What are some silly/crazy laws in your area that don't really make much sense?
2006-09-16 16:09:18 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
"rdm7672" Is that really a law there? LOL My uncles lived there for 7 years and If that really is a law there then they broke it often. LOL
2006-09-16 16:14:53 · update #1
In Ohio it's it is illegal: to get a fish drunk.
The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car
. It is illegal for more than five women to live in a house.
2006-09-16 16:38:20 · update #2
In Florida when you are married, you can only have sex missionary style. Any other way is considered a criminal act.
2006-09-16 16:11:17 · answer #1 · answered by rdm7672 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Heres a bunch from florida.
A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
When having sex, only the missionary position is legal.
You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
It is considered an offense to shower naked.
You are not allowed to break more than three dishes per day, or chip the edges of more than four cups and/or saucers.
Oral sex is illegal.
You may not kiss your wife's breasts.
Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.
It is illegal to block any traveled wagon road.
Dang that porcupine law..... hehehehe....
2006-09-16 16:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by This Is Not Honor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the silliest is a law which essentially says a physically mature female can have sex at any time with anyone she wants, and if she makes a baby the taxpayers have to take care of her, but no one can stop her.
But, if the person she has sex with is over a certain age HE can be sent to jail for years and forced to register as a sex offender.
My daughters are adults now, but if they were 15 and determined to have sex, I would much rather they do men in their late 20's or early 30's, with good jobs, so they can pay support. But, they would go to jail, but if a young kid who doesn't have cent and won't have a cent for years to come, well, that is fine according to the law. So, the parents and the taxpayers gotta' pay her expenses.
For you younger folks, until the 70's, it was indeed a crime for a young girl to be sexually active when she wasn't old enough to support them or to marry the man she did it with. And, the man as well. That make sense.
2006-09-16 16:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG! I've lived many places. I remember in Georgia it's illegal to curse in front of a dead body but only if it's in a funeral home.
Here in South Carolina until a few months ago it was illegal to get tattoos, until Jan 2006 it was illegal for bars to pour liquor from anything but a mini bottle but the craziest has to be our stinking BLUE LAWS! (a blue law is a law created for religious reasons, yeah so much for separation of Church and state huh?)
It's illegal to buy anything that's NOT groceries on a Sunday from 12am to 1:30pm (the idea is you are supposed to be in church or with your family). The 24 Wal*marts here actually put up rope on the non-grocery side of the store. I was once doing a late Saturday night home project and got in line with a hammer. The clock stuck 12 am and they refused to freaking sell me the hammer! My God I love South Carolina but sometimes our states is so.. (I hate to say it but...) BACKWARDS!
2006-09-16 16:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by Sara 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here in Texas we have a few odd ones.....
You can be arrested for having wire-cutters on your person if not on your own property
It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing
You can be fined or arrested for tieing up your horse up in front of the state capital..
It is illegal to shoot a buffalo from a second-story hotel window.
It is illegal to milk another person's cow.
Criminals have to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
2006-09-16 16:12:21 · answer #5 · answered by American Girl 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
fining a person one hundred dollars for picking up a stray dog off the street that is obviously starving to death on his own and trying to nurse him back to health. Where was the humanity they wanted that dog in the pound not in this persons home. That was only so the pound could charge him fifty bucks for the adoption fee. If that isn't stupid I don't know what is?
2006-09-16 16:15:34 · answer #6 · answered by elaine m 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A level 3 sex offender was released from a state hospital after spending some 20 odd years in prison. The county board of supervisors over reacted and forbade any registered sex offender from going to any county park or county library, even if their offense wasn't against children. The level 3 offender was a child molester.Here in this area, someone who solicits a prostitute is a sex offender; someone who pees behind a tree and gets caught is a sex offender. It's a witch hunt!
2006-09-16 16:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by Shelley 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In Florida, having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
I've always been a little disturbed by the fact that they felt a need to make this a law
2006-09-16 16:36:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
indexed below are some from mine, i chanced on em on line lol, i'm from tennessee: somebody crippling, killing or in any way destroying a proud woman canines it extremely is working at great shall no longer be held in charge for the damages by using such killing or destruction. "Crimes against nature" are prohibited. it extremely is against the regulation to apply a lasso to capture a fish. hollow logs won't be offered. it extremely is criminal to collect and eat roadkill. Stealing a horse is punishible via putting. employing is to no longer be completed on a similar time as asleep. you won't have the ability to shoot any interest different than whales from a shifting motor vehicle. Dyersburg it extremely is against the regulation for a girl to call a guy for a date. Fayette County you won't have better than 5 inoperable automobiles on a chunk of belongings. Lenoir city once you pull as much as a provide up sign you will desire to hearth a gun out the window to warn horse carriages which you're coming. Lexington no person would eat ice cream on the sidewalk. Spitting on the sidewalk is against the regulation. Knoxville In front of their homes, all companies would desire to have a "hitching positioned up." Memphis Panhandlers would desire to first receive a $10 enable till now begging on the streets of downtown Memphis. (exceeded in 1996) unlawful for a girl tochronic a vehicle till there's a guy the two working or strolling in front of it waving a pink flag to warn drawing close motorists and pedestrians. it relatively is unlawful for frogs to croak after 11 PM. it extremely is against the regulation to furnish any pie to fellow diners. it is likewise unlawful to take unfinished pie domicile. All pie would desire to be eaten on the premises. Oneida An ordinance forbids every person to sing the track "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'."
2016-10-01 01:31:09 · answer #9 · answered by shimp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have laws that state it is a crime to spit on the sidewalk. Laws that horses must be tied up at the posts properly on the street.
2006-09-16 16:32:04 · answer #10 · answered by Frogface53 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After someone gets out of jail in Colorado, they are technically suppose to be given: 50 dollars, A gun, and a horse.........LOL its an old law,,,never seen anyone get any of those things after coming out though.
2006-09-16 16:12:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋