What are some outrageous laws or rules that you seen and how did they get written

[Danger]

for example
a "No drinking milkshakes in driveways" law was made because someone was drinking their milkshake in a driveway and accidentally spilled on it and slipped on his milkshake therefore dying because his brain got all shim shammed when they hit their head on the concrete of the driveway

[RebelMouth]

i had an interesting experience with an officer's particular interpretation of a law, not sure if that counts.

They have a legal right to do this, it's called "enforcement discretion". An officer can pick and choose when to enforce the law, which in itself seems like a weird law, but sort of plays into my experience.

I recently called first responders to a mental health scenario that happened in public, when a young woman on the street started having a bad trip. She was screaming, ripping off her clothes and scratching at herself. She ended up doing this in front of a number of people including a family with young kids. When the cops responded they essentially questioned her and sent her walking down the street. The female officer who was trained in mental health response told me she had no legal right to even detain the young female.

The female officer pressed that she only had legal authority to arrest the woman if she "posed a danger to herself or others", and while the woman was hallucinating and stripping in the street from unseen demons in her clothes, apparently that didn't count.

the female officer kept pressing that she wanted to protect the rights of her citizens... to which i brought up 4th amendment rights (as they had chosen to search the woman).

Considering the officer articulated herself that the woman posed no significant danger to herself or others, it was interesting they chose to justify the violation of her 4th amendment right yet refused to detain her on the grounds of protecting her rights.

Just to be clear i didnt want to see this young woman who tripped get anything but help, and certainly not be arrested, i just thought it was interesting how this particular officer interpreted "danger to themselves or others" and how officers as a whole can jam you up as a "suspicious person" simply for walking down the street, yet are somehow powerless when someone actually needs help.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Messaggio originale di ƤŁȺᎢiƝՄM ȺƝGԐᏞุ:

Messaggio originale di Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Some states and cities in the USA during this "Chinese Communist Party Corona Virus" will fine or arrest you for not wearing a mask in public instead of PROVIDING YOU A MASK since they are either hard to find or people are price gouging them.

People should be fined for not wearing a mask in public. If you don't have a mask, then don't go out. It's not difficult to understand. People are dying from asymptomatic morons going around not wearing masks and spreading the virus to those who are most at risk. The fines / arrests are acceptable considering the circumstances.

But they really should provide them masks as well... Slap a fine on them, arrest them if necessary, and hand them a mask.

So fine them, arrest them... And then give them a mask?

How about give them a mask FIRST and a warning instead of going all authoritarian/totalitarian on them, because some people are poor and cannot afford the masks, let alone fines and life ruining jail time, or they can't get masks because people are hoarding them or price gouging.

Though you sound like the type that would love martial law.

[REVERIE]

Graduate students cannot receive raises. The quality, quantity, or importance of their work does not matter. What you get when you start, is what you get when you end.

This rule has created a number of terrible situations. Right now, there are third-year students working as supervisors on multi-million dollar grants earning literally thousands of dollars less than the data-coders they supervise. There are students with poor work ethic and grades making 14% more than our program's top performers. What's worse, these discrepancies appear to be related to demographic variables (like sex, race, age), but since grad student's aren't "employees" ethical standards need not apply.

Academia essentially runs on slave labor.

[Mavrah]

Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore, as I recall. In fact, it carries a greater fine than if you're caught urinating in an elevator.
Also, there was Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin 'Democrat' Roosevelt, which sent more than 100,000 Americans to concentration camps.

[erratic_gamer]

Laws are meant to be broken

[Radene]

Messaggio originale di Boofalo Soja:

Messaggio originale di GuRu Asaki:

I can imagine it now, zombies rising from their grave, & china is like woe, woe who gave you permission to rise?

'_-

"Oi, what's all this, then? Didn't you used to be the emperor's son, in the 8th Dynasty? Who told you you could do that? Papers, please!"

The reason is a lot more political.

Dalai Lama.

[Schindler's Lifts]

Messaggio originale di Mavrah:

Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore, as I recall. In fact, it carries a greater fine than if you're caught urinating in an elevator.

Our chewing gum ban has been a meme for ages. Within and without the country. It started when the MRT (our metro or subway or whatever) was built and chewing gum would get stuck on seats or jam train doors. And apparently they'd rather ban chewing gum outright than do literally anything else to stop it.

But nowadays, it isn't as enforced as you think it is. For one, they've relaxed the rule to allow stuff like nicotine gum. It's also not that hard to smuggle across the causeway, and if you do get caught with it, they'll usually just confiscate it and issue a verbal warning or fine.

[Chunk Norris ☯]

In California it's no longer a felony to knowingly infect someone with HIV, but it is a crime to go to the beach during a virus outbreak that has a 98.+% survival rating.

[WhispersOfTheWind]

I'd really love to contribute to this post but I can not for I am not well acquainted with the laws but I know a few sure. Moral and 'mental' ones, like how to take care of yourself, and your next of kin, this kind of thing but to go deeper would just be almost like a sort of lyrical assault or blasphermy but do be assured that some things bother me, like for instance How Jamaican's Can't Smoke In Kingston.

Euh... Euhm... Yeah, amongst others.

[Chunk Norris ☯]

Our lawmakers can be pretty dumb sometimes. Here's a good case in point. This fool thought that if we put too many troops in Guam, that the island might capsize, just like putting too many people in a boat causes it to capsize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q

[Starbug]

US gun law. I'm not sure how they got drafted but it was likely a precautionary measure in the event that the Golden Horde island hopped across the Aleutians.

Either that or the one where it's illegal to share a Netflix password in Tennessee.

[Chunk Norris ☯]

To be honest allowing everyone to vote in America is kind of a dumb law.

Voting is an important process, even if it's not regulated as much as say "buying alcohol", why should anyone be given that power?

Many people don't know much about politics. Why should they have the ability to determine policy?

[Et tu, B?]

Messaggio originale di Mavrah:

Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore, as I recall. In fact, it carries a greater fine than if you're caught urinating in an elevator.
Also, there was Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin 'Democrat' Roosevelt, which sent more than 100,000 Americans to concentration camps.

Not exactly a master of History, but I think why he ordered 9066, is because the specific Americans were Japanese, and it was during WWII, and FDR was scared that the Japanese Americans were spies or something.

[Bykeshgoly]

Messaggio originale di Southpaw:

To be honest allowing everyone to vote in America is kind of a dumb law.

Voting is an important process, even if it's not regulated as much as say "buying alcohol", why should anyone be given that power?

Many people don't know much about politics. Why should they have the ability to determine policy?

Let's produce a system by which only particular individuals can take part in, due to them meeting some arbitrary prerequisite and have this system also be responsible for directly effecting people who are involved within that nation even if they are able to use this system or not.

[Cydramech]

The mass majority of laws are weird as ♥♥♥♥, but I'd definitely say any law that criminalizes resisting arrest or killing any specific groups of people (such as pigs).