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Post by tygerarmy on Oct 15, 2011 17:42:59 GMT -5
3.It is a $500 fine to instruct a pizza delivery man to deliver a pizza to your friend without them knowing. A little excessive but I kinda like it. |
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Post by discoberry on Oct 15, 2011 18:12:47 GMT -5
Missouri:
In Columbia:
Though clotheslines are banned, clothes may be draped over a fence.
You can not have a antenna exposed outside of your house yet you can have a 25′ satellite dish.
In Kansas City:
Installation of bathtubs with four legs resembling animal paws is prohibited.
It shall be unlawful to provide beer or other intoxicants to elephants.
In Saint Louis:
It’s illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink beer from a bucket.
A milk man may not run while on duty.
No person may own a PVC pipe.
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Post by chad sexington on Oct 15, 2011 19:43:49 GMT -5
Why do they hate clotheslines, tv antennae, and PVC piping?  |
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 15, 2011 19:46:04 GMT -5
Sounds like anti-redneck laws, to me.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Oct 15, 2011 19:48:14 GMT -5
What about beer from a shoe?
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 15, 2011 19:52:26 GMT -5
It could count as a foot bucket, if you're feeling like being an asshole.
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Post by discoberry on Oct 15, 2011 20:02:02 GMT -5
More from Missouri:
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Post by Vene on Oct 15, 2011 20:26:36 GMT -5
Why do they hate clotheslines, tv antennae, and PVC piping? I doubt some of these are anything more than urban legends. There's a lot of sites out there with supposed dumb laws that don't actually exist. And many of them that exist have been repealed. |
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Post by jackmann on Oct 15, 2011 21:52:24 GMT -5
Yep. The vast majority of these you find are made up whole cloth. Here's a selection from Arizona, but pretty much any list of "wacky" laws will be of similar veracity. There are entire books filled with made-up laws and regulations presented as fact. |
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Post by Thejebusfire on Oct 15, 2011 23:32:45 GMT -5
Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger.
No one may spit on a sidewalk.
Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state.
Whaling is illegal.
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Post by Vypernight on Oct 16, 2011 1:53:58 GMT -5
Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger. Whaling is illegal. in OK? Do they really have that much of a problem with that? Do they actually believe the low population of whales in lakes in ponds is the result of excessive whaling? |
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 16, 2011 5:46:22 GMT -5
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Post by jackmann on Oct 16, 2011 11:46:34 GMT -5
Did you know it's illegal in Intercourse, Pennsylvania to make up wacky laws? It's true! Someone on the internet said so! And it was probably in a book somewhere, maybe.
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Post by shadowpanther on Oct 16, 2011 11:51:36 GMT -5
Hmm, I wonder if it's still perfectly legal for me to shoot a Scotsman if he is within the walls of York? Though If I recall it does have the additional qualifier of having to be with a bow and arrow.
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Post by Her3tiK on Oct 16, 2011 12:07:42 GMT -5
It's not a state law, but the city of LA still has the proper dimensions for a wife-beatin' switch on it's books, the diameter of your thumb*. Hence, "rule of thumb". The more you know! The phrase "rule of thumb" actually comes from using your thumb as a ruler, as wood workers would sometimes do (the width of your thumb being about an inch). It has nothing to do with wife-beating. The connection was not made until fairly recent times. Interestingly, the idea that it was legal to beat a woman with a stick no thicker than the thumb has never been a part of any law. It was thought for a while to be part of English Common Law, but the law only allowed for "moderate correction," with no guidance on what that meant (and by the 1600's, it had been largely ruled to mean no beating, regardless of the thickness of the rod). In the US, there are a few legal decisions that reference this supposed law (and promptly reject it as barbaric), but to my knowledge, it's never been part of the law anywhere in the US, even in Los Angeles. Oops. Wonder where I got that idea from then... |
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