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Curious about what you can and can’t do across the continental U.S.? Don’t even think about putting salt on a railroad track in Alabama; you could be arrested and sentenced to die. And ladies, it’s illegal for married women in Florida to parachute on Sundays. Read about more of these strange and wacky laws in Weird U.S. Laws: • In Memphis, you aren’t allowed to share your pie nor can you take home any leftover pie • Motorists in Alabama are prohibited from driving their vehicles while blindfolded • Oregon banned self-serve gas bars in 1951, so it is illegal for anyone to pump gas into a car in that state, although motorcycles and boats are exempt • Talk about courtesy patrol: in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a police officer who suspects a couple is having sex in a vehicle must honk the patrol car horn three times and wait two minutes before approaching the vehicle • In Carver County, Minnesota, airplanes, hot air balloons or any other flying apparatus aren’t allowed to take off or land in public parks; shooting off toy rockets is also against law • Bad news for the hairy: in Omaha, Nebraska, a man is not allowed to “run around” with his chest shaved • Keep that car on the road in Quitman, Georgia, because it’s illegal for cars to drive on sidewalks. Oddly, it’s also illegal for chickens to cross the road! • Resist that music! In New Hampshire, patrons in bars are not permitted to tap their feet to the music • In Arkansas you can’t keep your alligator, or alligators as the case may be, in your bathtub • In Washington State, it’s against the law to use “X-ray, fluoroscopic or other equipment or apparatus employing roentgen rays” to fit that perfect shoe; the only people allowed to view the bones in your feet are licensed health practitioners • Since 1919 in Michigan, it has been illegal for anyone to kill an animal by electrocution or by using a high altitude decompression chamber • If you plan to tie your elephant to a parking meter in Florida, you must pay the fee as you would for any vehicle. And so many more! Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blue Bike Books (September 1, 2012)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1926700406


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 03


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.62 x 8.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,178,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,341 in Trivia (Books) #20,504 in U.S. State & Local History #91,219 in Reference (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews


  • fascinating and mind boggling
incredible find of a book, broken down into small sections, great for when you have a few minutes to kill. fascinating and mind boggling information to say the least.
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2016 by Chad

  • Yup, this is our nation
pure entertainment
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2018 by Bob

  • Love this book
Love this book. Bought it for an Xmas gift but I keep looking through it from time to time. Fast shipping too
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015 by Jackie

  • Five Stars
Gift for the judge in the family.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016 by Claudia Race

  • The writing is not great.
It's interesting. The writing is not great.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017 by Jack H

  • Fluff
I found more about crazy and weird laws by doing a Google search in under 10 minutes. This book is poorly written and is filled with fluff, and not fun or entertaining fluff but words to expand the book. Lame.
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2020 by Melyssa A. Harmon

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