wacky laws

[chessiejo]

do you have some wacky laws of which you have become aware?

please share them here!

i just discovered a few from Canada, in the Amazing mature Gaians guild, so here they are:

Quirky Canadian Laws

Canada-wide
-You may not pay for a fifty-cent item with only pennies.
-Citizens may not publicly remove bandages.
-It is illegal for clear or non-dark sodas to contain caffeine.

Alberta

Provincial Laws

-Businesses must provide rails for tying up horses.
-Wooden logs may not be painted.
-It is illegal to set fire to the wooden leg of a wooden legged man
-You cannot use dice to play crapps
-Wooden Logs may not be painted

City Laws

-Calgary - If you are released from prison, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so you can ride out of town.
-Edmonton - Horses are not allowed to stand on the streets for more than 20 minutes.

British Columbia

Provincial Laws

-It is illegal to kill a Sasquatch.

City Laws

-Victoria - Street entertainers aren't allowed to give kids balloon animals.

New Brunswick

Provincial Laws

* Driving on the roads is not allowed.

Nova Scotia Provincial Laws

-When raining, a person may not water his/her lawn.

Ontario

City Laws

-Etobicoke - Bylaw states that no more than 3.5 inches of water is allowed in a bathtub.
-Oshawa - It's illegal to climb trees.
-Ottawa - It's illegal to eat ice-cream on Bank Street on a Sunday.
-Toronto - You can't drag a dead horse down Yonge St. on a Sunday.
-Toronto - You're not allowed to release 10 or more helium balloons within 24 hours.

Quebec

Provincial Laws

-It's illegal for margarine to be the same colour as butter.
- You are not allowed to turn right at a red light at anytime

City Laws

-Montreal - The Queen Elizabeth Hotel must feed your horse freely when you rent a room.
-Montreal - Cars parked in public places must be locked, and their windows must be down to less than the width of a hand.
- Montreal - You cannot wash your car on the street
- Montreal - You cannot park your car and block your own driveway

- Quebec City - You may not swear in French.  

[chessiejo]

hey!

love it or hate it, at least show a little life around here!!  

[cooper_barks]

nice laws. thank god i dont live in those placs lol. i saw a whacky sign once that said: "Water on road when wet" lol of COURSE theres water on it!!! where i live you have to water your plants after 5:00pm in the summer or it just evaporates to quickly (i live in california)  

[chessiejo]

hee!

that's like our local bridges, where there are signs declaring "icy in winter'.

when else would they likely be icy?  

[Uadzit]

Here are some from my state. smile

1. It is illegal to sleep outside on top of a refrigerator.

2. If you are driving on a country road at night you must stop every mile and send up a rocket signal, wait ten minutes for the road to be cleared of livestock, and continue.

3. No singing in the bathtub.

4. A person who has particpated in a duel can not become Governor.

5.If a motorist sees a team of horses coming toward him he must pull well off the road, cover his car with a blanket or canvas so his car blends in with the countryside, while the horses pass.

6. You may not catch a fish with your hands.

7. The only body part you can catch fish with is your mouth.

8. You can't use dynamite to catch fish.

9. Housewives are not allowed to hide dirt under a rug.  

[chessiejo]

my grandpa back in PA used to enforce that fish dynamiting law.

dynamiting kills and wastes a lot of fish.

i like the shooting off of rockets idea! what a great excuse to buy and enjoy lots of fireworks, legally!  

[Uadzit]

I never knew people dynamited for fish. That is really, really... silly.

The rockets would make for a good weekend, since it would take you all night to get anywhere. XD  

[the purple ghost-cat]

lol those ARE whacky laws. there probably laws in sacremento that are weird, but i dont keep track of sacremento i dont live close to there XD  

[GuillotineGirl]

Hahaha. But isn't margarine (sp?) the same color as butter?  

[chessiejo]

it was recently enough for me to remember it, that in Ontario margarine either had to be white, and you added your own coloring (they provided a little ampule of coloring stuff), or else it was bright school bus yellow.

this was the idea of the dairy lobby, which wanted us all to remember that only butter had a naturally yellow color.  

[Loner God]

whee  

[Loner God]

coolio mrgreen  

[Rosenfall]

I love our legal systems at work mrgreen  

[lonewoulf239]

I liked it smile  

[beccamon]

I think in Maine, or someplace like it, there's a law that you can bring your gun with you to church, in order to keep away Natives. Or something like that.