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Dumb Laws
Apr. 14, 2002 - 11:26 PM

The following courtesty of: Dumb Laws

Montana State Laws

- It is a felony for a wife to open her husband's mail.

Montana City Laws

- Excelsior Springs - Balls may not be thrown within the city limits.

Indiana State Laws

- Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.

- It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday.

- A person who dyes, stains, or otherwise alters the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit commits a Class B misdemeanor. (Ind. Code 15-2.1-21-13(b)

- Oral sex is illegal.

- A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.

- It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.

- Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.

- Pedestrians crossing the highway at night are prohibited from wearing tail lights.

- No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.

- Men are prohibited from standing in a bar.

- You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table. The waiter or waitress has to do it.

- Drinks on the house are illegal.

- Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest.

- You are required to pour your drink into a glass.

- "Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal.

- State government officials who engage in private duels can be dismissed from their post.

- All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads.

- Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans.

- Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.

- If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Certain Immoral Practices.

- Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.

- A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.

Indiana City Laws

- Evansville - While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on.

- Gary - Within four hours of eating garlic, a person may not enter a movie house, theater, or ride a public streetcar.

- South Bend - It is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.

- Terre Haute - No one may spit on the sidewalk.

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