… or possessing colored oleomargarine or colored margarine, unless they're packaged and labeled or served in a triangular shape. And that's far from the only silly law still on the books. It's illegal to use a falconry bird in a movie that isn't about falconry, to sell runny ketchup, to leave the country with too many nickels in your pockets. Here's the deal. We just have too many laws and too many crimes. When the Federal Criminal Code becomes a weapon instead of a guide, it is always the most vulnerable. (02:38–02:48)
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