Silly State Laws still on books

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indydirk

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Indiana State laws
Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.
It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday.
A person who dyes, stains, or otherwise alters the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit commits a Class B misdemeanor. (Ind. Code 15-2.1-21-13(b)
Oral --- is illegal.
A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory ---- if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.
It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.
It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.
Liquor stores may not sell milk.
Grocery stores may not sell any type of cold liquor.
You can get out of paying for a dependent's medical care by praying for him/her.
One man may not back into a parking spot because it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate.
Smoking in the state legislature building is banned, except when the legislature is in session.
Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.
Pedestrians crossing the highway at night are prohibited from wearing tail lights.
No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.
Men are prohibited from standing in a bar.
You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table; the waiter or waitress has to do it.
Drinks on the house are illegal.
Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest.
You are required to pour your drink into a glass.
"Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal.
State government officials who engage in private duels can be dismissed from their post.
All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads.
Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans.
Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.
If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Certain Immoral Practices.
Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.
A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.
The value of Pi is 4, and not 3.1415.
It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public.
City laws
Auburn: It is illegal to bike, roller-skate, skateboard, or inline skate in a commercially zoned area. For these offenses, there is a fine of no more than $5 or the impounding of one's bicycle for a period not to exceed 30 days.
Beech Grove: It is forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.
Elkhart: It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.
Evansville: While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on.
Fort Wayne: You may not sell or play on a radio broadcast, the record "It's In the Book".
Gary: Within four hours of eating garlic, a person may not enter a movie house, theater, or ride a public streetcar.
South Bend: It is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.
Terre Haute: No one may spit on the sidewalk.
 

ruaround

Active Member
what were they thinking back in the day that they wrote these???
here is a couple Idaho laws:
its against the law for women to wear red shoes on sunday...
its against the law to throw a cake out of a window at a person or object...
pets are to enter or exit a structure through the back door...
its against the law for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
the carrying of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public view....
HUH???
 
Up until a few years ago, in California if you were caught horse wrangling the peanilty was hanging. some guy got caught and they had to do an emergency session to change the law.
 

xdave

Active Member
Kinda in the same subject, does anybody know when the last time, and or, by what country, the guillotine was used for an official government execution?
 

ruaround

Active Member
Originally Posted by xDave
Kinda in the same subject, does anybody know when the last time, and or, by what country, the guillotine was used for an official government execution?
in France... Hamida Djandoubi was executed September 1977...
the US has never recognized the guillotine as a method of execution...
take the test...
http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/TestYour.swf
 

michaeltx

Moderator
Here are some of them from Arkansas
A man can legally beat his wife, but not more than once a month.
A law provides that school teachers who bob their hair will not get a raise.
Alligators may not be kept in bathtubs
The Arkansas River can rise no higher than to the Main Street bridge in Little Rock.
Arkansas must be pronounced "Arkansaw
A voter is only allowed five minutes to mark his ballot.
• An Arkansas legislator not long ago proposed that the state provide growth hormones to dwarfs.
At Arkansas State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway unless they belong to a union.
In Arkansas it is illegal to buy or sell blue lightbulbs.
It's illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas in that state.
Fayetteville
Dogs may not bark after 6 PM.
It is illegal to kill "any living creature".
It is unlawful to walk one's cow down Main Street after 1:00 PM on Sunday.
No person shall sound the horn on a vechicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 P.M. -Little Rock City Code Sec. 18-54
Flirtation between men and women on the streets of Little Rock may result in a 30-day jail term.
Little Rock: Dogs may not bark after 6 PM.; Flirtation between men and women on the streets of Little Rock may result in a 30-day jail term; It is unlawful to walk one's cow down Main Street after 1:00 PM on Sunday; No person shall sound the horn on a vehicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 P.M. -Little Rock City Code Sec. 18-54
 

xdave

Active Member
Originally Posted by ruaround
in France... Hamida Djandoubi was executed September 1977...
the US has never recognized the guillotine as a method of execution...
take the test...
http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/TestYour.swf
Hmmm, a guillotine knowledge test, aquaria is not your only hobby eh?!

I saw the one used for that execution, it's in the Tower of London.
 

ruaround

Active Member
Originally Posted by xDave
Hmmm, a guillotine knowledge test, aquaria is not your only hobby eh?!

I saw the one used for that execution, it's in the Tower of London.
jack of many trades... master of none... lol...
 
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