What is the most stupidest, silliest law ever passed?

Question

If you drink coffee after 8 pm, wear short shorts on a Wednesday afternoon, or detonate a nuclear bomb outside city hall, you are breaking the law in some US towns!! :-P

What is the most ridiculous law you have ever heard of, in what city, state/province and country does it exist?

Answer 1

silliest law - In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.

queer-eye-for-the-straight-guy law - In Carmel, N.Y., a man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match.

best law on valentines day - Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.

silliest court case - Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine and the trial costs.


I could go on...this is a fun question! For some more silly laws go to:

http://www.main.com/~anns/other/humor/sillylaws.html

or

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/laws.html

or

http://www.allamericanleathers.com/sillylaws2.htm

Answer 2

The Arkansas legislature passed a law that states that the Arkansas River can rise no higher than to the Main Street bridge in Little Rock.

The one that wasn't:
In 1897, the State legislature of Indiana came within a single vote of declaring de jure (by law) that pi should be 3.2

Answer 3

7.6 trillion dollars is a very far fetched number and you are a troll looking for attention. No, we shouldn't outlaw guns. Instead, we should give them to more lunatics. So we can prove how stupid this "self protection" thing really is. It's violence solving violence. Yup, that totally makes sense. "I've never seen a gun get up and kill someone before." Wow, really? Neither have I. That's why you take them from the people, who actually CAN get up and kill people. Or do people not have the ability to do this? Is it easier to kill with your bare hands, or a gun? It's easier to kill with a gun. Otherwise, why use a gun as self protection like you want us to do? Chopping off your hands hahaha. That's the most retarded analogy I've ever seen. Punching people and shooting people are 2 different things.

Answer 4

the oral sex thing in NC it toally true but it's broken all the time. I heard somewhere that in one state if you tie your pet alagator (not a crocadile mind you) to a fire hydrent then it's against the law. and then some other one that says if two trains meet at an intersection then neither one can go until the other passes.

Answer 5

In Alabama boogers may not be flicked into the wind. You also may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket...at any time.

Not sure which county in Alabama these laws came from but the whole state is full of them.

Answer 6

United States of America.
Constitutional Amendment XXI, which repealed XVIII.

Answer 7

There is actually a law in Oklahoma that prohibits bear wrestling. The punishment is a fine and jail time. :)

Answer 8

My civics teacher told me in North Carolina, it's against the law to give oral sex and also your breaking the law if you runaway.

Answer 9

I believe that committing suicide is illegal, so that's a pretty silly one!

Answer 10

NAFTA