Funny laws.

[newman]

Come on now post up your funny laws.
These are all from England.

Taxi drivers are supposed to carry a bale of hay in their cabs, a throw back to the days of horse drawn carriages.

You are not allowed to die in the houses of Parliament.

It is legal for a man to pee in public as long as long as it is on the rear wheel of His motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle

A bed must not be hung out of a window.

Any person found braking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks.

Excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

It is illegal for a for a lady to eat chocolates on public transport.

And my favorite.
It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.
There are many more.

 

[ogre]

in montana, it's still legal to shoot an indian, provided you're in a covered wagon, and 3 or more of them are approaching you at once.

 

[BlondeOnaBusa]

State of Alabama

Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

Incestuous marriages are legal. ???

It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses.

It is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.

It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.
Masks may not be worn in public.

Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce. However, this provision does not apply to men.

It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.

Laws specific to Mobile Al.

Women may not wear a ‘lewd dress’ in public.

No one may use a ‘funk ball’ within the city limits. WTH is a funk ball?

Bathing in city fountains is prohibited.

No person within the city may possess confetti.

It is illegal to spit orange peels on the sidewalk.

‘Spray String’ is banned.

Most locales do not have this problem, but Mobile found it necessary to ban bicycles from the interstate highways.

If one wishes to read palms in the city, they must first pay $10 for a permit.

It is illegal to howl at ladies within the city limits.

It is unlawful to wear women’s pumps with sharp, high heels.

 

[DaCol.]

Now I know why I always LOVED :wow: Tropical Fish Stores in England

 

[MOOSA]

Haha heres a few funny ones...

Tennessee
It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish
It is illegal to shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile

Baldwin Park, California
It is illegal for anyone to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool

Texas
When two trains meet eachother at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed til the other has gone

 

[Loomis]

NC LAW, A Single man can't own more then 4 sheep at a time..

 

[jch364]

aka Funk Ball: A small white or whitish-yellow nugget found when massaging the tonsils. Able to be removed most effectively with a Q-tip. WARNING: Funk Balls may appear in groups. The stench emitted from Funk Balls is a combination of straight poop and vomit, only worse... much worse.

from the urban dictionary ... u cant make this stuff up

 

[GsxrBots]

State of Alabama


Incestuous marriages are legal. ???

Sounds about right...

 

[theskaz]

aka Funk Ball: A small white or whitish-yellow nugget found when massaging the tonsils. Able to be removed most effectively with a Q-tip. WARNING: Funk Balls may appear in groups. The stench emitted from Funk Balls is a combination of straight poop and vomit, only worse... much worse.

from the urban dictionary ... u cant make this stuff up

I coughed on of those up one time, I can attest that it is the vilest smell I have ever smelled. I brished my teeth for an hour after that.

 

[BusaBret]

a few from this site Click Me


In Alabama, it's against the law for a man to seduce "a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage."

In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.

Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown—if they're nude.

In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. The beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds

 

[TWT racer]

some of these laws just keel me man

Now... most often there's a reason why a law is on the books. That said...
I'd love to hear about how "It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish" came to be in Tennessee

 

[rbd5050]

Now I know why I always LOVED :wow: Tropical Fish Stores in England

What about Parrot shops?

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