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Post the dumbest law your state/country has ever had!
2004-02-23, 8:37 PM #41
I guess that ruins your plans for Friday night, eh Geb? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-02-23, 8:42 PM #42
USA, Kentucky:

State laws:
Quote:
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# Throwing eggs at a public speaker could result in up to one year in prison.

# One may not dye a duckling blue and offer it for sale unless more than six are for sale at once.

# It is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow in Kentucky.
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City laws:
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Fort Thomas

* Dogs may not molest cars.

Lexington

* By law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground."
* It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.

Owensboro

* One may not receive anal sex.
* A woman may not buy a hat without her husband's permission.
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Geeze I love this state.

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2004-02-23, 9:09 PM #43
One thing you have to realize is that everytime you see the word "molest" it means disturb, not.. molest.

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2004-02-24, 12:28 AM #44
The other thing you have to realise is that these are all precedental laws, not actual written law. Ie. Some guy threw a fish at his neighbor in a fight, and since he was found guilty for assault and battery, there was set a precedent that stated that throwing a fish at your neighbor is illegal.
2004-02-24, 12:42 AM #45
Oral sex can not be given or received anywhere.
Thistles may not grow in one's yard.

Maryland rules, those are the only "dumb laws"

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2004-02-24, 2:04 AM #46
"No one may cross the Boston Common without a shotgun in case of bears"

This one I'm not sure about but I've heard that it is illegal to pogo stick down Commonwealth Ave.

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2004-02-24, 2:52 AM #47
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Slug:
The other thing you have to realise is that these are all precedental laws, not actual written law. Ie. Some guy threw a fish at his neighbor in a fight, and since he was found guilty for assault and battery, there was set a precedent that stated that throwing a fish at your neighbor is illegal.</font>


Then I would still love to know where the "no hunting whales in Utah" one and the "no tieing giraffes to lamp posts in Georgia" came from [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2004-02-24, 9:44 AM #48
New York State:
  • The penalty for jumping off a building is death.

New York City:
  • Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a business.

Staten Island(is a borough of NYC now, so I assume this is from before it was incorporated)
  • It is illegal for a father to call his son a "******" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior."


I'm not sure if it's true, but I hear it's illegal in NY to accept a challenge to a duel, whether or not it takes place.

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2004-02-24, 10:47 AM #49
Can someone explain why these laws are stupid?

http://www.dumblaws.com/countries/countries.php?Country=Norway

And Norway is the place in the list that is the closest to me.

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2004-02-24, 10:57 AM #50
In Chester, you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight. I don't live anywhere near Chester, but it's the best I found. Most others make sense.

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2004-02-24, 11:04 AM #51
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wuss:
I guess that ruins your plans for Friday night, eh Geb? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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You bet it doe--hey wait a minute...

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2004-02-24, 2:59 PM #52
Michigan, USA:

-It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.

-It is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.

My city doesn't have any dumb laws of its own... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-02-24, 3:23 PM #53
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by nottheking:
Michigan, USA:

-It is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.
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That's not a dumb law...
2004-02-24, 3:26 PM #54
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Thrawn42689:
That's not a dumb law...</font>

Why is the law specific? That's what makes it dumb. killing a dog in a decompression chamber would be VERY messy... Most would just kill a dog with a gun...

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2004-02-24, 4:25 PM #55
these laws are probably never enforced, and a lot of them sound like remnats from the past (100 years or older) with no relevance in modern times. They probably stayed on the books b/c no one cared enough to repeal them.



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2004-02-24, 4:43 PM #56
Alot of the sex laws would be next to impossible to get conviction on (save for like molesting, statutory and rape). Mainly because it's been said by the Supreme Court what 2 consenting adults do in the privacy of there home with one another is no one's business.

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2004-02-24, 4:57 PM #57
Missouri.


Kansas City

Minors are not allowed to purchase cap pistols, however they may buy shotguns freely.
Installation of bathtubs with four legs resembling animal paws is prohibited.
2004-02-24, 5:01 PM #58
Sorry to tell you, Sodomy is now legal.

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2004-02-24, 7:35 PM #59
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
these laws are probably never enforced, and a lot of them sound like remnats from the past (100 years or older) with no relevance in modern times. They probably stayed on the books b/c no one cared enough to repeal them.

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So? That doesn't mean they aren't funny.

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2004-02-24, 7:41 PM #60
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bounty Hunter 4 hire:
New York State:
  • The penalty for jumping off a building is death.


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that's a good one...

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2004-02-24, 9:26 PM #61
http://www.dumblaws.com/countries/countries.php?Country=China

WTF...those are supposed to be dumb?? Yeah...trying to control the population...sure is dumb.
2004-02-25, 6:14 AM #62
Dumb Laws Pensacola, Florida.

*It is illegal to roll a barrel on any street, fines go up according to the contents of the barrel.

*A women can be fined (only after death), for being electrocuted in a bath-tub because of using self-beautification utensils.

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2004-02-25, 6:50 AM #63
England:

Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.</font>


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2004-02-25, 7:28 AM #64
York (Where I'm from!)

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

I knew that one, but there's another cracker not on the website - It is perfectly legal to take your wife to Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate [incidentally one of, if not the shortest, street in the country] and thrash her with a whip should she be suspected of adultery.

Excellent. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

There may be more comedy by-laws I can't remember, but that one's a legend.

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2004-02-25, 8:45 AM #65
Code: 
Portland, Maine

    * Shoelaces must be tied while walking down the street.

South Berwick, Maine

    * It is illegal to park in front of Dunkin Donuts.
            *Get the full text of this law.
DO NOT WANT.
2004-02-25, 3:39 PM #66
George Bush wants a constitutional amendment passed BANNING gay marriage! Even though that's an area of lawmaking that's SUPPOSED to be left up to the fifty states! I don't what that means exactly: it's be a dumb law, but it also seems to say Dubbya is dumb too.

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2004-02-25, 4:23 PM #67
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Originally posted by UGG:
What purpose? You'd be naive to think it reduces the amount of porn on the net. All it does is reduce tax income from our IT industry.

Basically, our governement shot themselves in the groin! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif][/QUOTE

Right, as if the only revenue on the internet is pornography...

wait a second... I guess you have a point.

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2004-02-25, 5:38 PM #68
Oh yeah? Well my state won't allow ferrets! Wtf is up with that?
2004-02-25, 5:42 PM #69
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zell:
Code: 
Portland, Maine

    * Shoelaces must be tied while walking down the street.

South Berwick, Maine

    * It is illegal to park in front of Dunkin Donuts.
            *Get the full text of this law.
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Please tell me that this doesn't mean you live in Maine.

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2004-02-25, 8:58 PM #70
I read that in america its illegal to approch an alien.

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2004-02-26, 2:32 PM #71
For all the Brits out there.... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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As originally quoted at site: http://www.coffeebeer.co.uk/doubleshot/borders_welshclowns.html
"It's legal to murder a Welsh person in the town of Hereford as long as it's on a Sunday, it's within the confines of the cathedral courtyard, and you are using a longbow at an approximate distance of 12 yards."
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Well... I'd say that's fair game, if you ask me [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]. Give the Welsh a sporting chance and all that... Lord help them - they need it in the rugby [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif] [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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