Weird Laws
OK, Annie you inspired this one with your comment about illegal names. I'm not sure if all of these are real, but here are some strange U.S. laws I found in perusing the internet. Of course, I suspect many of these were either laws in the past that just haven't been changed or laws that are not really enforced.
- In Alabama it is illegal to have a mustache that causes laughter in church.
- In Alaska it is illegal to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose.
- In Alaska it is illegal to stampede a penguin (just kidding, lumps).
- In Nogales, Arizona it is illegal to wear suspenders.
- In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe a car with used underwear.
- In several states, it is legal to beat your wife, but only once a month.
- In Florida, single women cannot parachute on Sundays.
- In Illnois it is illegal for women weighing more than 200 pounds to wear shorts while riding a horse.
- In Florida, having relations with a porcupine is illegal.
- In Pennsylvania, a man cannot become governor if he has participated in a duel.
- The Encyclopedia Brittanica is banned in Texas as it includes a recipe for home-brewed beer.
- Margarine cannot be served in Wyoming state prisons. The very idea!
For more great laws, go to http://www.dumblaws.com/
posted by Anonymous @ Friday, September 30, 2005
4 comments
4 Comments:
Wow....if I ever have to go to prison I sure hope it's in Wyoming.
I wish it was illegal for restaurants to serve margarine.....YUCK!!!
Oooh, I'm flattered!! :)
Well, I must say, these laws are even better (or worse) than the forbidden names-law.
And Texas is just the weirdest place! You know, in Norway we have an expression when things are more than just a little weird, you don't know how to describe it and certainly have no idea how it came to be like it. We say something like: "It's gone all Texas!" Not sure if this is only a Norwegian expression though...
Oh, I hope you guys aren't from Texas!! I forgot to check the profiles before posting...
It's gone all Texas! Ha! I have a few theories on how that came to be...
And no, hipp is right. If you had a few New York jokes or expressions, chances are we made them up - they would SO not offend us. We'd laugh even harder, I bet...
Hmm... I don't have any NY jokes. But if I come up with any (I mean, if I happen upon them completely accidentally, of course) I let ya know ;)
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