Timeline for Do these NY old dumb laws actually exist?
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| Sep 14, 2022 at 9:44 | comment | added | U. Windl | I wonder (being non-US): Are those "laws" actually laws, or are they just cases that lead to some fine, in turn "judging" that the same or similar offense will also lead to some fine? | |
| Sep 13, 2022 at 22:36 | comment | added | Flydog57 | Related useless fact. In the 1970s (yeah, I'm old), there was a show on Canadian TV that was based on archaic or arcane laws. There'd be a vignette, set in a locale and contestants had to guess the law that had been broken: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Law | |
| Sep 13, 2022 at 12:19 | comment | added | Stuart F | Wouldn't it make more sense to ask individual questions about any law that particularly interests you, rather than have a bunch of unrelated answers? Although some have tried, it's going to be impossible to comprehensively answer all of these in a reasonable space. Plus SE discourages long lists of questions. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 15:00 | comment | added | user26151 | Isn't it because US legal system is precedence based and every verdict functions as a law source, in which cases legal verdicts taken fully out of context can be mocked as dumb laws? | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 13:11 | comment | added | jaskij | I'm very interested in the strange link - why would you link a PDF which, judging by the address, is meant as an exhibit for an elementary school computer lab? | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 7:26 | comment | added | Mark Johnson | In Germany: §25 - Fußgänger / Pedestrians (StVO): (3) If you are walking, you have to cross the roadway swiftly, taking the shortest route across the driving direction, taking the vehicle traffic into account. ... | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 6:24 | comment | added | kisspuska | “ Jaywalking is legal, as long as it's not diagonal. That is, you can cross the street out of the crosswalk, but you can't cross a street diagonally.” why is this a stupid law? In Europe a crosswalk is for crossing with the right of way. It is not considered an implied prohibition to cross elsewhere unless unreasonably close to the crosswalk and not using it. Crossing diagonally unreasonably increases the time and distance it takes one to cross. It is totally reasonably to prohibit that. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 5:22 | comment | added | Guntram Blohm | How many of these laws are actually court rulings in specific cases that made it into case law? | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 5:17 | comment | added | Someone | The jaywalking one isn't too dumb. If people are going to jaywalk, they should at least take the shortest route. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 0:14 | vote | accept | David A. | ||
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| Sep 11, 2022 at 21:42 | history | edited | David Siegel |
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| Sep 11, 2022 at 18:03 | answer | added | lawful-n00b | timeline score: 56 | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 17:59 | comment | added | supercat | @JohnBollinger: I wouldn't be surprised if there are some rules that would would require that anyone hanging objects from ropes that pass over public ways have some kind of an engineering analysis to ensure that there would be no danger of the objects endangering passersby below. | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 16:02 | comment | added | John Bollinger | It seems entirely plausible that the items on the list are all based on laws and ordinances that were at one time on the books in New York. However, even if all of them were still on the books in 2011 (the copyright posted on your source), some might well no longer be on the books today. Additionally, do consider the likelihood that some of them have been intentionally interpreted or phrased so as to sound as absurd as possible. | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 15:55 | comment | added | Richard | I gather a lot of these "funny laws" are in fact finance bills. You raise a silly law and tack $300,000 of funding for the fire department that's overspent, etc | |
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| Sep 11, 2022 at 8:01 | answer | added | IllusiveBrian | timeline score: 16 | |
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| S Sep 11, 2022 at 5:59 | history | asked | David A. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |