Foolish Laws for the First of April
Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Adam
It’s April Fool’s Day in North America. I genuinely love April Fool’s Day. The idea of having free reign to prank my friends warms the cockles of my practical joker’s heart. Unfortunately, I’m actually not very good at setting up and carrying out practical jokes.
It’s because of my lack of pranking skills that I’m not attempting to pull the wool over your eyes in today’s blog post. Instead, I’ve simply saved this week’s installment of Strange Laws for today. While some of these laws may sound like pranks they are, to the best of my knowledge, all real.
- In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
- Don’t dance to close to your partner in Utah—”daylight” must visible between dancing couples.
- Michigan cares about marriage. In addition to the Detroit law stating that a man may not scowl at his wife on Sundays, the Wolverine State also has a law stating that married couples must live together or be imprisoned.
- In Washington State, you can’t carry a concealed weapon over 6 feet in length. Although, if you can conceal a 6-foot-long weapon on your, that’s pretty impressive (and, kind of scary, considering the types of weapons that tend to be that large).
- Another of the many strange laws regulating Sunday activities is the New Jersey law forbidding the sale of cabbage on the sabbath.
- Those goofy “Federal Bikini Inspector” t-shirts aren’t quite so ridiculous in Rochester, Michigan. In that community, anyone bathing in public must have their bathing suit inspected by a police officer.
- In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by anyone other than political candidates. (Yes, you read that right.)
- In Georgia, it’s illegal to spread a false rumour. True rumours, one assumes, are a legal form of gossip.
- Finally, there is a law stating the no more than 3000 sheep may be herded down Hollywood Boulevard at any one time.
This week’s strange laws were found on StrangeFacts.com. Visit them for more strange and unusual laws.
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