# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 265
**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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-states-where-something-is-uniquely-illegal/948195)._