I looked it up in case anyone else was curious, and the law was supposedly related to people doing this to lure horses away.
This map is wrong, its illegal to have an icecream cone in your pocket in Kentucky and Alabama as well. Not just Georgia.
Laws are written in blood. Though, I’m not too sure this quote is relevant here.
I love laws like this, and this kind of stuff always gives me a neat perspective on the codification of rules for society. Most of the time people are capable of interacting perfectly fine without being told how to. Sure we’ll obviously make murder, theft, and rape illegal. But then you get these weird edge cases where someone keeps trying to lure horses away with ice cream cones to the point you finally have to go “well if he’s gonna be a weirdo and keep doing it I guess we have to make a law about it.”
I guess outlawing people stealing horses was deemed too radical.
Laws like this are a reminder that there has always been someone who ruins it for the rest of us.
Kentucky should also be red. The law was to prevent horse theivery. When you hitch a horse to a hitching post the knot is just a reminder to the horse to stay where it is, it won’t stop it from walking away. I don’t know if it was ever successful, but given that at least two of the commonwealth states had the law, I assume it had some success as a method of stealing horses.
New rule: before lawmakers can pass a new law, they need to repeal an old law.
Also fuck Bill Maher, he’s an ass cactus.
