27 Funny, Wild or Unbelievable Rules Implemented Because of Just One Person

We’re all attempting to leave behind some kind of legacy. For some people, though, those legacies come in the form of being the literal reason that a rule was created. 

One Redditor understands this concept very well. In his first year of college, a notably lax philosophy professor announced that papers could be turned in late without penalty, so the Redditor turned in all eight papers on the day of the final exam. The professor didn’t dock points, as he said he wouldn’t, but he implemented a rule afterward that he wouldn’t accept late assignments without some kind of real emergency excuse. To drive his point home, the professor recited this rule aloud to the class while maintaining eye contact with the aforementioned Redditor, who was taking another class from the professor the following year. 

Other inadvertent rulemakers have disclosed the times they’ve made history, and boy are these legacies to uphold.