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Washington State Law:
"It is illegal to pretend that one's parents are rich. "

Portland, Oregon city law:
"No one may attempt to cause someone to think that their property may be subjected to offensive physical contact. "

San Francisco, California city law:
"Giving or receiving oral sex is prohibited. "

NYC, New York city law:
"It is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing body hugging clothing. "

Tucson, Arizona city law:
"Women may not wear pants. "

Texas state law:
"You can be legally married by publically introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times. "

Minnesota state law:
" Citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head. "

Michigan state law:
"There is a 10 cent bounty for each rat's head brought into a town office. "

New Jersey state law:
"You may not slurp your soup."

Chester, England city law:
"You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight. "

Japanese law:
"There is no age of consent. (Repealed 1999 - now age 13) "

― donut bitch, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so murder of the welsh is not prohibited unless done in a manner other than that prescribed in the law? interesting.

― keith, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn San Francisco!

In my country, we have a lot of poorly drafted laws which state no obvious tests for their transgression. Consequently, judges have to interpret them from the viewpoint of 'the reasonable and ordinary member of society.' I want to meet this person and beat his brains out, because s/he makes a lot of mistakes.

― Mr Darcy, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Careful where you go with that, Keith -- you'll start suggesting somebody can legally kill the Manics or something. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heaven forbid.

― Matt, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

please kill the stereophonics keith.

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head" How can Minnisota law enforce this once you're in Wisconsin? Extradition treaty? Is it ok if you carry the chicken in your arms? How did this come about?

― katie, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

St Catherine's College, Cambridge, had just introduced a new rule before I started (at Corpus Christi, across the road): "Cycling is not permitted on the roof." Someone had done this the previous year.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it may be law, but that whole oral sex thing didn't really work in San Fran now did it?

― Queen G of the onwards and upwards, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just learned that in Boson, it's illegal for more than 25 women to live in any one house at the same time. Intended to prevent brothels from springing up like little dandelions, or so I'm told. Side effect: also prohibits sorority houses.

― Pyth, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Katie Strange Dreams: Maybe the power arises under the Commerce Clause? Just now the local news talked about "extraditing" a suspect from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin to be charged for arson. That's weird! I had never heard of inter-state extradition before either.
Is there a word for when you learn about/think of something for the first time and then immediately notice the new thing and wonder whether it's an incredible coincidence of whether it had just been ignorance-induced blindness/deafness that kept you from noticing the many instances of it beforehand? (somebody help my grammar please)

― felicity, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or my spelling: "wonder whether it's an incredible coincidence OR whether it had just been ignorance-induced blindness/deafness "

(Oh, and if you want to know what people are doing in a society, look at what has been outlawed. I'm talking to you, Minnesota.)

― felicity, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

obviously they are buying liquor after 10 on weekends :(

― Josh, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fifteen years pass...

New York: you can dance if you want to

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/its-official-new-york-mayor-de-blasio-signs-legislation-repealing-cabaret-law-1202625097/

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:47 (eight years ago)

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