Legal SOME places in the U.S.

Getting drunk with your kids.

In 2013, the Massachusetts State Supreme Judicial Court ruled that parents cannot be held criminally liable for giving alcohol to their children at home. Party time in the Bay State!

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Firing someone just because they're gay.

Ridiculous but true: in 29 U.S. states it's perfectly fine to fire an employee solely because of their sexual orientation. And in 34 states it is legal to fire someone just for being transgender. Is your state one of them?

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Turning your backyard into a gun range.

In Florida, it is totally legal to shoot small arms off in your backyard. The only restriction? You can't toss any bullets over a house that is occupied or a public street.

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Wearing a spaghetti strainer in your driver license photo. In 2014, a Pastafarian woman in Utah was allowed to wear a colander on her head for her driver’s license photo because it's considered a religious garment. Before her, three other drivers--from California and Oklahoma--were allowed to do the same.

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Beastiality. There are over a dozen states where it's 100% legal for you to be intimate with an animal. Ew.

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Drinking and driving. Mississippi is the only state that doesn't have a law regulating the possession or consumption of alcohol in motor vehicles. Which explains a lot about Mississippi.

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Cannibalism. In the United States (and most European countries) there is no outright law against the consumption of human flesh. However, most people found to engage in cannibalism are charged with murder, desecration of corpses, and/or necrophilia.

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Sending penis pics to everyone you know. In Georgia, there's no law against sending people unwanted photos of your penis. We probably shouldn't have told you that.

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Marrying your first cousin. In 11 states -- including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington D.C. -- it's completely fine to marry someone who has the same grandparents as you.

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Texting and driving. In West Virginia, it is perfectly legal for licensed drivers to text while operating a vehicle.

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Owning a brown bear. Imprisoning one of these majestic and dangerous creatures is completely legal in nine different states.

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Driving your tank to the grocery store. It must have rubber tracks and not exceed normal rules of size, mirrors, lights, etc. But yeah, you can totally own and drive a tank around America.

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Getting spanked by a teacher. School corporal punishment is still allowed in 19 U.S. states.

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Driving while barefoot. Despite what you've heard, driving without your shoes is legal in all 50 states. However, if police find your lack of footwear somehow contributed to an accident you could get cited for negligent or reckless driving.

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Firing a missile. In South Carolina it's perfectly legal to fire a missile. Sure, you have to have permission from the aeronautics division of the Department of Commerce, but otherwise FIRE AWAY.

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Counting cards like Rain Man. If they catch you, most casinos will show you the door and never let you back in, but it's not against the law. And in Atlantic City there's nothing they can do.

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Secretly recording a phone call. You might be surprised to learn that in the vast majority of U.S. states, the law only requires one participant in a conversation to know that it is being recorded. See a breakdown of states that require one- and two-party notification.

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Passing on a double yellow line. In Vermont it's totally fine to pass on the double yellow line (unless a signpost specifically prohibits it for a particular section of road). That way nothing can slow you down on your way to the maple syrup factory.

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Owning a flamethrower. It's completely legal to purchase a flamethrower under federal law, and 40 states have no laws against owning the weapon. 

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Riding in the back of a pickup truck. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, several states, including, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming have no laws about riding in the back of a pickup truck at all.

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Driving with sunglasses at night. “Some states do have laws against this, but Washington is not one of them,” Bellevue police spokesman Greg Grannis said.

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Sexist laws - 10 images

Stupid laws

A lot of our laws are stupid - and a big part of it comes from sending lawmakers to our capitals for long periods of time. They have nothing else to do, so they pass dumb laws. New York State may be king of the dumb law states, but the one I feature here today come courtesy of Virginia.

From Virginia Today

It is illegal for any woman in Waynesboro, Virginia to drive a car up Main Street - unless her husband is walking in front of the car waving a red flag.

Parenting

Here's a link to an interesting web page for parents...

In Canada, a child sued her father because he grounded her - and she won. He appealed the decision - and the child ...well, click on the link to read more about the outcome.

LINK

And on this same page, there is a photo set accompanying 10 of the dumbest laws on the books In the U.S., including reference to a Nevada law that makes it illegal to drive a camel on a highway.

Humor - Dilbert's Office Laws

A pat on the back is only a few centimetres from a kick in the butt.

Don't be irreplaceable -- if you cannot be replaced, you cannot be promoted.

After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.

The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.

You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office.

Everything can be filed under "Miscellaneous".

Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.

To err is human. To forgive is not our policy.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it is not the work s/he is supposed to be doing.

Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.

If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.

You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

People who go to conferences are the ones who should not.

If it was not for the last minute, nothing would get done.

At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.

When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Following the rules will not get the job done.

Corollory: Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.

When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.

More Murphy's Laws

Here are the top ten lesser known Murphy's Laws:

1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.

7. The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.

8. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Humor - Nature's Laws

LAWS OF THE NATURAL UNIVERSE

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now. (Works every time)

Bath Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Theatre Rule: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Dirty Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich of landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Brown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.

Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Wilson's Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.