There are a lot of things which make no sense, I just found out about another one today. Somebody I know booked a trip to Europe. At the last minute he was told his passport could not be used, because it expired in two months. He told the federal authorities his vacation was only for two weeks, but they said it didn’t matter and he was forced to run down to get a new passport on the same day he was to take his flight. He got to the federal building at 6 am in the morning and his flight was for 11 a.m. they kept him there until 12:30 p.m. He ran to the airport, but of course his plane had already left so he contacted the airline representative for that carrier. They told him not only did he lose his money for the trip to Europe, but he also lost the money on the return trip, even if he booked the trip again. Of course he was furious but he had family waiting for him on the other side. He now had to shell out another $1,100. He said they are changing the law now to reflect the fact passports expiring in six months or less can no longer be used for a trip outside of the United States.

Sometimes governments can get out of hand when it comes to making laws. This can be because a law might not make any sense. A law which could put one away in jail for over twenty years in one state may not even exist in another. There is also the problem of old laws which never get repealed. Do you like to play bingo? I wouldn’t do it North Carolina if I was you, because it is illegal for a bingo game there to last more than five hours. About the only saving grace is the fact bingo usually doesn’t last that long anyway. How about crazy food laws. Do you like beer and pretzels at the same time? If you do you better stay out of the restaurants in North Dakota, because it is against the law to serve them at the same time to a patron. It does make one wonder why was a law like this ever enacted in the first place, could it have ever made any sense?

Where I live sometimes Christmas decorations stay up for quite a while, it’s a very lucky thing for the people who do this they do not live in Maine. If they did live in Maine and left the Christmas decorations up after January 14th they would have committed a crime and might find themselves in an undecorated cell. Bah humbug. One has to wonder what was going on Connecticut to make the following a law? There are many different ways to cross the street, but most of us just walk across. We could run, skip or hop across the street, but we better not try walking across the street on our hands, because that is against the law in Connecticut. I wonder what happened, did they have a rash of circus acrobats in that state one year who were distracting drivers by walking on their hands and in the road? Your guess is as good as mine, but it might be some of the legislators had a fear of clowns. Connecticut also has another law which states you better not be doing more than 65 miles an hour on your bicycle or you’re going to the big house. I wonder if Lance Armstrong ever reached 65 miles an hour on his.

Sometimes a law is so crazy you have to wonder if the people in the past were in their right mind. There are certain rules in the Houses of Parliament in London. You would think Parliament has to have rules or it couldn’t exist. There is certainly nothing wrong with that, well maybe with at least one of their rules which states it is against the law to die in the London Houses of Parliament. I wonder how they punish you for dying there, do they hang your body outside in one of those medieval cages? If one lives in Sweden they better not have to run to the bathroom in the middle of the night, because they could be breaking the law. If you live in an apartment in Sweden and you flush the toilet after 10 PM you have broken the law and no matter where you hide the police will flush you out.

If you are a woman and you have dental problems you may not want to live in Vermont. No there is no shortage of dentists there, but if you’re married and you have gotten false teeth without getting written permission from your husband you have broken the law and you will be punished, well maybe. I have to wonder if a husband and wife have an argument can the husband withdraw his permission for her teeth. He might say serves you right from now on because you have to gum your way through life. On the other hand he might just chew her out. If you’re in Alabama you better watch where you eat your lunch, consider this a warning. If you are sitting on a railroad track and spill salt on it, that is punishable by death according to an older law. I wonder if this applies to pepper, catchup or any other condiment.

If you live in Alaska and want to take a picture of a bear do not walk over to it and wake it up when it is sleeping. Hey even if you don’t want to take a picture of a bear don’t walk over to it and wake it up. If you do it because you want to take a picture you are breaking the law, but if you do it without a camera you’re just a jerk. There is no law however preventing a bear from eating you. Wisconsin knows how to treat their prisoners. The people running the jails in Wisconsin better not try to fool those prisoners with butter substitutes, because it is illegal and knowing prisoners they would be the first ones to complain and sue the state.

Did you ever wonder how many giraffes there are in Illinois? There must be a heck of a lot of them or why else would they make the following law? It is forbidden by law to sit on a giraffe’s neck with a fishing pole in your hand. I’d like to know where you could even find a giraffe there. Not to be outdone Minnesota has a law which states you can’t cross their state line if you have a duck sitting on your head. So if you want to cross the Minnesota state line, take your duck off first. If you live in Colorado sometimes you just can’t be a good neighbor. If your neighbor comes over and asks to borrow your vacuum cleaner you have to tell them they are asking you to break the law and if they insist on doing this you will have to call the police. Yes it is against the law for next-door neighbors to lend each other vacuum cleaners, you would think they would know better.

I don’t know what was going on in Pennsylvania to prompt this law, but it must’ve been interesting. Pennsylvania law says it is illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors. I just hate it when you go outside and you see all these people on top of refrigerators sound asleep, I am so afraid of waking them up. Lastly watch out where you whistle, because if you are in Vermont and you’re under the water and you decide to whistle you are breaking the law.