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Dumb
Laws -
New York
• A fine of $25
can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from
turning around on any city street and looking "at a woman in that way." A
second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male
to be forced to wear a "pair of horse-blinders" wherever and whenever he
goes outside for a stroll.
• A license must be purchased before hanging clothes on a clothesline.
• A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her
pocket.
• Carmel: A man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do
not match.
• Citizens may not greet each other by "putting one's thumb to the nose and
wiggling the fingers".
• Donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Brooklyn, N.Y.
• During a concert, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the
sidewalks.
• In Carmel, N.Y., a man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants
that do not match.
• In Greene, New York, During a concert, it is illegal to eat peanuts and
walk backwards on the sidewalks.
• In New York, you can teach your pet parrot to speak, but not to squawk.
• In Ocean City, New York It is illegal to eat in the street in residential
neighborhoods, and the only beverage you can drink on the beach is water in
a clear plastic bottle.
• In Staten Island, New York, It is illegal for a father to call his son a
"faggot" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior."
• It is against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.
• It is illegal for a father to call his son a "faggot" or "queer" in an
effort to curb "girlie behavior."
• It is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing "body hugging
clothing."
• It is illegal to jump off the Empire State building.
• New York: Citizens may not greet each other by "putting one's thumb to the
nose and wiggling the fingers". It is illegal for a woman to be on the
street wearing "body hugging clothing." You may not smoke within 100 feet of
the entrance to a public building. Women may go topless in public, providing
it is not being used as a business.
• New Yorkers cannot dissolve a marriage for irreconcilable differences,
unless they both agree to it.
• Ocean City: It is illegal to eat in the street in residential
neighborhoods, and the only beverage you can drink on the beach is water in
a clear plastic bottle. It is illegal for men to go topless in the center of
town.
• Slippers are not to be worn after 10:00 P.M.
• Staten Island: You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your
hand. It is illegal for a father to call his son a "faggot" or "queer" in an
effort to curb "girlie behavior."
• The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city
subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere
without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after
arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police
spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were
violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a
cigarette, then we would take action." Smoking is not allowed in the
subways.
• The penalty for jumping off a building is death.
• The penalty for jumping off a building is death.
• While riding in an elevator, one must talk to no one, and fold his hands
while looking toward the door.
• Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a
business.
• You may not smoke within 100 feet of the entrance to a public building.
• You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your hand
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