Really Dumb Laws

This is a list of some pretty dumb laws I've run accross while surfing the web. While some of them have been repealed, others are still in effect...hope ya like em!

Really Dumb Laws

• Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
• A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
• If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
• It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
• Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
• It is considered an offense to shower naked.
• You are not allowed to break more than three dishes per day, or chip the edges of more than four cups and/or saucers.
• Owning a flower pot with water in it that isn't capable of draining is considered a public nuisance.
• Chickens are considered a 'protected species'.
• Neon signs are prohibited.
• Persons may not tow a sled behind their bicycles.
• Citizens may not be caught downtown without at least 10 dollars on their person.
• It is illegal to roll a barrel on any street, fines go up according to the contents of the barrel.
• All houses much have white picket fences and full-width, two-story porches.
• Persons may be placed in jail for up to five years for shooting a hole in a penny.
• A US citizen can take possession of any foreign, uninhabited island, as long as it contains bird droppings.
• It is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body which lies in a funeral home or in a coroners office.
• Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.
• Donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
• Signs are required to be written in English.
• No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.
• All citizens must own a rake.
• Against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
• Can't cut off a chicken's head on Sunday.

• It is illegal to carry a chicken by it's feet down Broadway on Sunday.
• One may not place a dead bird on a neighbor's lawn.
• Chicken must be eaten with the hands.
• It is illegal to say Oh, Boy.
• Though it is illegal to spit from a car or bus, citizens may spit from a truck.
• Cars are not to drive on sidewalks.
• The flooring of adult bookstores and video stores must be nonabsorbant and smooth textured.
• It is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
• It is against the law to frown at a police officer.
• If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates.
• You may not slurp your soup.
• Automobiles are not to pass horse drawn carriages on the street.
• It is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon.
• You may not dance or wear shorts on the main avenue.
• Citizens are not permitted to park their own boat on their lawn.
• All cats must wear three bells to warn birds of their whereabouts.
• It is illegal to offer whiskey or cigarettes to animals a the local zoo.
• There will be no boiling of bones on the property.
• You may not throw a bad pickle in the street.
• Pickles are not to be consumed on Sundays.
• Billboards are outlawed.
• Coins are not allowed to be placed in one's ears.
• One may not camp in a wagon on any public highway or risk a fine of up to ten dollars.
• Livestock have the right-of-way on public roads.

• Whenever two trains meet at an intersection of said tracks, neither shall proceed until the other has.
• It is unlawful for one to allow another to use the first person's telephone in order to make prank phone calls.
• An old ordinance forbids parking for over two hours unless a horse is tied to the car.
• If one is thought of as offensive looking, it is illegal for him to be in public during the day.
• It is illegal to wake a fireman when he is asleep.
• Nuclear weapons may not be manufactured in the city limits.
• Cats are forbidden from entering cemeteries.
• Even if one gets his/her change stolen by a vending machine, hitting the machine violates a city ordinance.
• Swimming in water fountains is prohibited.