In Indonesia,the penalty for Masturbation is Decapitation!Do you know of any other strange or weird laws?

In Samoa, it’s a crime to forget your wife’s birthday.

In Australia, it’s illegal to name any animal you plan to eat.

In Cannes, France, it’s illegal to wear a Jerry Lewis mask.

In Portugal, it’s against the law to pee in the ocean.

In Italy, anyone considered “obese” is forbidden from wearing polyester.

In Sedona, Arizona, it’s illegal to lie about your astrological sign.

In New Jersey, answering a traffic cop who asks “Do you know why I pulled you over?” by saying, “If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you” is an automatic $300 fine.

In Indiana, it’s against the law to dress “Barbie” in “Ken’s” clothes.

In Texas, it’s illegal to threaten somebody with an UNLOADED gun.

In Kentucky, it’s illegal to paint your lawn red.

Unmarried women are not allowed to buy edible panties in South Carolina.

The penalty for setting off a nuke in California (can’t remember the particular town) is $500. Who’s that going to deter?

All I can say is “Thank God for the Jerry Lewis law!”

Apparently, I live in Samoa.

In Alabama, it is illegal to drive while blindfolded.

In Alaska, it is illegal to tether a dog to the roof of your car.

In Arkansas, it is illegal to blare your horn after 9PM near any place that serves food.

In Chico, California, it is illegal to plant rutabagas in roadways.

In Hermosa Beach, California, it is illegal to spill your Margarita on any street.

There’s plenty dumb laws all over the place….

In New Jersey it’s illegal to wear a bullet proof vest while comitting a murder.

It’s also illegal to pump your own gas here.

Car dealership are not allowed to be open on Sundays

Here are some Florida laws:

Doors of all public buildings must open outwards.

It is illegal to sell your children.

If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.

Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.

You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.

And in Maine:
Shotguns are required to be taken to church in the event of a Native American attack.

You may not step out of a plane in flight.

After January 14th you will be charged a fine for having your Christmas decorations still up.

It’s hard to believe, but sodomy is still illegal in some places.

In the UK it is legal for a pregnant woman to wee in a policemans helmet if caught short in a public place.

<—— On Fluther, it is illegal to not give lurve to a moderator.

In Alaska it’s illegal to look down at a moose while flying over in a plane.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2251280.ece

@Bluefreedom – what’s so weird about it being illegal to threaten somebody with an unloaded gun? Heck, I find the law that allows you to carry guns weird, but this one makes a lot of sense to me.

Edit: Reading through them, there are quite a few more laws on this page that do make sense to me…

In the United States, it is illegal to vote for mental midgets and convicted felons.
Damn, wishful thinking again.

@blue I wish U.S. had the same law as Italy about obese people not allowed to wear polyester.

I don’t have any weird laws to add. I’m just laughing my butt off at these.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, an antiquated law is still on the books warning that engaging in playful banter may result in a 30-day jail term. In New York City, another outdated law mandates that men may be fined $25 for gazing lasciviously at a female; a second conviction stipulates the offender wear a pair of blinders whenever he goes out for a walk.

In the City of York England,it is LEGAL to kill a person from Scotland if they are carrying a Bow and Arrow!

I heard in Arkansas it’s illegal if you prounounce the state name as Ar-Kansas.

do you ever look at or say a word so much you don’t recognize it anymore? That just happened to me when I looked at Arkansas and Kansas too much just now…had to Google what I wrote just to make sure I spelled it right

@cprevite,the Squirell never spills her Margaritas!!

In Tennesse(excuse the spelling please) it is illegal for children to play around refrigerators. Fine or jail time by any person not supervising a child while being a kid near a refrigerator or freezer.

In Kentucky it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is more than six feet long.

@oasis: Well it’s a good thing, ‘cuz the man is watching.

@oasis & cprevite, no margaritas spilt here. Every drop goes in my mouth! :-}

It’s illegal to munch on Squirrels

Yes, it is! I’ll bite your ankles if you come after me with a gun!!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha

uh-huh ;-}

A few odd UK laws:

In Chester you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight. Also in York, excluding Sundays, it is apparently legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

Placing a postage stamp of the queen upside down, is considered treason.

It is illegal to be drunk and in possession of a cow.

In Australia, I heard that some person was going to get whipped by a professional…whipper because he did something wrong. I can’t remember what he did but it involved a car.

Also, It is illegal in Tennessee to tie and alligator to a fire hydrant. Don’t know if that is fiction or not.

OH! And I remember that it is illegal to catch whales on Saturday (or someday of the week I forget) in Ohio.

This link here has some of them. I read it and some aren’t so much to “wow” about. Can’t swear near women and Children….OK….I agree.

In Texas you can shoot a neighbor for snoring to loudly.

@judochop A great law, wonder if it applies to boyfriends, husbands?

@kid: The ‘whipping’ you are referring to was in Hong Cong and it was called caning and was the penalty for scratch an automobile intentially. The laws there are VERY strict! 2 of the high school boys on my bus are from Hong Cong (born and raised there) and they can tell horror stories about the law enforcement.

@queenzboulevard: Thats not true at all about mispronouncing the name of Arkansas. The river by the same name is pronounced Ar-Kansas. I lived in that shithole for 35 years and the locals called Arkansas a lot of things, nearly all were negative.

In Illinois it is illegal to give a lighted cigar to a dog or cat, and it is illegal to walk down the street with an ice cream sandwich in your pocket, and I think it is illagal to ride a camel on a public roadway. We also have a local street where repetitive and unnecessary drivving is illegal. We used to call it cruising the one ways.

i think it’s more disturbing that someone probably had to do some of those things for the law to be made (such as the elephant parking fee or the porcupine sex). or even worse if the lawmakers just came up with those off the top of their heads..

Holy shit. I live in the only state where sodomy is still illegal?! Not even Texas is on board with that?

There goes my social life.

@asmonet: Supposedly the Supreme Court declared laws like that unconstitutional, but some states still try to get away with enforcing theirs.

Either until recently or still on the books, in the town of Shelton, Washington, people of color had to be home by 10 p.m.

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@scamp i always hated our stupid law about pumping gas. I dont know about up your way, but gas stations seem to always be understaffed. It would be so much easier to just get out and do it yourself.

@uberbatman It’s the same here. The pump jockeys all seem to have cell phone growing out to the side of their heads too!! I hate it as much as you do. Sometimes I feel like screaming… Get a move on, Habib!!

Which head do the decapitate in Indonesia? Oops, answered a question with a question, I wonder if there is law against that, too?