40 Strange American Laws!

By Anonymous -
To help with your procrastination we have found 40 strange American laws! Read along if you dare...

 1. In Arizona, it is illegal to let a donkey sleep in a bathtub.
 2. It's illegal to live on a boat for more than 30 days in Georgia.
 3. In California, it is illegal to wear cowboy boots unless you own at least two cows.
 4. It is illegal to place a coin in someone's ear in Hawaii.
 5. In Florida, all doors to public buildings must open outwards.
 6. You cannot sell your eye in Texas.
 7. In Massachusetts it is illegal to snore unless all bedroom windows are securely closed and locked.
 8. You cannot sell peanuts after sundown on Wednesday in Alabama.
 9. In Alaska, it is considered an offence to push a moose out of an airplane.
10. In Minnesota, it is illegal to walk into Wisconsin with a chicken on your head.
11. It is considered a felony to steal more the $1000 worth of grease in North Carolina.
12. You cannot sing in the bathtub if you are in Pennsylvania.
13. In Kentucky, you cannot dye a duckling blue and sell it if there are less then six for sale at once.
14. It is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a murder in New Jersey.
15. In Virginia it is illegal to tickle women.
16. In Washington it is considered a crime to paint polka dots on the American flag.
17. It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday in Michigan.
18. In an Illinois city, it is illegal to pee in your neighbours mouth.
19. You cannot mutilate a rock in a state park in Colorado.
20. Christian parents cannot make their children get out of the car to pick up rubbish on Easter Day in Tennessee.
21. In Ohio you cannot get a fish drunk.
22. Butter substitutes are outlawed in Wisconsin Prisons.
23. In Oregon, dishes must drip dry.
24. It is perfectly legal to beat your wife on the court house on Sundays.
25. In Maryland it is illegal to take a lion to a movie.
26. In New York the penalty of jumping off of a building is death.
27. In the capital of Connecticut, (Hartford), it is illegal to educate dogs.
28. In Missouri, frightening a baby is an outlaw.
29. The penalty of making 'ugly' faces at a dog is a fine and possibly jail.
30. Stealing an alligator can land you in jail for up to 20 years in Louisiana.
31. In Nebraska, it is illegal to fly a plane drunk.
32. It is illegal to fish on horseback in Utah.
33. In Indiana sheets in hotels must be 99 inches in length and 81 inches in width.
34. It is illegal to catch a fish with your bare hands in Kansas
35. In Montana it is illegal for a wife to open her husbands mail.
36. It is charged with death for cow rustling in Mississippi.
37. In New Mexico, idiots may not vote.
38. It is illegal to bite off a persons leg at Rhode Island.
39. In Nevada, it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.

40. In Arkansas, you cannot pronounce Arkansas wrong.

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