15 Idiotic Laws That Only Exist In America

11. Children Are Not Allowed To Sing Nursery Rhymes After 8pm (Arizona)

We've all heard the old, quite ridiculous adage that children should be seen and not heard, but outlawing the singing of nursery rhymes (the world's most innocent sound), is straight up baffling. The great mind behind this law must have really disliked the sound of children. Either that, or Miss Trunchball was actually an Arizonian. Those are the only viable options. It's not even like it's a certain nursery rhyme with an annoying ring to it that has been outlawed - it is every nursery rhyme ever. When does a nursery rhyme become a song? What defines a nursery rhyme? The philosophical debate that this law threw up must have been riveting. If an adorable group of five-year-old children are caught breaking the law and singing rhymes beyond the unsociable hour of eight, they are allegedly taken into custardy. Sorry.
 
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