October 6, 2025 • 13 mins
The legal road trip continues! In Part Two, Amy explores the final 25 states, from Montana to Wyoming, and the laws only a lawyer—or a comedian—could love. Discover why Vermont once required women to get permission for dentures, why Nevada banned camels on highways, and how Washington gave Bigfoot legal protection. With storytelling, history, and fake commercials sprinkled throughout, this episode closes our 50-state journey with laughter, disbelief, and a reminder: freedom always comes with fine prin
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Strange History Podcast. I'm your host Amy,
and tonight we're wrapping our cross country tour of America's
weirdest laws that are still at least technically on the books.
In part one, we met bouncing pickles and law abiding elephants.
In part two, we'll find outlaw camels, suspicious butter bigfoot
with legal protections, and a firm reminder not to lasso fish.
(00:24):
Some of these rules are local oddities, some were passed
for very specific historical reasons. All of them prove that
the United States is not just the land of the free,
it's the land of extremely specific municipal concerns. Let's finish
the map.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Montana, A sheep needs a chaperone in the cab.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Montana Ranch country once had a problem cowboys hauling sheep
up front in their trucks and making everyone else uncomfortable.
So the rule emerged. If a sheep rides in the cab,
it needs a human chaperone besides the driver. The point
was less scandal and more safety. Livestock in your lap
is not a great air bag strategy, and perhaps a
(01:08):
wink at frontier propriety. Today, most folks stick sheep in
the back where they belong, and a spare ranch hand
ride shotgun instead.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Nebraska. The doughnut without a hole.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
A small town Nebraska taboo long discouraged selling wasteful ring
doughnuts with holes, make the whole pastry edible, or fill
the center. Baker's got creative, jelly filled, cream filled, anything filled,
and customers never looked back. What began as a thrifty
stance against tossing dough cutouts helped popularize the very pastries
(01:45):
people now crave. Nebraska, where fiscal conservatism accidentally invented the
best part of breakfast.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Nevada, no camels on highways.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
In the nineteenth century, the US Army tested camels in
the desert West. When that experiment ended, a few animals
lingered and became hazards on dusty wagon roads that later
became highways. Nevada's solution was simple, no camels on the thoroughfares.
It reads like a joke until you imagine cresting a
hill outside Reno and meeting a one hump traffic cone.
(02:19):
These days, the law mostly survives as desert folklore and
an excellent bar trivia answer.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
New Hampshire no picnics and cemeteries.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Victorian mourners once dined among headstones to feel close to
their departed. Over time, the sandwiches got rowdier than the sentiment,
and New Hampshire towns put their foot down. The modern
expectation is quiet, respect, flowers, reflection, maybe a note with
the potato salad saved for the park. It's a law
(02:52):
about place and purpose, preserving cemeteries as spaces of memory
rather than weekend potlucks.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
New Jersey murder while wearing a bulletproof vest.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wearing body armor during a felony, especially a violent one,
signals preparation for violence and a willingness to escalate. That's
why New Jersey stacks penalties if you commit certain crimes
while armored. It's not the vest itself, it's the combination.
The statute is a practical message to would be tough guys.
(03:24):
If you're planning on getting shot at the court, plans
on adding years.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Have you ever been ticketed for selling socks on a Sunday,
for hosting a bingo night that ran five hours and
seven minutes, or for parking your elephant without feeding the
meter You need Blue law insurance. The only coverage that
treats bizarre local ordinances like hail damage. Our starter plan
includes a laminated list of states where butter must be butter,
a polite script for cemetery picnic dispersal, and a punch
(03:50):
card for main dance permits upgrade to premium and will
prefile your Utah no Siege Engines downtown compliance letter just
in case your nephew builds a trebuche.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Horse tripping is illegal.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Rodeo traditions sometimes strayed into cruel spectacle, and one of
the worst, roping a horse's legs to make it fall,
was outlawed in New Mexico. The ban aligns with broader
animal welfare reforms that swept through Western states. You can
still ride, rope and ranch to your heart's content, but
(04:24):
if your entertainment starts with yanking legs out from under
a horse, expect to see a judge instead of a trophy.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
New York no flirting in public Schenectady's old moral codes.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Turn of the century, Schenectady tried to legislate flirtation out
of street life, ticketing, lewd winks, theatrical size, and amorous comments.
It was part of a wider morality push that also
targeted spitting and loitering. While enforcement faded with time and
changing norms, the ghost of that prudish impulse lingers in
local lore will still flirt. Of course, they'll just do
(05:02):
it with better jokes and less paperwork.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
North Dakota, beer and pretzels don't mix on paper.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
An old North Dakota rule discourage taverns from serving salty
snacks with beer, the worry being that pretzels would god
patrons into ordering round after round, public health by way
of dry pretzels. Today it's rarely enforced and widely ribbed,
but it survives as a reminder that alcohol policy is
nothing if not creative. Bars naturally prefer the modern interpretation.
(05:35):
Pretzels are community service Ohio. No drunk fishing, Ohio. Wardens
take the safety in outdoor recreations seriously. If you're noticeably
under the influence with a rod in hand, you're a
danger to yourself and everyone in the boat. Imagine the
reports tangled lines, accidental hooks, and hats one very confused trout.
(05:59):
Anglers can toast the day's catch after they dock, not
while they wobble at the.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Gunneal, Oklahoma, bear wrestling is banned.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mid Century roadside bars once advertised bouts with declaud muzzled bears.
It was grim for the animals and occasionally disastrous for
the patrons. Oklahoma closed the ring for good and made
it illegal to own or stage a bear for fighting.
If your establishment needs an animal to lose, you can
win a crowd. The problem isn't the bear, it's your booking.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oregon. No whistling underwater.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Some municipal codes are time capsule jokes that never got deleted.
Oregon's classic is the underwater whistle rule, a line that
reads like it escaped from a vaudeville routine. Consider it
civic poetry, a gentle reminder that not everything in the
codebook needs a courtroom. Some of it just needs a
chuckle and a snorkel.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Pennsylvania, don't tie a dollar to a string and yanket.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The sidewalk gag of a dollar on a string was
funny to pranksters and humiliating to passers by. Pennsylvania nuisance
rules made the trick actionable, especially when it clogged up
busy streets. The spirit of the law is simple, laugh
with people, not at them, particularly when traffic is involved
in tempers are short.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Rhode Island margarine pats were a no no.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
During the Butter versus margarine wars, Rhode Island cracked down
on restaurants serving margarine in butter style pats without clear labeling.
The idea was consumer honesty and a nudge to support
local dairy. Diners of the era found themselves sawing at
suspiciously pale rectangles and wondering if the state would appear
(07:46):
with a clipboard.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
South Carolina Sunday Sales and work limits.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Blue laws once shaped Sunday so thoroughly that what you
could buy or even do changed for a day. South
Carolin line, as patchwork of restrictions softened over the years,
still teaches a cultural lesson not every day is for commerce.
If your errand list includes socks, power tools, and a
spontaneous yard sale, the timing, not the items, might be
(08:16):
the issue.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
South Dakota no sleeping in cheese factories.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Food Safety and common sense meat in South Dakota's quirky
prohibition on dozing where dairy is being made. The rule
speaks to a time when night shifts were long, ventilation
was optimistic, and a quick nap could turn into a
sanitation nightmare. Cheese should be aged, not the employees on
the clock.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Tennessee. No lassoing fish.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Tennessee protects its waters from improvised rodeo tactics. A rope
around a trout is neither sporting nor safe. The state's
message is clear, use a rod, a real and a
license and tell your tall tales afterwards. If your fishing
story starts with so I roped this catfish, it should
(09:05):
end with then I paid a fine.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Texas don't sell your eyes.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Texas bands trafficking in human organs and the eyes are
on that list for obvious reasons. This is one of
those laws that needs no grand explanation. It's the solid
legal wall between modern medicine and macabre markets. Donate through
proper channels, save lives, and keep the jars out of
the classifieds.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Utah no catapults on main street.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Young tinkerers once turned downtowns into impromptu physics labs, launching
fruit rocks and whatever fit. The sling Utah Cities finally
wrote the world's least medieval sentence, don't fire siege engines
in town. Rural pumpkin chunkin on a farm, sure, pumpkin
chunkin at a storefront.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Please don't Vermont permission for dentures The relic.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Vermont's most infamous historical rule said a woman needed her
husband's written consent to obtain dentures. A perfect snapshot of
another era's paternalism. The notion that dental choices required mail
approval would be laughable if it weren't so revealing. Today
it's cited as a kind of cautionary tale. Laws reflect values,
(10:23):
and some values need to be retired with extreme prejudice.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Virginia Sunday hunting with a raccoon exception.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
For years, Virginia banned most Sunday hunting, but carved out
a quirky pass for raccoon hunters after midnight. The compromise
balanced Sabbath traditions with a nocturnal pastime dear to rural clubs.
As rules modernized, the raccoon exemption became a badge of
cultural identity and a great way to confuse out of
(10:54):
state guests.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Washington, do not harass bigfoot in Scamania County.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Scamania County took its local legends seriously enough to legislate
messing with bigfoot up to and including trying to harm
what might be a very large, very hairy neighbor could
earn you fines or worse. Whether you believe or not,
the ordinance is a charming piece of community storytelling backed
by the force of law. Treat mysteries kindly.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
West Virginia, The Underwater Whistle reducts.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Local code humor strikes again, a wrye prohibition on whistling
underwater that reads like it was written during a slow
council meeting. It persists because it harms no one and
delights everyone, including the occasional reporter who tries to break
it by blowing bubbles in a fountain. Consider it the
state's official endorsement of practical impossibility.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Wisconsin butter means butter.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Wisconsin's dairy pride produced laws that long required restaurants to
serve real butter unless a customer specifically asked for a substitute.
Inspectors once checked counterpats like jewel appraisers. The principle was simple.
If you're dining in the dairy state, your toast deserves
the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Wyoming no drunk skiing.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Wyoming's ski culture is glorious, and the state would like
you to enjoy it, sober enough to remain upright. Impaired
skiing endangers everyone on the slope. Celebrate at the lodge
after you've turned in your lift ticket. The mountain is
not impressed by your liquid courage, only your ability to
stop before the fence.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Charge with harassing Bigfoot because you thought he was your friend,
Steve in a gilly suit, call Sasquatch legal Defense. We'll
draft your apology, negotiate a photo from a far agreement
with Scamania County, and send you a complimentary window cling
that reads break for cryptids at our field, guide, polite
conduct in the forest at night, and you'll never mistake
Uncle Joe for a protected hominet.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Again. That's the end of our fifty state legal safari
between Montana's chaperone sheep and wyoming sober skiers. We've traveled
a quirky continent of rules meant to solve very specific problems,
some noble, some nutty, many now delightfully obsolete in practice,
but still alive on paper. If you enjoyed this two
(13:17):
part special, please subscribe to the Strange History podcast, leave
a review, and share it with a friend who would
absolutely fail. Connecticut's pickle test. I'm Amy, thanks for listening,
and as always, stay strange.
Welcome back to the Strange History Podcast. I'm your host Amy,
and tonight we're wrapping our cross country tour of America's
weirdest laws that are still at least technically on the books.
In part one, we met bouncing pickles and law abiding elephants.
In part two, we'll find outlaw camels, suspicious butter bigfoot
with legal protections, and a firm reminder not to lasso fish.
(00:24):
Some of these rules are local oddities, some were passed
for very specific historical reasons. All of them prove that
the United States is not just the land of the free,
it's the land of extremely specific municipal concerns. Let's finish
the map.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Montana, A sheep needs a chaperone in the cab.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Montana Ranch country once had a problem cowboys hauling sheep
up front in their trucks and making everyone else uncomfortable.
So the rule emerged. If a sheep rides in the cab,
it needs a human chaperone besides the driver. The point
was less scandal and more safety. Livestock in your lap
is not a great air bag strategy, and perhaps a
(01:08):
wink at frontier propriety. Today, most folks stick sheep in
the back where they belong, and a spare ranch hand
ride shotgun instead.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Nebraska. The doughnut without a hole.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
A small town Nebraska taboo long discouraged selling wasteful ring
doughnuts with holes, make the whole pastry edible, or fill
the center. Baker's got creative, jelly filled, cream filled, anything filled,
and customers never looked back. What began as a thrifty
stance against tossing dough cutouts helped popularize the very pastries
(01:45):
people now crave. Nebraska, where fiscal conservatism accidentally invented the
best part of breakfast.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Nevada, no camels on highways.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
In the nineteenth century, the US Army tested camels in
the desert West. When that experiment ended, a few animals
lingered and became hazards on dusty wagon roads that later
became highways. Nevada's solution was simple, no camels on the thoroughfares.
It reads like a joke until you imagine cresting a
hill outside Reno and meeting a one hump traffic cone.
(02:19):
These days, the law mostly survives as desert folklore and
an excellent bar trivia answer.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
New Hampshire no picnics and cemeteries.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Victorian mourners once dined among headstones to feel close to
their departed. Over time, the sandwiches got rowdier than the sentiment,
and New Hampshire towns put their foot down. The modern
expectation is quiet, respect, flowers, reflection, maybe a note with
the potato salad saved for the park. It's a law
(02:52):
about place and purpose, preserving cemeteries as spaces of memory
rather than weekend potlucks.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
New Jersey murder while wearing a bulletproof vest.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wearing body armor during a felony, especially a violent one,
signals preparation for violence and a willingness to escalate. That's
why New Jersey stacks penalties if you commit certain crimes
while armored. It's not the vest itself, it's the combination.
The statute is a practical message to would be tough guys.
(03:24):
If you're planning on getting shot at the court, plans
on adding years.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Have you ever been ticketed for selling socks on a Sunday,
for hosting a bingo night that ran five hours and
seven minutes, or for parking your elephant without feeding the
meter You need Blue law insurance. The only coverage that
treats bizarre local ordinances like hail damage. Our starter plan
includes a laminated list of states where butter must be butter,
a polite script for cemetery picnic dispersal, and a punch
(03:50):
card for main dance permits upgrade to premium and will
prefile your Utah no Siege Engines downtown compliance letter just
in case your nephew builds a trebuche.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Horse tripping is illegal.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Rodeo traditions sometimes strayed into cruel spectacle, and one of
the worst, roping a horse's legs to make it fall,
was outlawed in New Mexico. The ban aligns with broader
animal welfare reforms that swept through Western states. You can
still ride, rope and ranch to your heart's content, but
(04:24):
if your entertainment starts with yanking legs out from under
a horse, expect to see a judge instead of a trophy.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
New York no flirting in public Schenectady's old moral codes.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Turn of the century, Schenectady tried to legislate flirtation out
of street life, ticketing, lewd winks, theatrical size, and amorous comments.
It was part of a wider morality push that also
targeted spitting and loitering. While enforcement faded with time and
changing norms, the ghost of that prudish impulse lingers in
local lore will still flirt. Of course, they'll just do
(05:02):
it with better jokes and less paperwork.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
North Dakota, beer and pretzels don't mix on paper.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
An old North Dakota rule discourage taverns from serving salty
snacks with beer, the worry being that pretzels would god
patrons into ordering round after round, public health by way
of dry pretzels. Today it's rarely enforced and widely ribbed,
but it survives as a reminder that alcohol policy is
nothing if not creative. Bars naturally prefer the modern interpretation.
(05:35):
Pretzels are community service Ohio. No drunk fishing, Ohio. Wardens
take the safety in outdoor recreations seriously. If you're noticeably
under the influence with a rod in hand, you're a
danger to yourself and everyone in the boat. Imagine the
reports tangled lines, accidental hooks, and hats one very confused trout.
(05:59):
Anglers can toast the day's catch after they dock, not
while they wobble at the.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Gunneal, Oklahoma, bear wrestling is banned.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mid Century roadside bars once advertised bouts with declaud muzzled bears.
It was grim for the animals and occasionally disastrous for
the patrons. Oklahoma closed the ring for good and made
it illegal to own or stage a bear for fighting.
If your establishment needs an animal to lose, you can
win a crowd. The problem isn't the bear, it's your booking.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oregon. No whistling underwater.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Some municipal codes are time capsule jokes that never got deleted.
Oregon's classic is the underwater whistle rule, a line that
reads like it escaped from a vaudeville routine. Consider it
civic poetry, a gentle reminder that not everything in the
codebook needs a courtroom. Some of it just needs a
chuckle and a snorkel.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Pennsylvania, don't tie a dollar to a string and yanket.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The sidewalk gag of a dollar on a string was
funny to pranksters and humiliating to passers by. Pennsylvania nuisance
rules made the trick actionable, especially when it clogged up
busy streets. The spirit of the law is simple, laugh
with people, not at them, particularly when traffic is involved
in tempers are short.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Rhode Island margarine pats were a no no.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
During the Butter versus margarine wars, Rhode Island cracked down
on restaurants serving margarine in butter style pats without clear labeling.
The idea was consumer honesty and a nudge to support
local dairy. Diners of the era found themselves sawing at
suspiciously pale rectangles and wondering if the state would appear
(07:46):
with a clipboard.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
South Carolina Sunday Sales and work limits.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Blue laws once shaped Sunday so thoroughly that what you
could buy or even do changed for a day. South
Carolin line, as patchwork of restrictions softened over the years,
still teaches a cultural lesson not every day is for commerce.
If your errand list includes socks, power tools, and a
spontaneous yard sale, the timing, not the items, might be
(08:16):
the issue.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
South Dakota no sleeping in cheese factories.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Food Safety and common sense meat in South Dakota's quirky
prohibition on dozing where dairy is being made. The rule
speaks to a time when night shifts were long, ventilation
was optimistic, and a quick nap could turn into a
sanitation nightmare. Cheese should be aged, not the employees on
the clock.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Tennessee. No lassoing fish.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Tennessee protects its waters from improvised rodeo tactics. A rope
around a trout is neither sporting nor safe. The state's
message is clear, use a rod, a real and a
license and tell your tall tales afterwards. If your fishing
story starts with so I roped this catfish, it should
(09:05):
end with then I paid a fine.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Texas don't sell your eyes.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Texas bands trafficking in human organs and the eyes are
on that list for obvious reasons. This is one of
those laws that needs no grand explanation. It's the solid
legal wall between modern medicine and macabre markets. Donate through
proper channels, save lives, and keep the jars out of
the classifieds.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Utah no catapults on main street.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Young tinkerers once turned downtowns into impromptu physics labs, launching
fruit rocks and whatever fit. The sling Utah Cities finally
wrote the world's least medieval sentence, don't fire siege engines
in town. Rural pumpkin chunkin on a farm, sure, pumpkin
chunkin at a storefront.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Please don't Vermont permission for dentures The relic.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Vermont's most infamous historical rule said a woman needed her
husband's written consent to obtain dentures. A perfect snapshot of
another era's paternalism. The notion that dental choices required mail
approval would be laughable if it weren't so revealing. Today
it's cited as a kind of cautionary tale. Laws reflect values,
(10:23):
and some values need to be retired with extreme prejudice.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Virginia Sunday hunting with a raccoon exception.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
For years, Virginia banned most Sunday hunting, but carved out
a quirky pass for raccoon hunters after midnight. The compromise
balanced Sabbath traditions with a nocturnal pastime dear to rural clubs.
As rules modernized, the raccoon exemption became a badge of
cultural identity and a great way to confuse out of
(10:54):
state guests.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Washington, do not harass bigfoot in Scamania County.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Scamania County took its local legends seriously enough to legislate
messing with bigfoot up to and including trying to harm
what might be a very large, very hairy neighbor could
earn you fines or worse. Whether you believe or not,
the ordinance is a charming piece of community storytelling backed
by the force of law. Treat mysteries kindly.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
West Virginia, The Underwater Whistle reducts.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Local code humor strikes again, a wrye prohibition on whistling
underwater that reads like it was written during a slow
council meeting. It persists because it harms no one and
delights everyone, including the occasional reporter who tries to break
it by blowing bubbles in a fountain. Consider it the
state's official endorsement of practical impossibility.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Wisconsin butter means butter.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Wisconsin's dairy pride produced laws that long required restaurants to
serve real butter unless a customer specifically asked for a substitute.
Inspectors once checked counterpats like jewel appraisers. The principle was simple.
If you're dining in the dairy state, your toast deserves
the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Wyoming no drunk skiing.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Wyoming's ski culture is glorious, and the state would like
you to enjoy it, sober enough to remain upright. Impaired
skiing endangers everyone on the slope. Celebrate at the lodge
after you've turned in your lift ticket. The mountain is
not impressed by your liquid courage, only your ability to
stop before the fence.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Charge with harassing Bigfoot because you thought he was your friend,
Steve in a gilly suit, call Sasquatch legal Defense. We'll
draft your apology, negotiate a photo from a far agreement
with Scamania County, and send you a complimentary window cling
that reads break for cryptids at our field, guide, polite
conduct in the forest at night, and you'll never mistake
Uncle Joe for a protected hominet.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Again. That's the end of our fifty state legal safari
between Montana's chaperone sheep and wyoming sober skiers. We've traveled
a quirky continent of rules meant to solve very specific problems,
some noble, some nutty, many now delightfully obsolete in practice,
but still alive on paper. If you enjoyed this two
(13:17):
part special, please subscribe to the Strange History podcast, leave
a review, and share it with a friend who would
absolutely fail. Connecticut's pickle test. I'm Amy, thanks for listening,
and as always, stay strange.
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