Funny laws: In Florida, men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.

[cassandra]

Not sure which of these are really "on the books", but they sure are funny!

GEORGIA
• Acworth: All citizens must own a rake.
• An old law in Columbus, Ga., made it illegal to sit on your porch in an
indecent position.
• A Kennesaw, Ga. law makes it illegal for every homeowner not to own a gun,
unless you are a convicted felon, conscientious objector or disabled.
• Atlanta: Against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street
lamp; One man may not be on another man's back.
• Columbus: Can't cut off a chicken's head on Sunday; It is illegal to carry
a chicken by it's feet down Broadway on Sunday.
• Donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
• Gainesville: Chicken must be eaten with the hands.
• Georgia has 75 laws on how to build rice paddies, even though the state
has only one rice farm left. Rice was the state's No. 1 crop before the
Civil War. But right after the war, a hurricane destroyed all the paddies
and ponds. It was too expensive to replace them without slaves, so the Rice
State began growing peaches, peanuts and other crops.
• Georgia officials were revising their state laws in 1981, and noticed they
still allowed pensions for Confederate widows. That week the last widow
died. Lawmakers bowed their heads, and deleted the law.
• In Columbus, Georgia it is illegal to sit on one's porch in an indecent
position.
• In Georgia, movie houses that want to show films on Sunday must reserve
one showing a month for religious material.
• It is illegal in Georgia to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.
• In Quitman, It is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
• It is illegal to change the clothes on a storefront mannequin unless the
shades are down.
• It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy" in Jonesboro.
• It is illegal to take a bath of orange peel.
• It is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body which lies in a
funeral home or in a coroners office.
• It used to be against the law in Jonesboro, Ga., to utter the words, "Oh
boy."
• Marietta: Though it is illegal to spit from a car or bus, citizens may
spit from a truck.
• Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.
• No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.
• One man may not be on another man's back.
• Signs are required to be written in English.
• St. Mary's: No spitting on the sidewalk is permitted after dark.
• You have the right to commit simple battery if provoked by "fighting"
words.


FLORIDA
• (SARASOTA) It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a
swimsuit.
• Apparently with an exaggerated idea of the laws of thermal dynamics, the
city council of West Palm Beach, Fla., once decreed that the roofs of all
outhouses be fireproof.
• A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she
shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
• Big Pine Key: It is illegal to molest a Key deer; If caught one will be
fined or will have to go to jail.
• Cape Coral: It is against the city ordinance to hang your clothes outside
on a clothesline; It it illegal to park a pick-up truck in your driveway or
in front of your house on the street (This law is limited to only those who
do not own the house)
• Daytona Beach: The molestation of trash cans is banned; While intoxicated,
being under influence of narcotics is prohibited; It shall be unlawful for
any person to swim or bathe in that portion of the Atlantic Ocean within the
corporate limits of the city when under the influence of intoxicating liquor
or narcotic drugs to the extent that his or her normal faculties are
impaired;
• Don't plan on using any of the celebratory Champagne bottle sizes known as
Methuselahs, Salamanazars, Balthazars or Nebuchadnezzars. These very
traditional Champagne bottle sizes are all illegal in Florida.
• Florida deals with its prostitution problem by giving prostitutes spending
money, a five-year banishment, and a bus ticket out of town.
• Florida law forbids rats to leave the ships docked in Tampa Bay.
• Florida prohibits topless walking or running within a 150 foot zone
between the beach and the street.
• Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
• Hialeah: Ambling and strolling is a misdemeanor.
• 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 Florida failure to tell your neighbor his house is on fire is illegal.
• In Florida it is illegal to fish while driving across a bridge.
• In Florida, men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
• In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
• Miami Shores Village, Fla., has for years required that all goods made in
Communist countries and offered for sale in Miami Shores Village be clearly
marked as such. The ordinance notes that such goods are often marked in a
"false, misleading or inadequate manner, to hide their Communist origins."
• In Sarasota it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a
swimsuit.
• It is considered an offense to shower naked.
• It is illegal to block any traveled wagon road.
• It is illegal to fart in a public place after 6:00pm on a Thursday.
• It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
• It's against a Key West, Fla., ordinance to spit on a church floor.
• It's illegal in Florida for an unmarried man and woman to live together in
"open and gross lewdness." Connecticut once had a similar law, but only the
woman was penalized.
• Key West: Chickens are considered a 'protected species'.
• Miami: No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a bell or
device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance of at least 100
feet, but no bicycle shall be equipped with, nor shall any person use upon a
bicycle, any siren or whistle.
• Oral sex is illegal.
• Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.
• Pensacola: Citizens may not be caught downtown without at least 10 dollars
on their person; It is illegal to roll a barrel on any street, fines go up
according to the contents of the barrel; A women can be fined (only after
death), for being electrocuted in a bath-tub because of using
self-beautification utensils.
• Pinecrest: In order to operate a burglar alarm, a permit must be obtained.
• Sanford Stage: Nudity is banned, with the exception of "bona fide"
theatrical performances. Violating this ordinance results in a $100 fine.
• Sarasota: If you hit a pedestrian you are fined $78.00; You may not catch
crabs.
• Tampa Bay: It is illegal to eat cottage cheese on Sunday after 6:00 P.M.
• Under a 1959 ordinance, stubborn children were considered vagrants in
Jupiter Inlet Colony, Fla.
• When having sex, only the missionary position is legal.
• Women can be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer. The salon owner
can also be fined for this horrible crime.
• You are not allowed to break more than three dishes per day, or chip the
edges of more than four cups and/or saucers.
• You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
• You may not kiss your wife's breasts.

CALIFORNIA
• It is illegal to skateboard on walls "or other vertical surfaces" in Palo Alto.
• Wearing a sweatshirt inside-out is deemed a "threatening misdemeanor" in Half-Moon Bay.
• In 1930, the City Council of Ontario (California) passed an ordinance forbidding roosters to crow within the city limits.
• In Los Angeles, you cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time. (Loony Laws" by Robert Pelton)
• In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship. (Loony Laws" by Robert Pelton)
• Peeling an orange in your hotel room is banned in California (Legal Lunacy)
• Los Angeles "Daily News": Have you ever had the urge to rip the tag from a pillow or mattress, despite the warning of dire penalties? Well, it's perfectly legal now, if you live in Colorado. Governor Roy Romer formalized the law by gleefully tearing a label from a pillow at his office. "I've been worrying about the mattress inspector jumping through the window for years," he said.
• San Francisco is said to be the only city in the nation to have ordinances guaranteeing sunshine to the masses.
• In Cupertino, California, it is illegal to count backwards audibly in hexadecimal.
• Redwood City has outlawed the frying of gravy.
• In Santa Clara, it is forbidden to dedicate parking spaces to the patron saint of television.
• Prostitutes in San Francisco are not obliged to make change for bills larger than $50.
• The city of Mountain View proscribes calling pet fish by "names of aggressive content, e.g. 'Biter', 'Killer', 'Sugar-Ray'"
• Bicycles may not be ridden without "appropriate fashion accessories" anywhere in Santa Clara County (de facto law).
• In Blythe, California, a person must own two cows in order to legally wear cowboy boots in public.
• In Los Angeles, a man is legally entitled to beat his wife with a leather belt or strap, but the belt can't be wider than 2 inches, unless he has his wife's consent to beat her with a wider strap. (Loony Laws" by Robert Pelton)
• It is illegal to set a mousetrap without a hunting license.
• 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 L.A. it is against the law to complain through the mail that a hotel has cockroaches, even if it is true.
• It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Blvd. at one time.
• It is illegal to whistle for a lost canary before 7 am in Berkeley, CA.
• In California, it is illegal to posses bear gall bladders.
• In California, it is illegal to trip horses for entertainment.

[frankykeno]

Those are hilarious! Unless I'm mistaken it's still on the books in Michigan that a woman cannot cut her own hair without her husband's permission.

Fun site here www.dumblaws.com if you want to see what your state has in the way of wierd laws LOL.

[gmmuscle91]

LOL. my state says it is illegal to marry if you have gonnorhea(sp?)

[rabernet]

A Kennesaw, Ga. law makes it illegal for every homeowner not to own a gun, unless you are a convicted felon, conscientious objector or disabled.

This is true - and they are quite serious about it too! Not far from where I live!

• Atlanta: Against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street
lamp

Darnit! So much for taking my giraffe to Piedmont Park! Man!!!!!!

[reptile-girl]

LOL, those are funny.

by the way, cassandra i like your signature

[Ginevive]

Those are a riot. I love the one about "gross and public lewdness"

[rabernet]

Georgia has 75 laws on how to build rice paddies, even though the state has only one rice farm left. Rice was the state's No. 1 crop before the
Civil War. But right after the war, a hurricane destroyed all the paddies
and ponds. It was too expensive to replace them without slaves, so the Rice
State began growing peaches, peanuts and other crops.

I actually did not know that. Very interesting little tid-bit!

Georgia officials were revising their state laws in 1981, and noticed they still allowed pensions for Confederate widows. That week the last widow
died. Lawmakers bowed their heads, and deleted the law.

OK, color me stupid - but if they allowed pensions for Confererate widows - and then the LAST one died - what's the need to delete the law? There's no one left to pay.

[frankykeno]

Darnit! So much for taking my giraffe to Piedmont Park! Man!!!!!!

What is the world coming to when a citizen can't tie their giraffe to a handy telephone pole or streetlamp! Are we to have wandering giraffe's then? Can we tie them to trees? These are burning issues folks! Write your congressman/woman!

[Blu Mongoose]

Makes me want to rethink my trip to florida!!!! loved em!

[4theSNAKElady]

reptile girl.....stop making fun of me.......it really happened!!!!