Stupid Laws in the US and Canada

In Fairbanks, Alaska, it is against the law for a moose to walk on the sidewalk! Sounds really strange, but the law was passed because in the pioneer days, a bar owner had a pet moose which he would get drunk. The moose would then stumble around town, drunk. This law is what they came up with to handle the situation. We're not sure who they would arrest, the bar owner or the moose.

In Oklahoma, it is against the law to hunt whales. Bummer!

In 1845, England passed a law making attempted suicide a capital offense, punishable by hanging. Makes sense.

In Athens, Greece, you can have your driver's license suspended if you are deemed poorly dressed or unbathed. Wouldn't they rather have you poorly dressed or unbathed in your car than on the street?

In Gainesville, Georgia, the chicken capital of the world, don't try to eat your chicken with a fork because it is illegal. How about a spoon?

On the island of Jersey, a man cannot knit during fishing season. Can the women?

In France it is illegal to sell a doll which does not have a human face. That means you cannot buy an ET doll there. ET better phone home about that.

In Alabama, it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket because a 13 year old boy was once stabbed with a comb. OK, we can see that one. But what about a regular comb without a rat tail?

In Michigan, you better not chain an alligator to a fire hydrant! That makes us feel a lot better about walking down the sidewalk.

In Quebec, Canada, margarine must be a different color from butter. The dairy business claimed that it could be mistaken for butter, so it should be a different color. They wanted it to be a dark vermilion (an orange / red). They settled on a pale, almost colorless, yellow. Note that in the US we die our butter to match the margarine.

Here are some more things you can't legally do:

• Hunt bullfrogs with a firearm in Illinois
  
  
• Annoy a bird in Honolulu, Hawaii
  
  
• Throwing a snowball in Belton, Missouri
  
  
• Pump your own gas in Oregon and New Jersey
  
  
• Kiss a woman if you have a mustache in Eureka, Illinois
  
  
• Beat a rat with a baseball bat in Galesburg, Illinois
  
  
• Give alcohol to an animal in Tuscaloosa, Florida
  
  
• Use foul language in Chicago.
  
  
• Put up a basketball hoop on your driveway in Peoria, Illinois
  
  
• Pronounce Arkansas as Ar-Kansas in, you guesses it, Arkansas
  
  
• Buy alcohol without your wife's consent written consent in Pennsylvania
  
  
• Deface a milk carton in Massachusetts
  
  
• Use a pogo stick on a city bus in Fairfax County, Virginia
  
  
• Play Bingo when you are intoxicated in Kern County, California
  
  
• Make faces at dogs in Illinois
  
  
• Fly a kite in Schaumburg, Illinois
  
  
• Sell ice cream which was brought in from out of town in El Paso, Texas
  
  
• Hum while on a public street in Cicero, Illinois
  
  
• Throw an octopus onto the ice at Joe Louis Arena
  
  
• Drive a large herd of sheep through Hollywood
  
  
• Give away puppies or kittens in California
  
  
• Take your horse into city hall in the Yukon
  
  
• Use a slingshot, unless you are the police in Homer, Illinois
  
  
• Give a lighted cigar to dogs, cats or other pets in Illinois
  
  
• Throw a snake at anyone in Ohio
  
  
• Scowl at your wife on Sunday in Michigan
  
  
• Spit, fly a kite, or eat in a place that is on fire in Chicago
  
  
• Chain a wheelbarrow to a tree if it has a For Sale sign on it in Des Plaines, Illinois
  
  
• Honk your horn at a place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 P.M. in Arkansas
  
  
• Drive repetitively for no good reason on 23 rd Avenue in Moline, Illinois
  
  
• Wear patent leather shoes in public in Ohio
  
  
• Kill a dog using a decompression chamber in Michigan
  
  
• Let your rooster crow within three hundred feet of a residence or you hen cackle within two hundred feet in Kenilworth, Illinois
  
  
• Bowl in Evanston, Illinois
  
  
• Go Trick-or-Treating on Halloween in Evanston, Illinois
  
  
• Ice skate during June or July on Riverside pond in Moline, Illinois
  
  
• Serenade your girlfriend in Michigan
  
  
• Roller skate without first notifying the police in Ohio
  
  
• Cut your hair without first getting permission from your husband in Michigan
  
  
• Spit on the sidewalk in Ottawa, Illinois
  
  
• Mistreat anything of great importance in Ohio
  
  
• Purposefully destroy your own radio in Michigan
  
  
• Keep an alligator in your bathtub in Arkansas
  
  
• Not report your lost pet tiger within one hour in Ohio
  
  
• Paint a sparrow and sell it as a parakeet in Michigan
  
  
• Spit from a second story window in Freeport, Illinois
  
  
• Sell corn flakes on Sunday in Ohio