I live in New Orleans, and there is allegedly a law making it very difficult to open up a sorority house because of the way "brothels" are defined. This is pure BS; brothels are illegal because of what goes on in them, not because of who lives there. But that doesn't stop me from having to debunk it every few months.
A lot of those are urban legends, >>>>>>>>>>>
There are plenty of urban legends but I guarantee you that there are enough laws to put us all behind bars if we were caught and convicted. Have you ever studied the Mann act? I saw something on Art Linkletter's tv show about fifty years ago that illustrated it perfectly. He sent a man out on the street at the start of the show with instructions to do whatever he wished but he would be observed and if he had not broken any laws by the end of the show he would recieve one hundred dollars (equal to more than a thousand today). The man did not get the money and the reason was that he opened a pack of cigarettes. In those days there was a tax stamp across the top of the pack of cigarettes and it was actually illegal to open the pack without breaking the tax stamp. I never knew anyone who obeyed that particular law but there were penalties on the book for doing this. Sometimes laws are so strange that you would never imagine that things would be that way. At one time in North Carolina there was a "brownbagging" law, this law allowed a person to carry a bottle of liquor into a place that was licensed to sell beer, a person could order a "setup" which was a glass with ice and whatever mixer they wished and pour liquor from their own bottle to make a drink. The really strange part was that due to the prohibition on beer sales on Sunday all beer had to be off the table before midnight on Saturday night but anyone who had brought a bottle could keep on pouring their own whiskey as long as the place was open. Believe me this led to some strange scenes, waitresses rushing about gathering up any beer left on the table while at the same time serving setups to people who kept right on pouring whiskey.