[daughterofTGSL]

Since you don't like hypotheticals, I've found a real law.

In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $25.00.

Would you applaud the fining of a father playing horseshoes with his son 5,279 feet away from the speaker's stand? After all, this has happened, and it is upholding the law.

[sinkspur]

Would you applaud the fining of a father playing horseshoes with his son 5,279 feet away from the speaker's stand?

This is a "non-enforced" law, just as the laws preventing tying one's horse to a parking meter in downtown Ft. Worth are non-enforced.

Surely you can do better than this.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Since you don't like hypotheticals, I've found a real law.

In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $25.00.

Er... where did you find it? No such law appears in the Ohio Revised Code. The only reference to "Decoration Day" at all is a footnote in the annotations to ORC §1.14, referring to Decoration Day as a synonym for Memorial Day.