It can be hard to keep track of what is and isn’t illegal these days?
Laws change all the time…and then there are the really bizarre laws that exist for seemingly no reason.
What do most people not even realize is illegal?
Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about this.
1. Neither sounds fun.
“In Louisiana, if you bite someone with your natural teeth, that’s simple battery.
But if you bite someone with false teeth, it’s aggravated battery.”
2. Don’t do it!
“Washing oil paint down the sink.
It can contaminate drinking water.”
3. None of that.
“Double stops at stopsigns is illegal in Nevada. If you roll forward and stop again, you broke a law.
This is frustrating because they put stop signs really far back from the street in Nevada, so it is nearly impossible to safely turn without making a double stop.”
4. Good old Vermont.
“Vermont has a law on the books (1999) that a “Good Faith” effort must be put in to serve apple pie with either a scoop of ice cream, cold milk, or a slice of cheddar cheese no less than 0.5oz.”
5. The Tarheel state.
“In North Carolina, it’s illegal to sing out of key and it was illegal to go masked in public if not for the purposes of theatre, a parade, or a holiday.
It’s an old anti-Klan law, and they had to have the law stayed so the governor could issue a mask mandate for the pandemic.”
6. You go first.
“It is illegal to initiate contact with a manatee, but you’re allowed to touch them as long as they touched you first.”
7. It’s all yours.
“In Scotland, you cannot pick up roadk**l that you k**led with your own car.
However, the car behind you can pick it up and do whatever with it.”
8. Darn!
“California law states that it is illegal to wash your neighbor’s car without their permission.”
9. Check this out.
“In Canada it’s illegal to walk around with a weapon for the purposes of self-defense.
However you can walk around with a weapon for literally any other reason… you can literally have a samurai sword because it looks cool and that’s legal but if it’s for in case you’re attacked it’s illegal…”
10. Don’t even think about it.
“Waving someone on in traffic.
Only people like traffic cops and construction workers can direct traffic, and if you wave someone on and they get in an accident as a result you can be held liable.”
11. Heads up!
“In Japan, you can use your phone while stopped at a light but you can’t legally honk at someone who’s too busy playing on their phone in order to let them know that the light turned green.”
12. Where’s your ticket?
“In France it is illegal to have live snails on a high speed train unless you purchase a ticket for the snails.”
13. Drives me insane.
“Driving consistently slower than the speed limit, without legitimate reason to do so (like road conditions or a vehicle problem).
In fact, in some states, it is more points on your license than speeding.”
14. DUMB.
“In a lot of places, feeding the meter (putting money in a parking meter to extend a car’s stay past the maximum) is illegal.
It’s rarely enforced, but technically you have to move your car once the two hours or however long is up, regardless of how much time is left on the meter.”
What else is illegal that most people don’t know about?
Talk to us in the comments and let us know.
Thanks a lot!
