It is against the law to yell out "Snake!" within the city limits of Flowery Branch, Georgia.
It is forbidden to take photographs at a Quaker wedding.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It is not against the law in the U.S. to be a drug addict. In 1962, the Supreme Court called imprisonment for being an addict cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Bill of Rights.
It was illegal for women to wear buttons in fifteenth-century Florence.
It was reported in 1992 that free-lance Dutch prostitutes would have to charge sales tax, but that they could write off items such as condoms and beds. The ruling stemmed from a 1990 court decision in The Netherlands that it was unfair to exempt self-employed prostitutes from the tax-charged brothels
Jaguar images and costumes were outlawed by the Catholic church in the seventeenth century because of their association with Indian religion, militia, and politics.
Licensed London taxis (otherwise known as black cabs) are required by law to carry a bale of hay at all times. This dates from the days of the horse drawn cab and the relevant law has never been revoked.
Massachusetts Puritans passed America's first law against gambling in 1638.
Nearly 43 percent of convicted criminals serving prison sentences in the U.S. are re-arrested within a year of being released from prison.
New York was the first state to require the licensing of motor vehicles. The law was adopted in 1901.
No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
No two-cycle engines are allowed in Singapore. The license fee for a new car is small, about $5, but as the vehicle grows older, the fee increases. When the auto reaches 8 years old, it is no longer allowed on the streets. This is opposite of the license-fee structure in the U.S. While strict, Singapore's auto law has virtually wiped out air pollution in the country.
On August 12, 1895, Minnie Dean became the first woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Her crime was "baby farming." She would adopt unwanted babies for a certain fee and then dispose of them, a "service" she began in 1889. The police caught on to Minnie after six years and found her to be most certainly guilty when they dug up three bodies of infants in her flower garden.
On January 28, 1687, a Japanese law was imposed by the Sunayoshi forbidding the killing of animals and the eating of all fish, shellfish, and birds. Sunayoshi’s only son had died and he became a devout Buddhist.
On October 6, 1932, the state of Vera Cruz in Mexico banned priests as citizens.
One paradoxical fact about pristine Catalina Island is that, unlike the rest of car-crazy Southern California, the number of cars on the island is strictly limited. Waiting time to get a permit for a car is eight to ten years. Most residents drive gasoline-powered golf carts.
Orthodox Judaism continues to forbid the practice of cremation.
Oxford University requires all members upon admission to the Bodleian Library to read aloud a pledge that includes an agreement to not "kindle therein any fire or flame." Regulations also prohibit readers bringing sheep into the library.
Pennsylvania law mandates that all counties provide veterans' graves each year with a flag, most of which are distributed before Memorial Day.
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