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You cannot pump your own gas. All gas stations are full service and full service only. On a highway you can not park under a bridge. If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates. There is no horse racing allowed on the New Jersey Turnpike.It is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season. Automobiles are not to pass horse drawn carriages on the street. It is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon. Bernards Township: It is illegal to frown as the town is a "Frown-Free Town Zone". Caldwell: You may not dance or wear shorts on the main avenue. Cranford: Citizens are not permitted to park their own boat on their lawn. Cresskill: All cats must wear three bells to warn birds of their whereabouts. Elizabeth: It is forbidden for a woman, on a Sunday, to walk down Broad Street without wearing a petticoat. Manville: It is illegal to offer whiskey or cigarettes to animals a the local zoo. Newark: more...
Every adult male must bring a rifle to church on Sunday in order to ward off Indian attacks.(South Carolina Dumb Laws)
State officials ordered 400 words of "sexually explicit material" to be cut from Romeo and Juliet. In recent years, several efforts have been made to legalize camel racing and ostrich racing in New Mexico, but to no avail. Those bills were defeated, but the legislature recently allowed gambling on bicycle races. Albuquerque: It is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.Carrizozo: It's forbidden for a female to appear unshaven in public. Las Cruces: You may not carry a lunchbox down Main Street.
When approaching a four way or blind intersection in a non-horse driven vehicle you must stop 100 ft from the intersection and discharge a firearm into the air to warn horse traffic.(South Carolina Dumb Laws)
It is against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.The penalty for jumping off a building is death. A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket. While riding in an elevator, one must talk to no one, and fold his hands while looking toward the door. Slippers are not to be worn after 10:00 P.M. A fine of $25 can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking "at a woman in that way." A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a "pair of horse blinders" wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll. A license must be purchased before hanging clothes on a clothesline. New Yorkers cannot dissolve a marriage for irreconcilable differences, unless they both agree to it. Brooklyn: Donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs.Carmel: A man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do more...
Fountain Inn: Horses are to wear pants at all times.(South Carolina Dumb Laws)
Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields. If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married. All couples staying overnight in a hotel must have a room with double beds that are at least two feet apart. Making love in the space between the beds is strictly forbidden. It's against the law to sing off key in North Carolina.Barber: Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited. Chapel Hill: It is a misdemeanor to urinate or defecate publicly. Charlotte: Women must have their bodies covered by at least 16 yards of cloth at all times. Elon College: There is to be no roller-blading during daylight hours, on the roads, or on the bricks. All the sidewalks at this college are made of brick. Forest City: You must stop and call City Hall before entering town in an automobile. This is so the townspeople will have time to go out and hold their horses until you get through town. Greensboro: more...