Dumb Laws--The Alabama Edition?!


Question: Hey!

It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.

It's against the law for a man to seduce "a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage."

It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.

It is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

Men may not spit in front of the opposite sex.

Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.

You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.

Masks may not be worn in public

It's illegal to play dominoes on Sunday.

Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

You may not drive barefooted.

It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.

It is unlawful to wear women's pumps with sharp, high heels.

You cannot chain your alligator to a fire hydrant.


Answers: Hey!

It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.

It's against the law for a man to seduce "a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage."

It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.

It is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

Men may not spit in front of the opposite sex.

Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.

You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.

Masks may not be worn in public

It's illegal to play dominoes on Sunday.

Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

You may not drive barefooted.

It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.

It is unlawful to wear women's pumps with sharp, high heels.

You cannot chain your alligator to a fire hydrant.

While some of these you know came about because of the more conservative feel of the nation back in the early part of the century, a lot of these are just stupid. Like the ice cream cone in your back pocket one.

What's funny about it is that they would not have come up with the law unless somebody tried it. Which means there was someone who had an ice cream cone in his back pocket, there was someone who wore a fake mustache to church (where it got out of control), somebody went driving blindfolded, and someone chained an alligator to a fire hydrant.

People can be rather stupid, just like the laws. Loved this "question" though.

lol I've heard the one about an ice cream in your back pocket.

It makes you wonder who the dumbasses were that actually forced the Alabama legislature to create these laws...

LOL! who comes up with these?

Another dumb Alabama law. A white man and a Black man may not play checkers on the side walks.

You may not drive barefooted? -- That is true in other states as well. I know from personal experience.

Several years ago, I had, while passing through Indiana, purchased a new pair of shoes. Having done some sight-seeing, I did a lot of walking, and the new shoes were killing my feet.

I slipped my shoes off while driving. --Ah, Relief! When I stopped at a restaurant, a policeman saw me putting my shoes back on, and kindly let me know that it was illegal to drive without your shoes.

While Indiana is not a southern state, his voice took on the tone ascribed to southern sheriffs, when they say, "Where you from, Boy? --We don't like your kind around here..!" (He was going on about how “You people travelling through from other states have no respect for Indiana laws.” –I should have taken the plane…!)

I am SURE it had nothing to do with the sporty car I was driving or that he thought a "rich" guy from out of state would rather just pay the fine, than make a return trip to fight it in court...

One of the other answerers ask who thinks up these things? I would normally say the legislature of each state, but there is something to consider:

If there is such a law, then before it was brought before the legislature of that state, there was a serious abuse problem to be resolved. -Right?

If there is a law about something, they must have had a big problem with such things… It is like the little instructions you find commonly on many items: "Close cover before striking" as an example. You look at some items like the "Important Instructions" on folding baby-seats, that says, "Remove baby before folding seat." It means before those instructions were added to the items (like the word "HOT" on McDonald's coffee cups) some people were leaving out those important steps.

How many mothers folded up their car seats with their tykes still in them?

Now one like "masks may not be worn in public" is easy to see. Maybe somebody was wearing one for a costume party they were going towards and some law officer thought they were a bank robber or hold-up man... But you have to ask not only who had an ice cream cone in their back pocket, and why, but also, what sort of public nuisance or danger did it cause???

The dominoes on Sunday or the not making people laugh in church are religious things and that is "Bible belt" country. I would think it would be hard to preach "Hellfire and brimstone" with the congregation laughing. --But what about not chaining your alligator to a fire hydrant? How many times did that have to happen, before a law was passed against it?

As to odd laws, I heard one awhile back. In Ohio, it is illegal to have a bathtub in a private home. This law dates from the 1800's during the time of the Smallpox and Cholera epidemics, when whole families were being wiped out by the common practice back then of the whole family using the same bath water.

The funny part is that the law has never been taken off the books. Government inspectors in that state can arrest you if they find a bathtub on your premises.

More recently also in Ohio, they passed a seat belt law, which states that any person must wear a seat belt at all times. It does NOT say, "when riding in a car". What is funny about this?

I was at a motel in Ohio, when a couple policemen came in. They were talking to the desk manager and I overheard them myself. The manager wanted to evict a tenant who had not paid her motel bill. One of the policement said not to worry, they could arrest her on a seat-belt violation and take her to jail. The policemen explained the oddity in the law to the manager and said they were allowed to use it to arrest anyone at any time.

Then they proceded to do just that. I saw them put the handcuffed woman into their police car, and drive off with her, presumably for said seat-belt violation, since they were the ones to suggest it.

It made me wonder where I could find a piece of "seat belt" to hold up my pants untill I got out of Ohio.

hahaha

Funny! 10!



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