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Strange laws in America that are now on the books
 
 
Frank Cotolo
August 28, 2020
 
Once again, we have discovered laws recently passed that many people don't know exist. So, we continue to reveal some of those awkward laws that are not just awkward but often incredible and still, unfortunately, official.
 
In Buffalo, New York, it is illegal to place snow in a cardboard box and feed it to animals.
 
All carpenters in the state of Arizona must register with the state if they own more than twenty hammers or five different sized nails.
 
Tourists of Austin, Texas will be fined if they keep a ladder in their hotel or motel room.
 
Water balloons are illegal in Manhattan, Kansas.
 
Tallahassee, Florida prohibits the use of sleeping pills while putting diseased oxen out of their misery.
 
Experiment, Georgia, warns residents that stiff penalties will be presented to men over thirty who walk barefoot in department stores; children under five that play outdoors in the rain; the sale of a live monkey on any Tuesday of any month of the year; the use of a garden rake to wash a car.
 
In Coupon, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to use coupons.
 
Realtors in Dogtown, Alabama, are prohibited from building a new house or refurbishing a house that already exist from looking like any structure in Vietnam.
 
The borough of Queens in New York City passed an ordinance that allows people over the age of sixty to lie about being over the age of sixty in any legal agreement.
 
In Minnesota, residents are permitted to place their automobiles on fire to melt ice and snow on any day where the temperature dips to minus zero.
 
No one can play an organ outdoors before six in the morning in Aberdeen, Maryland.
 
Wearing a mask while shopping at Walmart is punishable by fine or three weeks in jail if you are a resident of New Haven, Connecticut.
 
Worshipping plants is now legal in Oregon.
 
All licensed plumbers working in the state of North Dakota must wear tool belts when dismantling fawcets in public restrooms.
 
Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.
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