Column Chronicles: More strange laws around the globe

More strange laws around the globe

Frank Cotolo
September 30, 2021

The laws change from city to city and country to country and there are a lot of cities and countries. That is why there are so many strange laws people do not know and why we inform readers of the incomprehensible pieces of legislation. All names of places are real.

In Ding Dong, Texas, the sale of marshmallows to children under the age of 12 is prohibited without written permission from a professional wrestler.

Dildo, Canada, slaps stiff fines on residents caught trying to organize a running marathon.

There are two towns in Scottland named Twatt (the Norse word for a plot of land). The Twat on the Orkney Islands has a law that does not allow bowling with lettuce. Also in this Twat, marching with two or more people in public is illegal.

The Scotland Twat on the Shetland Islands prohibits smoking cigars in a church confessional and a person can go to jail for a week if he or she is caught carrying lighted candles in the town square without a morbid expression on their faces.

It is illegal to hold a marriage ceremony on Slaughter Beach in Delaware.

The town of Coolin in Idaho only allows jazz music to be played live on odd days of the month and even then, no jazz musician may resemble the late Fidel Castro.

A Molt, Montana law demands that tourists come to the town with no expectations or receive a daily fine that doubles each day they remain within the town borders.

When voting in local Fries, Virginia elections, residents of the town will not have their votes counted unless they can draw a vegetable exploding on their paper ballot.

Nowhere in the country of Belize, is a person allowed to attempt mating with an accordion.

In order to legally carry hardboiled eggs in your pants, the town of Batman, Turkey requires you to pay for a two-month license and when it expires, renew it for one month. After the second renewal, no license shall be registered to any person for a year, unless that person has a live hen living within a mile of the person's residence (only, then, if the residence is not a rented apartment).

Bulls, New Zealand, requires that residents wanting to legally change their names must do so alphabetically for a fee.

Tuesdays in Dinosaur, Colorado, are the only days when it is legal to burn a stagecoach.

George, Washington, is closed on George Washington's birthday, wedding anniversary, inaugural anniversary (for both Presidential terms) and other days to be named annually.

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.