There Ought to be a LAW! (Blogophilia 14.32)

 Many people have said it.

Once in a while, a bonehead will come up with it.

Years ago, my niece gave me a book titled "The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation" (Dick Hyman, The Stephen Greene Press, (c)1976) with 115 pages of laws, that might have made sense at the time of enactment, but are silly today. 

The titular entry reads: "It is unlawful to throw tainted pickles into the streets" It doesn't say when the law went into effect, but I assume it was before most were paved and horses could literally be in a pickle. Tainted pickles do stink of rotted cucumbers, so there is that. 

If you are living in the Northeast, you might be interested in this law from Brawley, California: "It is forbidden to snow within the city limits."

Then you have ones that seem Prohibition Influenced: "In the state of South Carolina, it is unlawful to sell pants with hip pockets." This was done to dissuade people from carrying flasks. My mother's relatives regularly flaunted this one. 

My Dad's folks used to laugh at Toomsboro, Georgia's prohibition on going shirtless.

And it is illegal in the State of Michigan to put a skunk in your boss's desk, even though you so want to. 

Some people age, others mature so to speak 

But my favorite is from Denver, Colorado: "A Dog Catcher must notify dogs of their impounding by posting, for three consecutive days a notice on a tree in a city park and along a road leading into said park."

I wonder how that worked out?

Let's ask the author.