Weird U.S. Laws

Curious about what you can and can't do across the continental U.S.? Don't even think about putting salt on a railroad track in Alabama; you could be arrested and sentenced to die. And ladies, it's illegal for married women in Florida to parachute on Sundays. Read about more of these strange and wacky laws in Weird U.S. Laws: ⢠In Memphis, you aren't allowed to share your pie nor can you take home any leftover pie ⢠Motorists in Alabama are prohibited from driving their vehicles while blindfolded ⢠Oregon banned self-serve gas bars in 1951, so it is illegal for anyone to pump gas into a car in that state, although motorcycles and boats are exempt ⢠Talk about courtesy patrol: in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, a police officer who suspects a couple is having sex in a vehicle must honk the patrol car horn three times and wait two minutes before approaching the vehicle ⢠In Carver County, Minnesota, airplanes, hot air balloons or any other flying apparatus aren't allowed to take off or land in public parks; shooting off toy rockets is also against law ⢠Bad news for the hairy: in Omaha, Nebraska, a man is not allowed to "run around" with his chest shaved ⢠Keep that car on the road in Quitman, Georgia, because it's illegal for cars to drive on sidewalks. Oddly, it's also illegal for chickens to cross the road! ⢠Resist that music! In New Hampshire, patrons in bars are not permitted to tap their feet to the music ⢠In Arkansas you can't keep your alligator, or alligators as the case may be, in your bathtub ⢠In Washington State, it's against the law to use "X-ray, fluoroscopic or other equipment or apparatus employing roentgen rays" to fit that perfect shoe; the only people allowed to view the bones in your feet are licensed health practitioners ⢠Since 1919 in Michigan, it has been illegal for anyone to kill an animal by electrocution or by using a high altitude decompression chamber ⢠If you plan to tie your elephant to a parking meter in Florida, you must pay the fee as you would for any vehicle. And so many more!

List of contents

"CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ANIMALS: WILD AND DOMESTICATED The Wild and Wooly; Oh, Deer; Hunting Guidelines; Wilds; When Nature Bites!; Something Fowl; For the Birds; The Bunny Trail; Distracting Urban Animals; Humane Treatment Required; Cattle Guards; Particular to Pachyderms; Ragin Cajun Critters . Bee Nice!; The Domesticated Segment HORSE POWER (AND OTHER EQUINES) Giddy Up!;Dress for the Gallop; Of Hoof and Highway THE LAWS OF NATURE AND MAN Maintaining Control Where None Is Possible; DO, I DONT AND THE SPOTS IN BETWEEN; Pre-marital Bliss; Marital Bliss? HEALTH, HYGIENE AND NAPPING; Avoiding Injury, One Way or Another; Decent Exposures; Bodily Fluids andSolids; Keep it Clean; Flossing Away; Sleep Time; FREEDOM AND OTHER STICKY SUBJECTS; Curses!;Group Activities; Native American Relations; Decency Defined . . Flagged; DINING, SORT OFCreative Culinary Choices; Fake and Discarded Food; TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS; Constructive Laws;Weapons at Work; Service Industries; Advertising; Business Hygiene; Booze Rules; Gambling; Ink Industry; RECREATION: CANT WE JUST HAVE FUN? Kick Up Your Heels; Sports. Arcade and Related Games;Playgrounds; Taking a Break; Public Safety; Corrupting Youth; HOLIDAY TIME! Christmas; Independence Day; Halloween; DEAD AND GONE; Final Resting Spot; MORALITY LAWS, OR BLUE LAWS; Sacred Sundays;Brakes on Car Sales; Alcohol Related; Shopping; Recreation; Work; Quiet!; Church Time; Divine Insights; VOTE! In the Booth; MURDER AND MAYHEM; Guns and Ammo; Crowd Control; Deadly Dueling;Creative Weaponry; Criminal Intents? SEX AND RELATED ACTIVITIES; Auto-motives; Public Displays;Keep it Covered; Bare Rules; Bodily Urges; GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE; Attracting Attention;Safe Roadways; Rules of the Road; Animals and Autos; Auto Hygiene; Car Etiquette; Driving Under Influences Other Road Hazards; Alternative Transportation; FIRE SAFETY, SORT OF Playing with Fire; TOURISM AND TRAVEL; Hotel Rules; How to be a Good Tourist; Its Not All Easy in the Home of the Big Easy MISCELLANEOUS; Technology; History and Legend No Disguises; This and That; FACT OR FICTION?Desert Dwellers; Fashion Related; Almost a Law; AFTER WACKY LAWS: LAWSUITS! Truth in Advertising?;Disgusting or Disturbing; Business Challenges; Covering all the Bases"

About the author

Winter Prosapio is a humor columnist, freelance writer and media relations expert who has extensive experience working for Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations. Her regular humor column appears in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitlung, which was the first German newspaper in Texas and was established in 1852. Winter has also written for the Christian Science Monitor, Working Mother magazine, Family Tree magazine and the San Antonio Express News. Bestselling author Lisa Wojna has authored or co-authored more than 20 books for Blue Bike Books, including Weird Canadian Laws and the Bathroom Book of Canadian Quotes. She has also written many other non-fiction books. Having worked in the community newspaper industry as a writer and journalist, she has traveled all over Canada from the windy prairies of Manitoba to northern British Columbia and even to the wilds of Africa. Although writing and photography have been a central part of her life for as long as she can remember, it's the people behind every story that are her motivation and give her the most fulfillment.

Product details

• Authors: Winter Prosapio, Winter D Prosapio, Winter D. Prosapio, Winter Prosapio, Lisa Wojna
• Publisher: Blue Bike Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9781926700403
• ISBN: 978-1-926700-40-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 208 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 262 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries