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25 Random Laws

Getting married on a dare is grounds for an annulment.
Houses may not have lights on them that shine into the window of a neighbor’s house.
You may not catch a fish with your hands.
Traffic police are required to report all bribes that they receive from motorists.
It is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.
Model airplanes may be flown so long as they stay on either private property or city property adjacent to the county morgue.
It is against the city ordinance to hang your clothes outside on a clothesline.
A person may not cross state lines with a duck atop his head.
Cars are not to drive on sidewalks.
Most locales do not have this problem, but Mobile found it necessary to ban bicycles from the interstate highways.
No person may spit on the floor of a church.
It is illegal to read persons’ palms in the city limits.
One may not test their physical endurance while driving a car on a highway.
One may not box with a kangaroo.
It is illegal to entice girls away from the Maple Lane School for girls.
Maintaining a car on your property which is no longer in use is prohibited.
Donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
If someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your commode, you must let them enter.
No one may allow their cellar door to remain open.
It is considered an offense to check into a hotel under an assumed name.
Women may not wear a ‘lewd dress’ in public.
While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a master cheese maker’s license.
No one may annoy a lizard in a city park.
Interfering with the mail or sleeping with the consort of the Queen is classed as treason, and as such, carries a maximum penalty of death.
Tattooing and body piercing is illegal. (Repealed in 2000)
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