You hurt his feelings!
Posted on 12/30/2008 10:59:15 AM PST by RedDogzRule
From changing the color of baby chicks to shooting effigies to properly honoring the glory of the log cabin, Americans have spent valuable legislative hours throughout the years making sure we're on the straight and narrow. As a New Year arrives, here are 10 wacky laws that remain on the books across the country: 1. In Billings, Mont., it is illegal for anyone to sell, harbor or give away rats as pets or toys for any purpose other than to feed snakes or birds of prey. Scientists, however, can keep lab rats. 2. Using profanity is against the law on playgrounds and in public parks in Columbia, Md. 3. The last Sunday in June each year is Log Cabin Day in Michigan. 4. In Michigan, it is legal to kill a dog for attacking chickens, livestock or people, but you can't snuff the pooch in a high altitude decompression chamber or by electrocution. 5. In West Virginia, anyone who taunts someone who decides not to participate in a duel or who declines to accept a challenge is guilty of a misdemeanor and can be sent to jail for up to six months and fined up to $100. 6. In Kentucky it is illegal to sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display, or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits that have been dyed or colored.
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No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
- US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
Idaho: Illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
Don’t know if it’s true or not, but first thing that came up when I googled it.
That's not a silly law. Prohbiting livestock that may be eaten from being dyed and then sold as novelties prevents animal cruelty and it also prevents poisoning if people eat the critters that have been dyed with chemicals that are unsafe to ingest.
Wacky?
Jews can’t eat Christmas snow.
Also, it helps cut down on the dying and selling of such chicks and rabbits around Easter. Most of the buyers at that time have no clue how to raise the chickens and rabbits and much cruelty has occurred to the animals.
You hurt his feelings!
In Minnesota it is legal to elect an ex-wrestler to the Governors Office and a failed comedian to the Senate.
True dat. Poultry also carry salmonella.
Um, why is this a wacky law? Bear wrestling used to be an attraction at fairs.
I think a lot of “silly” or “blue” laws taken out of local context do appears strange to outsiders. But I still don’t know why I can’t buy a darn car on Sundays in Colorado. Probably something to do with not buying a horse on Sunday, cuz you’re supposed to be in church!
I live there and now that I think of it, there really isn’t much profanity used in public places here.
Didn’t know it was a law though.
If the Governor of the Commonwealth of MA is in attendance, Dueling is allowed on the Boston Common on Sunday. But if two men try to carry a bath tub across it on that same Sunday? Boy, are they in trouble.
Just passed a week or so ago in Brighton MI: It’s against the law to be “annoying”. Same law in Royal Oak.
Paul Bryant was the 11th of 12 children who were born to William Monroe and Ida Kilgore Bryant in Moro Bottom, Arkansas.[1] His nickname stemmed from his having agreed to wrestle a captive bear during a theater promotion when he was 13-years-old.[2]
The Paul Bryant in question grew up to be a football coach of some fame at an obscure backwater college.
In Wisconsin, its mandatory to have a slice of cheese served with every piece of pie sold in a public restaurant.
In New Jersey it is legal to switch a corrupt democrat Senatorial candidate for another corrupt democrat cadaver at the last minute
It’s done with food coloring, just a drop injected with a syringe in an egg does the trick. Doesn’t hurt the chick or her eggs or meat. Great little easter gifts for those that want chickens.
This list kind of points out the intellect of the author!
Now, for some wacky laws (not necessarily current):
A town in the Midwest that declared it illegal to allow a dandelion to remain in your lawn for more than 24hrs.
A New England state that declared obscene any lovemaking vigorous enough to wind a self-winding watch.
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