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Dumb
Laws -
Missouri
• Buckner: In
this small town of only 4,000, yard waste may be burned any day except
Sunday.
• Children can buy shotguns in Kansas City, Missouri... but not toy cap
guns.
• Excelsior Springs: Hard objects may not be thrown by hand. Worrying
squirrels is not tolerated.
• Four women may not rent an apartment together.
• Hard objects may not be thrown by hand.
• In Merryville women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the
privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman
should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
• In St. Louis, it's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink
beer from a bucket.
• It is illegal to have oral sex.
• It is not illegal to speed.
• Kansas City: Minors are not allowed to purchase cap pistols, however they
may buy shotguns freely. Installation of bathtubs with four legs resembling
animal paws is prohibited.
• Marceline: Minors can buy rolling paper and tobacco but not lighters.
• Marquette: It is illegal for more than four unrelated persons to occupy
the same dwelling (The Brothel Law).
• Minors can buy rolling paper and tobacco but not lighters.
• Minors in Kansas City, Missouri, are not allowed to purchase cap pistols;
they may buy shotguns freely, however.
• Mole: Frightening a baby is in violation of the law.
• Natchez: It shall be unlawful to provide beer or other intoxicants to
elephants.
• Purdy: Dancing is strictly prohibited.
• St. Louis: It's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink
beer from a bucket. This law refers back to the extinct Italian celebration,
Hill Day, when beer was served in buckets. A milk man may not run while on
duty.
• University City: Four women may not rent an apartment together.
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