scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) (08/27/84)
A new topic of discussion:
Many states have strange laws still on the books. Some examples are:
In Columbus Ohio, you supposedly can't eat corn flakes on Sunday.
In Indiana, oral sex is illegal.
Does anyone know of other oddball laws that still exist? Can anybody
confirm the above two? Does anyone know of an example where this type of
law is/was actually inforced?
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Scott Wiesner
{allegra, ucbvax, cornell}!nbires!scottunni@uwvax.ARPA (08/28/84)
There is a small town in Calif that enacted a law a few years ago that made
it illegal for anyone to let off an atomic device within city limits. The law
stipulated a fine of $500 or imprisonment for upto 6 months for the offence.
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Shankar Unni
{seismo!ucbvax!allegra!heurikon}!uwvax!unnigwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (08/29/84)
Unless they changed it recently, in Texas every public saloon has to provide a hitching post.
gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) (08/30/84)
>> In Columbus Ohio, you supposedly can't eat corn flakes on Sunday. >> In Indiana, oral sex is illegal. I think this suffices to prove my conspiracy theory about cornflakes and masturbation.
demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (08/30/84)
In my home town, an old mining community in
Nothern Minnesota it is illegal to:
(a) spit on the sidewalk
(b) shoot off a cannon in the streets
(c) let your livestock wander the streets alone after 8 pm
How's that?walker@unc.UUCP (Douglas Walker) (08/31/84)
In North Carolina, it is illegal to walk on the highway right-of-way wearing a mask. I think the law was to prevent the KKK from roaming highways...
polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard) (08/31/84)
<Neutrinos Bearnaise for the line-eater>
The town in question is Chico, California. Nuke it and it will
cost you.
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Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.)
{ihnp4,cbosgd,amd}!fortune!polardofut@gatech.UUCP (Jeff Offutt) (08/31/84)
There's a small town near Atlanta which has a law that EVERY
household must own a gun.
They don't have a lot of robberies...
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Jeff Offutt
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA
CSNet: Ofut @ GATech ARPA: Ofut.GATech @ Csnet-Relay
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,unmvax,ulysses,ut-sally}!gatech!ofutscon@unm-cvax.UUCP (08/31/84)
Did you know that it's illegal to take a bath in Boston on any other day besides Saturday ? Dirty Easterners ! :-) (that last comment was in jest ; I was born in Melrose Mass and lived in Chelmsford till I was 18. ) E. Woolhiser unmvax!cc70:wooly
brownell@harvard.ARPA (Dave Brownell) (08/31/84)
Did anyone else hear about a state that had a rather young
age of consent? Like -- nine years old ?? Should I rot13 this??
Dave Brownell
Sequoia Systems Inc.
sequoia!brownell@harvard.ARPA
{allegra floyd ihnp4 seismo}!harvard!sequoia!brownellbilld@bolton.UUCP (Bill Duffy) (08/31/84)
Here's a couple in Massachussetts. (I think!)
When driving your "horseless carriage"(cars), you must stop at all
intersections, walk to the center of the intersection to look
both ways prior to crossing.
(How flat I am, How flat I'll be, 'cause a car, ran over me.)
No building may cast a continuous shadow on any place of worship
(church). For this reason the John Handcock building had to be
re-designed with a notch in it. (At no little expense, shows
that these "Blue laws" can still be enforced).
Any person of the "Roger Williams" (Rhode Island) colony may enter
Massachussetts. If such a person is found on a Massachussetts
common, s/he may be shot on sight.
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Bill Duffy
General Radio
genrad!bolton!billd
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All opinions stated herein may or may not be those of my employer.mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (09/02/84)
I don't know if it still reads the same, but Ontario used to have a
law which in the same sentence prohibited:
(i) Throwing garbage on the highway
(ii) riding a horse furiously on the highway
(iii) hitchhiking.
I've never been able to figure out what these heinous practices are
supposed to have in common.
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Martin Taylor
{allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt
{uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmtbjorn@dataio.UUCP (Bjorn Benson) (09/04/84)
In Moscow, Idaho it is illegal to ride your tricycle on the sidewalk. So, where are the kids to ride? ...in the street? ...with all the cars? Bjorn Benson ..!uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!bjorn
bwf@ihldt.UUCP (Bill Fecht) (09/04/84)
Superstitious line. Hey, don't laugh, it works. When was the last time Chico, CA was nuked? Who says you can't legislate morality? Does RWR read the net?
moroney@jon.DEC (09/05/84)
New York State has some rather strange alcohol laws, which, unlike some other weird laws recently posted, are enforced. 1) Liquor and wine in New York are only sold in licenced liquor stores. They may sell nothing else. Notice, that I didn't mention beer. That's right, you have to go to two different stores to buy beer and wine in New York. (beer can be sold in supermarkets) 2) Beer may not be sold between 4:00am and 12:00 noon Sundays. Hard liquor (including wine) may not be sold between 2:00am and 8:00am Sundays. 3) Wine and liquor may not be sold within 200 feet of a school or church. church has no say in the matter, he may not legally tell the state "I don't care whether X's Restaraunt can serve wine with its meals" There is no restriction on wine/liquor sales within the church itself. (Don't know about schools)
okie@ihuxs.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) (09/05/84)
Speaking of strange ones still on the books...in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where I went to school, you couldn't have a girl under 21 in the car with you with her shoes off. If you were caught, it was statutory rape. Now, I'm pretty sure the Stillwater police never went around looking for this one. But a lot of my friends, when caught for speeding, etc., made sure the girls in the car had their shoes on *before* pulling over...:-) Barefoot in the park, B.K. Cobb
mcgill@ut-ngp.UUCP (mcgill) (09/06/84)
In Amarillo, Texas it is illegal to drive a car on Polk street (the horses, you know), to carry pliers in your pocket (for cutting barbed wire fences: rustlers), to spit on the sidewalk, and who knows what else.
haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) (09/07/84)
In Waterloo, Ontario, Canada there is a local bylaw that forbids the sticking of chewing gum under a table...
lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) (09/27/84)
While attending a wedding last wekend, I discovered that it is illegal to throw rice in Prince George's County, Maryland. -- = lee@rochester rochester!lee =