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Alstroph	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 9:27 AM Tennessee - • It is illegal to catch a fish with a lasso. • It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish. • In Tennessee hollow logs may not be sold. • In Tennessee it is illegal to use a lasso to catch fish. • It is legal to gather and consume road kill • 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. - Texas - • In Texas it's legal for a chicken to have sex with you, but it's illegal to reciprocate. • It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel. • It is illegal to drive without windshield wipers. You don't need a windshield, but you must have the wipers. • It is legal for a husband to beat his wife as long as he uses something no bigger than his thumb. • It is Texas law that 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. - Utah - • Salt Lake City: No one may walk down the street carrying a paper bag containing a violin. • It is illegal not to drink milk. • It is illegal to detonate any nuclear weapon. You can have them, but you just can't detonate them. • Trout Creek: Pharmacists may not sell gunpowder to cure headaches. - Vermont - • Whistling underwater is illegal • It's against the law in Vermont for vagrants to procure food by force. Apparently if you have a good job and stable home life, it's O.K. to procure food by force. • Women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth. - Washington - • All lollipops are banned. • In Washington, anyone under the age of 18 must have parental permission to throw a tear gas canister. • It's illegal in Wilbur, Washington, to ride an ugly horse. • People may not buy a mattress on Sunday. • Everett: It is illegal to display a hypnotized or allegedly hypnotized person in a store window.
PrincessTast...	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 10:25 AM Massachusetts: it is illegal to buy alcoholic products on a Sunday.
kingo	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 10:29 AM Parts of Maryland: It is illegal to buy alcoholic products on a Sunday.
Israfel	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 10:32 AM In Wisconsin...it is against the law NOT to buy alcoholic products on a Sunday. or maybe it just seems that way.
zedsalt	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 10:45 AM Somebody told me it's illegal to smoke hemp. That CAN'T be true, can it? I used to live next door to an illegal Sunday alcohol vendor. It was kind of sad, watching all these deathly thin old people line up to get their hard liquor. Here in Happy Hoosierland, a place can sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday, provided they have food available, too. So these folks wanted booze from a place that didn't have the smell of food on it, apparently, and stocking up Saturday night just wasn't an option. Plus, it was Hell trying to find a parking space near my apartment every Sunday.
TonyV	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 5:46 PM Ohio had the stupid Sunday law. Down here in Florida you can buy beer and hard liquor just about anytime you want. Judging by the way the cops drive you would swear even they are hitting the ABC Drive-Thru's...
EchoMinor	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 7:55 PM i love florida! i wouldnt live anywhere else! oh but i hear it is also illegal to engage in any sexual position that isnt the traditional missionary position. oral sex is illegal too
EchoMinor	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 7:56 PM now my new favorite law in florida, if anyone on your property puts your life in harmsway in the form of threatening or intent to harm you can kill that person.
TameasDust	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 8:15 PM In Texas it's legal for a chicken to have sex with you, but it's illegal to reciprocate. ... where did Bush come from then
AgentMGD	Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:15 PM Chicago - it's against the law to spit on the sidewalk (an old law from the 19th century and it's still on the books)
GeneHilbert	Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:51 PM I often wondered about this one. Everett: It is illegal to display a hypnotized or allegedly hypnotized person in a store window. It seems like such a natural place to put them…..
kingo	Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:54 PM
desiderata	Date: May 5, 2006 @ 3:35 PM I'm from Indiana and it has two of my favorite dumb laws: A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17. And the state once declared the value of pi to be 3.
GeneHilbert	Date: May 5, 2006 @ 4:15 PM Tht’s clse enogh
zedsalt	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 10:59 AM The charge to have "Louie Louie" declared obscene was led by the then governor of Indiana. Something to be proud of.
PrincessTast...	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 11:10 AM In Arkansas, apparently, it's legal to beat your wife, but only once a month! WTF
GeneHilbert	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 3:34 PM Kewl........ I'm sure there were times when Hilary needed it.... The whole Louie Louie thing was just absurd......
K3VIN	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 3:39 PM in michigan if you talk during someones pool shot.. you got shot...
LostYears	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 4:10 PM in washington its illegal to walk an alligator downa a street in mismatched arguile socks on thursdays...
MikeLirette	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 5:15 PM Those are some pretty absurd laws...
Alstroph	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 6:55 PM In one state it is illegal to beat your wife with anything bigger than a thumb.... Thus the rule of thumb.
TameasDust	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 9:50 PM In Washington state, it's against the law to sleep in an outhouse without the owner's permission. In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school or place of worship. It is illegal to a wake a bear for the purpose of photography in Alaska. In Kentucky, by law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground." In Louisiana, it is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.
TameasDust	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 9:54 PM Hotel owners in Hastings, Nebraska are required by law to provide a clean, white cotton nightshirt to each guest. According to the law, no couple may have sex unless they are wearing the nightshirts.
TameasDust	Date: May 6, 2006 @ 9:57 PM Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year.
zedsalt	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 10:24 AM Y'know, when I stop to think about it, if folks really NEED laws against sleeping in somebody else's outhouse without permission or waking a bear for the purpose of photography, then the laws aren't all that silly. It just makes me curious as to the impetuses of those laws. I mean, how many times did people find uninvited sleepover guests in their Washington outhouses before a bill was passed prohibiting it?

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