Stupid State Laws - New York

Here comes another post about a state law that still exists on the books and why it is ridiculous (to see them all, click here):

New York

"The penalty for jumping off a building is death."

No shit, Sherlock.  Why in the hell is this even a law?  What do lawmakers expect the outcome of jumping off of a building will be?  A soft landing and a lollipop?  No, more like an instant death (if you are lucky) and a mess on the sidewalk that no one is going to want to clean up.  If anything, the penalty for jumping off a building should be a fine that would pay for the clean-up service to scrap your dead body off of the sidewalk.  And for that matter, if someone does survive jumping off of a building, killing them only solves their problem considering that was what they were trying to do in the first place.

"Yeah, if you jump from any of these buildings, of course the penalty will be death."