weird laws in the usa
Weird Laws in the USA
There are some bizarre laws in the world that will leave you speechless. Here is a collection of such weird and strange laws in the United States of America.
- All lollipops are banned in Washington.
- In Texas, the entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned simply because it contains the formula for making beer at home.
- One cannot kill a squirrel with a gun in a courtroom in Canton, Mississippi.
- Now, here is one of the world's strangest laws. In Iowa, a man with a mustache cannot kiss a woman in public!
- In South Dakota, it is illegal to lie down or fall asleep in a cheese factory.
- In Pennsylvania, it is not legal to catch a fish with any body part, including your hands, except for your mouth!
- In the state of Oklahoma, it is mandatory for dogs to have a permit signed by the mayor in order to assemble in group of three or more on any private property.
- It is legal to throw a snake at someone, but, it is illegal to shake a snake at someone in the state of Ohio.
- In West Virginia, it is illegal to put an ice cream cone in one's back pocket on Sundays.
- In North Carolina, if a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel and register themselves as married then, according to the state law, they are legally married.
- In New York State, jumping off a building is punishable by death!
- It is against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp in Atlanta.
- In Nebraska, a parent can be arrested if his child is unable to hold back a burp during a church service.
- In Massachusetts, snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and locked!
- In Texas, one can not put graffiti on someone else's cow.
- It is illegal to stand near or in a building without any reason for being there in Minnesota.
- In Indiana, it was a law for all black cats to wear bells on Friday, the 13th.
- In Hartford, Connecticut, you are not allowed to cross the street walking on your hands!
- Now this is one of the weird funny laws, in Maine, it is illegal to step out of a plane in flight!
- In the state of Indiana, it is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.
- In Miami, it is illegal to imitate an animal.
- It is a punishable offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane in Alaska.
- In Ohio, women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes anywhere in public.
- In Florida, men (!!!) may not be seen in public in any kind of strapless gown!
- It is forbidden for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle in Alabama.