Weird Law From Every State

+5

Things That Are Illegal In the USA

Alabama: Put Salt on a Railroad Track

Alaska: Wake a Sleeping Bear to Take a Photo

Arizona: To Have a Donkey Sleeping in Your Bathtub After 7 PM


Arkansas: Mispronounce Arkansas

California: Fly a Kite Over 10 Feet

Colorado: Lend a Vacuum Cleaner to your Neighbor

Connecticut: Call a Pickle a Pickle Unless it Bounces

Delaware: Ride on a Horse on Easter or Good Friday

Florida: A Rat to Leave a Docked Ship

Georgia: A Chicken to Cross the Road

Hawaii: Annoy a Bird

Idaho: To go Fishing on a Giraffe's Back

Illinois: To Make Faces at a Dog

Indiana: To Give a Monkey a Cigarette

Iowa: Horse to Eat a Fire Hydrant

Kansas: Put Ice Cream on Cherry Pie/To Hunt a Whale

Kentucky: If You Don't Take at Least One Shower a Year

Louisiana: Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hyrdant

Maine: To Tickle Someone's Chin with a Feather Duster

Maryland: To Throw a Bale of Hay out a Second Story Window

Massachusetts: Have a Gorilla in Your Backseat

Michigan: To Sleep in a Bathtub


Minnesota: To Tease a Skunk

Mississippi: To Walk a Dog Without the Dog Having a Diaper on.

Missouri: To Throw Hard Objects by Hand

Montana: Pretend to Kill an Animal

Nebraska: For a Barber to Eat Onions

Nevada: To Drive a Camel on a Highway

New Hampshire: Run Machinery on Sunday

New Jersey: For a Man to Knit During Fishing Season

New Mexico: Carry a Lunchbox Down a Street

New York: To Wear Slippers Past 10 PM

North Carolina: To Ride a Bike Without Both Hands on the Handles


North Dakota: To Keep an Elk in a Sandbox in Your Backyard

Ohio: To Run Out of Gas

Oklahoma: To Read a Comic While Fixing a Motor Veichle

Oregon: To Whistle Under Water

Pennsylvania: To Sleep on Top of a Refrigerator Outdoors

Rhode Island: To Throw Pickle Juice on a Trolley

South Carolina: To Have a Horse Without Pants in a Hotel

South Dakota: Fall Asleep in a Cheese Factory

Tennessee: Catch a Fish with a Lasso

Texas: Not to Have Windshield Wipers

Utah: To Walk Down a Street with a Bag with a Violin in it

Vermont: Have More than Six Meals a Day

Virginia: Flip a Coin in a Resturant to See Who Pays For Coffee

Washington: To Have a Lollipop

West Virginia: For a Chicken to Lay Eggs Before 8 Am and After 4 PM

Wisconsin: For Apple Pie to be Served in Resturants Without Cheese


Wyoming: To Take a Picture of a Rabbit in June

Best One: This is Confusing but in Kansas if Two Trains Meet on the Same Track, One Must not Past Until the Other one Passes

+2
Level 66
Jan 26, 2023
Eh... Texas' law is actually pretty sensical.
+2
Level 57
Jan 26, 2023
So is Kentucky's.
+1
Level 66
Jan 26, 2023
And North Carolina's
+1
Level 50
Jan 26, 2023
And Maryland's
+1
Level 60
Jan 26, 2023
And Indiana’s
+2
Level 57
Jan 27, 2023
North Carolina's is pretty unreasonable in my opinion. I do that all the time.
+1
Level 81
Feb 1, 2023
A much better Texas law is that it is illegal to shoot a bison from a second story hotel window.
+1
Level 43
Jan 26, 2023
Funny!
+1
Level 60
Jan 26, 2023
I can say that Nebraska’s is poorly phrased and untrue, not sure about some other ones of these that seem really fishy.
+1
Level 78
Jan 27, 2023
Is South Dakota's any factory that makes dairy products or the restaurant chain....we need more clarification.
+1
Level 66
Jan 27, 2023
Do you mean the Cheesecake Factory?
+3
Level 59
Jan 27, 2023
Sensical laws:

Alabama: Don't put stuff on railroads

Alaska: Don't get a darwin award

Arizona: ......just don't

Idaho: Common sense

Indiana: Animal abuse

Iowa: I wouldn't want that happening

Kansas: Even if there are no whales...

Louisiana: Animal Abuse

Maryland: Pedestrians and stuff

Massachusetts: Animal abuse?

Montana: Kinda dumb to do that

Nevada: Gonna be run over

N. Dakota: Rude to the elk

Oklahoma: Don't get distracted

PA: Why?

R. Isles: Don't

S. Dakota: Danger

Tennesee: Rude to the fish

Tejas: Duh

Vermont: Public Health

+2
Level 60
Jan 27, 2023
Some of these might be sensical in the sense it would be stupid to do them, but surely it can’t be considered sensical if you make a law about riding on a giraffe, etc etc
+1
Level 50
Jan 29, 2023
I have no idea where you got this list from, but the Arkansas one isn't "illegal", it's merely a clarification in the state code on how to pronounce Arkansas. The Washington one is also wrong.
+1
Level 66
Jan 29, 2023
True… some, actually most, are BS. A lot violate the first amendment.