The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance

The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance

The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance  collects hundreds of written laws that have been inflicted on humanity by various culprits over the past 5000 years. The laws in this book may be unusual, bizarre, absurd, stupid, or all of the above, but every one of them is real. Unlike some other books of this kind which the author could mention but won't, every law in this one has been verified. So if you've always wondered, for example, whether you are legally required to join a posse or what to do if your bees fly into somebody else's hive, you probably need to get out more but you will find the answers to those and many other ridiculous questions in this book. "As a writer, I get a lot of books. My husband usually [just] glances at them.... This one, he hasn't put down. I can't get it out of his hands. Every time I look over, he's reading and laughing.... [C]heck out this awesome book." --Allison Leotta "[A] genuinely funny and extremely weird tour through the world's dumbest rules.... I laughed a lot reading The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance , and I'm considering laminating my copy for long life by the toilet, as it is some of the best short-form humorous reading I've yet encountered." --Cory Doctorow "One of the first things I remember seeing on the Internet was a forwarded list of 'wacky laws.' I always ignored those sorts of lists, since most of them were clearly fake. But recently, I was delighted to discover The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance--a book of bizarre but real laws written by an actual lawyer. The author, Kevin Underhill, explains the laws and provides delightfully snarky legal commentary.... I never would have imagined that an explanation of the nuances of German bee law could make me laugh quite that hard." --Randall Munroe Here are the answers to some questions you may have [about The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance ]: Is this book about Sasquatches? No, it's about strange-but-true laws. I was really looking for a book about Sasquatches. That isn't a question. Are all the laws in this book actually real? Yes. Has a lawyer confirmed that? Yes. Was this book written by a lawyer? Would that make you more or less likely to buy it? What other books has this lawyer written? This is his first one, but he does write a legal-humor blog called Lowering the Bar (loweringthebar.net). Kevin Underhill is a lawyer in San Francisco and the author of the legal-humor blog  Lowering the Bar (loweringthebar.net).