bear wrestling

In Oklahoma it is illegal to promote, engage in, or be employed by a “horse tripping” event. Also, it is unlawful to wrestle a bear… but at that point, the law is the least of your worries.

Oregon: No “tests of physical endurance” … while driving

It is considered a speed racing offense in Oregon if you participate in any “test of physical endurance” while on the highway. Sorry, y’all: No more seeing how long you can work the steering wheel with your teeth.

Pennsylvania: Bingo is only for non-felons

Fool me once, shame on you: No person convicted of a felony may operate a Bingo game in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

Rhode Island: Don’t impersonate an auctioneer

Rhode Island “false personification” laws deem it unlawful to impersonate an auctioneer. Choose your Halloween costume accordingly.

South Carolina: No working (or dancing!) on Sundays

Good news: In South Carolina it is still illegal to work on Sundays! Bad news: it is also illegal to dance on Sundays. Fans of work and/or footwork will both be happy to hear, these antiquated laws are in the process of being repealed.

South Dakota: Fireworks approved to help with farming

Farmers in South Dakota have the green-light to set off fireworks or explosives to protect their sunflower crops… so long as they are six hundred sixty feet away from the nearest church, home, or schoolhouse.

Tennessee: Permits for panhandling

Panhandlers in Memphis must apply for a permit before panhandling. Formerly, this formality cost the destitute $10. Today, it’s free.

Texas: Keep litter on aircrafts

It is illegal in Galveston, Texas to throw litter out of an aircraft. Besides, using the blue bins is so much easier.

Utah: No missiles in bus terminals

Hurling a missile into a bus terminal is a felony—unless you are an appointed officer of the peace or commercial security personnel (see: mall cop.)

Vermont: Clotheslines, be gone

Vermont passed a law just to say there would never be a law prohibiting the use of clotheslines. Good to know.

Virginia: No skunks as pets

In Prince William County, it is illegal to keep a skunk as a pet. Man, the law stinks.

Washington: No Sasquatch poaching

It is illegal to poach a Sasquatch in at least two Washington counties. In 1991, Whatcom Country declared its roughly one million acres of land an official Sasquatch Protection and Refuge Area, giving our nation its first Bigfoot Sanctuary. If Bigfoot exists, lawmakers reasoned, it would be an endangered species, and therefore in need of protection. For this reason, Skamania County has considered Bigfoot-poaching a felony since 1969—still punishable by a $1000 fine.

West Virginia: No drones for bird hunting

In West Virginia it is illegal to use a drone “or other unmanned aircraft” to hunt birds. While you’re out in the woods, you’d better not use a ferret instead of a hunting dog; that’s a $100 fine right there.

Wisconsin: Better make that butter delicious

Giving credence to its reputation as “America’s Dairyland,” Wisconsin law demands that all cheese and butter produced in the state be “highly pleasing.” Oh, and cows have the right-of-way on highways.

Wyoming: Don’t buy junk from a drunk

Like Mama always said, “don’t buy junk from a drunk.” In Wyoming, purchasing scrap “metals, rubber, rags or paper” from an intoxicated person is prohibited.

Originally Published: June 12, 2019 Reader’s Digest

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  1. “Vaccine doubles the risk of going blind”
    By Guy Hatchard – May 24, 2023

    EXCERPT: “The writer is in New Zealand.

    A STUDY of data from 1.5million subjects in the US reveals increased risk of blindness over two years following mRNA Covid vaccination.

    The carefully specified study published in the leading journal Nature has found that your risk of developing retinal vascular occlusion (RVO), which leads to temporary or permanent blindness, doubles within the two years after vaccination when compared with unvaccinated individuals (see here for a detailed explanation of the study findings by Dr Mobeen Syed).

    The results are especially alarming because all categories of people whose health history and drug use might lead to a propensity to suffer from RVO were excluded from the study. The two groups of vaccinated and unvaccinated subjects were matched by age, sex, race, comorbidities, medications and previous hospitalisation. In other words, the results point very clearly to a doubling of risk for those receiving mRNA vaccines.”

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccine-doubles-the-risk-of-going-blind/

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      1. Oh, there was more….some we’ve seen before and I don’t bring everything….only the stuff I don’t think people have seen yet or that might be applicable to our interests.

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  2. Pharmacist Whistleblower Recording Reveals Killings by Hospital During COVID ‘Pandemic’
    May 24, 2023 Alex Jones and Attorney Tom Renz

    ENTIRE ARTICLE (video @ link): “Alex Jones interviewed attorney Thomas Renz who is working with a whistleblower who was a pharmacist in a hospital during the COVID ‘pandemic’. The pharmacist opposed the strong drugs that were given to COVID patients who were later put on ventilators and died. She warned the hospital about the drugs and its protocol that could result in people dying, and she requested a religious exemption so that she could avoid endorsing the drugs and complicity in “hastening” patients’ deaths. The hospital fired her in retaliation and reportedly kept its protocol. Alex Jones said that there were floors in 139 hospitals where patients’ deaths were “hastened” and were killed by harmful medical treatment.”

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/QpNt2O3RJSVV/

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  3. Fairfax County sucks – I can tell you that from first-hand experience!!! I used to have to deal with them when I was working for a design engineer firm with blueprints, permits and such.

    “Fairfax County Schools Moves To End K-12 Free Speech With ‘Bias Incident’ Tattling System”
    BY: STEPHANIE LUNDQUIST-ARORA
    MAY 24, 2023

    EXCERPT: “Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools system is signaling that the eyes of “Big Brother” are upon our children. The district’s school board members are currently considering an Orwellian “bias incident reporting system” in changes to the code of conduct. With the new system, students, parents, and staff members would anonymously report “any incident of inappropriate conduct, including, and without limitation, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, other violations of civil rights.”

    Bias incident reporting systems are on the rise in our nation’s universities, doubling in the last five years. These systems are the administrative apparatus used to chill free speech and are facing many legal challenges, including in neighboring Loudoun County Public Schools.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/24/fairfax-county-schools-moves-to-end-k-12-free-speech-with-bias-incident-tattling-system/

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  4. Hmmm…..oddly, the nasty birds are leaving the 4″ suet block I put out a bit ago over the garden bed alone. It is also designed for woodpeckers specifically….if this keeps up, I will make sure to get that exact type in the future….I’m tired of having to go yell at them and bang the broom handle on the roof of the patio! It’s metal so it makes a LOT of noise! LOL

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    1. Ah-ha! Blackbirds do not like safflower or millet and that particular 4″ block has millet in it…maybe that’s why they are avoiding it. Also, advice is to get an upside-down suet feeder since they won’t hang upside down whereas the woodpeckers and nuthatches can do it easily, which I’ve seen them do myself on my big block feeder. Alrighty then….safflower and millet seeds coming up! My basic seed feeders are protected with either a cage or a baffle, which keeps the bigger birds out. It’s just the suet I need to concern myself with, which is more expensive, of course!

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  5. “EU parliament trying to block Hungary from holding EU council presidency in 2024–The European Parliament does not have a mandate to take action on the matter but is still trying to block Hungary”

    May 25, 2023
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: NÉPSZAVA
    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The European Parliament (EP) is set to adopt a new resolution on the rule of law in Hungary and the freezing of EU funds at its plenary session on June 1, opposition news portal Népszava reports after having seen the draft. The draft five-party resolution questions whether Hungary will be able to credibly hold the EU Council presidency in 2024 while violating the EU’s core values and failing to abide by the principle of loyal cooperation.

    The European Parliament therefore calls on the European Council to find a solution to the problem, otherwise the bloc’s parliament will intervene. This is the first time that the EU parliament has attempted to block the Orbán government from running the EU27 decision-making body. The various countries of the EU rotate the council presidency position every six months, with Hungary set to hold the position for six months from July next year. The rotating presidency coordinates the institution’s legislative activities and represents it in its relations with other EU bodies.

    Hungary first held the presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011, during the second Orbán government. In response to the news, Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote in a Facebook post that “we will not let such an opportunity be taken away from Hungary!”

    “The decision on who will hold the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union was taken by unanimous decision of the Council. The European Parliament was not dealt a hand on this issue. Of those who were dealt a hand, no one thought that Hungary should not take up its rightful post. We are in daily contact with the General Secretariat of the Council, and we are preparing for the task,” she added.

    “The EU presidency is an excellent opportunity not only to make our country and its position even better known in the member states of the European Union, but also to shape the future of Europe. In this context, the Hungarian presidency will have three main priorities: demography, competitiveness and the future of cohesion policy.”

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  9. Dang! I already need to mow again but….I’m going to ignore it….we’ve got rain moving in, which will make it grow even more – I’ll wait, thank you! LOL

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  12. today is the 18th anniversary of the renewal of our vows. we stood atop the highest Smokey Mountain we could find and renewed our vows at dawn. it was cold, it was windy, it was perfect. we had been thru a rocky patch before that and decided that “we” mattered more than any of that junk and decided to focus on us. it was beautiful.

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    1. I saw that –about the oil! ‘what complete ASSHOLES

      that’s why they continue to allow ultra maggot to bumble and stumble around…so we think this stuff is the result of an idiot in the wh instead of a strategic plan to destroy America.

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  20. My grandson left a book here when he left…so I thought I’d check it out – it is really good, by Norah Roberts, titled “Black Hills.” It’s been out since 2009 but I tend to overlook a lot of her stuff for more hard-core investigative books. Makes for a nice change!

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    1. i read a story the other day–a whistleblower from a nyc hotel. he said 10-14 year olds are getting drunk in those migrant places. they are damaging the rooms AND they found children LEFT behind, when their “parents” left for another hotel.
      sex in the hallways, feces and slop everywhere. they are getting high–where the hell are they getting $$ for drugs???

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      1. I posted it. They are given cash and vouchers, car seats, cribs, diapers, food, medical needs, 2-3 babies born every week, etc., etc., etc. And other NGOs sucking from the taxpayer teat give them bennies/cash as well. And they sell a LOT of things they are given!

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  22. And the clouds are rolling in…..only hit 81 today and I expect it will start down soon….this shouldn’t be much but tomorrow they are calling for possible thunderstorms….I’ll have to keep an eye out for any greenish-looking clouds or skylines that could drop a tornado…no warning on that score, tho, so not likely….so far, anyway. This IS NE after all!!!

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      1. We go long periods where it’s relatively calm, then the wind comes up strongly again for a few minutes. My flag holder is plastic so I always take it in when there’s much wind. One already broke so I don’t want to break this one. I need to get the old-fashioned, heavy metal holder…if they even still make them. Probably have it at Menards. One of these days…

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        1. you have a picture of what you’re looking for?
          moms got all sorts of doodads she doesn’t know what dad wanted to do with them and I know she said she has a flag in the closet he was gonna hang. she probably has one.
          we’re planning on going to Mom’s next weekend again. hubby’s going to put a coat on her deck railing and I’m helping her with the walk in closet.
          if i find one, I’ll send it you

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          1. Oh, don’t worry about it, Pat! The postage would probably cost more than the holder itself! Really! It’s not a big deal for me since I’m always home anyway to take it down when it gets too windy.

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            1. if you’re sure…
              mom’s looking to clean house and it tickles her whenever someone can use something she’s looking to get rid of.

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              1. Well, I’m not going to return it, Pat! LOL – only if you really want to spend the $$ for postage. This is a cast iron one advertised for $30 but I certainly don’t need cast iron – just steel (not aluminum, tho – that’s not strong enough). My current one is white – black, white, silver – doesn’t matter to me – just not green or something funky like that.

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  23. ROFLMFAO watching the nasty birds trying to get the suet NOW!!! Ha! Gotcha, you bastids! One of the solutions suggested was to put a rounded baffle over the suet so I started poking around, looking for something to use. It had to be heavy enough not to blow up in the wind, something with a hole in the bottom to feed the chain thru….now, what can I find? Ah-ha! A clay pot! Hole in the bottom; sturdy and heavy; and it fits perfectly over the suet, with a couple of inches sticking out underneath.

    I put it up and came onto the patio – w/in 5 minutes, there was a striated WP hanging sideways on it, eating the suet….meanwhile, at least 8 blackbirds are all milling around, trying to chase it off. When it flew over to the big log under the eaves, they looked and looked and looked, from all angles, almost starting off to give it a shot, then changing their mind – not ONE of them landed on the suet or even came close!!! WHOOPEE!!! By jove, I think I’ve done it!!!

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      1. Uh, no….I’d go to prison for throttling someone, fer sure! LOL – that’s why I refused to get a civil “servant” job when I got out of the Army – the good ones just get used up and abused.

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  25. IMPEACH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸
    @Travis_in_Flint
    Breaking: THE DOJ INTERFERED IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

    IRS Agent Gary Shapley, who was assigned as oversight of the Hunter Biden investigation, says the investigation was “slow-walked” by the DOJ. He says he immediately noticed red flags and every single issue always benefited Hunter Biden. The DOJ began the investigation under President Trump, and have gone out of their way to ensure nothing sticks on Hunter Biden, especially during an election year in 2020.

    Once he noticed this pattern of the DOJ protecting Hunter, his conscience could no longer allow him to keep silent. He reported it and says he was retaliated against and his team was removed from the investigation.

    Why is the Department of Justice protecting a politicians son? This was the same DOJ that had no issue going after @DonaldJTrumpJr
    with everything they had.

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  26. SCOTUS rules she was RIGHT. if the state takes a property for unpaid taxes, the owner must receive any proceeds over the amount of taxes due!
    FTA
    A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a massive blow to a practice that is common around the nation – governments taking a property for unpaid taxes, selling it, and keeping ALL the proceeds.

    That offends, the court ruled, the Takings Clause of the United States Constitution.

    The fight at hand involved a condominium formerly owned by Geraldine Tyler in Hennepin County, Minnesota, but the same facts have played out over and over across the nation in recent years. In fact, some state laws authorized this specific action.

    In this case, Tyler owed about $15,000 in unpaid taxes and penalties, so the county “seized the condo and sold it for $40,000, keeping the $25,000 excess over Tyler’s tax debt for itself,” the court said.

    She sued, charge the county unconstitutionally retained the excess value of her home in violation of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment.

    https://redwave.press/supremes-unanimously-rule-against-government-equity-confiscation/

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    1. Hallelujah!!! The exact issue I had with my PPT, as well as others even worse off financially than me!!! That is just sooo very wrong and now, this will have nationwide effects! Yes, yes, yes!!!

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    2. They have tax auctions here – my house (valued at +$65K) would have been put up for auction at less than $1K. I can only imagine when people start bidding, how high that might go and, yes, as far as I know, the County would have kept the overage.

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  28. Big wind came up and I had to take feeders down – Orioles are gathered, chattering away…where’s our jelly??!!?? LOL – I felt a few sprinkles but it hasn’t done anything so far…temp has dropped to 77.

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  29. There are some interesting connections being made vis-a-vis those sat phones they gave the Senators…YMMV – however, it’s from Godlike Productions, which, IMO, leave much to be desired when it comes to hard facts. But they’re good at speculation and making the correct connections….
    “Have Senators been invited to spend Memorial Weekend in the DUMBS?”

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  37. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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