Most people don’t think about calling the police when they learn that their spouse has had an affair, but one Arizona man did just that, according to CBS News. Dave Banks is a resident of Glendale, Arizona, who got tired of his cheating wife. When Banks turned to Glendale’s Victim Assistance Program, he learned that not only is cheating painful, its actually illegal in Arizona.
Arizona isn’t the only state with this type of law on the books. CBS reports that about half of all US states have some form of “alienation of affection” or other morality laws. But these aren’t the only outdated and comical laws that the state of Arizona can boast. For example, it is illegal to keep a donkey in your bathtub, hunt camels, or refuse to give another person a glass of water if they ask for one. Every state has laws like these that hark back to the foundation of this great country, but it has been decades or more since these laws have been taken seriously, if they ever were.
Dave Banks was undeterred by the obsolete status of this law, and filed a police report anyway. Banks says that he has actually been calling the police for years in regard to his wife’s adulterous ways, but this is the first time that Glendale police validated his claim and filed the report. Banks states that his wife has had six or seven affairs that he knows of, and his wife openly admits to two, which took place after the couple moved into separate residences.
While the whole situation has a slightly amusing undertone, it actually brings to light a very valid point. Why are some laws considered legitimate while others aren’t? Banks asks “who gets to pick and choose which laws they can and can’t enforce? They got somebody readily admitting to guilt.”
Glendale Police finally accepted the report and filed a class 3 misdemeanor under Arizona state law ARS 13-1048 against Mrs. Banks, but they warned that a prosecutor is unlikely to follow through with a conviction.
Of course, Dave Banks does have the options of hiring a private investigator to obtain proof of his wife’s infidelity, and then move forward with a divorce filing.
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