20 Jaw-Droppingly Weird Laws That Still Exist In America
4. Iowa - All One Armed Piano Players Play For Free
Law's Origin: Late 1800s
Risk of Prosecution: Pro Bono Piano Playing
What did a one armed piano player ever do to anyone except set out to inspire us by showing the world what people with a handicap can still accomplish. Someone must have had a pretty serious grudge against the one armed piano playing community to go to the trouble of making this an actual law.
Now, maybe this law is not completely asinine. The state of Iowa, realizing that playing the piano with one hand was a very hard task, maybe outlawed paying them to deter one armed children from taking it up as a profession and... No, they were just being stupid.
Our Rating: Pay him for playing, he's the piano man. He's lost just an arm, not his stomach.