It is possible that people may get jailed for eating beaver, which should make them especially welcome inmates in women’s prisons.
Kidding aside for a sec, this is a very specific law that only pertains to specific beavers. Beavers can be killed any time of year for hindering drainage, chomping trees or causing other damage – but you can’t eat those beavers. On the other hand, if you catch a wild beaver with a license, there’s nothing that prohibits you from eating those. It seems that no lawmakers can explain why they chose to make this persnickety distinction.
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In one of his most bizarre ideas, Trump once wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland. In that spirit, I would consider trading beaver-heavy Minnesota and the Dakotas for British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, thereby making Alaska contiguous with the rest of the USA.
Perhaps they might consider taking the three northern New England states, the other half of Niagra Falls and an NHL team to be named later?