Sunday, November 25, 2012

Stupid State Laws - Louisiana

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):

Louisiana

"It is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol."

I actually chuckled when I saw this insanely stupid law.  The first thing that jumped out at me about this ridiculousness was that this law makes it seem like it is perfectly legal to just straight-up rob a bank with a water pistol as long as you don't shoot the bank teller with it.  Since there is probably no other legislation about water pistol-related bank robberies in that state, then for all means head to Louisiana with your Super Soaker and get your bank robbing on, it is apparently legal.  But what makes even less sense is that you know someone actually committed this crime and that some lawmaker actually had to add the "shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol" part of this law because for some reason they thought that that part was actually necessary.

"It is probably perfectly legal to rob a bank with a Batman water pistol though."

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