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[walkingdead127]

In Texas it is punishable by death to steal a man's horse.
In Lee County Alabama it is illegal to sell peanuts after dark.
In Columbus Georgia you can't tie an alligator to a fire hydrant or carry a chicken upside down on Broadway.

 

[megalomania]

Apparently it is still legal to shoot a welsh man with a longbow from the walls of York castle!

 

[Halceon]

In some town which i'm not willing to remember it's illegal for bees to fly down Main street.

 

[bickster]

New

Wasn't a law in the USA (don't remenber the state in question) that the penalty of jumping off a building is death?

Makes you wonder really...

New York City. It was a bi-law, the State law is the penalty for suicide is death, the by-law is the penalty for jumping off a building is death.

 

[Neonbob]

"Detonating a nuclear device within city limits will result in a $500 dollar fine."

Dammit!
I'm out $500 bucks!

...where else is this an issue?

 

[black lincon]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building, and it is also illegal to tie your giraffe to a light post.

 

[Cuniculus]

In California it is illegal to drive more then 500 sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at any one time.

 

[Cuniculus]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building, and it is also illegal to tie your giraffe to a light post.

Well how the hell else am I supposed to get really hot Mexican food?

 

[TheLastCylon]

A town I used to live in in Northern Washington had some crazy ones, like "It's illegal for rabbits to copulate within 500 yards of an educational institution."

 

[black lincon]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building, and it is also illegal to tie your giraffe to a light post.

Well how the hell else am I supposed to get really hot Mexican food?

you could eat it in an oven, or next to a volcano.

 

[Fulax]

UK:

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

In Lancashire, no person is permitted after being asked to stop by a constable on the seashore to incite a dog to bark.

In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

A man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle

Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked mannequin.

Under Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don?t want him to know, though you don?t have to tell him anything you don?t mind him knowing.

It is illegal to set off a nuclear device.

It is illegal to sell a squirrel.

 

[Cuniculus]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building, and it is also illegal to tie your giraffe to a light post.

Well how the hell else am I supposed to get really hot Mexican food?

you could eat it in an oven, or next to a volcano.

Too cramped/too exotic.

 

[JanatUrlich]

It is illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory in Dakota

it is also illegal to ride a bike in a swimming pool in one US state

 

[black lincon]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building, and it is also illegal to tie your giraffe to a light post.

Well how the hell else am I supposed to get really hot Mexican food?

you could eat it in an oven, or next to a volcano.

Too cramped/too exotic.

well then you could light yourself on fire, there's no law against eating a meal while on fire.

It is illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory in Dakota

you're aware there are two Dakotas.

 

[JanatUrlich]

you're aware there are two Dakotas.

I think it was South but I can't quite remember

 

[ExodusinFlames]

In the quiet town of Connorsville, Wisconsin, it's illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.
That one made me laugh a bit. Cause really ... how many folks have wanted to do this, or have in fact done it. I mean, c'mon Connorsville, we're only human.

 

[albear]

In Chester, its legal to shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside city walls after midnight

 

[TMAN10112]

In New York, Bigfoot is considered an protected species.

Well dammit, if I see a bigfoot in my woods I'ma shoot 'em.

 

[NotAPie]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building, and it is also illegal to tie your giraffe to a light post.

*holds hands out*
Cuff me.

 

[lacktheknack]

in Chicago it is illegal to eat in a burning building,

Ok, when I first read that, I completely missed the "in", making it much more entertaining.

Also, it's illegal in Canada to pay a debt of more than twenty five cents entirely in pennies. I can see the use of this one, my friend bought $200 shoes and paid in 50 cent penny rolls. The clerk obviously didn't know about this law, and COUNTED EVERY ROLL. Sucker.