Let’s just ban stupid people

1 comment February 13th, 2009

There’s a measure in the General Assembly to ban texting while driving. That got us talking about other laws, some with merit and others without.

You can’t legislate stupid behavior. People are going to do things even they know they shouldn’t and, of course, there are folks who will do things even when they know they are illegal.

About five years ago, someone sent me a list of all the stupid laws across the U.S. I don’t know what I did with it, but it had some doozies on it, including that it’s a $5 fine in Joliet if you mispronounce the name of the city. Don’t know if that’s still on the books.