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In onderstaande site worden diverse op zijn zachtst gezegd eigenaardige wetten vermeld, die allemaal afkomtig zijn uit de VSA, waar elke staat zijn eigen wetten heeft. Weet er iemand welke gebeurtenis(sen) aanleiding hebben gegeven tot het opstellen van deze wetten?

http://www.allesopeenrij.nl/index.html?pag...ansewetten.html

Jan van de Velde

toch worden die wetten ook niet helemaal goed weergegeven:

uit jouw site:

Alaska: In Fairbanks is het verboden elanden drank te voeren

en wat ik vond:

http://www.funtrivia.com/Miscellaneous/Laws3.html

In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to walk on the sidewalk. This dates back to the early days of the town when the owner of the bar had a pet moose that he used to get drunk. The moose would then stumble around the town drunk. The only way the law makers could prevent this from happening was to create a law so the moose could not cross the sidewalk and get into the bar. [Source: Fairbanks Daily News Miner]

Robyn Lee from Fairbanks, Alaska (21 August 1999)

het gaat in de meeste gevallen om ad-hoc wetgeving in wat beschouwd kan worden als APV's, denk ik zo.

Jan van de Velde

Nog een hoop meer van die zogenaamde wetten uit de quote van Bograb worden verkeerd uitgelegd, of bestaan niet meer:

http://www.snopes.com/legal/arizona.htm

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

This first law sounds like the looniest of them all. Why would Arizona ban the hunting of an animal not native to the area in the first place? Privately-owned camels (such as those held by zoos or circuses or other tourist attractions) would already be protected under property laws, so what could lawmakers have been trying to prevent by banning their hunting? Was Arizona was infested with colonies of feral camels?

Actually, such a law might have made sense, because Arizona (along with Texas and Nevada) was once home to some small herds of these creatures. In 1856 and 1857, the U.S. Army imported camels with the intent of forming a Camel Corps to move freight and men within the desert. Early forays were a success, but the Civil War put the Corps out of business.

Western entrepreneurs took up the cause and used the beasts to supply remote mining camps. The California and Utah Camel Association bought army surplus camels and sold them in Nevada. A San Francisco merchant imported camels from China to establish an express to Great Salt Lake City. He gave up in 1862, but the camels he left in Nevada created such a stir that the state legislature there banned them from public roads in 1875. One private herd was turned loose near Indianola, Texas. In other areas, some of the camels managed to get loose on their own. Arizona declared camels extinct in 1913, but hunters reported seeing them in the desert around Yuma into the 1950s.

So, it's possible Arizona once had a law way back when intended to stop people from shooting escaped or abandoned camels. Nowadays, however, the Arizona Game & Fish Department is the organization that regulates hunting within Arizona, and they say they have no regulations regarding camels.

En ook over dat achteruit rijden in Glendale, enz. enz. enz.

even goed wel lachen hoor.

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