You Can Get 5 Years in Prison for Selling Llama Poop. A Chronicle of Our Most Ludicrous Laws

Criminal defense attorney Mike Chase, the man behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, has a new book titled, How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender. It chronicles government power at its most arbitrary and absurd.

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You can get five years in federal prison for selling llama poop, according to Title Seven of the United States Code, Section8313(a)(1)(B).

Title 21, Part 139 of the Code of Federal Regulations prohibits the sale of improperly shaped spaghetti noodles.

The Swine Health Protection Act forbids feeding garbage to a pig that hasn't been cooked by a garbage cooker with a garbage-cooking permit.

Reason's Todd Krainin sat down with Chase to learn the roots of his obsession with laws against improperly shaped cheese, whistling on a CB radio, and making unreasonable gestures to a passing horse.

Music: "Law and Order" by Lloyd Rodgers under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.

Produced, written, and hosted by Todd Krainin. Cameras by Meredith Bragg and Mark McDaniel.

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