This thread is for the purpose of finding and listing hilarious, disturbing or just plain stupid laws that are in place in your municipality, region or country. You may post about laws that have been in place from hundreds of years ago or just recently added. (Hint: It may add to the hilarity if these laws were still technically enforcable.) If you wish to post a law that you think is funny, you do not have to find anything other than what the law states and if you want, you may describe why it may be. Edit: I advise that you still describe as much as you can why the laws are there and how they are funny, as some of our fellow forum members from abroad may not understand as you do. I will start with one I've come across in my hometown of Toronto. It is illegal to drag a corpse of a horse through the streets of the town on a Sunday. This law is actually still in place today, (at least, this is what I was told by the person I asked) but not enforced, as there is not that many horses around the streets of Toronto anymore. The reason for this is, on Sunday, everything is closed. At the time it was enforced, no businesses were to be open and running on Sundays, no person was to buy anything on Sundays, not even tend to their animals. (as horses were a main mode of transportation at this time) These horses were domesticated, and belonged to who ever owned the horse. In the winter, horses needed to be watched over, fed, made sure of that they do not escape their pen and run around. And even if they are not taken care of for one day, some may die. Since no person was to do any work of any kind on Sundays, horses were, by law, to be left on the streets if they die or are lost instead of having someone clean up or find the horse.
If someone knocks on your door and demands to use the loo, you have to let them use it. I think it's only in use in Scotland, but that's what my old P.E teacher told me. I doubt it's still it's still enforced nowadays. I think it's because, in the late 1800s in cities like Glasgow, there was the occasional indoor plumbing, and to stop people taking a shite in a public toilet and risking diseases like Typhoid, you had to let the bastards take a slash in your pisspot. Quite a lot of people died because of a bad case of the shits transferred through murky poo water, so this was a fairly acceptable law.
It is illegal to wear a bullet-proof vest while committing a murder in the sate of New Jersey It is illegal to offer whiskey or cigarettes to animals a the local zoo in Manville, New Jersey. It is illegal to sell ice cream after 6pm, unless the customer has a note from his doctor in Newark, New Jersey
Your state must have a lot of circus' "Men may not spit in front of the opposite sex." That's a pretty reasonable law. I was always disgusted by teengers spitting on the floor inside and outside of the highschool I went to.
Tibetan monks need government permission to reïncarnate. In Australia they can ban porn featuring women with small breasts because it makes them look younger then 18 years.
Pot shops may sell weeds legally, but they may not buy any, and they can only hold five plants. Therefor, all of the pot you buy in pot shops is most likely illegal, but since the police won't be able to prove anything, they won't care for it.
Well its not a "favourite idiotic law" as much as it's idiotic and disrepectful law. In many US cities in 1919 and into the 1920s passed laws about disfigured Veteran. Being seen in public,lest women and children be frightened. The disfigured veteran was required to be hooded or masked. If not, he faced criminal prosecution for "Being Ugly on the Public Way", which how the law was titled in Chicago.
In Tucson it's illegal for women to wear pants. I have just topped you all, because I have no fucking idea why it's a law. I think my founding fathers just realized they could do whatever the Hell they wanted and made some crazy laws. Edit some other Arizona laws: You may have no other than two dildos in any house. Globe - Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American. Mohave County - A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up. Prescott - No one is permitted to ride their horse up the stairs of the county court house. Tombstone - It is illegal for men and women over the age of 18 to have less than one missing tooth visible when smiling.
I don't know whether you've seen old western type movies, but the women in those movies always wore large and numerously layered skirts, with the top portion squeezing their stomaches and pushing their breasts upwards. I'm not sure if there even were any pants for women in those days.
