Crazy Laws From Every State 

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To be fair, if you woke up a sleeping bear to take a picture with it, what that bear will do to you far surpasses any punishment you could get on a legal front.

The fact that the "don't get a fish drunk" law was immediately followed by a "don't get a bear high" law is comedy gold

"It is illegal to handle salmon in a suspicious manner."-Literally a British law from like the 1700s that was purposely made as vague as possible to allow people to be arrested basically at officer discretion. I don't know if it was ever repealed.

I live in Oregon. My dad once mentioned that at some point in his early life (he was born in 1953), the Oregon State Legislature took the time to go through all of its laws and purge the crazy old-timey ones. His favorite was the law stating that anyone going to church must carry a rifle with them in case of a "wild indian invasion".

Maryland actually repealed the oral sex law two weeks ago. The repeal goes into effect in October.

As an accountant who has worked with lawyers for the 8+ years within my profession, the presentation and explanation is WAY too accurate despite my disdain.

As a Nebraskan I can’t believe he didn’t mention that as soon as you cross the border in to Iowa, one of the first signs on the road say “shooting waterfowl from the highway is not permitted.” The fact that Iowans have to be told NOT TO SHOOT DUCKS FROM THEIR CARS ON THE HIGHWAY is ridiculous to me and always will be.

i love how the auto chapters work fine until north carolina then it just gives up

The fact that that censorship happened in a 1984 board of education meeting is so ironic

As a Missouri resident I can confirm that the amount of time he spent researching that one law is more time than anyone else has ever spent researching any individual thing about Missouri.

I think the frog law is to make sure people aren't collecting frogs and killing them without a fishing license, and using the excuse that they were allowed to collect them for frog jumping contests

I actually super believe the Wyoming one, my town/area has a similar law. Laws like that are actually a large part of why modern architecture exists, if you can classify the project itself as a piece of art, then you don’t have to pay extra for art

4:26 - Alabama 8:44 - Alaska 10:48 - Arizona 13:26 - Arkansas 14:16 - California 16:10 - Colorado 19:53 - Connecticut 22:03 - Delaware 26:04 - Florida 26:55 - Georgia 27:41 - Hawaii 30:07 - Idaho 30:47 - Illinois 34:10 - Indiana 34:51 - Iowa 35:43 - Kansas 36:29 - Kentucky 38:41 - Louisiana 40:15 - Maine 41:49 - Maryland 43:36 - Massachusetts 44:13 - Michigan 46:20 - Minnesota 47:31- Mississippi 49:07 - Missouri 54:23 - Montana 54:45 - Nebraska 55:13 - Nevada 56:15 - New Hampshire 56:44 - New Jersey 57:47 - New Mexico 58:51 - New York 59:12 - North Carolina 1:00:24 - North Dakota 1:01:23 - Ohio 1:02:13 - Oklahoma 1:03:21 - Oregon 1:03:40 - Pennsylvania 1:06:15 - Rhode Island 1:07:57 - South Carolina 1:08:35 - South Dakota 1:10:05 - Tennessee 1:13:27 - Texas 1:14:07 - Utah 1:15:34 - Vermont 1:18:10 - Virginia 1:18:54 - Washington 1:20:29 - West Virginia 1:22:17 - Wisconsin 1:24:17 - Wyoming

The bear law in alaska mostly has to do with their hibernation cycles. I remember learning about it when growing up there. Apparently photographers and tourists were messing with bears in hibernation just for a dumb photo, which really messes with the animals and can cause problems if anyone happens to live near their location. There's a ton of forests along populated neighborhoods throughout major towns and cities, and it's not uncommon to see the bears roaming around from time to time without having pissed them off. They added more to the "take" definition to make sure no one could mess with them anymore.

My uncle and his husband actually took advantage of that Colorado marriage thing to excuse not having any ceremony or anything to my very sentimental and somewhat Catholic gran. It's very handy, the ol' common law.

I absolutely love the delicious irony of the guy who does the "How it is Actually Made" series spending hours debunking Internet bullshit and making a feature-length video about it.

As a resident of North Berwick, Maine. I can 100% confirm the validity of the Dunks law. It's right on a super busy intersection and can fuck EVERYTHING up lmao

If I’m not mistaken, cannibalism isn’t technically illegal in the United States, but it's nearly impossible to get human meat legally. It's so if you're in a life or death situation and need to eat someone to survive, you won’t get in legal trouble for it.

I’m a Mississippi correctional officer for the county sheriffs office, I’ve only seen 3 people get booked under Public Profanity, and 2 of them got sentenced in jail to 30 days

as a Missouri resident, I am immensely proud of how much anguish my state has caused for huggbees, it will be the most significant thing my sate has done ever.

SPOILERS: Here's a list of where every law stands after this video. I wanted to put this at the end but I thought it'd slow down the pacing for the build up of the finale. Law - Arkansas - California - Colorado - Delaware - Idaho - Illinois - Massachusetts - Mississippi - Nebraska - New Hampshire - New Jersey - Oklahoma - Oregon - Rhode Island - Tennessee - Texas - Vermont - West Virginia - Wisconsin - Wyoming Technically a Law via Logical Leap - Alabama - Alaska - Kentucky - Louisiana - Pennsylvania Not a Law - Arizona - Connecticut - Florida - Georgia - Hawaii - Indiana - Iowa - Kansas - Maine - Maryland - Michigan - Minnesota - Missouri - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - New York - North Carolina - North Dakota - Ohio - South Carolina - South Dakota - Utah - Virginia - Washington

Huggbees being able to play guitar is something I forget about a lot but whenever he reminds us I'm like "of course he knows how to do that"

So fun fact about the MA golf ball law: This wasn't a no fun allowed law to stop some prankster or really creative assassin, but because golf balls used to be filled with liquid cores as part of manufacture, and the internals were not the safest of fluids. The law was passed because occasionally, these balls would break and people would be injured, particularly in the eyes from acids, so it was better to make a law that prevents all caustic or explosive materials in golf ball manufacture.

1:07:05 Huggbees just whipping a guitar out and suddenly playing a sick solo was legitimately cool as hell didn't know he could play!

Wisconsin has the same drinking law for minors as illinois does, except it also extends to bars. you can legally drink at a bar as a minor as long as your parents are around and approve it.

My guy transitions from the most sarcastically forced acting into proper, believable acting at the drop of a hat and I think that's significantly more impressive than just being good at acting

"Ahem, behold your honor," the lawyer says as turns an open jar of pickles upside down. *The jury all gasp as the pickles just fall all over the fucking floor*

I live in Minnesota. Minnesota had a “law” where you can’t wear a duck on your head while crossing the Wisconsin border. Not sure if that law only applies to Wisconsin crossing to Minnesota, but I think it wasn’t a real law.

I used to be under the impression that it was illegal to deny someone water in Arizona. That turned out to be a myth, but I'm kinda sad that it is because that law would be based as hell. If someone asks for water in a desert hellscape like this state, they probably fuckin' need water.

Im from the UK and we got some old crazy laws and I’m excited to see what the US got.

As a Pennsylvanian resident, I am surprised the law mentioned wasn’t “it is illegal to sleep outside on a fridge”.

Huggbees is a true inspiration of being an informal knowledge sharer and satirical comedy man. That, and his statement on people being too lazy to do actual research and making a concrete opinion on things is terrifyingly true. We need more people to be like Huggbees. Smart, clever, funny, can take a joke, actually does their homework on subjects, and above all, has common sense. The most important sense of the six senses. (I honestly wish common was a real sixth sense.)

As someone who's lived in Maryland their whole life, everyone here knows and jokes about the odd sex laws here.

Frog jumping contests use wild frogs that get released back into the wild after. My bet is that the law is written thus so that people can't use "frog jumping casualty" as an excuse to avoid a poaching charge.

I'm surprised the law claiming it's illegal to speak English in Illinois wasn't mentioned. I've heard of the culinary school loophole for

Forever grateful he mentioned parents can give their kids alcohol in Illinois, I still remember my mom tricking me into sipping her drink multiple new years eves in a row and how the taste firmly cemented me as a non-drinker

The Nebraska one about a venereal disease likely isn't the only one and was once in the books for 34 states. Specifically for syphilis. It was a law disguised as a health law that was actually incredibly racist due to the high incidence of syphilis among poor and black folks due to lack of availability of treatment for one reason or another. By disguising it as "oh well give you this blood test to test for VDs" it was mostly to prevent minorities from marrying.

My wife actually told me a story about someone throwing a rock from an overpass, and causing the car it hit to be involved in a fatal accident. She is from Iowa, and that is where this happened. I assume the law is related.

48:23 I absolutely love the beat around the bush cursing Huggbees does 😂

If there needs to be a law to not fuck with a bear, whoever's breaking it deserves a Darwin award

36:29 From Kentucky here, let me elaborate on that one. This is an odd amalgamation of a few things. On one hand, it's the anti-animal cruelty angle like Hugs said. But also, the '6' in there comes from trying to dissuade people from buying a young animal, then neglecting it. Also, most of those animals are group animals and need company, so.

The small animal thing is because it used to be common to dye the baby animals for Easter. People would buy one give it to their brat. If the animal lived they were often illegally dumped somewhere. There is more than one state with a similar law for the same exact reason. I raise and sell chickens and even in AR there are laws on the min amount of baby chicks I can sell at once.

I think my favorite bonkers law has to be one from Arkansas, where it is illegal to own six or more bobcats without a permit; its the fact that they specify a number where it becomes an issue that gets me

This video should be used as everyone’s introduction to law and legal study.

America is weird about having its laws revolve around Sundays. I'm stationed in South Carolina, and the weirdest law that I learned that they have is that you can't beat your wife on courthouse steps on a Sunday. I have no idea why that one is so specific or if it's been repealed or not.

54:25 sadly John Frederick Montana, the man who passed this bill was in a hurry one day preparing for his 4th of July party and accidentally brought fireworks into the council meeting. Upon releasing this he immediately blew himself up to avoid breaking his own law.

1. Yes I remember the “children cannot trick or treat” thing in VA. It was as ridiculous as it was enforceable. 2. It’s Chesapeake (Chess-a-peek) and it’s the 3rd most boring city in America as you can clearly see why; they hate anything and everything fun. Once upon a time they were going to build Busch Gardens there but people threw a massive fit over it and that’s why it’s now in Williamsburg. I hate this city

The "weird law" of my hometown was that you would be fined for not paying for a parking meter if you tethered your circus elephant to it.

56:40 I was expecting to see this one. It’s illegal to harvest seaweed at night in New Hampshire because people were overharvesting it to use as fertilizer on their lawns and it was causing significant erosion to the beaches. Much like with some other weird laws, in context it makes some amount of sense, though it’s probably worth taking off the books.

As a New Mexican, who recently covered Romeo and Juliet last school year-no, nothing was censored. In fact, Romeo and Juliet tickled our devilish minds as Shakespeare wrote a story that was quite fucked up. And Heisenberg is a real teacher in our hearts.

For the frog racing one, I would expect that it came about to try and keep parasites out of the local evosystem. Depending on how popular the sport is/was, people might have been going out of state to get better frogs, and possibly bringong back things no one wanted tearing apart the local wildlife. In this case, "destroyed" wpuld be most easily fulfilled by incineration, which would deal with any hanger ons

"Do not put specimens in mouth." --high school biology rule.

It's a good day when another classic Huggbees State Slander comes out

Huggbees has inspired me to do more studies, arguing and debating, and pretty much anything else I find fun now. This guy molded me by teaching me things I only use to prove points or tell for fun. That’s an interesting tale.

Starting this video with the highest brow 🤨 at the beginning as an alabamian. Lol, great ad break and caught me off gaurd. I'm just glad it wasn't the overused ice cream in the back pocket law. think the origin was people used that to lead horses to steal them. So they had to prove intent? ANYWAY, hilarious video and you definitely earned a subscriber! 😂😄

Proud to be a resident of two states that have laws that are actually laws (California and Wyoming)

My best guess for that Florida Skydiving law is that it would be one of those basic "Sunday is a holy day" laws that someone has stretched to its absolute breaking point.

As an Arkansas resident, I think our law is ironic. Since most people that live here can't even pronounce common words correctly.

I'm so impressed with the scope and research that went into this video, deserves more attention.

I live in Maryland, so I already had a feeling that the shirt law wasn't true, and I was almost going to feel relieved that the place I live doesn't have any weird laws, until that second law was brought up. I'm ashamed ngl

The fact that in New Mexico women cannot appear unshaven in public is crazy

the fact that he could've just made this a list of crazy laws but went out of his way to tell us if and why they're real is super cool

The fact of how easy it is to legally start a religion just makes your bit with "take your communion by the gallon" that much funnier lol

Huggbees: Weird laws from every US state Also Huggbees: Casually leaves Maine out

"if i say eating a mayonnaise sandwich is illegal in los Angeles, that doesn't mean its illegal in all of California. " me, who lives in America, with uncles who live and work in los Angeles: wait that's not its own state?

I can't help being distracted by Andrew's computer screen reflecting off his glasses and giving him Sans eyes

As a European, this was a delight to see😂😂

I'm really happy you took the time to research and debunk the fake ones I always find it weird have stuff like that gets passed around.

You have single handedly convinced me to move to California for my frog-breeding operations.

For reference, the drinking law where you can drink at home in Illinois is true for almost all states except like 5. And Louisiana used to allow you to drink in public with your parent. I don't know what the current status is though.

NM student here 1. no clue 2. yes walter white actually works at every school and teaches us how to grill meth with green chilies

Found your channel yesterday and I love it. You have the same chaotic casual energy of a nerdy best friend coming home and just infodumping about everything they've learned in the past month. Subscribing :)

The weird law from New Mexico I heard growing up was that "idiots" can't vote. It meant something like disabled person or something. It's been a while since I heard about it and I was kind of hoping that was the one that was explained

As a researcher, I felt that ending statement. The absolute worst part about it is that I triple check my sources before putting anything down in research papers or lessons, and I've still been proven wrong on a few occasions by experts in the field, even on occasions where I only used resources from experts! False information is not only spread on the "casual" internet or newspapers but in scientific journals and research papers as well, and it's not uncommon, either! Every year that passes, it becomes harder and harder to verify information, and AI will only make matters worse. This is largely why we're in the state that we're in-nobody can verifiably believe anything, so everyone has to be absolutely "sure" of what they know, which obviously spreads more misinformation and disinformation than actual fact! It's not just that people don't research (though this is largely true, especially of media), it's that it's constantly getting harder and harder to research! When comedians speak more truth than schools and cited sources alike, you know it's time to do something about it.

That bit about a kid being allowed to drink at home with parental permission is pretty much true across the country, I know specifically in Virginia where I'm from it's the case and I've heard it's true in every or almost every state. Also I've always generally heard that you're allowed to have wine in church so I think in order to not be playing favorites with any religion most or all states probably also allow kids to have alcohol in religious ceremonies.

That Illinois law where there’s a clause about drinking in the house just feels normal to me. If you couldn’t tell, I live in Europe, where we are a lot more lax with alcohol, and I was allowed to drink indoors from aged 14. I personally never really got drunk or anything until I turned 19, but my sister does on a semi regular basis at home. This is because she doesn’t know her limits on certain alcohol, and is a sickie with it. It’s safer for her to drink here while it’s still unavailable to her outside because it means that she can learn her limits and how to be safe in a supervised environment. To be clear, we obviously don’t let her do it more than like once every 2 weeks or on school nights and stuff…but it’s important for her to learn how to handle her drinks and know where her limit is where she feels comfortable and still has fun. That’s why so many people get into such a bad state with alcohol at a young age, because they don’t know what they’re doing with it. Also we say she gets drunk, but she drinks like 75 ml of vodka with mixers and two Ciders at like 8pm, is completely fine until like 11, when she is viciously throwing up in the toilet. She’s not going crazy or anything, she just hasn’t learned what alcohol affects her differently and what she should and shouldn’t drink if she’s trying to be responsible, which is why she’s allowed to drink in the first place in the house. Because she needs to figure that out before she becomes legal and makes silly mistakes.

"There's no law against putting pennies in my ears!" I know Superman called him Prankster, but...am I the only one that thinks that guy looks a LOT like the Penny Plunderer?

I'm never having a sleepover in Colorado because I don't want to be legally married 3 times just because I wanted to watch a movie with some friends

I think not enough people are talking about the ending of the video, the spread of misinformation through the internet is genuinely scary.

13:41 imagine if some asshole goes around and just goes “ARE KAAANSAS, AREE KANNNNSAS, ARE KANNNSAS” around judges and police officers just to piss them off and actually does get charged

Dude, it's past midnight for me. I had a hard day at work. I didn't expect to have someone remind me that most of the information I get I take without any further level of thought and how I regurgitate said information without any thought, leading to a cycle of misinformation that I keep thinking I'm above when in reality I'm not.

Finally a feature length hugbees video to top that time he just uploaded the entire public domain movie “a house on haunted hill” which still counts it’s one of his best videos

18:54 this is like landlords who try to say someone has more people living in the home than their lease allows, because they see they have visitors and a social life during the day or a gf stays over one night 😂

Illinois has my back! Once I was in Texas as an 18yr doing humanitarian aid fresh outta highschool. Now I didn't really know where to get weed. However the property we were staying on was church property, I heard there was a wine and dinner every Wednesday. I'm not even religious, but I religiously went for that unlimited wine.

"But that's stupid and you're stupid so let's not be stupid" -hugbee, 2023

as someone from georgia, i was expecting the one about ice cream in the back pocket on sunday. but i immediately knew the one you brought up was fake because theres a fair that passes through every year and i know damn well that theyve offered goldfish as prizes for some ring/ping pong ball tossing game

A genuinely beautiful piece of media from the works of Huggbees yet again. It is a neat, simple enough concept that he dives deep into, providing several comedic bits and interesting pieces of trivia along the way, but most importantly uses its framework to make a statement. Something I've always appreciated about this channel is that it transcends the norm for this platform, rewarding those who pay attention and dive into the experience with him, and I'm saying this as someone who listened and watched this video while working. Thank you for being you Huggbees, and most importantly, God I hate Maryland

can we all just admit that huggbees message at the end is a good way to give people a wake up call and is done masterfully

A peculiar incident that might be worth making a short video on is the Butte Montana explosion. A fire broke out at a warehouse, and the fire brigade went to put it out. The company that owned the warehouse were illegally storing explosives inside and had them hidden behind iron plates; when it detonated it basically turned into a massive frag grenade and killed nearly the entire fire department (the only survivor was shielded by a horse, but was gravely injured). The explosion lit other warehouses on fire, where other companies were also illegally storing explosives. With the entire fire department dead or incapacitated, the city was basically SOL.

I had to make a project in a sociology class where I could pick any topic to talk about, and I wanted to make it about dumb laws. This video massively appeals to me.

The frog thing is likely to keep people from circumventing hunting license laws by forcing frogs to compete in contests until heart failure, since they couldnt reasonably ban frog jumping contests.

I have a problem with the PA one. That being there are quite a few fortune tellers across from the local airport. It's not like they're hard to spot or hidden away from the local police, because they have neon signs and there's a police station right next door. It's not even the only place I've seen signs for fortune tellers.

Seeing how much effort he puts into his videos, I would love to see Huggbees rip into the country's National Monuments and/or parks. I've seen some dumb things, but I'm sure he would find even dumber ones.

You can make crazy laws that are true yourself! Like so, murdering people is illigal. Clowns are people, so murdering clowns is iligal. Since it is always illigal, it is illegal to murder a clown at 5 o'clock monday during january on a leap year. Also any way you kill someone is illigal, so to finish it off: It is illigal to shove plastic cows down a clown's throut until they die at 5 o'clock monday during january on a leap year. This is technecally true

I remember my step grandmother, who was one of those people who confidently trusted herself over professionals, would tell stories all the time about how she almost got arrested on multiple occasions because her dog got mistaken for a donkey. It was like a tiny dog too I don't know if she was stupid or though we were stupid. She would even sometimes say she got her dog specifically because he looked like a goat to freak people out everytime the average person walking down the street saw her dog in a bathtub for some reason, because that happens all the time.

In Calgary, Alberta, Canada, allegedly, there is a law in place that says a person must be provided with a horse, a handgun, and bullets upon their release from prison. I don't know if there're any prisons in Calgary city proper, but it's fun to think about. I haven't found any source for whether it's on the books or not, but it's out there.

As a Kansan, I once heard a law ( i think it was a really old law and also was probably in a certain county or something) that it was illegal to make cherry pie with ice cream or something (I was really young I dont remember)

Fun fact- the last one- from Wyoming, also is in place in Philadelphia! Anyone who builds a building worth a certain amount has to donate 1% of their budget to public art works. Thanks to this (and many other pro-art rules by the city), the city is known as the outdoor art museum

For Illinois you should've went with the one where it is illegal for you to collect roadkill unless you have paid all of your child support