My state (virginia) legislature just passed a law that said that wearing your pants too low is a crime. This comes from the conservative body that thinks it's a violation of civil liberties to prevent handgun-wearing people from entering a daycare center! Stupid people make me mad!

The law states lower then the knees... the only people who have pants that low are mooning someone, which is already agansit the law as undecent exposure.

Its pointless legislation to win votes, there is a lot of it out there.

Well come on down to Oklahoma where:

You cant spit in public
You cant 'swear'
You cant be on public property intoxicated

Oh there are more.... just need to get out my Oklahoma Statutes book...

Doesn't cause me a problem but...


Kegs are illeagle in Utah

We have a limit of how much alcohol can be in a beverage.

Utah has probably the most agressive drivers in the US. (that is not just my personal opinion)

The "luge". A fourty mile bit of one lane freeway perpetually under construction. Posted speed limit 55, actual speed 85. And yes, this road has barrier walls on either side of it half the time, with now way to pull over in an emergency.

It is against the law to sell alcohol on sundays.

It is possible to start cross-jurisdiction police incidents (its quite fun). Just call 911 on the Utah County Sherriff that followed you into Salt Lake County while off duty.


EDIT: Oddly enough it is also leagle to hunt wales here... not to be confused with mutant brine shrimp.

Oh yeah... you cant sell liquor after nine pm or before 10 am or on sundays

Can't sell alchoal on Sunday here in Georgia either.. So we just make a run to the Flroida state line...

There is a wonderfull book called "You can't have a Zebra in your Bathtub" go look it up.

was that geared towards me? I'm lost...

everyone on this thread. Its about stupid laws. It reads like a joke book.

Like at our school, where the head boy is STILL after 400 years allowed to keep a goat in the headteacher's garden.

I am so getting Dan Ashmore to do that next year. Just to see what they do.

I believe the first law in that book I mentioned is that in some state you are not allowed to keep a zebra in your bathtub. Its an official law! NO doing it!

The one that scares me is in a place near me called Chester, where after sundown on a sunday you can shoot a Welshmen if they are on the city walls and you use a longbow and are at least 60 yards away. I am needless to say welsh

...okayyy...hey, do you think those laws would actually hold up in court? It would be marginally amusing if they did.

Well, apart from ones which involve Welsh people dying. I don't want them dead, I just want them to at least make their English-insulting signs in ENGLISH, for crying out loud.

I'm buying a longbow as we speak, we shall find out soon.

Texas

A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.

Montana

It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone.

Idaho

A person may not be seen in public without a smile on their face. ( I lived there at the time when that was put in place)


New York

The penalty for jumping off a building is death.

Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a business.


It is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing "body hugging clothing." (but they can go toplesss, go figure)

Citizens may not greet each other by "putting one's thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers".

Louisiana

Biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault."

England

All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.

The severest Penaltys will be suffered by any commoner who doth permit his animal to have carnal knowledge of a pet of the Royal House.

It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

Germany

A pillow can be considered a "passive" weapon.

Singapore

The sale of gum is prohibited.

Oral sex is illegal unless it is used as a form of foreplay.

Pornography is illegal.

Failure to flush a public toilet after use may result in very hefty fines.

If you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib on saying, "I am a litterer." This will then be broadcasted on the local news.


Sweden

While prostitution is legal, it is illegal to use the services of a prostitute.

"Attempted Suicide is punishable by death."

Score. I win either way!

1. I believe wearing your pants low was first started in male prisons; where it showed "availability". I don't have any problem with that law.

2. America should have stricter laws on guns. I remember in social studies last year, our teacher showed us a video which said statistics about how many people are killed by guns annually in different countries, per X amount of people. Most countries were around 50-200, and the USA was 2000 or something (or 20,000?)...

well how about stupid things that ARE legal.

In britain a man is allowed to "relieve" himself in public as long as it is against the rear left wheel of a stationary Hackney Carriage.

In york, a man can publically shout that he believes his wife has been unfaithful, take her to whip-ma-whop-ma gate ( a real road I promise you) tie her to the railings there and beat her.......fortunately the railings were removed for the war effort in the Second World War, so you cant quite meet the requirements.

For the Singapore law on no selling gum, there's actually a reason for that. It's cos some idiots used to stick gum on the MRT (trains that are kinda like monorails - very important main public transport + buses) doors and tracks, and so doors wouldn't open, trains couldn't move etc. Or at least that's what I was told Is gum really that strong though? *ponder*

What I find stupid is that they handcuff and cane suicide corpses

Here is some from my state.

- Indiana:

1. Bathing is prohibited during the winter.

2. Citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.

3. A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.

4. It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.

5. Liquor stores may not sell milk.

6. No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.

7. Men are prohibited from standing in a bar.

8. You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table. The waiter or waitress has to do it.

9. Drinks on the house are illegal.

10. It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public.

11. It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.

12. It's illegal in Sarah Mountain, Indiana to hold a floppy diskette within your mouth.

13. It's illegal to give alcohol to any penguin within 780 feet of a city park before dawn in Lower Paxson, Indiana.

14. One man may not back into a parking spot becasue it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate.

15. All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads

16. Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans.

17. State government officials who engage in private duels can be dismissed from their post.

18. Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.

19. Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest.

20. It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday.

21. A person who dyes, stains, or otherwise alters the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit commits a Class B misdemeanor.

22. Smoking in the state legislature building is banned, except when the legislature is in session.

23. You can get out of paying for a dependent's medical care by praying for him/her.

24. Pedestrians crossing the highway at night are prohibited from wearing tail lights.

25. "Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal.

26. If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Immoral Practices.

27. Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.

28. A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.

And my favorite....

29. The value of Pi is 4, and not 3.1415. (Repealed)

I love my state..