Still think that law about no ice cream in your back pocket on Sunday is just a joke? I call BS on that being real.

I keep seeing people bring up that silly law from Idaho about ice cream in your back pocket on a Sunday, and it drives me nuts because it never existed. I actually looked it up on the Idaho state legislature site last year, and the closest thing is a 1920s ordinance in Boise about selling frozen treats after 6 PM, not pocket storage. Why do folks keep repeating this false story as if checking the source is too much work? Has anyone here actually verified one of these 'dumb laws' they post?

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dylan6042mo ago

Actually looked it up on the Idaho state legislature site" - that's wild, I never even considered anyone would bother digging that deep for a dumb law meme. Props for doing the work nobody else would.

victorb742mo ago

Is it just me or do people forget how easy it is to look stuff up now? I fell down that same rabbit hole a few months back when someone posted about a law in Wyoming. Spent like two hours digging through their state code for some joke that turned out to be completely made up. But I swear, finding the real version was way more satisfying than the meme ever was. You gotta respect someone who actually checks the source instead of just believing whatever gets posted.

hugo8251mo ago

Totally agree with you guys, the real history is way more interesting than the fake meme. Once you start digging through actual old laws, you end up finding stuff that sounds even crazier but is 100% true, like that old law in some towns about tying your horse to a fire hydrant being a ticketable offense. I spent a whole afternoon once just looking up old blue laws from the 1800s and it blew my mind how much weird detail they had in them compared to today's simple rules. Makes you wonder how many of these jokes started from someone misreading a real law and then just running with it for internet points.