A Joke From The Past - A Law Known As Daylight Robbery

According to StupidLaws.com:

New Jersey
If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates.

New Jersey
It is against the law to “frown” at a police officer.

Canada
It is against the law to make burgers out of polar bears.

Marion
You cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.

Denmark
It’s against the law for restaurants in Denmark to make the customers pay for a glass of water – unless it is served with something. (A slice of lemon, ice cubes)

Newcastle
Touching electrified wires that cause instant death is a $200 fine,

Greece
No one is allowed to play electronic games.

Billings
It is illegal to bring a bomb or rocket to city council proceedings.

Chico
Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.

Destin
Torpedoes may not be set off in the city.

Destin
If you wish to go swimming in the ocean, you must get dressed in your hotel room.

Bromide
It is illegal for children to use towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be superman.

North Dakota
It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.

Grand Haven
No person shall throw an abandoned hoop skirt into any street or on any sidewalk, under penalty of a five dollar fine for each offense.

Connellsville
One’s pants may be worn no lower than five inches below the waist.

Charlotte
Women must have their bodies covered by at least 16 yards of cloth at all times.

Texas
A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit.

New Hampshire
You cannot sell the clothes you are wearing to pay off a gambling debt.

South Africa
Young people wearing bathing suits are prohibited from sitting less than 12 inches apart.

Santa Cruz
It is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

Texas
Sixteen-year old divorced girls are prohibited from talking about sex during high school extracurricular activities.

Kansas
It is illegal for chicken thieves to work during daylight hours.

Wichita
One must get a permit from the city if they wish to take dirt from the airport.

Wichita
Any person caught using or carrying bean snappers or the like shall upon conviction, be fined.

Mohave County, AZ
A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.

Michigan
It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.

Minnesota
A woman isn’t allowed to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission.

Florida
A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.

Destin
It is illegal to sell ice cream in a cemetery.

Marion
Ministers are forbidden from eating garlic or onions before delivering a sermon.

Washington, DC
No preaching, exhorting, or lecturing shall be conducted for a total of more than thirty days at any single location

Trenton
You may not throw a bad pickle in the street.

Korea
The eating of stray cats is not permitted.

Fort Thomas
Cats may not molest cars.

Pittsburgh
It is illegal to bring a donkey or a mule onto a trolley car.

Yeah, leave it to the Britts for great taxation laws.

Like the tax imposed in England in the 1700's that became a curse word.
The tax was for fornication, and it was introduced as the Fornication Under Consent of King tax which became F.U.C.K. Thanks again Britts!

Wankers! LOL

It was an early property tax. Glass was a very expensive commodity and the number of windows your home had was a rough proxy for the wealth of the householder and the ability to contribute. Before that it was the hearth tax, based on the number of chimneys your house had. Property taxes are reasonably efficient to administer as the wealthy cannot suddenly transport their home to an offshore trust 🙄

There used to be laws against homosexuality.

In the United States of America in the state of Kentucky there is a law from the 1800's still on the legal books of the state.

This law is that it is illegal for a woman to walk down any road without having a man with a club to escort her for her safety. Must have been rough for women in Kentucky in the 1800's to have such a law written.

UK
Handling salmon 'suspiciously' is illegal .

In Connecticut until a recent cleanup, there was still a law on the books that said anyone entering a town in an automobile had to stop at the town limits and hire someone to walk ahead of the car at 5mph and wave a red flag until they got through the town.

I am surprised our esteemed thieves, er-um I mean leaders haven’t come up with the Gravity Tax yet. The combined weight of you and your possessions is assessed for their “Gravity Footprint.” Weight, as everyone knows, throws the planet’s rotation and orbit around the sun into unpredictable wobbles, affecting everything from sunrise and sunset times to climate and even mating seasons for wombats. Combatting gravity is everyone’s responsibility.

They would have been careful not to leave rooms with no daylight at all, as far as possible; but that might not have been possible in big homes with very many rooms having only one window each. It was repealed long ago of course, though without looking it up I don't know when.

I think you are right though that many countries still have laws that made sense in their day but are long obsolete, and if still nominally in force it's probably because they have been long superceded and forgotten.

I recently heard that if you're locked up in prison in Germany, its NOT illegal for you to try to escape because its human nature to try to escape from a situation where you are locked up against your will.

Maybe its illegal but you won't be punished.

Also a great example of why centrally planned mandates rarely work. The people will find ways around it and fudge the stats, until none of the records reflect reality and the people in control lose visibility and make dumb decisions

I knew of the law, but the daylight robbery is new, thanks

yes we had many strange laws,like the corn laws,