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Dumb
Laws -
Tennessee
•"Crimes against
nature" are prohibited.
• Any person crippling, killing or in any way destroying a proud bitch that
is running at large shall not be held liable for the damages due to such
killing or destruction.
• Driving is not to be done while asleep.
• Dyersburg: It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.
• Fayette County: You may not have more than five inoperable vehicles on a
piece of property.
• Giving and receiving oral sex is still prohibited by law.
• Hollow logs may not be sold.
• In Memphis, it is illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man
either running or walking in front of it, waving a red flag to warn
approaching motorists and pedestrians.
• In Tennessee hollow logs may not be sold.
• It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.
• It is illegal to catch a fish with a lasso.
• It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.
• It is legal to gather and consume road kill
• It's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM.
• Knoxville: In front of their buildings, all businesses must have a
"hitching post."
• Lenoir City: When you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the
window to warn horse carriages that you are coming.
• Lexington: No one may eat ice cream on the sidewalk. Spitting on the
sidewalk is prohibited.
• Memphis: Illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either
running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching
motorists and pedestrians. It's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM.
Panhandlers must first obtain a $10 permit before begging on the streets of
downtown Memphis. It is illegal to give any pie to fellow diners. It is also
illegal to take unfinished pie home. All pie must be eaten on the premises.
• More than 8 women may not live in the same house because that would
constitute a brothel.
• Nashville: Males may not be sexually aroused in public.
• Stealing a horse is punishable by hanging.
• The age of consent is 16, but 12 if the girl is a virgin.
• You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.
Oneida: An ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain
No Mo'."
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