Situations

• One man may not back into a parking spot becasue it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate.
• Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.
• All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads.
• Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans.
• Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.
• State government officials who engage in private duels can be dismissed from their post.
• Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest.
• A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.
• It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday.
• Drinks on the house are illegal.
• It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.
• A person who dyes, stains, or otherwise alters the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit commits a Class B misdemeanor. (Ind. Code 15-2.1-21-13(b))
• Smoking in the state legislature building is banned, except when the legislature is in session.
• Liquor stores may not sell milk.
• Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.
• Grocery stores may not sell any type of cold liquor.
• You can get out of paying for a dependent's medical care by praying for him/her.
• Pedestrians crossing the highway at night are prohibited from wearing tail lights.
• No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.
• Men are prohibited from standing in a bar.
• You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table. The waiter or waitress has to do it.
• "Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal.
• You are required to pour your drink into a glass.
• It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.
• If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Immoral Practices.
• Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.
• A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.
• The value of Pi is 4, and not 3.1415. (Repealed)
• It is illegal to bike, roller-skate, skateboard, or inline skate in a commercially zoned area. For these offesnses, there is a fine of no more than $5 or the impounding of one's bicycle for a period not to exceed 30 days.
• It is forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.
• It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.
• While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on.
• You may not sell or play on a radio broadcast, the record "It`s In the Book".
• Within four hours of eating garlic, a person may not enter a movie house, theater, or ride a public streetcar.
• It is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.
• No one may spit on the sidewalk.

• If two trains meet on the same track, neither shall proceed until the other has passed.
• The state game rule prohibits the use of mules to hunt ducks.
• Rabbits may not be shot from motorboats.
• No one may catch fish with his bare hands.
• Pedestrians crossing the highways at night must wear tail lights.
• It is illegal to spit on a sidewalk.
• All places of business must provide a horse water troft.
• No one may wear a bee in their hat.
• All cars entering the city limits must first sound their horn to warn the horses of their arrival.
• Musical car horns are banned.
• It is against the law to leave your car running unattended.
• The installation of bathtubs is prohibited.
• Any person caught using or carrying bean snappers or the like shall upon conviction, be fined. -City ordinance 349 of Wichita, Kansas.
• Before proceeding through the interesection of Douglas and Broadway, a motorist is required to get out of their vehice and fire three shot gun rounds into the air.

• Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.
• Donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
• Signs are required to be written in English.
• You have the right to commit simple battery if provoked by "fighting" words.
• No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.
• It is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body which lies in a funeral home or in a coroners office.
• All citizens must own a rake.
• Against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
• One man may not be on another man's back.
• Can't cut off a chicken's head on Sunday.
• It is illegal to carry a chicken by it's feet down Broadway on Sunday.
• Chicken must be eaten with the hands.
• It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy".
• Every head of household must possess a firearm of some kind.
• Though it is illegal to spit from a car or bus, citizens may spit from a truck.
• No spitting on the sidewalk is permitted after dark.
• Cars are not to drive on sidewalks.
• It is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.

• Coins are not allowed to be placed in one's ears.
• All residents may be fined as a result of not owning a boat.
• Within the limits of any public park, it is unlawful to annoy any bird. (SEC. 10-1.2)

• Riding a merry-go-round on Sundays is considered a crime.
• Illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
• You may not fish on a camel's back.
• Residents may not fish from a giraffe's back.
• A person may not be seen in public without a smile on their face.
• A law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless some are exhibited to public view."

• No person shall sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits which have been dyed or colored - nor dye or color any baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits - nor sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange or to give away baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits, under two months of age in any quantity less than six, except that any rabbit weighing three pounds or more may be sold at an age of six weeks. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. -KRS 436.600 (Passed 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 5.)
• It's illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana Fishing License.
• Any person who displays, handles or uses any kind of reptile in connection with any religious service or gathering shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). -KRS 437.060 (Passed 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1267a-1.)
• All bees entering Kentucky shall be accompanied by certificates of health, stating that the apiary from which the bees came was free from contagious or infectious disease. -KRS 252.130 (Passed in 1922 - Repealed in 1948)
• No person owning or controlling a billiard or pool table shall permit, for compensation or reward, any minor under eighteen (18) years of age to play any game on the table, unless such minor shall have first displayed an identification card containing his name, age, photograph, and the signature of his parents or guardian. The minor shall keep such identification card on his person, and it shall be subject to inspection at any time by any peace officer. The person owning or controlling such billiard or pool table shall keep and maintain a registration book in which each minor shall sign. The person owning or controlling such billiard or pool table shall supply a blank identification card to each parent or guardian who makes request for same. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than ten ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense. -KRS 436.320 (Passed 1893 - Amended in 1954, Ky. Acts ch. 232, sec. 1)
• It is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow in Kentucky.
• Any person who appears on any highway, or upon the street of any city that has no police protection, when clothed only in ordinary bathing garb, shall be fined no less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars." - KRS 436.140 (Passed in 1922 - Repealed in 1974)
• By law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground."
• It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.
• A woman may not buy a hat without her husband's permission.

• It is illegal to fly over any body of water, unless one is carrying sufficient supplies of food and drink.
• It is illegal to wear pants that are "firm fitting" around the waist.
• Getting married on a dare is grounds for an annulment.

• Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.
• It is considered an offense to shower naked.
• You are not allowed to break more than three dishes per day, or chip the edges of more than four cups and/or saucers.
• It is illegal to block any traveled wagon road.
• Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
• If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
• It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
• You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
• Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
• It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
• A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
• Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
• It is illegal to molest a Key deer. If caught one will be fined or will have to go to jail.
• It is against the city ordinance to hang your clothes outside on a clothesline.
• It it illegal to park a pick-up truck in your driveway or in front of your house on the street. This law is limited to only those who do not own the house. (Repealed 2000)
• Sec. 10-56. While intoxicated, under influence of narcotics, prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to swim or bathe in that portion of the Atlantic Ocean within the corporate limits of the city when under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs to the extent that his or her normal faculties are impaired. (Code 1955, ? 28-64)
• Sec. 18-2. Weeds, trash, etc., as a public nuisance - removal by property owner or by city at owner's expense, notice and hearing, lien for expenses. (a) The existence of weeds, trash, undergrowth, brush, filth, garbage or other refuse on any lot, tract or parcel of land within the city which has caused the property to become, or which may reasonably cause the property to become infested, or inhabited by rodents, vermin or wild animals, or may furnish a breeding place for mosquitoes or threatens the public health, safety or welfare, or may reasonably cause disease or adversely affects and impairs the economic welfare of the adjacent property, is declared to constitute a public nuisance and is hereby prohibited.
• Sec. 22-44. Storage, depositing prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, occupant, lessee, agent, tenant, or otherwise, to store or deposit, or cause or permit to be stored or deposited, any abandoned, junked or discarded motor vehicle or motor vehicles upon any public or private property within the city. (Code 1955, ? 20-11)
• The molestation of trash cans is banned.
• Ambling and strolling is a misdemeanor.
• Sec. 3-1. Bird sanctuary declared. (a) It is hereby declared that all territory embraced within the corporate limits of the municipality shall be a bird sanctuary. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person within the municipality to shoot, trap or in any manner kill, wound or maim any bird of any kind, or at any time to throw at any birds of any kind any missile with slingshots or any other weapon, or to disturb their eggs or their young or their nests. (Ord. No. 8-59, ?? 1, 2, 8-10-59)
• Jupiter Inlet Colony: Inlet Chickens are considered a 'protected species'.
• Sec. 8-3. Bell or other warning device. No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a bell or device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance of at least 100 feet, but no bicycle shall be equipped with, nor shall any person use upon a bicycle, any siren or whistle. (Code 1967, ? 8-3 Code 1980, ? 8-3)
• It is illegal for men to be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
• A women can be fined (only after death), for being electrocuted in a bath-tub because of using self-beautification utensils.
• It is illegal to roll a barrel on any street, fines go up according to the contents of the barrel.
• Citizens may not be caught downtown without at least 10 dollars on their person.
• In order to operate a burglar alarm, a permit must be obtained.
• Sec. 12-23. Registration required, application, transferability, false statements. (a) All persons must complete and submit to the village an emergency contact registration form for their alarm if they operate or cause to be operated an alarm system in the village. A separate registration is required for each alarm system. Upon receipt of a completed registration form, the police department shall issue a numbered alarm sticker to the applicant to facilitate retrieval of registration information. (Ord. No. 97-17, ? 1, 10-14-97)
• Stage nudity is banned, with the exception of "bona fide" theatrical performances.
• Violating this ordinance results in a $100 fine.
• You may not catch crabs.
• If you hit a pedestrian you are fined $78.00.
• It is illegal to eat cottage cheese on Sunday after 6:00 P.M.

• It is a violation of the law to sell or distribute drugs or narcotics without having first obtained the appropriate Iowa drug tax stamp.
• A man with a moustache may never kiss a woman in public.
• Kisses may last for no more than five minutes.
• One-armed piano players must perform for free.
• Any hotel in the city limits must have a water bucket and a hitching post in front of the building.
• The "Ice Cream Man" and his truck are banned.
• The fire department is required to practice fire fighting for fifteen minutes before attending a fire.
• Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants.
• Within the city limits, a man may not wink at any woman he does not know.

A woman, while touring a small South American country, was shown a bullfight. The guide told her, "This is our number one sport."

The horrified woman said, "Isn't that revolting?"

"No," the guide replied, "revolting is our number two sport."