In the state of California....
no vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 mph.in Arcadia, CA, peacocks have the right away in crossing streets and driveways.
in Baldwin Park, CA, it's illegal to ride your bike into a swimming pool.
in Belvedere, CA, it's illegal for a dog to be out in public without its master on a leash.
in Blythe, CA, it's illegal to wear cowboy boots unless you own at least 2 cows.
in Burlingame, CA, it's illegal to spit including sinks with the exception of on baseball diamonds.
in Chico, CA, it's illegal to drive a herd of cattle down Main Street and bowling on the sidewalk is illegal.
in Eureka, CA, it's illegal to sleep in the middle of the road and it's illegal for a man with a moustache to kiss a woman in public.
in Fresno, CA, no one may annoy anyone's lizard in the city park. It's also illegal to hold a private bingo game, to sell permanent markers, and for elementary schools to host poker tournaments.
in Hollywood, it's illegal to drive more than 2000 sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at any one time.
in Indian Wells, CA, it's illegal for a trumpet player to play his instrument with the purpose of luring people into a store.
in Lodi, CA, it's illegal to shoot string at parade participants.
in Long Beach, CA, it's illegal to curse on a mini golf course.
in LA, CA, it's illegal to cry on the witness stand, to charge admission to a house party, for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church, lick toads, hunt moths under streetlights.
in Norco, CA any person wishing to keep a rhino as a pet must obtain a $100 license first.
and growing oleander flowers is illegal.
in Pacific Grove, CA, it's illegal to molest butterflies.
in Palm Springs, CA, it's illegal to walk a camel down Palm Canyon Drive between the hours of 4 and 6pm.
in Portola, CA, it's illegal to fish from an overpass and carry a fish into a bar.
in Prunedale, CA, it's illegal to install 2 bathtubs in the same house.
in Redlands, CA, it's illegal for a golf cart to drive down city streets without a man with a lantern proceeding it.
in Riverside, CA, it's illegal to carry one's lunch down a street between 11AM and 1PM.
in San Diego, CA, it's illegal to shoot jackrabbits from the back of a moving streetcar and homeowners who keep Christmas lights on their home past February can be fined $200.
in San Francisco, CA it's illegal to pile horse manure on a street corner more than 6 feet high, to walk an elephant down Market Street without being on a leash, and to tie your camel to a telephone pole.
in Santa Monica, CA, it's illegal to play percussion instruments on the beach.
in Shasta Lake, CA, it's illegal to raffle off your dog as a gift.
in Thousand Oaks, CA, before a business can put a going-out-of-business sale sign in their window, they must obtain a special city permit.
in Walnut, CA, children can't wear Halloween masks without obtaining permission and a permit from the Sheriff and men can't dress as women unless they obtain a permit from the Sheriff
7 comments:
Hmm....government at work. I just hope you haven't been parading around Blythe in cowboy boots, I don't think you have the required number of cows.
I know, I will have to work on that. You would think that the occasional show pig and chickens would be enough...wouldn't you?
Hillarious! Now I am just wondering about the people that did these things to MAKE them illegal right? For the purpose of the world wid web, I won't tell you why my husband knows this, but you'll get the blogger prize if you know the only 2 things that can legally be thrown out the window of a moving vehicle and not considered littering.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if ALL of those laws are in fact "on the books". There are laws in every state that are sometimes referred to as "blue laws"...or as I like to call them "laws of the weird". They get written because something happened JUST LIKE THE CRAZY LAW IS WRITTEN. So in order for the government to make money, they make a law against it so if there is a fine associtated, they can make money...and justify the time they wasted to create the stupid law in the first place. Case and point: Until the early 1970's it was LEGAL to shoot a Mormon ON SIGHT in Missouri. Thank you, Governor Boggs! So technically, if someone shot a Mormon on the street until the law was repealed, they were within their legal rights to do so. I love laws of the weird! But what I love even more is discovering the precipitating events that so moved lawmakers to put the laws of the weird on the books! I am nerd. I know.
My mom would like to guess that an apple core can be thrown out the window....
nope, chicken feathers! REALLY it's in the book.
Dude, I always told my students that every rule I had, no matter how strange, was made because of an incident. :) It was fun imagining the incidents that might have caused these laws.
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