Example: it is illegal to tie a kangaroo to a firehydrant in Kansas.
What are these funny laws called???!?!?!?!
2007-03-22 10:00:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Only thing I could come up with are case laws (precedent laws). I highly doubt this would have been made by the passing of a bill. It's unique nature would have to mean that it must have been something that actually happened; which would explain why there's a law for it. When a law is made by a court order it's called a precedent.
2007-03-22 10:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marietta Georgia it's illegal to open an umbrella on the side walk.
In Chicago it's illegal to teach your monkey to smoke cigarettes.
There's a town in Kentucky where you have to remove your dead horse within 5 days.
I gotta million of em.
2007-03-22 19:39:51 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term you may be looking for is "Blue Laws".... outdated laws that are sill on the books but rarely if ever enforced...
Hope this hepls
2007-03-22 17:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by GW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one of my favorites...it is a crime punishable by death if you put salt on a railroad track in Alabama...this is true, I swear. It's on the books.
As for the Marietta, Ga law...it's true too!
2007-03-22 23:18:07 · answer #4 · answered by emt_me911 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in conneticut youre not allowed to cross a street in youre hands or in new mexico females are strickly forbidden to go on the street unshaven or in michigan a man legaly owns his wife hair or in india bathing is forbidden during winter
2007-03-22 17:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by moniquita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call them funny little laws.
2007-03-22 17:02:49 · answer #6 · answered by Oxhead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of a specific term for outdated, goofy laws, but there are some crack ups, aren't there?
2007-03-22 17:04:14 · answer #7 · answered by All hat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
archaic laws
2007-03-22 17:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by Max H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like to call them.. jokes.
2007-03-22 17:04:09 · answer #9 · answered by Fluffington Cuddlebutts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋