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Michigan: A woman isn't allowed to get her hair cut without her husband's permission.
Massachusetts: No gorilla is allowed in the back seat of any car.
North Carolina: If you are in possession of illegal substances you must pay taxes on them. However, paying taxes on these items does not make them legal.
Pennsylvania: Motorized vehicles are not to be sold on Sundays.
Ohio: Riding on the roof of a taxi cab is not allowed.
Texas: No one other than a "registered pharmacist" may sell condoms or other kinds of contraceptives "on the streets or other public places.
Georgia: Though it is illegal to spit from a car or bus, citizens may spit from a truck.
Florida: It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
California: It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
North Carolina: All couples staying overnight in a hotel must have a room with double beds that are at least two feet apart. Making love in the space between the beds is strictly forbidden.
North Carolina: It is against the law to roller blade on a state highway.
Ohio: Breast feeding is not allowed in public.
Michigan: There is a safety ordinance that makes smoking while in bed illegal.
Rhode Island: This state still prohibits unmarried people from having sex under any circumstances. However, if caught, the lovers are both fined only 10 dollars.
Ohio: It is illegal to get a fish drunk. However, the law says nothing about the fisherman.
Indiana: A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.
Ohio: According to Ohio law, it's against the law to kill a housefly within 160 feet of a church without a license.
Georgia: It's against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
Texas: It is illegal to drive without windshield wipers. Curiously, it doesn't specify that you need a windshield, but you must have the wipers.
North Carolina: Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited.
Minnesota: It is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish.
Texas: It is illegal to milk another person's cow.
Massachusetts: It's illegal to sell fewer than 24 ducklings at a time before May 1, or to sell rabbits, chicks, or ducklings that have been painted a different color.
Ohio: Owners of tigers must notify authorities within one hour if the tiger escapes.
Pennsylvania: Fireworks stores may not sell fireworks to Pennsylvania residents.
Colorado: No liquor may be sold on Sundays or election days.
Florida: It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
Florida: Men may not appear in a public place while wearing any kind of strapless gown.
Indiana: It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public. The big question is, "How do they plan to check?''
Indiana: It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.
Montana: It is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all.
Connecticut: You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour.
Pennsylvania: Motorized vehicles are not to be sold on Sundays.
Florida: A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or ''she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.''
Texas: It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
North Carolina: If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.
Massachusetts: Tomatoes may not be used in the production of clam chowder
Massachusetts: Peeping in the windows of automobiles is forbidden.
North Carolina: A marriage can be declared void if either of the two persons is physically impotent.
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North Carolina: Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.
North Carolina: It is illegal to have sex in a churchyard.
Massachusetts: An old ordinance declares goatees illegal unless you first pay a special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public.
Massachusetts: Affiliation with the Communist party is illegal.
New Jersey: If you are convicted of driving while intoxicated, you are no longer allowed to apply for personalized license plates.
Florida: Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
Maine: After January 14th you will be charged a fine if you still have your Christmas decorations up.
Pennsylvania: You may not sing in the bathtub.
Indiana: You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table. The waiter or waitress has to do it.
Indiana: No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.
Maine: You are required to take your shotgun to church in the event of a Native American attack.
Georgia: One man may not be on another man's back.
North Dakota: Beer and pretzels can't be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.
Alabama: It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.
Florida: Women can be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer. The salon owner can also be fined for this horrible crime.
Louisiana: You may not tie an alligator to a fire hydrant.
Iowa: You may shoot Native Americans if there are more than five of them on your property at any one time.
Louisiana: Biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault."
Indiana: Drinks on the house are illegal.
West Virginia: A person may be jailed for up to six months for making fun of someone who does not accept a challenge.
Pennsylvania: No one is allowed to sleep on a refrigerator.
Ohio: It is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday. (and Ohio is adjacent to which ocean?)
Georgia: All official signs are required to be written in English.
Michigan: You may not swear in front of women and children in the state of Michigan.
North Carolina: While riding a bicycle you must have both of your hands on the handle bars at all times.
California: Husbands and wives can both still get prison terms for engaging in oral sex -- even in the privacy of their own bedroom.
Texas: When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
Rhode Island: It's a misdemeanor to keep more than 11 inoperable vehicles in front of a house.
Georgia: It is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body in a funeral home or in a coroner's office.
Wyoming: It is illegal to wear a hat that blocks people's view in a public theater or other place of amusement.
Connecticut: This state still retains an old law forbidding any kind of "private sexual behavior between consenting adults."
Ohio: It is illegal for more than five women to live in a house.
Alabama: It's against the law for a man to seduce "a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage."
Massachusetts: It's illegal to keep a mule on the second floor of a building unless there are 2 exits.
California: Sunshine is guaranteed to all residents.
Nebraska: It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
Connecticut: In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.
West Virginia: A person may not hold public office if they have ever taken part in a duel.
North Dakota: It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.
California: Aminals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.
Ohio: A policeman may bite a dog to quiet him. However, the reverse is not true, even if it's a police dog.
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Re: Dumb laws: part 1
« Reply #2 on: Oct 25th, 2002, 11:01pm » |
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Ya have to wonder
"WHY were these laws passed in the first place?"
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