Pi = 4.000 (according to Indiana State law)

[LCHIEN]

That and more weird laws that can land you in jail.
Good for more than a few chuckles.


http://www.divinecaroline.com/22323/...-fifty-bizarre

for the sake of truth, while debated in the Indiana Senate, and passed the education committee, it never actually became law, according to Wikipedia.
I don't know how many of the other 49 are correct or embellished. I suggest you treat it as fun, not serious.

[Tom Slick]

I may have broken the law; I love oranges and may have eaten them while taking a bath.

[cabinetman]

For ones that are true, they are likely very old laws that were never changed. I remember years ago, reading in Playboy (yes, they do have articles), about a woman that was arrested from information supplied from her neighbor. Seems that the two women had a backyard conversation while hanging laundry to dry. The woman was giving some intimate details about what happens in her bedroom. The neighbor reported her to authorities.

I don't remember the details that ensued, but it was violation of an old law on the books.

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[herb fellows]

That was the 'stupidity law'. The one where you get arrested for being stupid enough to talk about your sex life with your neighbors.

[Skaning]

Well, the bible says pi is 3. That at least is closer. Thge colums of the temple were to be one cubit across and three cubits around. Over-specification at best.

[LCHIEN]

That was the 'stupidity law'. The one where you get arrested for being stupid enough to talk about your sex life with your neighbors.

Wasn't there a law that if you quoted something from Playboy magazine, you had to automatically imply you read it for the articles or you could be charged with lewd and lacivious behavior?

[cabinetman]

Wasn't there a law that if you quoted something from Playboy magazine, you had to automatically imply you read it for the articles or you could be charged with lewd and lacivious behavior?

It wasn't a quote, and as for reading it (the magazine) for the articles, I always did that after looking at the pictures.

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[Santa Clarita Len]

Kansas Law

They missed one.
In Kansas it is against the law to hang a man with a wooden leg.............You have to use a rope!

[dbhost]

Here's one that was still in effect when I was in high school. Hopefully they have changed the law since then...

In Corvallis Oregon, it is illegal for a woman to wear red stockings on 2nd street (the riverfront district). The law doesn't specify why, but it originates from frontier days. I have to assume it has something to do with prostitution...

Okay the more I read it the more New Mexico bothers me... "Females may not appear unshaven in public."

Just WHERE is a woman going to shave that can be seen in public? Does that mean all Women in New Mexico should look like Sinead Oconnor?

[pelligrini]

Okay the more I read it the more New Mexico bothers me... "Females may not appear unshaven in public."

I think that's a companion law for the "No brades under armpits law"

[charliex]

Cabinetman.... There were articles?

[jwd12]

I think the reason Indiana was so late in adopting Daylight Saving Time was that the mother of a powerful legislator was afraid her roses would not get enough morning sun. Don't know if it true, but it could be.