Weird Laws: Hawai'i
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2021
- Every state has weird, old laws. Let's take a look at some from Hawai'i!
Feat: @pashyn as Hawai'i
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"Just help me out here."
"Yeah, did that once. Regretted it."
Oof. Hawaii has NOT forgotten.
What does it mean?
Wait what event was this
When Hawaii was an independent country, they helped out the US by allowing a naval base and allowing American businessmen to establish sugar cane plantations. Americans in the kingdom returned the favor by staging a coup, overthrowing the monarchy and getting Hawaii annexed to the US.
Our history with Hawaii isn't all that great.
@@CortexNewsService ah I see
They shouldn't forget.
Yeah, that law is to prevent officers from raping suspects. The way they would get away with it before was by saying they "employed" the suspect. We're also the first state to let a person drop a prostitution charge from their record without having to go through the insanely arduous and impossible task of providing evidence they were trafficked.
Yeah, states without those laws should kind of be ashamed of themselves. It's not really a great joke.
Well it makes sense, but it genuinely sounds stupid without the context
Still, why did such a specific law have to be written down? It seems implicit within existing laws.
Alright, past me, here’s why: ACAB!
If you don’t specifically forbid police from doing something, they’ll think the law doesn’t apply to them.
@@maxrichards3881 I think its a case of if its not explicitly stated, then it's not technically disallowed. Better to have it in law and plainly enforceable rather than leaving things up to interpretation or exploitation. It's crappy, but that's how it is unfortunately
I almost thought Hawaii was a different person, Ben has gotten really good at makeup!
I hate that you confused me for a second there ......
I hate that you made me pause it and stare at Hawaii for a minute
You need to have Hawaii go on a date with Rhode Island at a wine bar (THAT'S THE JOKE), so he has to figure out her pidgin and she has to figure out what the hell he's saying in any one of five regional accents spoken at Micro Machine Man speeds. Woonsocket with its French grammar and just wrong pronunciations, and NewpoRt-we-say-ouR-ahhs would be a particular hilight.
@@clintonjhowerton9438 I feel better now
@@riswampyankee9633 yeah but it has to be full on Pidgen. That would be hilarious.
That rule about the tall buildings seems pretty sound when you consider how many volcanoes and other tectonic adventures Hawai'i has.
Yes but the palm tree seem like a vague height. I would have set a height in meter or feet to it is clear how tall you can go.
@@CatherinePuce The best info I could find was that Kauai specifies coconut palm trees, which are listed as four stories tall.
They definitely have building taller than palm trees, Honolulu has a bunch of skyscrapers
@@CatherinePuce I actually disagree on this one despite it sounding like metric common sense. See basically what this palm tree law would do from my understanding is link the capacity for development to the capacity for sustainable nature. If you can't keep even just the dang tree alive long enough to be as tall as you're going to pile buildings up, then the environment (which has been there the whole time and growing ahead of you thinking of this) might not be compatible with more development due to various immediately local climate issues. From the wording we have here, you basically have to prove that you treat nature well enough and/or realize when an area isn't actually fit for tall structures as the lack of tall trees may tell you. Can we do some genuine science about this? Oh probably and maybe Hawaiian natives may even be interested in that, but you and I don't have that info while the Hawaiian natives have spent countless generations on this stuff. I think this is one case where generational wisdom can come first. This law is just another example to me of the saying that indigenous people are essentially environmentalism personified. GRANTED I'm basing all of this off of hearsay from online videos so.. grain of salt. xD
@@draconariousthegamer1444 👏🏼🖤🌴🖤👏🏼
The milk one actually makes alot of sense. Imitation milk or other milk substitutes can be an allergy for people.
I thought just food tampering, which really is a crime that is arguably taken too lightly.
skim milk is just water pretending to be milk
Yep, friend of mine nearly died when they were given almond milk in their tea without warning.
Same with fake sugar.
Why is no one talking about the sinking the island one?
"But that would be crazy"
"[nervous laughter]"
I enjoyed that one
It could also be in refrence to not pulling too much water from the water table; Jakarta is having that exact problem right now. Too many people dependant on pulling up ground water and the whole region is starting to sink.
Because the military has used Hawai'i as a testing ground for a long, long time. Check out the history of the island of Kaho'olawe sometime and find out why there are no longer permanent residents. Or other testing further up the chain. Or calculate what would happen if the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility were to be destroyed on the most populated island of O'ahu.
It's depressing honestly.
they made it illegal to keep the battleship New Jersey away, cause it sunk an island in 1969.
I’m going to save myself some time and assume “don’t annoy a bird in a park” is because of Florida or Louie or both…
It's a safe assumption
Plus you get idiots who try to stop birds from eating another bird or mammal way to often.
Maybe someone tried to annoy a swan? They can become quite aggressive sometimes. If there are swans on Hawai'i
Hey now, I'm in Florida and If I look sideways at a bird at a park I'll get a ticket. Sandhills in the road? Pidgins raiding your picnic? Peacock chasing you? Chicken giving you the death stare as you sit quietly on a bench? Deal with it.
It was New york and New jersey
2:12 actually makes sense because you could be held liable for allergic reactions
In Canada, we have similar rules about ingredients, most notably "Chocolate"...something can only be branded as Chocolate, if it's actually chocolate...for imitation/flavour stuff, you have to use "Chocolately" instead. So you'll get ice cream named: "Mint Chocolately Chip" for instance, because the chips are not primarially made out of Chocolate.
@@sklaWlivE ❣
It’s also applicable because for a while Hawaii didn’t have much of a dairy industry so milk was really expensive. People would get around it with coconut cream and other… less appetizing alternatives
But not really as it's far too specific. There should be a single law requiring labeling of all ingredients, not just milk substitutes.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Well there was legislation passed back in Teddy's day, but some of it has been undermined over time on account of corporations lobbying for fewer safeguards.
The remark about Hawai'i not doing the "looking all the same" thing... I see what you did there
He does the same with us territories.
I love at the end "Perfect, don't come here, bye" 😂
The milk law actually makes sense, considering how expensive it is in Hawaii. Cows aren’t native so they have to import the milk from the mainland. Imitation milk is cheaper, and as long as you let people know the business can’t be sued if someone has an allergic reaction.
For me it would be the other way 'round - I'm (mildly) allergic to milk (not lactose intolerant: literally allergic to the stuff), so I would be happy to know that my "milkshake" was actually a coconut cream shake (or whatever)...to the point where I wouldn't order it UNLESS they told me it was actually coconut.
[suggestive cough] “Keep your prints to yourself”😂🤣 I love that line!
Hawaii needs to come with a glossary; I feel like we’re missing out on some primo insults.
I think that's the point.
You have to remember that Hawaii join the US after tribal King was arrested and the vote whether or not Hawaii was going to join the United States was held on military bases with the military verifying id. Less than a quarter of the voting age population voted and only barely enough voted to join the US. But you see we needed a Pacific Island base so... It's not like it was the first or last time there were voting irregularities.
Haole-boy:
Haole means not native/Polynesian, often of European descent (white). It can also be used for main lander...which is less good. It's not necessary an insult, and Hawaii has a pretty unique relationship with foreigners and mix bloods (Happa), so the context matters more. So like unlike alot of other cultures that were invaded being called half doesn't hold an inherent negative connotation. Interestingly Happa is often used by mixed people of Asian decent(usually east Asian like Japanese, Korean and Chinese), especially in California. That in part because thous communities stayed in Hawaii for a time, and they picked up the Hawaiian pidgin slang. That said it's becoming more controversial for non-native Hawaiians to call themselves happa.
@@leechowning2712 "tribal King"? SHE was a sitting, recognized Monarch. Hawaii has the only Royal Palace on "U.S." soil. Nothing "tribal" about it.
@@wirelessg18 Haole is also sometimes considered a derogatory word for white people in Hawaii. It used to mean foreigner in a broad sense but now it’s mainly focused on white people and used negatively. Some don’t use it negatively but most people do nowadays.
Brah, that boom kanani had me rolling!
As an architect in Hawaii, I gotta find that palm tree rule, I wanna show everyone at work.
No ice in paradise! Love it. And that milk law should be a federal law🥛
I had a cousin that lived in Hawaii for nearly a decade. She says it's paradise to visit, but Hell to actually live there.
@@LukeZwarteVacht cost is often comparable to Los Angeles, with less opportunities, more hidden costs. Moving there is usually a mistake for most people. The reason why I still have family there is because the family was there before WW2, and they all are or were military.
@@wirelessg18 She was only living there because they were stationed on the military base while her husband was in Iraq
Sadly, there is a lot of Ice though.
"How would you even [sink an island]?"
"I wouldn't, it's illegal"
Can't argue with that logic.
Literally all of them make sense except for the twin one. Like this is just slightly quirky environmentalist spiritual respect as I'd expect from indigenous people and I'm glad it's in their laws.
Think the twins thing is actually pretty common, tho. I don't know about it being written into law, but I remember asking a teacher about it when I was in first or second grade, and they said "we just can't"
@@rd6203 I was in the same classes with my sister until my mom asked that we be separated 😭
@@ambers5207 your mom did? Ouch!
The twins thing in classes is so that the twins grow into their own person and don’t share everything. That’s what was told to me when I was young. Though it is weird Hawaii has that for companies
@@neelm.59 I mean my main reaction is that they are their own person and a twin is just a perfect opportunity for a great lifelong friend. I'll admit I'm not an expert on this so I'll just leave my comment as only a self-admitted take for now.
I love the "Who are you again" in the intro
You *know* you’ve watched too many of these when you know whose saying what in the intro. The “Who are again” is Alaska directed at DC in the “Alaska Join’s The Table” Video
@@yamiatemyugi thought I was the only 1
-sometimes mess with the tourists " yep that accurate
As someone with tree nut allergies, I SO appreciate the milkshake law 😂
I love that Hawai'i is a different character. Please keep bringing her back.
It is very appropriate. It's not merely an American state, it is its own Kingdom, existing under occupation. It would be just so colonialist and disrespectful to doplbrainard it. Even their fresh water has been contaminated with US Navy jet fuel, which continues to leak into their only fresh groundwater and can never be removed. Many argue are experiencing genocide, right now.
I love these bloopers added to the ends of the skits 😂😂
Those all made perfect sense. Especially no buildings higher than a palm tree. I’ve lived in places with similar law, keeps the scenery scenic.
I just got to say I don't know who she is but I love the talent of the person that you picked to be Hawaii she's so good she really has that like native Hawaiian vibe
She better have dat vibe 😆 she from da islands. But all good, she one Loko wahine
She was big on Vine. Check out her CZcams, Pashyn, some of her skits are hilarious. Like her "Pidgen Siri" skit is funny as hell
I enjoy each and every video but I really enjoy Hawaii stepping in. CDC boy is great too
The building being taller then a palm tree is only a rule in Kauai
Is that the 4th largest island that suffers California-level earthquakes?
it still doesn't make sense. what if a new young palm is planted and is now the closest palm. oh no, guess we have to cut the building down to size. it would make more sense if it had an actual measurement, like buildings cannot be taller than 37' because that's the average palm tree height or something (made up number, i don't know what average palm tree height is)
As some one with a lot of allergies I applaud your milk law.
"Perfect don't come here bye!" 🤣🤣🤣🥰
1:35 If reading investigative journalism reports have taught me anything, all states need that law
They do, desperately. It's state sanctioned rape and everyone cheers for it. We've been trying to get a law passed in my state that forbids police to have sex with anyone involved in an investigation since they also have a disgusting habit of fucking domestic abuse victims but...no luck so far.
2:34 this actually makes sense to me because there were two girls in my grade who were twins (not identical) who wanted to be separated because one twin would pressure the other (She would also always correct the other). One twin was very focused on achieving things, the other rather laid back (she also had a learning disability and a reading disability)
Edit: It's rather very common because I knew another pair of non-identical where one twin would perform better and the other could barely keep her grades up to a passing level. It took a lot of pressure off her when she was separated from her brother in 8th grade because they chose different subjects
I think it's just generally a good idea to not have two relatives in the same class. I saw plenty of cheating between cousins in the classroom.
🤙Hawaii! Awesome loved the details! Different cultures are so important! The laws do make sense, as explained!😁🤙🌴🏡🌋🌊🏄♀️
I went to elementary school with two identical twin girls. Because we all wore school uniforms and they both had ponytails it was super hard differentiating them.
I asked one of them once "how do your friends tell you apart?" She replied honestly in a polite non-sarcastic way "I don't know, they just do".
(Sometimes they wore different coour braids in their hair and parted their hair different ways, like one pulled the ponytail to the left of their head and one pulled it to the right.)
Funny situations aside, that law would have prevented one of them from attending the school since it was a small elementary school with just one classroom per grade.
Should have one with an indigenous person who straight up pulls a your not my dad on the government to address their attempts to bring light to how Hawaii was annexed illegally and against their will... I could also see Florida in that one...
she is indigenous
@@callistified as a white person not gonna dispute that cause I don't know, I'll take your word. I still think with how disrespectful and confrontational some of the other states are, having Hawaii pull the "your not my dad" and bring attention to the issue going on would be both funny and helpful. Didn't mean to imply she wasn't indigenous and I liked the touch at the end
Illegally more like we killed there queen and took it for ourselves
Gun boat diplomacy is not illegal just socially reprehensible in today's society.
@@laynemartin7914 yeah its the very reason he's always brought in a Hawaiian to play Hawaii. Ben knows his limits. 🙂
Honestly, these all make perfect sense
EYYY HAWAI’I I SEE YOU BRAH! GANGSTA LIFE!
Can't wait for Arizona and it's weird laws
Second that.
"No sinking the island"
"How would that even happen?"
USS New Jersey : *nervous sweating*
I think there might be a similar law regarding twins in Texas. My twin brother and I were always in separate classes until 5th grade (because apparently they sorted kids by GPA in 5th?).
A lot of schools decide to do this individually to expose the students socially to a greater diversity of people. I belive the idea is that when they are young, twins might keep to their own company as a comfort instead of branching out.
@@seregiel9541 That makes sense. Thanks
My twins were in the same class while we lived in Hawaii.
Just because a law is in the books, doesn't mean it's actually applied or used. Especially the obscure ones (which i believe is the focus of this particular skit series?).
Were they the reason for the law?
Real milk in milk shakes, you should see some of the laws that dictates what is milk. Even beer.
I adore the fact that all of the weird laws videos are basically just a study in gov absolutely regretting having asked in the first place 😂
1:53 given the USS New Jersey sank a fortified North Vietnamese island in 1969, I actually understand why they needed this one
The milk one and the police one are pretty solid actually.
I really enjoyed this guest! I feel like I missed a lot of the jokes, but that's what I get for always having lived in the 48.
I love how all 49 other states are played by Ben and then there's Hawaii
I'm not sure you guys name but he has someone else played Wisconsin
Loving the outtakes!
Hawaii is my favorite state at the table - wait... alaska? you're here?
alaska: been here the entire time
I love Hawai'i! Thanks Ben, I'm learning heaps through your videos.
The milkshake one sounds like it could've come from Wisconsin.
I mean regardless it's literally just a consumer rights law that can help prevent alergy issues and the like.
They have laws like that here too, basically everything dairy (milk, butter, cheese etc.) you have to clearly label whether it has actual animal milk in it or not. In WI those laws were brought about by dairy farmers losing business to people who were making "dairy products" that didn't have actual dairy and could be made (and sold) for less.
I'm assuming this is because it's really hard and expensive go ship milk to Hawaii so you don't want to overcharge someone for a fake milkshake like McDonald's did
@@MTMyTails I mean it's more likely just a food safety thing but what do you mean by fake milkshake?
@@draconariousthegamer1444 any milkshake they isn't made with milk. This could be completely dairy free or low amounts of dairy. Rice milk with potato starch was common
Love the bloopers, keep them coming!
“Who would try and sink and island” why was my first thoug upon hearing thst “Florida and Loui”
I love that you put the out-takes on the end :)
I lived on Maui for nearly twenty years this is my favorite vid you have done Hana Ho!
Hawaii is my new favorite person on the round table. The only one who truly hates the government. LOL I love it.
This one was full of gems
Ive lived in Hawaii all my life and only heard of a law that no longer exists was that no building could have been taller than aloha tower but now you can have taller buildings. Never hear of the palm tree one tho.
I can kinda see the logic to the imitation milk thing. if someone's allergic to almonds, and their smoothie has almond milk in it, they're gonna be in for a bad time
You should do Maryland
Plot twist : She made them all to stop the government from going there.
The "Sinking the Island" rule - I just imagined Florida walking around Hawaii and pulling the drain plug! Oops 🙊
As a Hawaiian myself I find this Funny, and her pigeon accent is pretty good, BTW Boom Kanani is a Hawaiian phrase, and my twin friends are actually in different classes and I always wondered why for so long, and the end credits are hilarious Aloha Ahui hou.
(For those who don’t know Aloha means 4 things but in that context ^ it’s bye 👋🏼 and ahui hou is Just how you say bye in Hawaiian.)
To be fair, the USS New Jersey did sink an island in the Vietnam War by blowing it up enough that the island’s altitude sat below sea level.
I mean, putting twins in different classroom are common in my country tho, to avoid confusing and making them socialize more with the peers and not just themselves or to avoid jealousy or not to make them copy of each other and have some individual traits of their own (usually twins are really too close knit together or hate each other or both)
Pashyn is so hilarious 😆
love the out takes
Palm tree one makes sense to me. You want strong pacific storm winds hitting tall buildings?
Spot on! Dis da tip of da iceberg.
I love Ben, but its really nice seeing some states played by other people! More female states would be fun too! Why should they all be dudes anyway? 😅
because hes just so cute we needed 50 of him in different outfits
@@L1LP0E you're not wrong heheh
Hawaii is the only state that was a fully fledged nation before America came along, and their last ruler was a queen.
This one is honestly my favorite, and that ain't a low bar.
*I feel like them being in separate class rooms would influence them switching and pretending to be the other* lolz
The one about sinking the island is top tier comedy, wow
An one nudda rule. No slippas in da house! Dirty! Disrespectful! Oh, an at luau, da poke gotta be fresh. No last week leftover poke, ya? Be akamai! Get it together, brah. 2 scoops of Aloha!
Always 2 scoops, and the salad mayo has to have a blue lid, or your disrespect your Aunties.
Well there goes my plan to sink Hawaii....
"perfect don't come here bye" 😂😂😂
Love your content
100% the explanation in the out takes is the truth.
In Virginia we separate twins in classrooms so the teachers and staff don't get confused.
It's 1am and I'm binge watching Ben Brainard. I've peaked.
"Because people are impolite." Honestly, sums up laws quite nicely.
We need more from Hawaii
This is way too accurate 😂😂😂😂
Massachusetts town names would be awesome. So many just stolen from England and the way they are spelled/pronounced is crazy
Like Worcester, which is somehow pronounced whustah!
Or Stoneham (stone-ham) vs Dedham (Dead-um)
@@RBlue118
Greetings from Worcester County!
“Worcester” is actually how we pronounce it, but we’re pressed for time, so we abbreviate the 2 later syllables.
“Boom Kanani” 😆
having twins be in seperate classes is a florida thing too :P
Hawai'i is the most logical state.
I don't know, not pestering a moose seems pretty logical to me
Not if u live there for awhile
The milk law is a good one and I propose it everywhere
first short ive seen without florida
These are the most sensible "weird" laws I've heard yet
The bloopers were a fantastic call 😂
“Well then boom kanani don’t annoy the birds” is right up there with “kansas city’s in missouri anyway, you idiot” as quotes i say every single day 🤣
United States Public Law 103-150 of 1993 (known as the Apology Resolution), acknowledged that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States" and also "that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi or through a plebiscite or referendum."
The "dakine" tho 😂😂😂😂😂
Hm... the only really strange one is the one with the twins.
- don't build higher than a palm tree: Yeah, don't ruin the skyline and ambiente of the island (also I read further down, that this is a local law for Kauai)
- don't annoy birds. Yeah. It's rude to chase them Don't be a jerk to birds.
- the coin thing? - Yeah a little bit out there, but it's in line with other laws regarding strange signs for drug dealer activity. (Would be safer to just legalize and open dispenseries though)
- Police not having the naughties with prostitutes during investigation... Yeah. witness tampering, evidence tampering, getting involved and partisan, the whole potential corruption that comes with it.
- sink the Island... well Ok. that one is also a bit weird. But somehow also cute and that's enough.
Cheeeee! Das right! "Don't come here, aloha!" 😂😂😂
Perfect, don't come here bye!
Hawaii just wants to be left alone🤣
That really was hilarious My triplet sons ALL work at the same company, same shift
If you want to sink an island...get an Iowa Class Battleship.
Gov: Why do you have a law about sinking an island?
USS New Jersey: Ay bro, u gots another island I need to yeet into the forever box!?
Every time I see this video I am reminded that it makes no sense for RI to be the ocean state
best video ever