Know your rights and the laws in your land -- Little unknown laws thread

Actually, both of those are pretty well known in my family. *s*

Adultry, it's not so much taht it's legal, just that there is no reason (other than moral/religious) for it to be not legal.

And the car thing, way back in the 70's, my father almost lost his liscence for that.

I saw a site a while back with a whole bunch of strange laws listed on it. Most of them were in southern states though. I'll have to see if I can find the link again *s*

I just could not believe it. a law saying its illegal to have intercourse with anyone except your wife.

2003 in NYC???


Now covering more than one seat on the subway car makes sence or sitting on a sunnydale milk carton (its owned by sunnydale)

The is a law in Canada (I don't know about anywhere else) saying that you're not allowed in public with less than a certain amount of money on you (I think it's something like 5$). Apparently it's law they used to arrest hobboes and beggars.
Also, you are not allowed to gather in a public place as a group of more than 5 people without a permit. It's called illegal assembly or something like that. They use that to disperse the crowd in manifestations.

Of course those are some of the laws that are very unknown and rarely applied, other than when they need a reason to arrest somebody.

In New York City, it is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing "body hugging clothing." In New York City, it is illegal for a man to turn around and look "at a woman in that way," and violators are forced to wear horse blinders. In Staten Island, it is illegal for a father to call his son a "faggot" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior." In New York City, "It is disorderly conduct for one man to greet another on the street by placing the end of his thumb against the tip of his nose, at the same time extending and wiggling the fingers of his hand."

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Taken from http://www.md.lp.org/weird_laws.html

California

In Los Angeles, a man may legally beat his wife with a leather strap, as long as it is less than two inches wide, or she gives him permission to use a wider strap.

Hmm interesting (I found that on Hus' link)

also in New York if that is true then there is alottt of ppl breaking the law over there! hehe

There's an old law in London that's actually never been changed, it goes back to the pre-car days, and it states that all hackneys (Taxis) must carry a bale of hay in their rear compartment.
Of course being related to the old horse-drawn cabs, the law is still actually legal, technically.

In Globe, AZ, it is illegal to play cards in the street with a Native American.

Does that mean that it is perfectly legal to play cards with a Euro-American, Afro-American, Asian-American, or (insert racial prefix here)-American person in the street.



In Ventura County,CA, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.

Yeah, ok, so exactly how should my dog get a sex permit if he decides to move himself to california?


In Hartford,CT, it is illegal to educate a dog.

I can understand that one. Naturally, dogs are much more intelligent than humans. Surely, if we allow them to aquire knowledge they would band together, overthrow all governments of the world and become one giant superpower while herding all humans to one remote island which they would then destroy.



The only acceptable sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position.

Of course. If politicians were allowed to take the few extra seconds required to assume other positions, the 5 minutes a year that they actually spend doing what they were elected to do would be reduced to 45 seconds.





I don;t have time to read the whole list right now......

its just funny... we talk about goverment watching us now, it would seem they always was.

Now they got new equiptment.

I wonder if anyone has beat their wife with a strap and used that law as a defense in Calif.?

in Thailand it's illegal to throw money on the ground. The king's image is on a lot of coins, and is watermarked into a lot of paper bills. you can get into deep serious over this one. if you fight with a cabby, don't throw the money at his feet!

until ~1965, an old Houston city ordinance provided that gunfights had to be moved off of Main Street onto one of the side streets after 6 pm on Mon-Sat, and were banned on Sunday.

paxx - if the 5 assembled personnages aren't Canadian, is it still illegal?

so paxx basically if you are going somewhere with your familily you can get arrested because there are 8 of you?

Do you know it is illegal to sit on a Sunnydale crate in NY?

It belongs to Sunnydale.


I didn't get the Penal code book yet but I will and I know its going to be funny.



Also, did you know that if your ignorant oif the law they do not care and can still give you a ticket (or sentence)?

Cars are suppossed to be a certain height of the road. Don't drive a Poshe in NYC because you can be pulled over.


Can't stop a mail truck EVER for not a minute nor can they get ticket going thru red lights.

It’s really not that hard to believe if you look at the basis of most laws.  The foundation of most original laws began on a religious belief of some sort.  So knowing that the Bible considers adultery to be a sin, along with stealing and murder its really not that hard to believe.  Its just that today’s society has change dramatically in the last century where the majority of the people now consider non-marital sexual relations to be acceptable. 

If you would have brought this topic up 50 years ago I believe that you would have found many people to be aware of that law.  Michigan also has a similar law but it is really only used in statutory rape cases when the two parties where having consensual sex.

aware of that law... and knowingly breaking it? 50 years ago I am sure there were many who had there 'fun'.

and on top of that, this piticular code is in the sexual deviants area along with insest, rape, sodome and other more obviously criminal activities. but 2 consenting adult partners having intercourse seems a little more on the private side.

society has change dramatically in the last century where the majority of the people now consider non-marital sexual relations to be acceptable

true, T-Man, but the strong majority of people i've queried say that it's much more acceptable if it's someone else's family members who are thus involved, and not really acceptable if it's their own children doing it. we have another double standard. "in my community - yes. in my family - no."

Paxx...the vagrancy act refers to having sufficient money to make it to your house of residence...else you are a 'vagrant'.

It is an offence to be unable to, or refuse to stable a visitor's horse [if you are a publican].

In a two-way street, parking facing the wrong direction [for that side] is deemed to be parking too far away from the near-side kerb....in this case, the OTHER one..

I've got a list of these old, archaic, un-repealed laws somewhere, (must be on the web aswell, of course) like its still illegal to be drunk in a pub. What's the point in going then??

In Florida it's illegal if your dog takes a dump on the street/sidewalk and you don't pick it up! ... I'd be doing a life sentence by now!
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In the state of Washington there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances. (Including the wedding night.)

No wonder there are a lot of old grouchy people around here.

Up until 1986, in Georgia you could beat you son with a Carriage Whip as punishment and if he happened to die durring or after it because of it, it was acceptable. You where not sparing the rod and you did not intend to kill him.

I forget where it is Illegal to ride Nude through the center of town on a horse on Sunday?
Alabama?

I was checking out that website of stupid law.... I lived in Norfolk VA for years and patted my fiancee on the "derrier" many a time. I guess I'm a career criminal.

Just on Sunday?

yep, Sunday.

in Singapore, any littering whatsoever can land you in jail for several days and get you a $500.00 fine. even just the wrapper off a stick of gum is enough to get you zapped. and the populace helps the police enforce this law.