Tigers, snowmobiles, and Sudafed: There oughta (not) be a law
Posted in Back Door Politics by R Lee Wrights on January 22nd, 2005 by Bill Winter
Here’s the best legal advice you’ll get in 2005: Don’t let your pet tiger drive a snowmobile across a not-quite-frozen lake and then buy three packages of Sudafed at a drugstore. If you do, you’ll get into hot water. Which is defined as water that’s at least 120 degrees. In Louisiana, anyway.
If that doesn’t make any sense, you haven’t been following news reports about all the state laws that went into effect on January 1.
That’s right. Laws regulating pet tigers, snowmobiles, cold medicine, and hot water took effect on New Year’s Day — along with hundreds of other laws in 19 states. It’s a tough call, but the most eye-rollingly foolish one may be Louisiana’s “hot” water decree.
