Stupid Laws
# It’s legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in New Mexico.
# In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.
# In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can’t go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job- for men only- called a corset inspector.)
# In Connecticut, You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour.
# It is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor in Denver.
# In Woodstock, NY it is illegal to walk your bear on the street without a leash.
# In Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because “the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male.”
# It’s safe to make love while parked in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren’t allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.
# In California, community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water.
# In Connecticut, you are not allowed to walk across a street on your hands.
# In Florida, women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
# No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
# In Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
# In New York, a fine of $25 can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking “at a woman in that way.” A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a “pair of horse-blinders” wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll.
# An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store’s walk-in-meat freezer!
# In Florida, if an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
# In New Mexico, females are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public.
# Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown in Florida.
# Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state in Ohio.
# In Florida, any form of sexual contact other than missionary position is a misdemeanor. (This is still a law. There have been several cases of people being brought up on these charges in the past 5 years alone. If the police enter a home with a warrent for some other crime and catch the ‘culprits’ in action, they can, and are, brought up on those charges.)
# In fire-sensitive Chicago, it is against the law to eat in an establishment that is on fire.
# In Michigan, a man legally owns his wife’s hair.
# In Illinois, it is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animal kept as pets.
# Women in Joliet, Illinois, can be arrested for trying on more than six dresses in one store.
# Winnetka, Illinois theater managers can kick out any patron who has “odoriferous feet.”
# In Iowa, kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes.
# In Kentucky, by law, anyone who has been drinking is “sober” until he or she “cannot hold onto the ground.”
# It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket in Kentucky.
# An ordinance in Lawrence, Kansas, forbids anyone to carry bees in his hat while on the city streets.
# In Louisiana, it is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.
# In Owensboro, Kentucky, it is illegal for a woman to buy a new hat without her husband trying it on first.
# Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can’t dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.