Any really weird laws in your neck of the woods?

So, in answer to your question...

Are you kidding, this is New England. I sometimes think our laws are left over from the Salem Witch Trials.

In New Hampshire you're not allowed to pick seaweed at night. And in Massachusetts men aren't allowed to grow a goatee unless approved by the town.

You seem to know a lot about drinking in Pennsylvania

Law Summary
One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.

Full text of the Law
The Texas Constitution
Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 4 - RELIGIOUS TESTS

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

Holy Crap!

Joe(lawsuit)Nation

Trying to go to that link forced me to reboot twice. Stupid link kicked me right off-line. That's okay. I know what it leads to. Read the story yesterday.

OMG!
(Does that qualify?)

Sorry. On my old browser (IE) that website would take half a day to even load. I just tried it again (now using Safari - love it!) and it came up in mere seconds.

I still use IE. That's prob'ly a big part of the problem.

We have a no idling by-law.. which is great until it gets to be -20.
The other dumb law is that you cannot bring wine across provincial borders. Dumb considering we don't live in a typical grape growing region. The provinces hold their liquor taxes dear to their greedy little hearts.

In Missouri, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon longer than 6 feet

-May not drive a vehicle on the highway barefooted
-May not use elephants to plow fields

I can actually understand these, though. Florida has one prohibiting alligators being leashed to fire hydrants, though

That is not a law.

Highway code does not directly forbid driving without footware. It states that footwear should not interfere with the operation of the controls of the vehicle.

What state, Val? Do you know what state (or country) Arideni is in? It may well be a law in his neck of the woods.

I had a big fight with a cop over the "Barefooted Driver" law. The cops were stopping everybody in Mohawk Park one Sunday in July (1974). They were looking for dopesmoking hippies.
Ahem.

I got out of my vehicle when they flagged me down.
No, no, they yelled, get back in your car!!
NO<<< wait...you are barefoot!!>>>>>>
Yes, I said, I yam.
Well, they said, (I love cops) you can't drive barefoot oooo it's agin the law.
Says who says I.
There was a long conference betwixt the peace officers. They looked in a really fat book for awhile.
They came back to my car, one on each side, to make sure I didn't try for an escape.
We're not going to give you a ticket this time, but you've got to put something on your feet before you drive away from here.
I don't have any shoes or anything with me. I was coming to the Park to hang out with my friends.
<long pause>
Get your ass out of here.
Yes sir, officer, sir.

I lied.
I had hip boots in the trunk of my car but I figured they might think I was making fun of them.

Joe(i would be)Nation

I looked it up, I'm not making things up to harass anyone.
http://www.barefooters.org/driving/

In MA... It's illegal to keep a mule on the second floor of a building not in a city unless there are 2 exits. (MGL Chapter 272 section 86)

Ha! It would be interesting to know the story behind how some of these laws came about.

Law Summary
Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos.

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CHAPTER 43. PUBLIC INDECENCY

SUBCHAPTER B. OBSCENITY

� 43.21. Definitions

(a) In this subchapter:

(1) "Obscene" means material or a performance that:

(A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex;

(B) depicts or describes:

(i) patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or

(ii) patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state or a device designed and marketed as useful primarily for stimulation of the human genital organs; and

(C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value.

(2) "Material" means anything tangible that is capable of being used or adapted to arouse interest, whether through the medium of reading, observation, sound, or in any other manner, but does not include an actual three dimensional obscene device.

(3) "Performance" means a play, motion picture, dance, or other exhibition performed before an audience.

(4) "Patently offensive" means so offensive on its face as to affront current community standards of decency.

(5) "Promote" means to manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, or advertise, or to offer or agree to do the same.

(6) "Wholesale promote" means to manufacture, issue, sell, provide, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, or to offer or agree to do the same for purpose of resale.

(7) "Obscene device" means a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.

(b) If any of the depictions or descriptions of sexual conduct described in this section are declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawfully included herein, this declaration shall not invalidate this section as to other patently offensive sexual conduct included herein.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, � 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 372, ch. 163, � 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975; Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1974, ch. 778, � 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, � 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

� 43.23. Obscenity

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.

(b) An offense under Subsection (a) is a state jail felony.

(c) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he:

(1) promotes or possesses with intent to promote any obscene material or obscene device; or

(2) produces, presents, or directs an obscene performance or participates in a portion thereof that is obscene or that contributes to its obscenity.

(d) An offense under Subsection (c) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(e) A person who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material or an obscene device or possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale promote it in the course of his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its content and character.

(f) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.

(g) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the person who possesses or promotes material or a device proscribed by this section does so for a bona fide medical, psychiatric, judicial, legislative, or law enforcement purpose.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, � 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1975, ch. 778, � 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, � 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

You're not allowed to throw anything but water or chicken feathers from a car window in California. Always planned to put that one to the test with the ol' ChiPs-ers