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Here in the United States, we've come up with some pretty odd laws and it seems we

haven't left animals out of our sometimes wacky judicial system.

Some of these laws are just outdated but have lingered on the books because no one has bothered

to change them.

Others are just plain strange.

Let's check out some crazy laws involving animals in the US.

Have you broken any of these laws?

Let us know in the comments below.

We ain't no snitches.

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Let's start with my home state of Alabama.

There's a strange law in my state's capital, Montgomery.

In Montgomery, there's a law that makes it an offense to open an umbrella on the streets

in case you startle a horse.

As you may or may not know, horses are insanely phobic of open umbrellas.

My state has nothing on the laws to come later on in this list.

Roll Tide.

9.

Over to the other side of the country, but also involving horses, in San Francisco, California

it's illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high.

Yup, got a 5'11 pile of horse poop, all is good, but don't dare pile that extra

inch of "caacaa" on top.

San Fran has several other strange laws involving animals.

Some of them are:

A 2013 law that makes it illegal to walk nine or more dogs at once.

It's illegal to sell or distribute ground squirrels.

It is unlawful to carry manure through the streets.

Oddly, but thankfully it is illegal to sell mule meat.

And, Elephants may not walk down Market Street in San Francisco unless they are on a leash.

Well, we're glad that law is in place.

8.

Outside of San Fran, California state law bans animals from mating publicly within 1,500

feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

We're trying to figure out who's policing the wild birds and feral cats in Cali.

In Belvedere, California and this is a direct quote, "No dog shall be in a public place

without its master on a leash."

Think about it.

We'll wait.

7.

In Illinois, there is a state law that prohibits you from giving your domesticated animal a

lit cigar.

No such law for wild or feral animals though, so if you're looking for a smoking companion,

you're going to have to get back to nature.

Oh, and if you happen to be in Galesburg, Illinois and you have a smelly pet, you and

your stinky companion are breaking the law, buddy.

And, in Chicago, you cannot take your French Poodle to the opera, it's illegal.

Well, that's obvious, Poodles hate opera, but they love a good rock concert.

6.

You Can't Educate Your Dog in Hartford, Connecticut.

I guess no one wants the dogs of Hartford to become too high falutin.

A Hartford law states that no one can to educate their dog.

The reason behind this law is unclear.

But, perhaps they worry that all the educated dogs would leave Hartford.

Perhaps start a YouTube channel.

Nah, you don't need an education for that.

5.

Donkeys in Arizona are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs.

According to at least one source, this law came into effect when a rancher's donkey

in Kingman, Arizona, who slept in a bathtub, for reasons, got swept away down a river when

a dam broke.

The town spent a lot of resources trying to rescue the donkey and was so upset by the

incident, passed the law prohibiting future donkey-bathtub rescue missions.

And, while we can't figure out why, Georgia also has a law prohibiting donkeys from being

kept in bathtubs.

4.

In International Falls, Minnesota, it's against the law for cats to chase dogs up

telephone poles.

OK, what?

Since most dogs can't climb telephone poles but cats can, this law seems to be a bit counter-intuitive

of what most of us would think is normal.

3.

Horse owners in Marshalltown, Iowa, be warned: it's illegal for your horse to eat a fire

hydrant.

Even if this law has been conjured up by the Internet, it's too wonderfully specific

not to mention.

Speaking of fire hydrants, it's apparently against the law for you to tie an alligator

to said water supplying devices in the great state of Michigan.

Would have made more sense in Florida.

2.

Boulder, Colorado has strict rules forbidding animals grazing on city property.

Rules against grazing pigs, sheep, cows, donkeys and horses seem pretty obvious, but Boulder's

law goes one step further by explicitly legislating against llamas grazing on city property.

Any strange animal laws where you live?

Let us know in the comments.

1.

In an Oklahoma city most ironically called Normal, you can receive fines and jail time

for making an ugly face at a dog.

That's Normal.

Rosie NO!

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Trump touts fastest U.S. economic growth since 2014 - Duration: 20:04.

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In Battle Pitting Cities Vs. States Over Minimum Wage, Birmingham Scores A Win - Duration: 6:27.

In Battle Pitting Cities Vs. States Over Minimum Wage, Birmingham Scores A Win

A federal appeals court handed workers in Birmingham, Ala., a significant win this week.

The city is in a battle against state lawmakers over whether it has the right to raise its minimum wage.

The Birmingham workers and the Alabama legislature have been fighting in court since the city voted to increase its minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from $7.25, in February 2016.

That hike never took effect.

The state legislature swiftly passed a law barring municipalities like Birmingham from setting their own minimum wage.

The case — filed by a group of fast-food workers, the NAACP and other worker groups — argued that the state's majority white legislature discriminated against the majority black city.

On Wednesday, the 11th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, reversing a judge's earlier decision to dismiss the workers' suit.

In its decision, a three-judge panel ruled the state's preemption law violated 14th Amendment's equal protection rights.

It called the state's actions "rushed, reactionary, and racially polarized.".

This is just the latest development in a kind of cat-and-mouse game has been raging between cities and states for the last few years.

Cities or counties with higher costs of living have increasingly adopted minimum wage increases well above the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour.

Then state legislatures fight back by setting statewide caps.

This is known as state preemption.

According to the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group, 25 states have passed preemption laws.

In 2016, the group of Birmingham workers became the first city in the country to file suit.

This latest ruling does not mean the wage hike will take effect; it only means the workers will likely be able to take their case to court.

An eventual ruling on their underlying case could have major implications for workers in other cities locked in similar battles with their state lawmakers.

"The voices of low-wage workers in Birmingham were heard," said Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, one of the parties to bring the suit.

He says the state legislature abused its power.

"Where that comes from is Alabama's history of denying black-controlled counties and cities the right to home rule," or local self-governance, he says.

The issue of local control is a big one, and not just on the issue of the minimum wage.

Laura Huizar, a staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, says state preemption is very controversial because it affects a whole range of policies — including gun regulations, anti-discrimination and paid-leave laws, and bans on plastic bags.

"More and more local leaders and local communities are realizing that they have to stand up and defend their local rights, or all of these state preemption bills are going to erode their ability to practice and exercise local democracy," Huizar says.

The crux of the Birmingham court battle — and similar cases out of Minneapolis and Miami Beach — is fundamentally a legal question; it's a fight over whose law should prevail.

There is also a separate, economic debate about the impact of raising the minimum wage in cities — and who benefits.

Those in favor of raising the minimum wage argue it puts more money into workers' hands, which helps both families and businesses.

It's not that simple, says Michael Strain, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

He says a city risks driving employers out into surrounding suburbs by increasing their cost of doing business.

"You have the kind of classic trade-off, where there are reductions in employment among minimum-wage workers, but minimum-wage workers who get jobs and keep jobs end up bringing in more money," he says.

Meanwhile, the group of Birmingham fast-food workers who brought the case must wait for the next stage of the legal fight.

For more infomation >> In Battle Pitting Cities Vs. States Over Minimum Wage, Birmingham Scores A Win - Duration: 6:27.

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Putin Speaks At BRICS Heads Meeting With Leaders Of Invited States - Duration: 6:10.

Colleagues,

I would like to begin by greeting the leaders of African states and the heads of the countries that are the current chairs of the G20,

the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Caribbean Community.

I am grateful to the President of the Republic of South Africa for organising this representative meeting.

Five years ago in Durban, BRICS leaders held a meeting with the heads of African states for the first time.

Since then, our Group of Five and African countries have greatly strengthened and expanded their cooperation

in the economy, politics and the humanitarian sphere.

Africa is one of the world's most rapidly developing regions.

According to the UN, the population of this continent will reach 2.5 billion by 2050.

The level of urbanisation in Africa is increasing as well:

the proportion of the population living in urban areas is expected to reach 60 percent by 2050.

The domestic African market and consumer demand are expanding.

BRICS and the African states have similar development goals in many respects.

In 2015, the BRICS summit in Russia adopted the large-scale BRICS Strategy for Economic Partnership.

We need to think about involving our African partners and friends in the work of each of the areas we identified then: the economy, finance, and food security.

Russia has always given priority to the development of relations with African countries, based on long-standing traditions of friendship and mutual assistance.

We have recently held a number of high-level contacts, including with many of the leaders present in this room.

Russia's trade with African states grew by more than 25 percent in 2017.

Food supplies increased by 38 percent, metals – by 30, machinery and equipment – by 24 percent.

Russian businesses are interested in working with African partners in a variety of areas, including industry, agriculture, healthcare, communications, geology and mining.

I will give just a few examples of Russian companies' interaction with countries represented at this forum.

Yesterday, the President of Angola and I talked about the joint work of Angolan companies and the Russian company Alrosa in developing the Katoka diamond deposit,

which accounts for 6 percent of the world's diamond output.

A joint venture was launched in Burundi to manufacture lighting equipment, with some of the products intended for export to other countries in East Africa.

Senegal is implementing projects in agriculture and building poultry and fish processing plants.

I would like to note in particular that Russia plans to increase its assistance to the development of the national energy sector in African states.

We are implementing promising oil and gas projects with a number of countries, such as Angola, Mozambique, and Gabon.

In the nuclear power industry, where Russia is a technological leader, we offer our African partners the creation of an entire industry on a turnkey basis.

Agreements on cooperation in the field of atoms for peace have been signed with a number of countries in the region, while in some of them the work has acquired a practical dimension.

All these projects will be of strategic importance for Africa, where, according to different estimates, as many as 600 million people still live without electricity.

A considerable part of Russian initiatives provides for localising industrial businesses in Africa,

including, among other things, the construction of plants manufacturing component parts and assembly works.

The implementation of these joint projects will serve to strengthen the industrial potential, support local businesses and create new and well-paid jobs.

On the whole, this will lead to an improvement in living standards and a solution of social problems in African states.

Russia has a vested interest in intensifying interaction with African regional and sub-regional organisations,

primarily with the African Union as well as the Southern African Development Community.

The amount of Russian assistance to Africa exceeded one billion dollars in 2017.

Russian contributions to the World Food Programme fund are constantly growing.

Russia is the fifth biggest contributor to the UNIDO Industrial Development Fund.

Considerable funds are remitted to the World Health Organisation for the fight against non-infectious diseases on the African continent.

Our work to combat the Ebola virus has proved highly efficient.

Russia has for years trained national professional personnel for countries of the continent.

Currently, thousands of Africans are being educated in Russia.

We will continue to build up cooperation in this sphere.

In conclusion, I would like to inform you that we are studying the idea of holding a Russia-Africa summit with the participation of heads of African states.

This could be preceded by relevant meetings of prominent business people, experts, and public figures; I intend to discuss this with representatives of African countries.

Thank you for your attention.