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GraniteGeekNH t1_jaj91hs wrote

Kidderville is just a village in Colebrook - it doesn't have laws of its own.

Colebrook was a starch manufacturing hub (from potatoes) in the 1880s or so so maybe it had some laundry-related ordinances.

But in general, maps of "interesting facts" found online are complete and utter hogwash.

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Outrageous-Door8924 OP t1_jajdgg8 wrote

It is true, that most of these "SuperFacts" and "Fact of the Day" style accounts post a lot of claims without any source or substance. However, as I mention in my comment on this thread, I checked all the others. And to my surprise, all of them (except for one) are true, no matter how dumd they may seem today.

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Sirhc978 t1_jajblzc wrote

>But in general, maps of "interesting facts" found online are complete and utter hogwash.

Not necessarily. There are tons of "weird" laws on the books from a century or more ago that made sense at the time. They are just not enforced anymore and there is no political motivation to spend the effort to remove them.

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GraniteGeekNH t1_jajzih8 wrote

Nonetheless, you should assume that any unsourced collection of "interesting facts" is total BS clickbait until proven otherwise.

The default is that they're crap. The default is almost always correct.

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IBlazeMyOwnPath t1_jalh43z wrote

Isn’t how it usually works is the law doesn’t actually say “x is illegal” but these “strange laws” reports take the actual law and twist the wording in such a way that they are technically correct

Like, idk maybe there’s some decency statute still on the books that would apply to the stated scenario l, but it’s not actually that specific

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bonanzapineapple t1_jal1ur2 wrote

Sure but unlike in VT, villages in NH are not incorporated as legal entities and have no power. So Colebrook could have a law on this but Kidder ville specifically could not

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