Attention: Anyone Who Lives in Minnesota

United States
January 31, 2017 3:33pm CST
Quite a while ago, I posted on mylot, some strange state laws, and since then I’ve mentioned a few to some friends of mine. My friend from Minnesota told me this and I wondered if this law is still in the law books? She says it is. Is it against the law in Minnesota to hang on a drying line outdoors, both male and female underwear? How could this be verified?
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
31 Jan 17
Boy, I have a hard time believing this. Have you tried maybe snopes.com or something like that? Or it may be a law on the books that no one much pays attention to.
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
2 Feb 17
I'm sure no one pays attention to it. It just struck me as funny.
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
3 Feb 17
@msiduri Most people don't hang out their laundry anyway. I rarely see a clothes line anymore. I have a dryer, although I used to hang out my laundry way back when I first got married. I had no choice.
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
2 Feb 17
@IreneVincent I'd hate to think the good people of Minnesota were paying for people to go around and check the contents of laundry lines.
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Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
31 Jan 17
It is probably a law they don't enforce anymore. But I can remember when it might have been a necessary one! Haha!
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
1 Feb 17
That's right. Most people don't even know that there is such a law and no one enforces it.
Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
1 Feb 17
@IreneVincent I can only imagine the dispute that made it necessary to put that into law!
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
2 Feb 17
@Jeanniemaries Yes, it must have been quite a dispute over underwear, of all things.
Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340278)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Jan 17
I remember on Bubblews people writing about some very strange laws that the authorities have never bothered to rescind. One was about riding a giraffe down the main street but I can't remember which state that was now.
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
1 Feb 17
Yes, that's just the point. Old laws that once had a purpose that are still on the books, but no one pays attention to it, the law doesn't enforce it and most people don't even know it existsl
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