Don't mean to hijack the thread, I'm just pointing out unbelievably old outdated Laws which are still in effect nationally a hundred or hundreds of years after they were created, for reasons which have long since become obsolete.
There are some pretty outdated and boneheaded laws on state and local books, too. Consider:
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O--your number's up. It's still against the law for a bingo game to last more than five hours . . . in North Carolina.
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Why didn't the chicken cross the road? Because he or she was in Quitman, Georgia---where it's still illegal for chickens to cross the road. (What would
the sentence be---immediate delivery to Chick-Fil-A?)
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Whoever wrote this law was a real pr!ck. Cutting down a cactus can get you a quarter century in the calaboose in Arizona.
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Man bites dog. The cops in Paulding, Ohio are allowed to bite dogs if they think it'll calm down the hounds. This is also known as law enforcement going to
the dogs.
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The eyes of Texas are upon you. And yours better not be for sale, because it's against the law in the Lone Star State.
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Does this mean they'll ban showing Lucy's reruns? It's also illegal in North Carolina to sing off key.
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Brusha-brusha-brushoff. If your toothbrush finally wears out in Rhode Island, it better not be on a Sunday and you better not be out of toothpaste--it's against the law there for anyone to sell individual customers toothpaste and a toothbrush on Sunday.
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Manners? We don't need no steenkin' manners! Not in Gainesville, Georgia, where you're not allowed to eat fried chicken in any way other than with your hands. (If any
TBRers live there or near there, it'd be fun to get a report on whether they give out forks, knives, or sporks at Kentucky Fried Chicken . . . and, on whether anyone was ever
arrested for using them to eat the stuff.)
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Cuz we sez so, cuz! In many states cousins are allowed to marry each other. In Utah, they'd better not be under 65---so says the law there.
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Prince, call your office! It's actually illegal to drive red cars down Lake Street in Minneapolis. (Must explain why no episode of
Route 66 was ever filmed on location
there) . . .
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Are her whiskers/when she wakes/tougher than/a two-bit steak? Women had enough trouble with some laws without having to learn it's illegal for them to turn up unshaven
. . . in Carrizozo, New Mexico.
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The bear facts. Alabama outlaws bear wrestling matches.
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Elmer Fudd, call your office. Photographing wabbits---er, rabbits---from January to April is against the law without a permit . . . in Wyoming.
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Whatever you do, don't let the vegans hear about this. It's actually against the law to buy meat on Sunday in Washington state.
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Hold the onions, hold the garlic. If you eat anything with onions or garlic in Indiana, you're barred by law from attending public events or using public transportation for
four hours after you eat the stuff.
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The SJWs had absolutely nothing with this, believe it . . . or not. Flirting is against the law . . . in San Antonio, Texas.
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Candyland. If a man gives his fiancee a box of candy weighing more than fifty pounds, he's broken the law in Idaho. (Presumably, he can give her fifty pounds of potatoes
and not have to worry about the coppers getting on his trail.)
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Like that's going to happen. If you're driving a car and you have criminal intentions, you're required by law to stop at the city limits and call the chief of police as
soon as you hit town---in Washington state.
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So pure, you'll float; or, Andy Rooney, phone home. Get caught stealing a bar of soap, wash yourself until the bar is used up completely. In Arizona.
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Dewhiskered/kisses/defrost/the misses. Mustachioed men are prohibited by law from kissing women . . . in Eureka, Nevada.
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Flag country. Ladies, if you're driving cars in Waynesboro, Virginia, it's offically against the law for you to drive them unless your husbands walk in front of the car . . . waving
red flags.
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Support your local Bigfoot. Get caught harassing Bigfoot, get busted or fined . . . also in Washington state.
