# Common Legal Rumors? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/common-legal-rumors/36686 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [October 9, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/common-legal-rumors/36686 "2007-10-09T08:56:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 34
### Author: ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon) #### Post date: [October 10, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/common-legal-rumors/36686/34 "2007-10-10T18:02:36Z")
In the United States, widespread belief in the existence of laws against driving barefoot has been debunked as an urban legend.[9] Members of the Society for Barefoot Living wrote letters to the highway patrols of all 50 states and were told by officials in each state that driving barefoot was not illegal. > **[Barefoot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot)** > > Barefoot is the most common term for the state of not wearing any footwear. > Wearing footwear is an exclusively human characteristic, however some animals held by humans are also issued with footwear, such as horses and, more rarely dogs and cats. There are health benefits and some risks associated with going barefoot. Footwear provides protection from cuts, abrasions, bruises, and impacts from objects on the ground or the ground texture itself, as well as from frost or heat burns, and parasites... --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/common-legal-rumors/36686)._