The Crazy laws of Alabama

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[CondiRice08]

A 1950 anti-obscenity law in Irondale, Ala., prohibited any showing of anyone nude or "in a substantially nude state" except a babe in arms. • Anniston: You may not wear blue jeans down Noble Street. • An ordinance in Linden, Ala., provided that all women of "uncertain chastity" had to be off the streets by 9 p.m. • Bear wrestling matches are prohibited. • Boogers may not be flicked into the wind. • Children of incestuous couples are deemed legitimate. • Dominoes may not be played on Sunday. • Hunting is not allowed on Sunday. • Incestuous marriages are legal. • It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. • It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy. • It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty. • It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity. • It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church. • It is legal to drive the wrong way on a one way street if you have a lantern on the front of your car. • It is unlawful to wear women's pumps with sharp, high heels. • It's against the law for a man to seduce "a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage." • It's illegal to play dominoes on Sunday. • Jasper: It is illegal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick larger in diameter than his thumb. • Lee County: It is illegal to sell peanuts in Lee County after sundown on Wednesday. • Masks may not be worn in public • Men may not spit in front of the opposite sex. • Mobile: It is unlawful to howl at ladies inside the city limits. It is unlawful to wear women's pumps with sharp, high heels. • Montgomery: It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of it spooking horses. • No persons may sell "blow-out nuts". • Peanuts are not allowed to be sold in Lee County, Alabama after sunset on Wednesdays. • Pool halls may not be operated between 11:30 PM and 6 AM. • Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death. • Slavery is still legal in Decatur, Alabama. • The game of crackaloo is illegal in Fairfield, Ala. • Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce. However, this provision does not apply to men. • You cannot chain your alligator to a fire hydrant. • You may not drive barefooted. • You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time. • You must have windshield wipers on your car.

[AZRepublican]

t's against the law for a man to seduce "a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage."

Now that ain't a bad law.

[Little Bill]

I have some relatives that were Mormon missionaries in AL, in the 1880's, late, the stories circulating in that branch of the family are interesting.

[Gay State Conservative]

and North Carolina allows first cousin marriage but prohibits double-cousin marriage.

What,may I ask,is a "double cousin"?

[Song of the South]

Double first cousins are children resulting from the marriages of two sisters to two brothers [or a brother & sister in one family marrying a brother & sister in another family]. The children are first cousins through their mothers and first cousins through their fathers --- generally called "double first cousins". It happened all the time in an era when there were large families living in a rural area. People fell in love with their neighbors because those were the people with whom they came into contact.

Fine old southern traditions --- double first cousins and sweet tea. LOL

[doc1019]

Double cousin

From open-dictionary.com - the free dictionary.

English
Noun
double cousin
A cousin who is related on both sides of a family. A relative with four common grandparents.

[doc1019]

Oops! Didn't see your post.

[Hot Tabasco]

Call me crazy but I agree with all these laws.......

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm speechless....

[383rr]

"You cannot chain your alligator to a fire hydrant"

I hate it when this happens.

[Gay State Conservative]

Double cousin...from open-dictionary.com - the free dictionary.

"Double cousin" is the last term/phrase that I'd thought would be defined in any dictionary.I guess I've lived a sheltered life.

[383rr]

Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.


I see you need to keep a closer eye on metesky.

[osideplanner]

• Alhambra: You cannot leave your car on the street overnight without the proper permit.

Whoever put this on the list does not live in a high crime area.

[Song of the South]

"Double cousin" is the last term/phrase that I'd thought would be defined in any dictionary.I guess I've lived a sheltered life.

Yep, I guess so. LOL

And, then you get into the family charts where two people marry and are second cousins through his father and her mother and third cousins through her mother and his mother. And, the ecclesiastical records list them simply as "fourth cousins". These are the relationships that defy definition but are not within the bounds of consanguinity and are not prohibited by law [civil or ecclesiastical].

Have you gone from speechless to gasping for breath? LOL

[JRios1968]

• Redlands: Motor vehicles may not drive on city streets unless a man with a lantern is wallking ahead of it.

Uh oh...

[supercat]

"Double cousin" is the last term/phrase that I'd thought would be defined in any dictionary.I guess I've lived a sheltered life.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have children Alice and Bob. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have children Alex and Betty. If the Smiths and the Joneses are not related, i see nothing wrong with Alex marrying Alice and Bob marrying Betty. Alex and Alice's children would be double cousins to Bob and Betty's, but I see no impropriety in that. I would not condone marriage between the two sets of cousins, but see nothing incestuous about their existence.

[Gondring]

This state (Iowa) has a description in the same law books that describes the state seal, ending with a description of a person (military, I believe) standing on a farm "with a plow in his rear." So, you want to go to the seal and, sure enough, it looks like he's got a plow stuck up his rear.

"The secretary of state be, and is, hereby authorized to procure a seal which shall be the great seal of the state of Iowa, two inches in diameter, upon which shall be engraved the following device, surrounded by the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Iowa"--a sheaf and field of standing wheat, with a sickle and other farming utensils, on the left side near the bottom; a lead furnace and pile of pig lead on the right side; the citizen soldier, with a plow in his rear, supporting the American flag and liberty cap with his right hand, and his gun with his left, in the center and near the bottom; the Mississippi river in the rear of the whole, with the steamer Iowa under way; an eagle near the upper edge, holding in his beak a scroll, with the following inscription upon it: Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain."
http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/1999/1A/1.html

[Gondring]

pre-2005 version...