The Stupids

Despite the floundering economy and important issues that need to be attended to, some cities across the nation are tackling the REALLY important issues:

The city council in Elmhurst, Illinois has asked the City Attorney to look into the possibility of making eye-rolling illegal. Yes, you read that right. Apparently a woman at the city council meeting was seen rolling her eyes and sighing at something a council member said, and was then ejected from the room. Holy sensitivity Batman! She dared to roll her eyes? and SIGH? Perhaps they would have preferred that she jump up and interrupt the statement while gesticulating wildly? Now the city council would like to create a disorderly conduct violation, and get eye-rolling included in it.  I cannot even fathom the level of stupidity needed to come up with that idea.

Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina has passed an ordinance that adds hooting, singing, whistling, and hollering to the list of noise disturbances that you can be fined for. I can understand this particular ordinance if it was strictly in a residential area between 11pm and 7am. Sadly, it’s not. The ordinance is in effect 24 hours a day and especially at night. If you are near a home or office during the day and are singing and someone feels you are annoying them, you can be fined. Really? There’s nothing more important to be worried about than if someone is singing as they walk down the street?

I know there are ridiculous laws on the books already, otherwise sites like dumblaws.com and stupidlaws.com would not exist. I just figured those were old laws that never got removed (my favorite being the one where it is illegal to bring a live fish on a bus without any water). I never figured people were STILL making completely stupid laws…