Dumb Laws

Taking off from investment series for now. Will be back on over weekend (assumption is i’m not going for fishing) with how to read a chart with simple moving average. Here is fun one…making money should be intelligence with fun.

1. China one kid policy:
Oops…I should blame “Adam” for this, he is one started all when he got bored. “Eve” had no idea what is going on from the start ;-) During 1970s China wants to control its exponential population growth by imposing one-child policy. First it was introduced as short-term goal, but due to huge success, this becomes law with some exceptions. One of the exception is, if one of the parents is single child to their parent, they are allowed to have second kid. Then my question is what will happen after some time, all one child can have 2 children when they ready to become parents. So it is 1 then 2 then back to 1.
(Source: http://people.howstuffworks.com/one-child-policy1.htm)

2. India National Anthem law:
India we are not suppose to sing national anthem at indoors. Still I have no idea why? Is it because we should not patriotic when we are at indoors? India going to host Commonwealth games on 2010, India is now building an indoor stadium, I want to see whether we are going to sing national anthem over there or not (Sometimes we use very high logic to become illogical, i believe…or both me and law interrupter misunderstood this law completely).

3. Islamic pardon law:
Most of the Islamic countries have pardon law, which is a murderer can acquitted if victim’s family can give pardon in writing. Ok. Who will give the pardon? Can somebody show me how many of them acquitted? (may be they get pardon after seeing their face with little sunshine, seeing face may help radical perception change of one’s character).

4. New Jersey gas law:
You cannot pump your own gas

This is stupidity law ever. Now the price of gas, we have to pay extra for pump our own gas with tips? Is it because jersey got polluted from New York waste hence nobody wants to get out of car. I don’t know…(all are misunderstanding of one’s intentional, I guess, and law makers are in hurry or jumping into conclusions to pass this as law without reading it)

5. Ohio five women law:
It is illegal for more than five women to live in a house.

What will happen if someone got 4 girl kids? Their mom has to go out. I don’t know whether to laugh or think (may be law maker confused with gender, “this could be 1 man with 4 women or 2 men with 3 women, may be to avoid more than one marriage” but the truth is all one gender)

6. New York elevator law:
While riding in an elevator, one must talk to no one, and fold his hands while looking toward the door.

(may be law maker is short tempered and strict and introvert ;-)). The law is clear; we have to be standstill position when we ride in New York elevator.. No talking even with your spouse or kids or friends, just concentrate on how elevator goes up.

Source: All US laws are from http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/

PS: A law is a law, no matter what, all citizen have to follow it, whether you liked or not. This post is just for fun. I read (pronounce red) a article about China one kid policy from howstuffwork.com, that inspired this post.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Ah the idiosyncrasies of laws. I read an even more absurd collection of laws in the newspaper. Cant remember which one but it was hilarious. Btw, i have tagged you in my latest post.
Thanks Sukumar...there are lot of unbelievable laws are here. Thanks for tagging me, I’m reading your post.

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