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 horse racing on the New Jersey Turnpike!
In New York City Jury members, while on duty,may not knit!
Goggle Susan Dach!
got the book on my shelf!
It does or did on the train out of Houston. It was called “passing through a dry county.”
Up north, there is a law that peeper steak must be served with a pot of hot tea. If you'd ordered the pepper steak, you would have gotten iced tea.
Wow, amazing. Yes I think most Blue laws are no longer in the books.
With the peeper steak you don’t get hegroll or toon cookie.
Oh darlin', is there any other way to serve it? Tea is always iced and sweet. Any other way is not of God.
The first version was Wackier.
Silly damn Puritans and their Blue Laws. (insert obligatory eye roll here)
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