The great Missouri squirrel standoff

The great Missouri squirrel standoff

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I recently fell down a Tik-Tok rabbit hole – which is how all great legal discoveries begin, right? – and came across a video listing strange Missouri laws. Most of them were things you’d expect from a state that once tried to regulate where you can bathe your mule ... don’t ask. But one in particular stood out to me, not because it was absurd, but because it was personal in a weird way.Apparently, in Missouri it is illegal to “worry a squirrel.” Or so the video said. I immediately paused, backed it up and replayed the clip. “Worry a squirrel?” That sounded more like something your grandma would yell in frustration at your third-grade self – “Stop worryin’ that squirrel and eat your casserole.”But as it turns out, it’s not an old wives’ tale. The actual language is tucked away in Missouri Revised Statute 578.151, which deals with “interference with lawful hunting, fishing or trapping.” Sure enough, the law includes this gem: “It shall ...

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