Post: Dumb Laws
08-20-2008, 10:02 PM #1
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); These are the dumb laws in Ohio (where I live). There is a website that I forgot that has all of the states but here is Ohio. O and sorry some are repeated deal with it!
Ohio
• According to Ohio law, it's against the law to kill a housefly within 160 feet of a church without a license.
• A policeman may bite a dog to quiet him. However, the reverse is not true, even if it's a police dog.
• Bay Village: It is illegal to walk a cow down Lake Road.
• Bexley: The installation and usage of slot machines in outhouses is prohibited.
• Breast feeding is not allowed in public.
• Cars are not allowed to scare horses in Centerville, Ohio.
• Cincinnati: Anal intercourse is banned.
• Cleveland: It's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license!
• Cleveland law forbids you to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in another person's lap.
• In Cleveland, Ohio, women are forbidden from wearing patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear.
• Clinton County: Any person who leans against a public building will be subject to fines.
• In Chillicothe, Ohio it is illegal to throw rice at weddings.
• Columbus: It is illegal for stores to sell corn flakes on Sunday.
• Fairview Park: It's against the law to honk your horn "excessively". A grandmother was fined for honking her horn twice at her neighbor. Items left on a tree lawn become city property. A young man was fined for removing an item from a tree lawn even though he had the owner's permission.
• Funeral jargon seems to have crept into the wording of a cemetery fee regulation in Norton, Ohio. There regular plots are $33, but "creamies" are $75.
• In Columbus, Ohio it is illegal to sell cornflakes on Sunday.
• In Marysville, Ohio it is illegal for a dog to urinate on a parking meter.
• In the hippy-dippy late '60s, Youngstown, Ohio, briefly had a law making it illegal to walk barefoot through town.
• In ohio it is illegal to ride on the roof of a taxi cab
• In ohio it is illegal to run out of gas
• In Ohio women are forbidden from wearing patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear
• In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $25.00.
• In Oxford, Ohio, it's illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture.
• In Oxford, Ohio, it is unlawful for a woman to appear in public while unshaven. This includes legs and face.
• In Xenia, Ohio, it's illegal to spit in a salad bar
• Ironton: Cross-dressing is against the law.
• It is against the law to roller skate without notifying the police.
• It is illegal for more than five women to live in a house.
• It is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday.
• It is illegal to get a fish drunk.
• It is illegal to mistreat anything of great importance.
• It is legal to throw a snake at someone but it is illegal to shake a snake at someone.
• Items left on a tree lawn become city property. A young man was fined for removing an item from a tree lawn • even though he had the owner's permission.
• Items left on a tree lawn become city property. A young man was fined for removing an item from a tree lawn even though he had the owner's permission.
• It's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
• Lima: Any map that does not have Lima clearly stated on the map cannot be sold.
• Lowell: It is unlawful to run a horse over five miles per hour.
• Marion: You cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.
• McDonald: Your goose may not paraded down Main Street.
• No one may be arrested on Sunday or on the Fourth of July.
• No one may be arrested on Sunday or on the Fourth of July.
• North Canton: It is against the law to roller skate without notifying the police.
• Owners of tigers must notify authorities within one hour if the tiger escapes.
• Oxford: It's illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture.
• Participating or conducting a duel is prohibited.
• Paulding: A policeman may bite a dog to quiet him.
• Riding on the roof of a taxi cab is not allowed.
• The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car.
• Throwing a snake at anyone is illegal.
• Toledo: Throwing a snake at anyone is illegal.
• Women are forbidden from wearing patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear.
• Women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public.
• Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio, a man might see the reflection of something "he oughtn't!"
• You cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.
• You may not run out of gas.
• Youngstown: Riding on the roof of a taxi cab is not allowed. You may not run out of gas.
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08-22-2008, 09:20 PM #11
Originally posted by beane13 View Post
These are some of my favorites cuz how do you fish for whales.

You can fish for whales I think?? Just not called fishing for whales and they don't use fishing poles. Besides that, since when are whales in Ohio?
The one that surprised me was the no Corn Flakes sales on Sunday. All stores do that (I think??). Probably just not enforced
08-22-2008, 09:30 PM #12
beane13
Splicer
Originally posted by gobucks31 View Post
You can fish for whales I think?? Just not called fishing for whales and they don't use fishing poles. Besides that, since when are whales in Ohio?
The one that surprised me was the no Corn Flakes sales on Sunday. All stores do that (I think??). Probably just not enforced


i know you can fish for whales but it says laws in ohio so i was like how do you fish for whales in ohio, i just didn't say "in ohio", those are some really weird laws i want to see the people that made those laws
08-22-2008, 09:35 PM #13
OneManKlan
Error… Cat invasion!
LMAO some of them laws are funny.
08-22-2008, 09:53 PM #14
Ronye West
Anti-HSx9
wow im going to jail for a long time i always throw snakes at people lmao jk
08-22-2008, 10:21 PM #15
beane13
Splicer
Originally posted by SniPz View Post
wow im going to jail for a long time i always throw snakes at people lmao jk


you can throw snakes just not shake them at people
08-23-2008, 01:10 AM #16
Surikizu
GUMI fanboy
Originally posted by 07 View Post
Haha there some funny things , but the doughnut had to be the funniest one there. Happy
i know the doughnut one is very funny.

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