Dumb Laws

[WotanAnubis]

According to that site, my country, the Netherlands, only has 2 dumb laws:

It is legal to smoke pot, buy it, or have less than 5 grams with you.

Prostitution is legal but the prostitutes must pay taxes like any other business.

And I don't even think they're that dumb. Is this a sign that Dutch lawmakers are actually somewhat competent or that the site hasn't thorouhgly investigated Dutch law?

I'm betting it's the latter.

[Acal]

Latter, every country has laws that have been totally forgotten about and now no longer serve any purpose

[redsliver]

Canada somewhere also 25 years is life sentence. Forget if all Canada or just one piece.

All of Canada, a life sentence is 25 years

[Acal]

Isn't a life sentence in the US 40 years?

[johns_tinkerbell]

I was reading some of the post and I decided to go and look for myself. I found some crazy laws that are from my husband's home state of Tennessee.

You can’t shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.

Driving is not to be done while asleep. (Well I do this all the time, joking)

It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.

It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.

In Lenior county

When you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the window to warn horse carriages that you are coming.

In Memphis, where my husband grew up.

It’s illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM.

Illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians.

[RikuDrak]

Some of these were really funny, though the state I lived in when I lived in the US didn't really have all that amusing of ones.

And the ones for the Netherlands are only "dumb" if you're a conservative asshat.