So I knew about Sunday alcohol laws, and I always thought that they were silly... I had no idea how silly they really are (in Ohio at least). So this morning, we're doing a grocery run, and I thought, "Hey, I should grab some hard cider". I knew that they didn't sell wine or liquor in the morning, but since beer is ok, I foresaw no difficulties. Sadly, they were out of hard cider, so I grabbed some Bacardi instead. But will they sell me the Bacardi? No. "Oh, I thought, I guess beer isn't ok after all". But no, of course that's no it, because that would make too much sense. They won't sell Bacardi because it's a cocktail containing hard liquor. Never mind that it has the same alcohol content as beer. Never mind that they would almost undoubtedly have sold me the hard cider. But if I had wanted, say, 4 cases of Miller, hey, no problem. Who thinks these things up?
In unrelated weird-law news, today I saw the strangest ordinance ever. I can't decide which is weirder—the fact that a city would adopt an ordinance in 1982 that requires heads of households to own guns, or the fact that it contains an exemption for, among other things, people "who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a result of beliefs or religious doctrine." I can just see everyone sitting around drafting ordinance, when someone says, "What we really need is to make everyone own a gun!" "But wait," says another guy, "What if people don't want to own guns?" "Good point," says the first guy, "Lets make the law say that everyone has to own a gun, but only if they want to."
And apparently, nobody thought that was a stupid idea.
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