According to a law enacted by Little Rock, Arkansas, “No person may sound the horn of a vehicle in a place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9 p.m.” It is not known to what extent this law is enforced, but it is likely that a police officer should be in the right place at the right time to actually enforce this law. Stay safe and avoid honking near the subway after hours. Just to be sure, check out this list of 46 strange laws so you know what not to do. It is illegal to marry in Nebraska if you have an STD (although the courts later clarified that if the other spouse is aware of the disease at the time of marriage, they cannot try to annul the marriage later for these reasons). Use protection! In Indiana, you are not allowed to sniff toxic fumes of any kind (including glue) with the intention of “causing a state of intoxication, euphoria, excitement, euphoria, euphoria, numbness, or dulling of the senses.” So if you`re doing it for other reasons, that`s fine. Although this law may still technically exist, it would take a particularly angry practitioner to call the police for a silent whisper. If you`re a bingo fan, you`ll hate discovering that a game in North Carolina can`t last more than five hours. It`s even worse if you like a small glass of wine while gambling, because in this state it is illegal to be drunk while playing bingo. Speaking of false identities, in public places in Alabama, you can`t pretend to be a pastor, nun, priest, or rabbi if you`re one, making The Sound of Music`s productions technically illegal. Unless nuns are played by nuns. Gainesville Police Chief Frank Hooper reportedly told 91-year-old Ginny Dietrick that eating fried chicken, “a culinary delicacy sacred to this community, this county, this state, Southland and this Republic,” with anything other than your fingers, is against city order. Rhode Island has a law prohibiting biting another person`s limbs.
It`s a shame you have to legislate things like that, but I know, I think it`ll be nice when the zombies come. According to the Tennessee Constitution, it is illegal to hold public office if a person does any of the following: “fight a duel or knowingly be a bearer of a challenge to fight for a duel, or send or accept a challenge for that purpose, or be an assistant or instigator in the struggle for a duel.” A Hangry fool may be in charge of this law, but hey, most sleepy Arkansas sandwich shops are closed at 9 p.m. anyway. If you feel the urge to honk your horn after work hours, you disturb the peace and you will always be hungry. Did you know that it is illegal to raise dogs in Hartford, Connecticut? Or fall asleep under a hair dryer in Florida? In most states, you`ll find a number of bizarre laws like this that still exist in books. In Texas, public servants cannot be “excluded from the performance of their duties because of their religious feelings, provided they recognize the existence of a Supreme Being.” So, if someone does not believe in a Supreme Being. Exclude? In some places, it is also illegal to expose your dog to the dangers of smoking. In Illinois, for example, it`s illegal to give your pets hot cigars — even if they enjoy a good Cuban from time to time. If you`re staying in Normal, Oklahoma, you should refrain from teasing dogs with grimaces. You guessed it, this kind of inflammatory behavior is against the law.
We searched the internet and official government websites to find some of the strangest laws that exist today. In 2012, the state passed a law dubbed “Sip and Spit” that allows cooking students under the age of 21 to legally taste alcoholic beverages (by sipping and spitting), based on the reasoning that students must learn to taste wine in their early years of cooking school. Kudos to a well-rounded, or should we say, full-bodied learning experience! You read that right. In 2009, Vermont banned groups like neighborhood associations from banning clotheslines. Pi is a long and irrational number, and it`s hard to remember. Perhaps that`s why the Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill in 1897 that redefined the value of pi to 3.2. Fortunately for math students across the state, a mathematician stepped in and the bill stalled in the Senate and never passed. Let`s face it: sharing passwords from Netflix, Hulu, or other streaming services is common among friends and family these days. However, a Tennessee law makes it illegal to do just that. Tennessee`s Gateway Sexual Behavior Act prevents teachers from discussing anything that might be considered a “gateway” to sex.
This includes kisses and hands. All this time, I assumed that Britain had some rather strange laws, with stranded whales offered to the Queen, an anti-armour law in Parliament, and a ban on treating a salmon under suspicious circumstances. Some of these U.S. laws are certainly weirder, more confusing, and others a little more frightening. And from the perspective of an adult who loves Halloween and surprise pizza, some of them were just sad. In 1973, New Hampshire banned transporting or collecting seaweed on the beach at night. It is said that in colonial times, seaweed was used as fertilizer and was therefore a hot commodity. Other crazy laws across the country include articles about whiskers and especially food. In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that provokes laughter in church, while whiskers are illegal in Indiana if the wearer tends to kiss other people habitually. In Wisconsin, it is illegal to serve butter substitutes in prison; in Utah, it is illegal NOT to drink milk; and don`t sleep in a South Dakota cheese shop.
A generous act in Louisiana could backfire – you could be fined $500 if you send a pizza order to someone`s home without their knowledge. Blasphemy laws were very common in the United States, but there are still some, even in Michigan, where cursing God is an offense. Watch out for motorists: If you`re driving through rural Pennsylvania at night, state law requires you to stop every mile to send a missile signal. It`s true. And if you see a timid team of horses approaching, take your car apart piece by piece and hide it under the nearest bushes — unless you want to break state laws. According to this law, a person suffering from an “STD” (that`s a nice way of saying sexually transmitted diseases!) cannot marry in the state of Nebraska. Mississippi has already passed a law stating that anyone who has ever had an illegitimate child and becomes the parent of an illegitimate child again in the state is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both. It has been argued that cooking students should know their wine well and that this would be an important factor in providing a valuable education. Thus, the state passed the Sip and Pit Act, which allows cooking students to taste wine as long as they then spit it out so they can understand this crucial area of their education. If you live in Pennsylvania, don`t try to sell your child.
State law states that “a person is guilty of a first-degree offense if he acts humanely in acting, exchanging, exchanging, exchanging, buying, selling, or dealing with young children.” Although technically illegal, Arkansas has passed laws that “discourage” mispronunciation of its name. Better not to try to pronounce phonetically Arkansas – the provision explicitly states that “pronunciation with the stress on the second syllable with the sound of `a` in `man` and the sound of the terminal `s` is an innovation that should be discouraged.” If you park your elephant for a meter in Orlando, Florida, be sure to leave the same amount of change as for a regular motor vehicle. And if you want to grab a beer in North Dakota, don`t expect pretzels with your drink. It is illegal in this state to serve beer and pretzels at the same time. Pigeons can be boring — but in North Dakota, you need permission to eradicate one. State law states that “no person, company or entity may exterminate pigeons or other harmful wild birds without first obtaining approval from the Fargo Ministry of Health.” You should also not hunt, shoot, play cards or run on this day.