I looked it up in case anyone else was curious, and the law was supposedly related to people doing this to lure horses away.

I love laws like this, and this kind of stuff always gives me a neat perspective on the codification of rules for society. Most of the time people are capable of interacting perfectly fine without being told how to. Sure we'll obviously make murder, theft, and rape illegal. But then you get these weird edge cases where someone keeps trying to lure horses away with ice cream cones to the point you finally have to go "well if he's gonna be a weirdo and keep doing it I guess we have to make a law about it."

New rule: before lawmakers can pass a new law, they need to repeal an old law.

Also fuck Bill Maher, he's an ass cactus.

This map is wrong, its illegal to have an icecream cone in your pocket in Kentucky and Alabama as well. Not just Georgia.

Laws like this are a reminder that there has always been someone who ruins it for the rest of us.

Kentucky should also be red. The law was to prevent horse theivery. When you hitch a horse to a hitching post the knot is just a reminder to the horse to stay where it is, it won't stop it from walking away. I don't know if it was ever successful, but given that at least two of the commonwealth states had the law, I assume it had some success as a method of stealing horses.

Laws are written in blood. Though, I'm not too sure this quote is relevant here.

I guess outlawing people stealing horses was deemed too radical.

That's awesome! I also love when petty laws contradict one another.

When I landed a bike courier job in Toronto back in the day, I read up on all the cycling by-laws. I wasn't going to be one of these reckless types who give the profession a bad name!

Then I looked closely. One read: Cyclists must keep both hands on the handle bars at all times. Then just below it: Cyclists must use hand signals when turning. That popped my little bubble of youthful idealism on Day 1…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP3qZDXFRik

Is that an ice cream cone in your pocket?

Signal with your fingers. Then, knowing that you got the intellectual and legal superiority, turn right and get slammed by a truck, proudly acknowledging that you didn't break the law.

As I die defending the right of way, I will raise one more finger to signal the truck driver. You can guess which one that will be.

You're not wrong, but what does this have to do with Bill Maher?

https://intriguing-facts.com/investigating-the-claim-that-it-was-illegal-to-carry-ice-cream-in-your-back-pocket-in-some-states/

Apparently not true :(

NGL I've walked from the freezer to the living room with a drumstick in my pocket to surprise my kid.

Drumstick, like the frozen dairy novelty.

Take me away, boys.

Aww

Pinky? To signal that you forgive him and that you're best friends?