March 25, 2026

The Origin of Weird: Weird City Laws

The Origin of Weird: Weird City Laws
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High heels with a permit. Bigfoot with legal protection. A city rule that basically turns snowballs into “missiles.” We grab a stack of real municipal codes and ordinances that are still on the books and ask the only reasonable question: how is this still a law?

We’re Bradley and Kate, and we keep it fast, weird, and surprisingly informative. We break down what these strange laws actually say, where they came from, and why they were written in the first place. A lot of the funniest “bizarre laws” start with something dead serious: uneven sidewalks that trigger lawsuits, armed Sasquatch hunters who might shoot the wrong target, carnivals giving away goldfish that die fast, public health crackdowns during tuberculosis scares, and safety hazards like laser pointers aimed at aircraft.

You’ll also hear how cities try to protect wildlife and neighborhoods with rules on pigeon feeding, balloon releases, exotic pets, parking on lawns, dust control, and even digging deep holes on the beach. The bigger takeaway is that local government moves slowly, and old city ordinances can linger long after the original problem fades, turning practical rules into modern punchlines.

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00:15 - Welcome And Host Banter

02:10 - High Heels And Bigfoot Laws

04:04 - Goldfish Prizes And Fake Parakeets

06:33 - Fire Alarms And Pigeon Feeding Bans

09:04 - Snowball Missiles And Balloon Releases

11:00 - Parking Lawns And Dust Control Rules

13:03 - Exotic Pets And The Camel Ban

14:09 - Beach Holes And Laser Pointers

15:48 - Snow Dumping And Public Burping

19:16 - Manure Storage And Snowball Rules

20:51 - Sidewalk Skating And Parking Meter Animals

22:04 - Noise Near Hospitals And Abandoned Pets

24:15 - Pigeons Again And City Cleanup Laws

26:03 - Wildlife Feeding And Drunk Docks

27:22 - Where To Find Us Next

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Oh, hey there.

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Oh, hey there.

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Welcome to The Origin of Weird.

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I am Bradley.

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I am Kate, and we are the History Buffoon.

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We sure fucking are.

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I know.

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You're Unpolished Buffoon.

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I am.

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If you've listened to the Molotov cocktail episode that we did.

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You know that she is now known as Unpolished Buffoon.

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It tracks.

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She's rough around the edges.

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You can call me a diamond if you will.

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Yeah, because you're definitely rough.

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I know.

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I'm a diamond.

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Today.

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Oh today, we've got a simple one.

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I like simple.

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But it's gonna be, I think it's gonna be great.

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Oh, sure.

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I bet.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So we're we are going to talk about weird laws.

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Weird laws that are like still on the books today.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I've heard I obviously I don't recall any, but I have heard some weird fucking ones that are like how is that still like a law?

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So these laws, I have the place, I have the code, the municipal cult code, oh shit, or the ordinance number.

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So like they're still out there.

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That's wild.

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Um, I also have when it was adopted.

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Okay.

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And so some of these you've probably heard actually are very simplified.

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I have the actual wording and then what it means and how like people like developed it into what we think are weird laws.

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Whatever.

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Okay.

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So I'll just start.

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Let's go.

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So the first one is from California.

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It's uh Carmel by the sea, California.

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Apparently that's a city, whatever.

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Caramel?

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It's spelled C-A-R-E-L.

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M-E-L.

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It's Car Carmel.

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Carmel by the sea.

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Yeah.

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Oh my gosh, it's been forever since I've heard that word.

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Yeah.

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Like out loud, basically.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So high heels require a permit.

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What?

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So municipal code.

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I'm not going to go into all that, but it was adopted in 1963.

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That is so weird that it's that late.

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I could see maybe like the 20s or something, but 63.

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So the simplified wording is wearing shoes with heels over two inches high on public streets without a permit is prohibited.

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So you could get arrested?

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Do you think like the cop would just walk up, stand straight?

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No.

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Your heels two inches plus.

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So what the fuck?

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At the time the sidewalks were uneven because of sidewalks?

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Because of like tree roots.

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Sure.

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People kept tripping and then suing the city.

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Oh.

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So the permit acts as a legal liability waiver.

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Oh, that makes sense.

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Okay.

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We're gonna rapid fire these, okay?

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That's fine, that's fine.

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Keep going.

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Okay.

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Scamania County, Washington.

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Like Washington State.

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State.

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Okay.

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The Bigfoot protection law.

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Oh, for fuck's sake.

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We knew this from our Bigfoot Halloween episode.

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Yeah.

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So ordinance number adopted in 1969, and then it was amended in eight 1984.

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Jesus.

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The actual simplified wording is killing, capturing, or harassing any Sasquatch, Bigfoot, or other unknown primate is prohibited.

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Unknown primate.

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Bigfoot hunters are showing up armed in forests, and officials were worried about people accidentally shooting each other.

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I totally get that.

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So yeah, makes sense.

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Like, okay, so this probably isn't a thing, but we're gonna put a law on it to protect other people.

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Yeah, just just to be safe.

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All right, what else?

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Seattle, Washington.

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Are most of these from the Pacific Northwest and the West Coast?

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Nope.

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Okay.

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Nope.

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Uh Seattle, Washington, goldfish cannot be given as prizes.

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You mean like the crackers?

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Just kidding, obviously.

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So, like you couldn't go to a carnival and and throw your ping pong ball on a goldfish?

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So it was adopted in 1982.

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Oh, wow.

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And the simplified wording is it is unlawful to give live animals as prizes in contests, games, or promotions.

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Okay.

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Carnivals gave away goldfish that quickly died from poor care.

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Correct.

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You know that when Xavier had two.

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And they died.

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Yeah.

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Like I bought him um uh a feeder calendar so that he could like mark off when he fed in the morning.

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I had to cancel it because the fish.

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It was on Etsy.

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I had to cancel it.

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That's right.

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I totally forgot about that.

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You got them that or were going to get him that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, because fuck.

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Well, no, I get it.

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I think it's horse shit because A, it's not like those people take good care of these fish.

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Yeah.

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They probably had to scoop out the dead ones that morning, anyways, and put new ones in that they had.

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So it's kind of horse shit.

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And you get this.

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Well, they're still animals, like well, they're animals, and you get like my son, you get his hopes up.

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I got a fish.

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Yeah.

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And it's dead within days of bringing it home.

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It's like, come on, man.

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Yeah.

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It's not proper conditions to raise goldfish or beta fish, whatever.

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Um, it was funny.

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So we have such hard water here where I live.

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So we we got a water softener now and everything, or working one, I should say.

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But Sarah had this beta fish when we moved here.

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It died within because our water was just so hard and whatever.

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Anyways.

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All right, let's go to Detroit, Michigan.

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Detroit painting sparrows to sell us parakeets.

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Who would do that?

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No person no person shall die or otherwise alter.

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So D Y E.

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Yeah.

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Die or otherwise alter the natural color of a bird for the purpose of sale.

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Vendors literally painted sparrows green and sold them as exotic birds.

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That is fucking that was from 1931.

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1931.

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Okay, that that tracks a little better.

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Could you imagine saying, oh mommy, I got this cute little birdie?

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It's a sparrow.

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Why why is its colors dripping off?

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What the fuck?

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All right, Chicago, Illinois.

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Oh persons must vacate a building immediately when a fire alarm or fire condition exists.

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Okay.

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So the code was evacuating buildings during fires, adopted in 1942.

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Restaurant patrons historically refused to leave during fires.

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This led to a joke that it's illegal to eat in a burning building.

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Okay.

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So the the then the did they not want to leave?

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Uh that was way too many.

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Did it did it did it?

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Did they not want to leave?

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Because like, well, my food's here.

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Yeah.

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And I don't want to miss out on my meal.

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How many times have you been in a hotel with a fire alarm going off and everybody's like, it's fine?

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Probably never.

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Oh, I have plenty of times.

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I was joking.

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I've a couple times, yeah.

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Doesn't mean a hotel, just any anything, any building.

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Like, I was at uh one of my accounts not that long ago, a couple weeks, month ago, whatever, and they were doing a fire alarm like thing.

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And I'm like, oh crap.

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Because when the fire alarm goes off, the elevators don't work, and I was on the second floor.

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Oh shoot.

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So I'm like, I'm gonna have to load up this and like son of a biscuit.

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When I worked for um an independent living, it was a two-floor establishment, and we had a drill.

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Sure.

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And we had to pretend the elevators were shut down.

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Right.

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And we had to literally go up and like try to carefully walk people down, which is not part of my job description.

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No.

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I could have been liable.

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I'm not a CNA at this place.

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No, of course not.

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But I am holding on to people walking down all these steps for this drill.

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Anyway, let's keep on.

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Well, let's let's go to the next one.

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Let's go to Milwaukee, shall we?

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I mean, yeah, that's just on the road.

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You are restricted from feeding pigeons.

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Yeah, I wouldn't want to, anyways.

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Adopted in 1981.

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No person, no person shall feed pigeons in areas designated by the commissioner.

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Pigeon populations were damaging buildings and monuments.

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Because they were shitting on them?

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Mm-hmm.

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So to keep that from happening, they prevented people from feeding them in those areas.

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Well, they could have just felled them.

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Fed them Elka Seltzer.

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What's that gonna do?

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Apparently they made them explode.

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Oh that's cruel animal cruelty.

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I'm aware.

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That's not due to that.

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But apparently that was a thing.

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If we can't sell if we can't win them as prizes in the fair, we're not gonna give an Elka Seltzer.

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Topeka Washington?

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Kansas.

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Kansas.

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I knew that better.

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It is unlawful to throw stones or missiles.

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Or missiles in public spaces.

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Adopted in 1950.

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Snowballs counted as missiles.

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As missiles.

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What the fuck?

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And this ban became known as the snowball ban snowball ban.

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Missiles?

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They call them missiles?

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Mm-hmm.

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Oh my god.

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Okay.

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Projectiles, essentially.

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Well, yeah, I get that, but fucking missiles.

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That's funny.

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Alright, what's your next one?

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New Orleans.

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Ah.

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Mass balloon releases are restricted.

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I can get that.

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Adopted in 1997.

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That's oh shit.

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The actual simplified wording releasing large quantities of balloons outdoors is prohibited.

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Balloons would fall back to earth.

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Yep.

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There it is.

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Wow.

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And harm wildlife or power lines.

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No, for sure.

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It makes sense.

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That one makes sense.

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Like the whole throwing missiles, not as much.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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What do you got next?

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Long Beach, California.

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Oh, good old Long Beach.

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It is unlawful to park your car on a lawn.

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Adopted in 1988.

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Okay.

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Vehicles may not be parked or stored on unpaved surfaces in residential residential zones.

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Sure.

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Cities using zoning laws to stop neighborhoods from turning lawn into parking lots.

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Man, they wouldn't like that.

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Uh they wouldn't like to be in Green Bay on Game Bay.

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Fuck.

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Tucson, Arizona.

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Hey, tucsin.

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Adopted in 1972.

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There is an ordinance on dust control.

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Dust?

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Property owners must prevent excessive dust and emissions.

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Emissions.

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So so they would have to just wet down their their yard?

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I mean, what desert dust was a major health hazard and visibility issue, apparently, at the time.

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Which I get, but it's like, how is that?

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How are you supposed to prevent that?

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How is it their fault?

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This dust came from the Joneses 20 houses down the street.

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It's like they owe me some retribution or whatever.

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I mean, I'm using wrong words, but you know, it's like, how do you what?

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How do you know it came from the Joneses or the Smiths or whoever?

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That's fucking weird.

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New York City.

00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:40.559
New York City.

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Do you remember the uh was it old El Paso?

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I think maybe the brand they made um uh salsa.

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Do you remember those commercials where it's like they show some old timey guys like down in Texas eating their stuff and like, oh, you can have mine?

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It's New York, it's from New York.

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New York City.

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Like they were all pissed because they clearly don't know how to make salsa in New York City.

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Right.

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Anyways, sorry, that was a weird tangent.

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Wild animals are prohibited.

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So adopted in well, this was an updated one from 2005.

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Oh wow, possession of certain wild animals within city limits is prohibited without permit.

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Totally get that.

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Exotic pets like tigers, monkeys, and venomous snakes had become a problem, apparently.

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Well, that's like that's kind of like they need to adopt that in in Florida because like the whole Python thing, like it's gotten out of control now.

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I've not heard they literally have like Python hunting day or whatever, and like whoever catches them kills the most pythons wins, or some shit like that.

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It's I'm I'm probably getting my details mixed up.

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Is it like hunting deer up here for population control?

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Yes, but deer are a natural fucking thing to our state.

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Pythons were like people have people had some pets, and they're like, Oh, he's getting big, let him go.

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Oh, and it created a fucking issue.

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They were originally pets, yeah, something like that.

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So and now for deer at least are native to our fucking lands up here, yeah.

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And yes, we do hunt them for population control.

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That's like okay, you're feeding these pythons, they're not hunting for themselves, you're letting them go.

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That's like feeding a dog all his life and then letting letting him go like what yeah, they're gonna go wild.

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Okay, let's go to Phoenix, Arizona.

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Go Phoenix.

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There is a camel hunting ban from 1924.

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Do they have camels in Phoenix?

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So hunting animals.

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So the law says hunting animals within city limits is prohibited.

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Sure.

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The reason it became the camel law was Arizona once had feral camels really from the 1850s U.S.

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camel core experiment.

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Oh shit, no way.

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I never knew that was a thing.

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Maybe that's something we should look up for a future uh origin story.

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Keep that in mind because that sounds fucking weird.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Uh, Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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Oh no.

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It is prohibited to dig holes on the beach.

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Oh, I thought you were gonna say turn your back on family.

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So digging holes deeper than 12 inches in public beaches must be filled before leaving.

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Well, it could be a hazard, someone running down the beach.

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That's exactly why.

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This was adopted in 2016 after several people rescue incidents is oh fuck.

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Deep beach holes were collapsing and trapping trapping people overnight.

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Oh god, rescue crews had to dig people out of sand pits.

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How terrifying.

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That would that would that sound like a nightmare.

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Yeah, that's terrifying for me.

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Totally get that one.

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Totally get that one.

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Unsafe for people, yeah.

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And don't be a dick.

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This one is also I've heard of before.

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Okay.

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Tempe, Arizona.

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Ah, another Arizona.

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Um, it is prohibited to point laser pointers at aircraft.

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You've heard that, right?

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I've heard that, yes.

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Correct.

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So it was adopted in 2010.

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Directing a laser at aircraft or vehicles is prohibited.

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Yep.

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Pilots were being temporarily blinded by laser pointers near Phoenix.

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Wow.

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Why insane?

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Why the fuck did you think that was a good idea?

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Hey man, you want to go uh blind some pilots tonight?

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Yeah, sounds fun.

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Bring the beer.

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Yeah.

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You know, it's like, why would you do that?

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There's people on board.

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Yeah.

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You could fuck a lot of shit up.

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Don't be an ass.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Flagstaff, Arizona.

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You've got a lot of Arizona ones.

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They're fucking weird.

00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:49.519
Well, you're not wrong.

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Adopted in 1970, there is a uh snow dumping restrictions.

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Snow removed from private property may not be deposited onto streets.

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Sure.

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Residents were shoveling driveway directly into roads, therefore blocking traffic.

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You said this was flagstaff.

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Because that's up in the mountains, right?

00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:10.639
Yeah.

00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.279
Yeah, where they actually get snow up in Arizona.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I don't if I I don't think I have ever purposefully shoveled snow into the road.

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So, you know It might happen by accident with with a snowblower, but it's like you fix it right away.

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You know the the road that you take to get to my house on a creek here.

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There's one especially, and I it's not I'm just using them as an example because they're close to me.

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But I hate when I see this when they you see someone who's got clearly a plow like on the front of a four-wheeler or whatever, and they push it across the street to the other side.

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They never clean up their fucking trails, they never push it fucking far enough.

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It's like, hey, asshole, other cars are fucking using this too.

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Yeah, if you're gonna do that, clean up the rest of it, right?

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You fucking idiot.

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I can't stand that when I'm shoveling and I've got like a whole load, I have to go by and get the little trails.

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Right.

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Like it just blows up.

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Oh no, same.

00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.240
But it's like you're literally pushing this onto a road.

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Yeah.

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Or I've I've seen where like someone, you know, has a decently wide driveway, and they'll like you know you it out, if you will, you know, like make a U turn kind of thing, and they just leave it all in the middle of the road.

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It's like, what are you fucking doing?

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No, don't be an asshole.

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Yeah.

00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:30.400
So Santa Monica, California.

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Boulevard.

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Hmm.

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It is prohibited to burp or spit in public spaces.

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Well, you like the second one.

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This was in the early 1900s.

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Um spitting on sidewalks or public spaces is prohibited.

00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:47.759
I get the spitting, but why the burping?

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This came from anti-tuberculosis health campaigns.

00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.079
Like, isn't it good to be anti-tuberculosis?

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You don't want tuberculosis.

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No, that's what I'm saying.

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Like this, they put in this pro um this this uh code, this uh um thank you, ordinance for anti-tuberculosis.

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It's like you pass tuberculosis by burping?

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I'm so confused.

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Tuberculosis, gosh, what is the how do you catch tuberculosis?

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Not with a baseball net.

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Because that'd be impressive.

00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:29.440
Most impressive tests.

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Spreading through the air with a person with active lung or throat disease.

00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.640
Okay, so yeah, I mean, if you burped, you're gonna tuberculosis.

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Tuberculosis in the air, yeah.

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So it was it was prohibited to burp or or spit in Santa Monica during this time.

00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:45.920
Okay.

00:18:47.039 --> 00:19:00.720
So when I was doing research on this, yeah, um, there's a lot of state laws as well like this, but state laws get changed a lot more frequently than municipality laws.

00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:01.519
Right, yeah.

00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.880
The municipality laws are like it's no big deal.

00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.200
Well, so that's why there's so many of those.

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And that's why you you like you said 1920, 19, whatever.

00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:16.319
There's so many that have been around for hundreds of years, probably, at least a hundred.

00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:21.519
And they just it they're quite irrelevant today, but it's like, well, whatever.

00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:23.359
Yeah, just leave it on the books.

00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.920
So San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco treat.

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It was prohibited to store manure in buildings.

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Do you know who really hated manure?

00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:38.400
Biff.

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Anyways.

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Poor Biff.

00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:45.599
This was adopted in the 19th century as a horse era ordinance.

00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:46.160
Obviously.

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Storing manure in buildings or enclosed spaces without sanitation control is prohibited.

00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.119
So is that still on the books today, though?

00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:55.680
Oh, yeah.

00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.799
See, that's that's that's yeah, it's still there because they we just don't care enough.

00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.519
We don't care enough, and please don't do that.

00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:06.000
So horse manure accumulation caused disease and odor problems.

00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:06.960
Oh, sure, yeah.

00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:07.839
Makes sense.

00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:09.519
Aspen, Colorado.

00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:10.799
Hey, I've been there.

00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.359
I was I was driving through Aspen, Colorado in 1995.

00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:16.640
Is it five?

00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:21.599
I was yeah, five when uh Jerry Garcia died, and we heard it on the radio.

00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:23.359
You know who he is?

00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:24.000
I don't.

00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:25.359
Jerry Garcia.

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He was the lead singer of The Grateful Dead.

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That's why I don't know it.

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Adopted in 1960.

00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:34.720
Snowballs are prohibited.

00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:36.720
Well, they get snow there.

00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:45.920
Throwing objects capable of causing injury in public spaces is prohibited, and snowballs technically fall under projectile laws.

00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:47.759
I get that.

00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.640
That makes sense.

00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:50.079
That's funny.

00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.200
Wow, all right.

00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:52.880
Jacksonville, Florida.

00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.839
Uh, that do you know what band is from, Jacksonville?

00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:56.319
No.

00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:02.799
Adopted in the mid-1900s for pedestrian safety ordinance.

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Okay.

00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:08.000
Roller skating is prohibited on sidewalks and business disc uh districts.

00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:08.400
True.

00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.480
Skaters were colliding with pedestrians and storefront windows.

00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:13.839
Well, yeah.

00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:21.680
I mean I get it because there's a lot of people there, and you don't need these people.

00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:24.640
Like, go to go to the park or whatever and do that.

00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:25.920
Shenanigans.

00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:27.440
Atlanta, Georgia.

00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:28.640
Atlanta.

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It is unlawful to tie animals to parking meters.

00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:35.759
It was adopted in 1950.

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I fucking agree.

00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.880
Animals may not be tied to parking meters or street signs.

00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.440
Horses and mules were once left tied to meters while owners shopped.

00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:46.960
Do you know what I really hate?

00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:53.279
Is when I go to a store and I see a dog tied up outside because they're owners and like, you know what, asshole?

00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:55.119
Leave the dog fucking home then.

00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:57.359
That's not fair to him.

00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:57.759
No.

00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:58.319
Or her.

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Poor puppy.

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I know.

00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:01.039
Bad.

00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:03.200
Boise, Idaho.

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Use of so this is from 195 uh excuse me, the nineteen eighties.

00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:08.960
Okay.

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The use of certain fireworks within city limits is prohibited for a wildfire risk.

00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:15.039
Sure.

00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:17.440
I mean that's that's totally fucking warranted.

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.000
Yeah, I think that's okay.

00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:21.920
Evanston, Illinois.

00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.039
Oh, Illinois.

00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:27.119
It is prohibited to honk your horns near hospitals.

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Adopted in the early 1900s.

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Sounding vehicle horns near hospitals or schools unnecessarily is prohibited as a noise disturbance near the patients.

00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:43.759
Which I get, but what if they're all excited because they beat cancer or something?

00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:46.000
You're like, honk, honk, honk, honk.

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I'm excited.

00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:48.559
Oh, to congratulate me.

00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:48.880
Yeah.

00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:49.519
Yeah.

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:50.880
Okay, just got married.

00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:52.880
In Lowell, Kentucky.

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Um, in the 1970s.

00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.119
Yeah.

00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:01.359
It is prohibited to release animals in city parks.

00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:02.400
I agree.

00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.680
Why would you do that?

00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:07.599
People were abandoning pets and exotic animals in parks.

00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:10.880
So stop by stop getting animals.

00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:11.680
Right.

00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:17.599
So Sarah Sarah lived in the South for a bit, um, in her previous life.

00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:23.119
And she she would tell me how like just dogs or just let go and whatever.

00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:27.119
Or so her ex was in the military.

00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:29.440
And you know, when you're in the military, you move a lot.

00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:32.880
So from base to base, whatever, whatever your assignments are, so on.

00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:39.839
And she would she was telling me like stories about like she'd be talking to people, it's like, yeah, well, we're getting moved to this base, so we we just let the animals go.

00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:41.200
Like, wait, what?

00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:43.839
Yeah, we're not gonna take them with, we just let them go.

00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:45.519
Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:46.559
Heartless.

00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:48.799
Seriously, what is wrong with you?

00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:53.680
And I I can't grasp my head around that because thanks for abandoning me out here.

00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.319
Yeah, it's like uh peace out, mom.

00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:57.759
Like, could you imagine?

00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.079
Like, hey, Bonnie, we gotta move.

00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:00.720
Go.

00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:02.000
No, hell no.

00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:02.559
Exactly.

00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:04.480
Hell no, you could never do that to Bonnie.

00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:06.079
You couldn't do that to any of your animals.

00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:07.920
No, I couldn't do that to any of mine.

00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:09.440
No, that's fucking insane.

00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:10.799
No, so that's wild.

00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:12.880
Isn't that just crazy?

00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:14.960
All right, let's go to Boston Mass.

00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:16.079
Boston Mass?

00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:20.480
There is a ban on pigeon feeding here as well, adopted in 2006.

00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:22.559
Oh, wow, that's pretty recent.

00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:29.519
Feeding pigeons is in deck designated areas is prohibited because they were damaging historical buildings.

00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:30.000
Sure.

00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:32.640
Boston Mass, there's a lot of history over there.

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But could you park the card Havid Yad?

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Oh yeah.

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I do not do a Bostonian accent.

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Bostonian accent very well.

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And um, I I I do I okay.

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It's been 32 years since I've been to Boston.

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I really like that place.

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Yeah, like you said, a lot of history.

00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:05.359
We need we need to do a few a buffoon field trip to the Paul Revere stuff with the with the star Starbucks right around the corner.

00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:06.559
Yeah, which is wild.

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Yeah, but there's so much history there.

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I just I I really enjoyed it, and I was only 14 at the time.

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Yeah.

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Um, I would love to go back as an adult and see a lot of these things.

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Yeah.

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Well, I mean, I learned things, but it's like actually, I think I would I appreciated it then.

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I think I would just appreciate even more now, is all I'm saying.

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Because like it is so much history, and it'd be really cool to just stay out there and yeah, we need to do a field trip and do a buffoons episode out there.

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That'd be really kind of cool.

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So Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Fucking Minnesota.

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Placing objects that uh that obstruct sidewalks is prohibited.

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Like what objects?

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Apparently in the early 1900s, vendors used to leave carts and barrels in walkways.

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Like after they were done, I guess.

00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:56.880
Like, I don't need this anymore.

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I guess I'll just, I don't know, leave it there.

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What the fuck, dude?

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Clean up your shit.

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In Reno, Nevada, excuse me.

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Yeah, feeding wild wildlife in parks without authorization is prohibited.

00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:09.680
Okay.

00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:10.559
That makes sense.

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I get that.

00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:17.680
Um, it was adopted during um a wildfire ordinance in night in the 1980s.

00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:22.400
Uh, feeding wildlife led to aggressive animals and ecological damage.

00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:23.039
Okay.

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Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Hoboken.

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Intoxicated persons may not congregate near docks or harbor facilities.

00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:34.640
Is that because they would fall in?

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:35.359
That's why.

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They would fall in the water and die.

00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:46.079
Drunken dock workers were falling into the harbor, and this was adopted in in an early port city ordinance.

00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:49.359
I don't have a year on it, but that's the last one.

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Hoboken, New Jersey.

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You cannot be intoxicated on a dock.

00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.359
I mean, those are honestly words to live by.

00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:00.079
Yeah.

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Because fuck.

00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:02.720
Yeah.

00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.759
I just think the you've seen Sleepy Hollow.

00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:11.279
Um, I just think of the early on with Ichabod Crane and the guy floating up.

00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:13.119
He needs ringing his bell.

00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:14.240
I need to help you.

00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:15.039
Oh, geez.

00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:16.400
Once I'm on, whatever.

00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:19.279
Anyways, it's like he was a dock worker.

00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:19.920
He was drunk.

00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:20.400
Yep.

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Anyways, but well.

00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:23.440
I suppose.

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All right, buffoons.

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