2007-06-04 13:16:17 · 28 answers · asked by Yahoo Man 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
For the same reason you can't have sock puppet shows in your window in New York City. The world would come to an end if you did it.
2007-06-04 13:19:14 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is one of the old laws from the 1800's men would put the cone in the back pocket (with no ice cream) to lure the horses away and thus steal them.
2007-06-05 05:51:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jess 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of that one before. Besides why are you carrying an ice cream cone in your back pocket?
2007-06-12 08:53:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, that is for Lexington, Ky. In the 1970's there were a alot of ice cream stores being robbed and they passed the law to help stop it. It is one of those silly laws that they passed, but never bothered to take off the books. I would say that if the police caught you with ice cream in your pocket now, they would do nothing.
2007-06-11 08:37:15 · answer #4 · answered by Scifi Boy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because some idiot did that once upon a time in public and a horse tried to eat it. When the owner of the cone tried to get away from the horse a ruckus ensued and created a lot of damage.
2007-06-04 13:21:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So it doesn't poke you in your azz. They are just looking out for your well being.
We have a bunch of stupid laws like that in Texas too:
It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.
It is illegal to milk another person's cow.
It is illegal to make a U-turn in Richardson, TX.
Oh, and in Alabama, boogers may not be flicked into the wind.
2007-06-04 13:18:35 · answer #6 · answered by Soapbox 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure but.....there is a law in Michigan from the early 1800's still on the books today that says a married man cannot buy or sell property without his wife's permission... but the wife CAN. My husband and I found this out when we went to sell our homes we had each purchased before our marriage. He couldn't sell his without my permission, but I could sell mine. I laughed myself to pieces (sitting here held together with good ole Elmer's Glue), he was furious. I told him it was payback for women having to fight for the right to vote. This was a few yrs ago but it's still on the books as far as I know. I still tease my husband and ask if he's bought any houses lately that I don't know about.
The bank said this was enacted at the time because so many women during that era were young widows who owned farms and there were men who married them and sold their property out from under them. The law actually surprised me because women didn't get the right to vote until the early 1900's, but they had THAT law on the books almost 100yrs earlier.
2007-06-04 13:42:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why the **** would u be carrying an ice cream cone in your back pocket? No forreal answer the question.
2015-11-02 05:46:40 · answer #8 · answered by katrina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a law where I am that says it's illegal to walk backwards on the square while eating a donut.
2016-05-21 06:31:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont give a reason on any of their law websites. its just another one of those "dumb laws" that are still in the books
you know in new jersey, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6pm without a doctor's note? (yes this is a law)
2007-06-04 13:26:45 · answer #10 · answered by arus.geo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋