Through the ages there have been tons of laws that make no sense or that offend us today. They may have made sense then, but taken out of context they don't. Please share if you know of some. I'll start with a couple.
My great uncle, Eli Wood, was arrested in the 1920s for possession of 200 pounds of sugar. Huh? Sugar? What the...? Then I remembered. Eli was both a blacksmith AND a farmer. You use sorghum or molasses to make sweet feed for your stock, not sugar. But you use sugar and corn mash the farmer produced in a still the blacksmith made and you get moonshine. My great grandfather made his own spirits. His father paid federal income taxes on the liquor he made in the mid-1800s, so he must have made some fine stuff - legally. Uncle Eli was a moonshiner during Prohibition.
Then one or two that are just funny. In Kentucky it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in public on Sunday.
In North Carolina a law is till on the books prohibiting back pockets on women's jeans. It seems they are just too sexy and alluring!
My great uncle, Eli Wood, was arrested in the 1920s for possession of 200 pounds of sugar. Huh? Sugar? What the...? Then I remembered. Eli was both a blacksmith AND a farmer. You use sorghum or molasses to make sweet feed for your stock, not sugar. But you use sugar and corn mash the farmer produced in a still the blacksmith made and you get moonshine. My great grandfather made his own spirits. His father paid federal income taxes on the liquor he made in the mid-1800s, so he must have made some fine stuff - legally. Uncle Eli was a moonshiner during Prohibition.
Then one or two that are just funny. In Kentucky it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in public on Sunday.
In North Carolina a law is till on the books prohibiting back pockets on women's jeans. It seems they are just too sexy and alluring!
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