Why Every “WORLD’S WEIRDEST LAWS” Article is Wrong

[@Alice_Walker]

I've been a police officer for almost 20 years, it's been repealed now but the funniest law I ever learnt during training is that it used to be illegal to walk more than 3 greyhounds at the same time. It was used as a laugh in training exercises because it just seemed so preposterous. One day about six years into my career we did see a man walking five greyhounds at the same time. My partner and I got the giggles so hard I had to pull the van over. We left the gentleman and his five dogs in peace.

[@tannecy]

OMG that is one giggle session I would have love to be part of - "That man! He is walking , oh lord, 5 , FIVE greyhounds!!! No, no dachshunds, GREYHOUNDS!!!!"

[@darylcheshire1618]

Perhaps the reasoning was that greyhounds were used for racing and needed exercise, as a kid I often saw people walking greyhounds I forget how many. It could be reasoned that people can’t control more than a certain number of greyhounds especially if they wanted to chase something. Also I dimly recall greyhounds required a muzzle in public. And you were not allowed to “blood” them with live animals like possums and cats.

[@Alice_Walker]

@@darylcheshire1618 I think that you might be right but as a city kid the idea of someone walking a whole bunch of greyhounds down a suburban street and it being illegal really tickled my funny bone 😊

[@genericname8727]

​@@darylcheshire1618 the point about them wanting to chase something seems especially significant to me. They’re fast and often instinctually want to hunt small creatures, including potentially threatened native wildlife or people’s pet cats. That said, you’d think they’d apply the rule to all dogs known for that behaviour and not just greyhounds if that were the reasoning. I remember JennaMarbles previously mentioned that her greyhounds needed special collars because, due to the head size and shape in proportion to their necks, they could easily slip out of conventional collars. So perhaps that’s also part of why they singled out greyhounds. Would also make sense why some places would’ve required they be muzzled in public if they were at extra risk of getting loose.

[@darylcheshire1618]

@@genericname8727 Thank you, my recollection is dim but a lot of people owned greyhounds for racing and they needed to be exercised and people walked around with 3-6 or more. A child would not be able to restrain them if they focussed on a target. There may well have been incidents but I can’t recall specifically. Yes any dog will chase small animals but people were financially motivated to keep greyhounds and there might have been incidents to prompt such laws. Nowadays it might not be feasible for normal people to race greyhounds and the need has lessened. There have been recent calls for former racing greyhounds to be retired to families rather than sent to paradise.

[@QsPhilosophy]

I grew up in Alaska, and came across articles citing a bizarre Alaskan law in which "it is illegal to look at a moose from an airplane" what's actually going on, is that, you're not allowed to hunt or sight moose from an airplane. You have to land your plane, camp overnight, and then hike to your hunting area. You can view all the moose from passenger planes you want if you don't hunt them.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

The articles must have been interpreting "sight" as "look at"

[@arahman56]

@@ZeldaTheSwordsman English is such an interesting language, where the meanings of words are always in a quantum superposition.

[@solimm4sks510]

what does to "sight moose" mean in a hunting context?

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

@@solimm4sks510 Targeting a moose with the sight of a gun

[@arahman56]

@@solimm4sks510 Likely means target the moose with the sights of a rifle. You know, for hunting.

[@eldrago19]

Tom Scott: for this to count the salmon has to be used in a crime. Matt Grey: _hits Tom with salmon_ Scott: Ow! What was that? Grey: Assault and battery.

[@johnschroeder3072]

BTW it's Matt Gray

[@I.am.Sarah.]

Sounds like a fishy excuse. I'll see myself out

[@profonde3460]

So who's doing the crime (lol) in this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/imm7lnesgNZ8aqc

[@ACBlackJ0ck]

We flew a kite in a public place! We flew a kite in a puubbblic place!

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

They do admit in the writeup on Tom's website to that one being a stretch

[@StreakyBaconMan]

Wait a minute, so you're telling me I can start wearing my hot pink pants on a Sunday, and when I go to the pub they aren't required to provide feed, stables and water for my horse? Who would have guessed...

[@JulianOShea]

Pink pants are back, baby.

[@joeldipops]

"The Unlawful Games Act 1541 required every Englishman between the ages of 17 and 60 (with various exemptions) to keep a longbow and regularly practise archery. However, this Act was repealed by the Betting and Gaming Act 1960. " Missed an opportunity to point out that this one stayed on the books until 1960!

[@ChakatSandwalker]

Seems rather similar to the Statute of Henry VIII Regarding the Shooting of Long Bows, 1511 (which I had occasion to look up very recently for almost the same reason -- a bizarre law.)

[@shaneeslick]

G'day, yeah that does happen & some never removed, US Constitution Amendment 18 (Prohibition) was not removed but Repealed with Amendment 21

[@Lucas-dg4zn]

I would like to point out that, although this law seems ridiculous today, it was actually pretty important and relevant back in the day, besides having rich historical background. In the 16th century, the quality of the once famed English longbowmen were declining; they used to practice the use of the longbow frequently in their normal, regular lives, be it for hunting, or in state sponsored archery tournaments, but the practice was starting to become less and less common. As an reaction to that, the English, who still hadn’t fully decided if they wanted to commit fully to firearms, and also had difficulty doing it for various economical and institutional reasons that I’m not diving into-though I would want to note that they also used firearms anyways (usually in the form of mercenaries) along archers-created these laws to revitalize and maintain the use of the longbow by the general population, so they could have a large pool of man able in its use to drawn soldiers from in case of war.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Of course, proactive enforcement had died off long before that point.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

@@Lucas-dg4zn I figured it was something like that, something about keeping the war service-eligible men fighting fit

[@alec4672]

If anyone is wondering about the law at 4:13 basically back in the day land used to be transferred ownership via "seisin of livery" basically the current owner gives the buyer some momento from the land they shake hands in front of witnesses and the deed is done. The law is saying you can't do that anymore, it has to be done through official government paperwork.

[@Tadfafty]

Thanks for the explanation.

[@TheMoonRover]

In the UK, old laws sometimes never get formally repealed, but conflicting newer laws take precedence. So it's possible that some weird archaic laws might technically still be in place, but newer legislation has made them invalid and unenforceable.

[@sylviaelse5086]

Sometimes it's just that the legislators didn't pay attention. For a while it was technically illegal to tell the authorities that there was a bomb on a plane - even if there was. The legislators were so focussed on the the problem of threats that they inadvertently criminalised true reports.

[@barneylaurance1865]

What does "technically illegal" mean? The meanings of laws are decided by judges - so did a judge decide that what the legislators wrote meant that, and wasn't overridden by other laws? Or even did serious legal commentators predict that if it had come to court a judge would have decided that?

[@sylviaelse5086]

@@barneylaurance1865 It was never adjudicated by a court, and I cannot imagine anyone being prosecuted. But the wording was clear. The Sydney Morning Herald got the opinion of a law professor, who indicated that it could be construed that way. The wording was later changed.

[@Graeme_Lastname]

Which displays nicely the amount of thinking they put in to all they do.

[@zerotwoisreal]

if there was how would you know about it... sus

[@sylviaelse5086]

@@zerotwoisreal Legislation is a matter of public record.

[@robertthomson1587]

The other stupid sort of claim is along the lines that “there is a law against hitting a red-haired woman with a hockey stick while walking through a grove of palm trees”. Well of course there is. Hitting anyone, with anything, in any location, is assault.

[@JulianOShea]

Spot on.

[@SorenCicchini]

The laws on assault are actually a little bit strange. In the Western Australian Criminal Code (and presumably some other places that have inherited the British legal system) the definition of assault as the application of force to a person includes the text "without his consent, or with his consent if the consent is obtained by fraud". What this means is that if you report an assault to the WA police, as I did after having my ribs and teeth broken, you need to formally make a declaration that you did not give consent. I think this may be so that people can't raise an assault charge after willingly entering into a consentual fight but I'm not sure. It does also give police an excuse for not raising charges themselves, forcing the victim to actively pursue justice (it took me 5.5 hours in Perth Police Station just to report the incident on a quiet weekday - only one other person in the queue in front of me). So, at least in WA, you could legally hit a red-haired woman with a hockey stick while walking through a grove of palm trees if she said that you could.

[@creationsxl2979]

@@SorenCicchini don’t live in WA but that’s very interesting. Glad I read the comment

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@SorenCicchini Doesn't seem particularly strange. It's not specific to hitting, just touching someone can be an illegal assault but perfectly good legal and ordinary if its with consent.

[@SorenCicchini]

@@barneylaurance1865 that's a good point. I suppose what is strange to me is that, even after witnessing evidence and receiving a complaint, formal or information, the police presumption is that all physical violence is consentual. It makes it difficult to understand how anyone is convicted of murder. Without a live victim to make a declaration that they did not consent to being stabbed, shot or strangled, that same presumption could only lead to manslaughter charges relating to accidental death.

[@kimhuett2119]

Weird US local government laws get quoted so often that I eventually formed a theory that such local ordinances were brought about by feuds dating from the 19th or 18th century. A and B don’t get on, A holds some position of authority that allows A to get a rule passed which in some way annoys B, nobody else objects because it only annoys B and nobody wants to get between two fussing idiots. The rule is then never removed because it never affects people are aren’t feuding idiots. The rule then lays in the sun until decades later we need some mild amusement. Thus nature balances itself.

[@promontorium]

Yeah he talks about UK and Australia, but America's #1 annual production is laws. There's no authoritarian state that comes close. And laws almost never get repealed. The only repeal of an outdated law I can think of was California had banned bartenders making infused drinks (any mixing except that which could be done immediately on order). But the only reason it was repealed (in 2011) was because the state agency that regulates alcohol sales had decided in 2008 to start enforcing the rule again after unknown decades.

[@stoppedinmotion2936]

Your recent growth is really well-deserved! I love your channel :)

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks mate. Appreciate it.

[@OhKnow379]

@@JulianOShea yeah holy shit the algorithm has done some funky shit. Good stuff mate

[@jhuny]

@@JulianOShea because if there's anything that attracts more hits than articles about "World's weirdest laws", it's articles about articles about "World's weirdest laws" lol

[@JulianOShea]

@@jhuny Got me.

[@jhuny]

@@JulianOShea 😂🤪😜

[@crowjan]

Fun fact: In Earth, you can't cross the road when the lights is red, you can only cross the road when it's green.

[@vizbuck]

What if its flashing yellow as they do at night in a lot of countries?

[@crowjan]

@@vizbuck ..walk halfway and pause in the middle of the road. (Just kidding)

[@barneylaurance1865]

Surely that depends what part of earth - in lots of countries (or at least in England) it's legal for a pedestrian to ignore the red light.

[@HopeButMiserable]

We actually don't have traffic lights..

[@shaneeslick]

@@vizbuck in Australia that is a 'Pelican Crossing'

[@peterwilliams2152]

About 35 years ago my LGA in Sydney, NSW demanded that I get rid of my pet goat as it was illegal to own "livestock" within the municipality. A quick production of the Dog and Goat Act soon sent them back to their lairs. I've long since moved from NSW, so I don't know if the Dog and Goat Act still exists, but it was surprising that Council LEOs had no idea of the laws that they were allegedly enforcing.

[@celluskh6009]

Repealed in 1966.

[@peterwillians1273]

@@celluskh6009 Are you sure that there wasn't a subsequent piece of legislation? I'm too lazy to look it up. My goat died of old age in the '90's. I moved after that, for other reasons. The Council never complained about my goat, so there was a reason.

[@SilverMe2004]

@@peterwillians1273 It probably wasn't the Council that cared they were probably just responding to a complaint and as soon as you said anything legal, they were happy with that excuse to tell whoever was complaining.

[@Tarantulah]

I remember seeing 'In the UK you need a licence to watch live TV'. While this is true, I think the use of the world 'licence' has lead to this being missrepresented as some kind of qualification, like a driving licence. In reality it's mroe like a tax that pays for the BBC to continue funding programming without needing advertisers

[@TunguskaTerma]

Every comment here is "I can't believe people are so gullible well actually I remember there was a law against painting ducks blue but I have no evidence at all but it's definitely true"

[@CAThompson]

😮😆

[@SilverMe2004]

Yes but the law about not painting ducks was to do with people selling Bau ducks as Swedish Blue ducks

[@vizbuck]

In NZ its not illegal as far as I know to place a stamp of a person upside down. But if you place it upside down or in the wrong place the post office sorting machine thingy might not reconise it and it could get returned to you.

[@SilverMe2004]

or just put the mailing address on the back as well

[@queergeologist8207]

the best weird law is the one prohibiting live moose from being dropped from planes in Alaska. the reason is a town had a moose dropping festival, aka moose poop. they dropped moose poop from a helicopter onto an open field. PETA decided that they were dropping live moose and had a big stink about something that never existed in the first place until the state passed a law banning it.

[@darylcheshire1618]

I forget which state but banned midget tossing. I read one pub actually hosted a midget throwing competition which caused an outrage and was banned.

[@celluskh6009]

Florida was the first to ban midget tossing. Unlike the moose dropping, which was made up by the internet after the moose dropping (as in, faeces) festival was cancelled because of so many tourists causing trouble, including a death in the final year. It was too much for the town to handle.

[@Magmafrost13]

Of course, Australia does have plenty of weird laws that are real. Like, its illegal for journalists to talk about how we lock up refugees in tropical gulags. Or, how police can now just legally access *and modify* data on anyone's devices.

[@JBofBrisbane]

You lost me at the second one. How and why would police do that?

[@Magmafrost13]

@@JBofBrisbane Its been 11 months since I made this comment so forgive me for not having the references on-hand, but at the time it had recently been made legal for police to do that. Whether or not there have been any instances of them using that power since, I dont know, but Australian police are barely less corrupt that American police for context, so its certainly not a power one would want them to have.

[@PoppyHapalopus]

ACTUAL weird law: It's illegal to keep a great white shark as a pet in Denmark. For whatever reason they had to specify that. Source: BEK nr 208 af 06/03/2014: Bekendtgørelse om forbud om privates hold af særlige dyr, Bilag 1

[@milksheihk]

It should be illegal to call any biscuit a cookie in Australia.

[@milksheihk]

@@arrgghh1555 In non-US English all biscuits are biscuits.

[@johnschroeder3072]

@@arrgghh1555 They're simply not

[@DespOIcito]

@@milksheihk the round one with chocolate chips is a cookie, everything else is a biscuit

[@milksheihk]

@@DespOIcito No, this is not North America, it is still a biscuit, prior to everyone being online it was never called a cookie here.

[@DespOIcito]

@@milksheihk language changes it's a cookie, the rest are biscuits

[@PurplePinkRed]

I've been looking for an excuse to not get my ladder out and change a high up light bulb that's been out for the last week. I guess I'll have to do it now 🤣

[@alexjohnward]

There was a law in Australia where a ship captain could shoot any person on the ship for any reason, or take them to an asylum, it was revoked in 2011

[@TunguskaTerma]

Source?

[@alexjohnward]

@@TunguskaTerma I have looked high and low with Google, but can't find it, I learnt about it seeing a Labor politician talking about it in a news conference and it tickled my fancy becausemy dad was a ship Captain... think it was Albo, it was in a raft of old ridiculous laws that were struck off the books, the year was 2011 was a guess, it was around that time when Gillard was PM.

[@1970guppy]

Yea right

[@SilverMe2004]

The law would be more complicated then that, but it would have been something like while at sea a captain has absolute authority over the ship and all aboard and may have during the gold rush been extended to ships even while they were docked (and yes there were recoded mutiny and/or shooting based on the gold rush)

[@eliyohub]

Here's an odd law that's unfortunately true: In some states in the U.S., urinating in public - even an empty alleyway at 1AM - can land you on the Sex Offenders Register. Yes, alongside rapists and child molesters! Strictly speaking, the laws in question don't say "public urination"; they say "indecent exposure" in public. They simply make NO allowances for the CIRCUMSTANCES of the "exposure" in question. So, the guy with the full bladder and no restroom nearby, gets treated the same as a "flasher"! And often, such laws give ZERO discretion to the sentencing judge as to putting the person on the register. And the ramifications of being on the register can be massive. Julain O'Shea, can you fact-check this?

[@kenbrown2808]

just remember that for every strange law that actually exists, there was a person who made that law necessary.

[@xavierob]

I've just discovered today your channel and have already been binge-watching your videos! :D Thanks a lot for making all these so interesting videos!!

[@JulianOShea]

Glad you like them!

[@ErgonBill]

Did you know the Rabbit Proof Fence was built to keep the English out? It failed, but it did help keep the smaller rabbits out.

[@gaijininja]

I can’t find any info online for the specific wording of the two laws or the exact year in the 1980’s when they were removed, so I’m just going on memory of living through it. In Tasmania in the 1980’s, two archaic rules from colonial days were removed from the road rules because they were obsolete. The wording might not be exact, but the context is there. 1. It was legal for a male to urinate behind his buggy (Horse drawn vehicle.) between dusk and dawn, if not in the direct view of a female. 2. It was an offence to angle park a horse and buggy. Bonus law removed in the 80’s that was not road rule related. 1. No male may be dressed as a woman in public between dusk and dawn. (Apparently it was ok to be dressed as a woman during the day. This rule was to reduce the then illegal act of being homosexual, and soliciting sex acts at night. It was still many years before being gay was not considered illegal.)

[@briannem.6787]

My father says it's STILL legal to urinate at the roadside if nobody can see you. I am not sure if this is more a "murder is legal if nobody catches you" thing or a rule to allow drivers to have relief when they are caught out.

[@briannem.6787]

My father says it's STILL legal to urinate at the roadside if nobody can see you. I am not sure if this is more a "murder is legal if nobody catches you" thing or a rule to allow drivers to have relief when they are caught out.

[@dougdigby765]

I've heard you can park on a convenient angle and have a door open for added cover.

[@briannem.6787]

@@dougdigby765 Opening the front and rear curbside doors will do it. That is, if you have a 4-door model.

[@dianaonaquest5135]

What I love about this channel is not just the very concise and to-the-point information in the video but also the amazing discussion in the comments. I can read them endlessly and learn so much.

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks, mate.

[@jecos1966]

there another law I read that if you are found guilty trying to commit suicide the punishment is Death

[@JDCarnin]

There was a interesting Law thing in Germany. Up until 2018 in the State of Hessen, the death penalty was still allowed. Even tho the Federal law says that it is forbidden since 1949. So in Hessen they wouldn't be able to kill prisoners, because the federal law is over the States law and therefore the death penalty was illegal in Hessen since 1949 too, but it kept on in the State law because they just doesn't cared enough to remove it. But with rising media attention the removed it 2018...

[@lukes790]

Really enjoy watching your channel. The choice of subjects are interesting, informative and entertaining. Look forward to the next video.

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks Luke! Appreciate it.

[@MrBrettStar]

I know a few… If you are prime minister you travel wherever you want whenever you want regardless of restrictions or crisis… or maybe if you are a political party the spam act 2003 does not apply to you and you can text whoever you want without an option to opt out… Oh crap, I missed the point of the game, it was meant to be fake laws

[@CAThompson]

I would hope the current incumbent is the last PM to think that's what the go is.

[@minxythemerciless]

Fun fact (and true). Western Australia has had the most draconian gun laws in Australia since the 1920s because the authorities were worried about a (communist) revolution by returned servicemen.

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

That'd explain why The Great Emu War broke out, and why the emus won said war.

[@minxythemerciless]

@@TheKnobCalledTone. As a consequence of the W.A. laws, it's illegal to possess a rifle sound moderator unless you are an agricultural dept sharpshooter. And you are required to sign it out from the local police station, usually each day. It's mostly for starlings on the border (section 17B W.A Firearms Act)

[@melody3741]

Thats ummm…. Scary lol

[@irisinthedarkworld]

a commonly heard one in florida is that it's illegal to "molest" trash cans, but of course that just means vandalize and also it's only in a certain city

[@N1k37ick]

This is a great video - very clear information, and I really like your conclusions!

[@JulianOShea]

Thank you kindly!

[@AholeAtheist]

I always find it funny how some of these throw in a law that's enlightened and sensible. Like, tell me your bias without telling me your bias. lol

[@jecos1966]

I read once that it is Illegal to name a lamb that you are going kill and eat

[@xreverse_f1ash]

now I'm thinking there's probably articles talking about nonexistent laws that are strange where I live too like "In the US you aren't allowed to jump and drink water at the same time" or something along those lines

[@candles4206]

Good Work Julian love your work!

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks, mate!

[@Loxmyf]

The "illegal to change your own lightbulb in Victoria" came up at my family christmas just gone. I note the source is an act from 1998, which may mean it was still illegal in 1997, and about the time I moved away from Victoria the first time.

[@promontorium]

That's all well and good in Australia or UK but in America laws are almost never repealed and they rarely expire. Every year thousands of new laws are passed. The U.S. passes so many laws every year that the government passing those laws has no means of keeping track of all their own laws. There's virtually no effort to repeal old laws because cops have no idea what laws even exist. For the most part law enforcement only handle things they're used to handling and then only to the extent of their resources. Our entire legal system is designed around police, prosecutors, etc. all being perfectly aware of individuals breaking numerous laws and ignoring them in order to focus on other laws. The only time more obscure laws even come into focus is when someone wants to complain or ruin someone else. Whether it be desperate investigators spending years going over someone's records and need some kind of justification out of it, or could just be a pissed off Karen.

[@kwokleunghon3821]

Hi man, Singapore ban chewing gum is not weid. The reason was Singapore government tried to stop people dropping their gum in the subway and it make the subway can't closed the door popularly, and costly on maintenance. Since the people were not lesson for a long time. Finally government put up a law to ban it. Well to me, it serves them right.

[@jenniferschultz7178]

I love how people take laws that in a very specific time - like a 1541 Act by Henry VIII that demanded parents & serfs - never the gentry of course - abandon games for archery & longbow practice because games were the cause of decay in fighting skills - & say they have relevance today but not others. Like strumptuary or treason laws!

[@TobyWild]

Only recently subscribed, love the content. Your title cards could be a second or so longer though, they went by pretty quick.

[@tarren452]

I love that you incredulously note that the 'shooting a welshman inside Chester City walls' is 'actually in the document' - that one was the main unusual law I'd heard of, as I went to school in Chester! 😂

[@ecliiipsssse]

For that text you showed us to Try to decipher, I think it means that the specified land is dormant, that's its like deadline, no one can build, dig, farm, or do anything.

[@sagargurung6200]

Let's go. A month ago when I subbed the channel I think you were around 17k but recently the KZbin algorithm have been very good to you. Let's hope the run cintinues. I'd love to see more of the design related videos but everything on the channel is good nonetheless.

[@ChakatSandwalker]

Another odd one is the 'clameur de haro', an ancient legal injunction of restraint employed by a person who believes they are being wronged by another at that moment. It survives as a fully enforceable law to this day in the legal systems of Jersey and Guernsey, and is used, albeit infrequently, for matters affecting land. It does require saying the Lord's Prayer in French....

[@dickyholmes8376]

Haha I'm from York, and the version I heard growing up was that you could shoot a scotsman with a bow inside the city walls, as long as he was in full battle gear(???). Interesting to see that other cities have their version, and also that it's well-known enough that an aussie bloke puts it in a video.

[@domcarter62]

Same haha small world.

[@harriffanconshertini8804]

I wonder what would constitute 'full battle gear'. What if they were just wearing khakis?

[@SerotoninSystem]

Supposedly, in the state of North Carolina, it's illegal to sing off key. I have yet to be arrested though, even though I've done it in front of a cop on purpose :)

[@TheDarkDreamz]

Great content. I'd like to see you do more Australian history/culture videos, thank you

[@Tom-lg9ee]

Taking a jab at that interpret this law challenge. Is it saying that certain classified lands (i am guessing from context national park land) cannot be given, sold, or reallocated once it they have been given this classification?

[@JulianOShea]

You know, you’re ahead of me. I didn’t really try…

[@JulianOShea]

But yes - it is about land laws.

[@spyrothepoodle]

Love the video. If I may offer a small request/bit of constructive criticism. The title cards of each talking point need to linger for maybe another second. They just appear and disappear a little to fast. Again great video and thankyou!

[@JulianOShea]

Good feedback, will do. Glad you liked it!

[@-Zoomin40]

Great video brother! Keep up the great work.

[@wmj1860]

Legal drinking age is 5 in scotland as long as you're on private property. Still have to be 18 to buy alcohol but you can legally drink it at 5.

[@overlordnat]

It’s the same in England (and probably Wales).

[@iamthinking2252_]

Have to admit, was going to comment something about this video linking it to the title of the Anzac Biscuits vid, glad to see the connection addressed off the bat

[@はなびがく花火学]

Some of the UK laws they half debunk are still quite funny though Like apparently her majesty does own swans in a specific area that are illegal to kill, but only mute swans.

[@andyboyize]

Does that mean that when I water my driveway I can wear my pants? Malaka...

[@barneylaurance1865]

I got quite annoyed with people I was on a pub quiz team once for thinking one of those shooting someone with a crossbow permitted laws was real. How can you possibly think that's real unless you somehow think that the world of legal technicalities exists quite separately to the real world of people's lives. It wouldn't be useless to everyone - people do sometimes want to kill other people, and crossbows are still available.

[@barneylaurance1865]

It's sort depressing that the Law Commission had to write "no, you're not allowed to shoot people".

[@barneylaurance1865]

Don't people think that if that law was real you might have heard about people campaigning to get it changed?

[@thismightbeyou]

Did you know it is illegal to kill your boss by slashing his jugular with a machete in front of his family while dressed as Jason Voorhees?

[@JulianOShea]

Source?

[@barneylaurance1865]

Unless it's self defence.

[@MorganPhillipsPage]

You never miss, another interesting and well put-together video

[@MrKangaroo123]

So what I'm hearing is the bag of oats/bail of hay law is not a holdover law from when taxis were nothing more than horse-drawn carriages. in fact, it's total pig swill.

[@timnicholls19]

See I was told by a copper in Shepparton about that bail of hay law and it been still technically on the book in Vic but here is why it's not in forced. It was put in place for when taxis where horse drawn and now they are not but petrol powered. This then brings into a question on why don't laws that are obviously no longer required still on the books and that would be in short because politicians don't have the desire to sit through and create the amendments because they themselves don't know the laws to a t. Even the biggest lawyer nerds out there could spend a lifetime going through every law in every councils of the state and in the end the amount of laws would always out pace them

[@barneylaurance1865]

Don't believe everything the police tell you. If a law isn't relevant to their work then they could be repeating it from a listicle without ever having felt the need to check if it really exists.

[@divarachelenvy]

One truly bizarre law in Queensland was that voodoo dolls were illegal and that they have one in the Police Museum lol

[@MelissiaBlackheart]

Supposedly there's a law in the state of Texas in the USA that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, they both must stop until the other one passes, and some of the people saying this law exists try to reason that the person who put it in was trying to do so as an objection to the law, and was ignored. I haven't actually seen evidence of such a law's existence, but people keep repeating it and it's annoying.

[@JulianOShea]

People do spread silly things.

[@Chris.Jackaman]

I found out about this law about 8 years ago that taxis must always carry at least 3 bales of hay at all times in Australia.

[@kayzeaza]

It’s almost like that game ‘whisper down the lane’ where each time someone is told something it slowly starts to morph into something else lol

[@Dev1nci]

My advice is look in title deeds. In South Africa some of the title deeds have rules that stem to our unfortunate history 🙈 and are obviously illegal to enforce 😅 But funnily they may also ban things like metal rooves. This was a principle instigated to keep property values high by dictating materials. However the consequence is that it outlaw expensive copper rooves (for the eccentric) or zinc whilst favouring dirt-cheap and ugly concrete roof tiles.

[@FizzleInc]

alright, here in Winnipeg there is actually a weird law like this and that's "it's illegal to walk down Portage avenue with two pales of water"

[@shan1183]

Julian, could you do a video on neighbourhood safety houses. Are they still around? Sometimes the signs and the houses next to them don't correlate to me 😂

[@the1exnay]

Kinda disappointing ending where you didn't really explain the mistakes people made, just that non-lawyers make mistakes in their legal analysis

[@andymanaus1077]

What isn't at all amusing is the number of real and important Australian laws that the government and police choose to utterly ignore, to the detriment of public freedoms and safety.

[@karmateka7588]

Another interesting video. 👍 Ps: Congratulations on the 3MT.

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks, Robert!

[@idontthink]

Loved the video, hate those "weird laws" clickbaits. Unrelated: Maybe next time leave the transitions for a bit longer. It'll give the audience time to read the title and have some time to transition from the previous topic.

[@margottago]

Your videos have really kept me from going (more) nuts during lockdown Julian! If we ever get out of lockdown and I see you around town, I'll definitely be buying you a beer 👌 And congrats on winning 3MT too! Could hardly believe it when I saw your name in the list of finalists. I couldn't enter this year, but seeing your presentation has definitely encouraged me to enter next year!

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks, mate. Do the 3MT - lots of fun.

[@AndrewBrown-fq6vp]

Could it be possible that some old weird laws may be "on the books" but have been superseded by newer ones?

[@barneylaurance1865]

"on the books" doesn't really mean anything.

[@celluskh6009]

If they've been superseded, then they are not on the books...

[@elicious7574]

The funny thing about this video is that one of the laws in this video was technically wrong as well. In Singapore, it is illegal to import or sell chewing gum. You can still eat it in public as long as you dispose of it properly. Usually how ppl get chewing gum is from Malaysia. If the checkpoint officers on Singapore's side finds them, they usually wont confiscate them if its a few strips or a bottle. But if they find boxes of hundreds, they will assume you intend to sell them in Singapore and confiscate them.

[@mrgoodman6620]

There was somewhere, i believe, a law that said something like: When more than 200 meters from a public convenience, and if an officer is present, the officer must use their hat to shield the modesty of one releaving themselves. This seems to have turned into the belief, you can pee in a cop's hat! LOL I think some wishful thinking maybe at play.

[@WatanabeNoTsuna.]

I would have quite enjoyed an explanation why these laws are misunderstood.

[@bonifasiusadisuryanto5786]

"It is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumtances." 1:38 Literally carrying salmon with bare hands

[@happyd6426]

your videos are always amazing.

[@ethen252]

Good channel bro 👍

[@JulianOShea]

Thanks, Vijay!

[@adriantewman4814]

Hi Julian, your reference in the Electricity Safety Act 1998 does not check out!! Where did you get the reference from?!?

[@JulianOShea]

“A revision to the 1998 Electricity Safety Act, called G17 of the Orders in Council (1999) updated the laws regarding electrical work”

[@griffinrails]

Fantastic video mate!

[@melskiddo]

suspicious salmon, the lesser known cousin of the red herring

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

4:13 I mean... I understand everything up until the word "by". Like... "therein" just means "in that".

[@Gomisan]

interesting content, and I've been enjoying your videos. I'd really like to see them in higher resolution though! The low (480P in 2021???) res makes it hard to watch as it feels blurry.

[@jasongarufi8187]

Thanks Julian for debunking some urban myths.

[@Minorskillissue]

Can you do your own wireing in victoria if yoj are a certified ekectrician?

[@Damjes]

So: - not all articles are not true, You should say "a lot of them", not all - You need to put important text, like this quote anywhere, but not in the bottom, where subtitles are put in default

[@burgerthief5333]

A lot of those made up laws are just imaginative click bait, it's illegal to wear shoes with mismatched laces on thursdays in St Kilda between 5pm to midnight.

[@spiralpython1989]

Oh shite. That’s where I went wrong….

[@aussiedude3121]

Finally I can change my light bulb without paying $99 for an electriction to,do it

[@OutandAboutwithTrev]

I'm about to finish a "Vehicle project" and one of the roadworthy places said that its illegal to work on my car myself. I talked to the Police and Vicroads and they laughed at me...Really???? The place I will be taking my car to said, mate - as long as you have done it correctly we don't care....ahhhh some people.

[@Nathan-gs5tw]

Is it true that licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets?

[@graphite2786]

There should be a law banning listicle creators from being called journalists! True encounter - "I'm an independent journalist, I could give your business an in depth review, you know , write your story" "Cool!" ( Google's name, just in case! ) Results- - Ten celebrities that drive a Tesla - Feeling old yet? Ten memes from 2012 - Ten Amazing facts about Sia

[@JulianOShea]

Did you sign up? Are you now officially clickbait?

[@graphite2786]

@@JulianOSheahahaha.... Hell no! They wanted a $2000 quote for free! Like an influencer but worse! An influencer at least has a following, this dork was independent- meaning they'd write the story and then try to peddle it around to a website. Not worth 2K!

[@TheAussieRepairGuy]

You should look into the last vestages of the vagrancy laws still in effect

[@haroeneissa790]

So licking doorknobs is illegal in some parts of Australia and Canada?

[@a.s2205]

Journalists are entertainment, not people who bring you facts.

[@rebelliousreptile7336]

Salmon Jenga

[@AquaticBlaze]

that is quite a suspicious circumstance

[@kizmetmars]

"... all lands and interesting things shall be with Grant and should not be written with a liver (even (Barbra) seisin's liver), or by feoffment (feonment is ok)"

[@JulianOShea]

I think you’ve nailed it.