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Oklahoma Crazy Law
It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of
three or more on private property.
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It is illegal to wear your boots to bed.
Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.
Tissues are not to be found in the back of one's car.
Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger.
No one may spit on a sidewalk.
Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the
state.
Cars must be tethered outside of public buildings. (Repealed)
Anyone arrested for soliciting a hooker must have their name and picture shown
on television.
It is against the law to read a comic book while operating a motor vehicle.
Whaling is illegal.
Violators can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog.
Tattoos are banned.
Residents are taxed for the furniture in their homes, and any other personal
belongings. (Repealed 1998)
People who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
Ada
If you wear New York Jets clothing, you may be put in jail.
Clinton
Molesting an automobile is illegal.
Hawthahorne
It is unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
Oklahoma City
No one may walk backwards downtown while eating a hamburger.
Schulter
Women may not gamble in the nude, in lingerie, or while wearing a towel.
Tulsa
You may not open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
Elephants are not to be taken into the downtown area.
Wynona
One's mode of transportation must be tied up while not attended.
Mules may not drink out of bird baths.
Clothes may not be washed in bird baths.
Yukon
It is illegal to tie a horse in front of city hall.
While passing another vehicle, you must honk your horn.
Oregon Crazy Law
Canned corn is not to be used as bait for fishing.
Ice cream may not be eaten on Sundays.
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Dishes must drip dry.
It is illegal to buy or sell marijuana, but it is legal to smoke it on your own
property.
You may not pump your own gas in service stations.
The "Peer Review Statute" prohibits you from finding out details of any written
or oral discussion about your medical treatment. Not even a court of law can.
All you can access is what the doctor or nurse voluntarily records in your
chart.
One may not bathe without wearing "suitable clothing," i.e.,that which covers
one's body from neck to knee.
Beaverton
You must buy a $10 permit to be allowed to install a burglar alarm.
Eugene
It is legal to conduct a horse race or a symphony concert.
It is illegal to show movies or attend a car race on Sundays. (Repealed in the
1970s)
Hood River
Juggling is strictly prohibited without a license.
Klamath Falls
It's illegal to walk down a sidewalk and knock a snakes head off with your cane.
Portland
People may not whistle underwater.
It's against the law for a wedding ceremony to be performed at a skating rink.
(Repealed in 1989)
You cannot wear roller skates in restrooms.
Marion
Ministers are forbidden from eating garlic or onions before delivering a sermon.
Myrtle Creek
One may not box with a kangaroo.
Salem
Women may not wrestle in Salem.
Springfield
It is illegal to own a reptile within the city limits, unless you are a school
or city, as a pet.
Stanfield
No more than two people may share a single drink.
Cloth towel dispensers are banned from restrooms.
Rhode Island Crazy Law
It is illegal to challenge someone to a duel, or accept a duel, even
it it is never actually fought. Penalty: Imprisonment for one to seven years.
Riding a horse over any public highway for the purpose of racing, or testing the
speed of the horse is illegal. Penalty: Maximum $20 fine and imprisonment for 10
days.
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Exercising any labor, business, or work, or using any game, sport, play, or
recreation, or causing any of the above to be done to or by your children,
servants, or apprentices on the first day of the week (Sunday) results in a
penalty of $5 for the first offense and $10 for the second.
It is illegal to coast downhill in your car with your transmission in neutral,
or with the clutch disengaged.
Impersonating a town sealer, auctioneer, corder of wood, or a fence-viewer is
against the law. Penalty: $20 to $100 fine.
It is illegal to place a windmill within twenty-five (25) rods of any traveled
street or road.
It is considered an offense to throw pickle juice on a trolley.
Rhode Island recently applied to the US Government to make all the coastal
waters of Rhode Island a "No Discharge Zone". The ostensible purpose was to
prohibit the discharge of sewage by boats into the state's waters. However,
discharge of raw sewage into the state waters was already illegal. What the "No
Discharge Zone" actually did was make it illegal to discharge TREATED sewage
from a boat into state waters. What now happens is that boats (whose treatment
systems far outperform municipal sewage treatment plants) are now required to
disable their sewage treatment systems, and carry their sewage to a shore-based
facility, which then dumps the partially treated sewage back into Rhode Island's
coastal waters.
Professional sports, except ice polo and hockey, must obtain a license to play
games on Sunday.
Any marriage where either of the parties is an idiot or lunatic is null and
void. -SECTION 11-40-1
Newport
You cannot smoke a pipe after sunset.
Providence
There is not an appeals process for exemtion of property tax due to a disability
or poverty.
It is illegal to wear transparent clothing.
You may not sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday.
West Warwick
It is illegal to use water on even-numbered days for the sole purpose of
watering plants, gardens, or lawns. If you break this law there is a fine of
$25-$100.
South Carolina Crazy Law
It is considered an offense to get a tattoo.
Performing a U-turn within 1,000 feet of an intersection is illegal.
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All schools must prepare a suitable program for Francis Willard Day.
Dance halls may not operate on Sundays.
Horses may not be kept in bathtubs.
Fortune tellers are required to obtain a special permit from the state.
A railroad my not remove itself from a town of more than five hundred people.
Merchandise may not be sold within a half mile of a church unless fruit is being
sold.
It is perfectly legal to beat your wife on the court house steps on Sundays.
Every adult male must bring a rifle to church on Sunday in order to ward off
Indian attacks.
Musical instruments may not be sold on Sunday.
When approaching a four way or blind intersection in a non-horse driven vehicle
you must stop 100 ft from the intersection and discharge a firearm into the air
to warn horse traffic.
It is illegal to sell any alcoholic beverages on Sunday, unless you own a
private club. (Repealed November 2000)
It is a capital offense to inadvertently kill someone while attempting suicide.
By law, if a man promises to marry an unmarried woman, the marriage must take
place.
It is illegal to communicate with a woman using obscene messages.
No work may be done on Sunday.
An exception to the above law is that light bulbs may be sold.
Railroad companies may be held liable in some instances for scaring horses.
It is illegal to display a confederate flag on a courthouse.
Charleston
It is against the law to drive a motorized vehicle on King Street.
The Fire Department may blow up your house. This law was made so that the fire
department could create a fire brake.
Fountain Inn
Horses are to wear pants at all times.
Lancaster County
It is illegal to dance in public in Lancaster.
Spartanburg
Eating watermelons in the Magnolia Street cemetery is forbidden.
South Dakota Crazy Law
Movies that show police officers being struck, beaten, or treated in
an offensive manner are forbidden.
No horses are allowed into Fountain Inn unless they are wearing pants.
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If there are more than 5 Native Americans on your property you may shoot them.
It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory.
Spearfish
If three or more Indians are walking down the street together, they can be
considered a war party and fired upon.
Tennessee Crazy Law
Any person crippling, killing or in any way destroying a proud female
dog that is running at large shall not be held liable for the damages due to
such killing or destruction.
"Crimes against nature" are prohibited.
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More than 8 women may not live in the same house because that would constitute a
brothel.
It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.
Hollow logs may not be sold.
It is legal to gather and consume roadkill.
Stealing a horse is punishible by hanging.
Driving is not to be done while asleep.
You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.
Dyersburg
It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.
Fayette County
You may not have more than five inoperable vehicles on a piece of property.
Lenoir City
When you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the window to warn horse
carriages that you are coming.
Lexington
No one may eat ice cream on the sidewalk.
Spitting on the sidewalk is prohibited.
Knoxville
In front of their buildings, all businesses must have a "hitching post."
Memphis
Panhandlers must first obtain a $10 permit before begging on the streets of
downtown Memphis. (Passed in 1996)
Illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or
walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and
pedestrians.
It's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM.
It is illegal to give any pie to fellow diners. It is also illegal to take
unfinished pie home. All pie must be eaten on the premises.
Oneida
An ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'."
Texas Crazy Law
It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while
standing.
A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24
hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the
crime to be committed.
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It is unlawful for a person to consume an alcoholic beverage while operating a
motor vehicle upon a public roadway, if the person is observed doing so by a
peace officer.
The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a
formula for making beer at home.
When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a
full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
It is illegal to drive without windshield wipers. You don't need a windshield,
but you must have the wipers.
You can be legally married by publically introducing a person as your husband or
wife 3 times.
A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining
a special five-dollar permit.
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.
Abilene
It is illegal to idle or loiter anyplace within the corporate limits of the city
for the purpose of flirting or mashing.
Austin
Wire cutters can not be carried in your pocket.
Beaumont
Collegiate football is banned at Lamar University.
Borger
It is against the law to throw confetti, rubber balls, feather dusters, whips or
quirts (riding crop), and explosive firecrackers of any kind.
Clarendon
It is illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster.
El Paso
Churches, hotels, halls of assembly, stores, markets, banking rooms, railroad
depots, and saloons are required to provide spittoons "of a kind and number to
efficiently contain expectorations into them."
Houston
Beer may not be purchased after midnight on a Sunday, but it may be purchased on
Monday.
It is illegal to sell Limburger cheese on Sunday.
Galveston
It is illegal to drive a motor car down Broadway before noon on Sundays.
Jasper
Dogs must be on a leash at ALL times. Fine of 100 dollars.
LeFors
It is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer while standing.
Lubbock County
It is illegal to drive within an arm's length of alcohol - including alcohol in
someone else's blood stream.
Mesquite
It is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.
Port Arthur
Obnoxious odors may not be emitted while in an elevator.
Richardson
It is now illegal to place a "for sale" sign on a car if it visible from the
street.
It is illegal to do "U Turns".
San Antonio
It is illegal for both sexes to flirt or respond to flirtation using the eyes
and/or hands.
It is illegal to urinate on the Alamo.
Temple
No one may ride a horse and buggy through the town square.
You can ride your horse in the saloon.
Cattle thieves may be hanged on the spot.
Texarkana
Owners of horses may not ride them at night without tail lights.
Utah Crazy Law
It is illegal to detonate any nuclear weapon. You can have them, but
you just can't detonate them.
Birds have the right of way on all highways.
It's legal for restaurants to serve wine with meals, but only if you ask for the
wine list.
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It is against the law to fish from horseback.
When a person reaches the age of 50, he/she can then marry their cousin.
A husband is responsible for every criminal act committed by his wife while she
is in his presence.
You're not allowed to sell beverages containing more than 3.2% alcohol.
It is illegal not to drink milk.
It is considered an offense to hunt whales.
Kaysville
You must have identification to enter a convienence store after dark.
Logan
Women may not swear.
Monroe
Daylight must be visible between partners on a dance floor.
Provo
Throwing snowballs will result in a $50 fine.
Salt Lake City
No one may walk down the street carrying a paper bag containing a violin.
Trout Creek
Pharmacists may not sell gunpowder to cure headaches.
Vermont Crazy Law
Women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear
false teeth.
Whistling underwater is illegal.
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At one time it was illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.
Barre
All residents shall bathe every Saturday night.
Virginia Crazy Law
Children are not to go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
It is illegal to tickle women.
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Driving while not wearing shoes is prohibited. (Repealed)
You may not work on Sunday. (Repealed)
Citizens must honk their horn while passing other cars.
It is illegal to spit on sidewalk.
There is a state law prohibiting "corrupt practices of bribery by any person
other than candidates."
Police radar detectors are illegal.
It is illegal to sell peanut brittle on Sundays. (Repealed)
You cannot sell lettuce on Sunday, but you can sell beer, wine etc. (Repealed)
You cannot buy hardware of any kind on Sunday. (Passed in 1975, repealed in
1977)
Culpeper
No one may wash a mule on the sidewalk.
Dayton
A person of color may not be oustide or within the city limits after 7 pm.
Lebanon
It is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.
Norfolk
Women must wear a corsette after sundown and be in the company of male
chaperone.
A man may face 60 days in jail for patting a woman's derriere.
Spitting on a sea gull is not tolerated.
Richmond
It is illegal to flip a coin in a restaurant to see who pays for a coffee.
Stafford County
It is legal for a man to beat his wife on the courthouse steps so long as it is
before 8:00 pm.
Victoria
It is illegal to skate down the sidewalk of Main Street.
Virginia Beach
It is also unlawful to drive by the same place within 30 minutes on Atlantic
Avenue.
If you are drunk and not driving your car, and the person who is driving the car
is drunk as well, you may both receive DUI's.
It is illegal to use profanity on Atlantic Avenue or the boardwalk.
It is illegal for a person to ride on the handlebars of a bike.
Waynesboro
It is illegal for a woman to drive a car up Main Street unless her husband is
walking in front of the car waving a red flag.
Washington Crazy Law
It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag.
All motor vehicles must be preceded by a man carrying a red flag (daytime) or a
red lantern (nighttime) fifty feet in front of said vehicle.
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People may not buy a mattress on Sunday.
You cannot buy meat of any kind on Sunday.
All lollipops are banned.
You are breaking the law if you sell or place in the stream of commerce a crib
that has: corner posts that extend more than 1/16-inch above end panels; slats
more than 2 3/8 inches apart; a mattress support that releases easily from
corner posts; cutout designs on the end panels; tears in mesh or fabric; missing
or loose screws, bolts, or hardware; sharp edges, points, or rough surfaces on
wood surfaces that are not smooth and free from splinters, splits or cracks. The
new Infant Crib Safety Act in California (AB 3760, Speier), Colorado (SB
98-023,Pascoe and Morrison) and Washington State (SSB 6229, Kohl and Pennington)
states that "no commercial user shall manufacture, retrofit, sell, contract to
sell or resell, lease, sublet or otherwise place in the stream of commerce, a
full-size or non-full-size crib that is unsafe for any infant using the crib.
It is illegal to pretend that one's parents are rich.
You are not allowed to breast feed in public.
When two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.
A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal
intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is
entering the town."
Auburn
Men who deflower virgins, regardless of age or marital status, may face up to
five years in jail.
Bremerton
You may not shuck peanuts on the street.
Everett
It is illegal to display a hypnotized or allegedly hypnotized person in a store
window.
Lynden
Dancing and drinking may not occur at the same establishment.
Seattle
You may not carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
Women who sit on men's laps on buses or trains without placing a pillow between
them face an automatic six-month jail term.
No one may set fire to another person's property without prior permission.
It is illegal to carry a fishbowl or aquarium onto a bus because the sound of
the water sloshing may disturb other passengers.
Spokane
TV's may not be bought on Sundays.
Waldron Island
No structure shall contain more than two toilets that use potable water for
flushing. -San Juan County Ordinance NO. 7 -1995 (Passed June 7,1995)
Wilbur
You may not ride an ugly horse.
West Virginia Crazy Law
If you wear a hat inside a theater, you may be fined.
Roadkill may be taken home for supper.
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No children may attend school with their breath smelling of "wild onions."
Doctors and dentists may not place a woman under anesthesia unless a third
person is present.
It is illegal to snooze on a train.
According to the state constitution, it is unlawful for anyone to own a red or a
black flag.
When a railroad passes within 1 mile of a community of 100 or more people in it,
they must build a station and stop there regularly to pick up and drop off
passengers.
Whistling underwater is prohibited.
Alderson
One may not walk a lion, tiger or leopard, even on a leash.
Nicholas County
No member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the
pulpit during a church service.
Huntington
Firemen may not whistle or flirt at any woman passing a firehouse.
It is legal to beat your wife so long as it is done in public on Sunday, on the
courthouse steps.
Wisconsin Crazy Law
Dumb Wisconsin Laws
At one time, margarine was illegal.
As people used to smuggle it in from Illinois, all yellow butter substitute is
banned.
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You must manually flush all urinals in a building.
While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a
master cheese maker's license.
Whenever two trains meet at an intersection of said tracks, neither shall
proceed until the other has.
State Law made it illegal to serve apple pie in public restaurants without
cheese.
Citizens may not murder their enemies.
It is illegal to cut a woman's hair.
It is illegal to kiss on a train.
Butter substitutes are not allowed to be served in state prisons.
Car dealerships cannot sell cars on Sunday.
Kenosha
No male is allowed to be in a state of arousal in public.
La Crosse
You cannot "worry a squirrel."
It is illegal to display an unclothed mannequin in a store window.
It is illegal to tie up your horse along Third Street (Now a major bar strip).
It is illegal to play checkers in public.
Milwaukee
If one is thought of as offensive looking, it is illegal for him to be in public
during the day.
An old ordinance forbids parking for over two hours unless a horse is tied to
the car.
It is against the law to play a flute and drums on the streets to attract
attention.
It is illegal to purchase or use Sparklers in the city, yet you can buy fully
disassembled automatic machine guns.
Racine
Women may not walk down a public street at night without being accompanied by a
man.
It is illegal to wake a fireman when he is asleep.
St. Croix
Women are not allowed to wear anything red in public.
Wyoming Crazy Law
You may not take a picture of a rabbit during the month of June.
It is illegal to wear a hat that obstructs people's view in a public theater or
place of amusement.
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It is illegal for women to stand within five feet of a bar while drinking.
Cheyenne
Citizens may not take showers on Wednesdays.