# Are there states where something is uniquely illegal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 7, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195 "2021-08-07T14:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/263 "2022-09-25T21:02:34Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Didn’t know that. Thanks. I still don’t think that’s totally reasonable, given that 48 other states don’t seem to have huge issues created by pet ferrets. In Hawaii’s case, we are very proactive against any and all potentially invasive species. Snakes are outlawed here too, and we may be the only state in that regard. Snakes are why there are no more birds on Guam, they ate them all, and Hawaii is not about to let that happen here. You wanna see some authorities freak out big time? Phone in a report of a snake sighting. For ferrets, you can find some in the wild. I remember at the university, there was a family of ferrets living in the bushes that some of the students kept feeding. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/264 "2022-09-26T11:56:38Z")
Hawaii also has strict laws about parrots on display. They cannot be full flighted, they must be pinioned or otherwise permanently deflighted. Authorities fear escape and the establishment of feral colonies. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/265 "2022-09-26T12:11:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Authorities fear escape and the establishment of feral colonies. That’s reasonable. As I mentioned in a thread years ago, southern CA has had a feral parrot problem for decades, and those bastards are noisy. > [@What's the origin of the wild parrots in southern CA?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-origin-of-the-wild-parrots-in-southern-ca/729419): > > I grew up in Ocean Beach, a little hippie-ish neighborhood right on the coast in San Diego. And so I grew up with wild parrots. They’re all over the place down there. They’re visually distinctive from the pigeons and gulls and pelicans that are native to the region. They’re loud - especially at sunrise and sunset. And they’re absent from most of the rest of San Diego - they certainly don’t venture more than a few miles inland. The legend in OB, that I heard when I was little, was that at some p… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/266 "2022-09-26T13:53:05Z")
We’ve got wild Nanday parakeets down here in SW FLA and yeah, they are very screechy. 20 years ago, I never saw or heard them. Now I hear them so often I don’t even look up. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/267 "2022-09-26T13:59:47Z")
And Chicago had problems with [Quaker aka Monk Parakeets](https://chicagomaroon.com/28830/grey-city/quiet-protest-chicagos-monk-parakeets/) which build huge communal nests and are noisy. . ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/268 "2022-09-27T00:27:26Z")
Peach-faced love birds here. They’ll hang around an area for a week or so then move on so we hear them about every two months. We call them divorce birds because their call sounds like squabbling. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/269 "2022-09-28T18:53:23Z")
Michigan used to outlaw ferrets. A lawmaker told me that when they were considering changing this law, they saw more letters and got more phone calls than they do for a lot of other issues that impact a much higher proportion of people in the state. The pro-ferret crowd mobilized! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/270 "2022-09-28T19:10:22Z")
In Texas, it’s illegal to own more than six dildos, because any more than that it’s assumed that you have them with intent to sell. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/271 "2022-10-02T21:17:18Z")
I would love to be privy to the conversation in the joint when the miscreant is explaining to fellow inmates – murderers, kidnappers, embezzlers – that his/her offense was being caught with seven dildoes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/272 "2022-10-02T21:39:39Z")
I once flew into Salt Lake City to meet my girlfriend (later wife). Had a wonderful couple of days. Mormon TSA agents really don’t know what to do when faced with a carry-on bag with various “toys” in it. They had no idea what they were and kept holding them up to examine, while the people in line behind me giggled hysterically. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/273 "2022-10-02T21:46:38Z")
Reminds me of a news story about a guy who had some sort of toy in his carry-on, and the screeners at first thought it was a bomb. Germany, I think it was. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195/274 "2022-10-03T14:30:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I would love to be privy to the conversation in the joint when the miscreant is explaining to fellow inmates – murderers, kidnappers, embezzlers – that his/her offense was being caught with seven dildoes. Presumably while sitting on the group W bench? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195.md?page=13)