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do you have some wacky laws of which you have become aware?

please share them here!

i just discovered a few from Canada, in the Amazing mature Gaians guild, so here they are:

Quirky Canadian Laws

Canada-wide
-You may not pay for a fifty-cent item with only pennies.
-Citizens may not publicly remove bandages.
-It is illegal for clear or non-dark sodas to contain caffeine.

Alberta

Provincial Laws

-Businesses must provide rails for tying up horses.
-Wooden logs may not be painted.
-It is illegal to set fire to the wooden leg of a wooden legged man
-You cannot use dice to play crapps
-Wooden Logs may not be painted

City Laws

-Calgary - If you are released from prison, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so you can ride out of town.
-Edmonton - Horses are not allowed to stand on the streets for more than 20 minutes.

British Columbia

Provincial Laws

-It is illegal to kill a Sasquatch.

City Laws

-Victoria - Street entertainers aren't allowed to give kids balloon animals.

New Brunswick

Provincial Laws

* Driving on the roads is not allowed.

Nova Scotia Provincial Laws

-When raining, a person may not water his/her lawn.

Ontario

City Laws

-Etobicoke - Bylaw states that no more than 3.5 inches of water is allowed in a bathtub.
-Oshawa - It's illegal to climb trees.
-Ottawa - It's illegal to eat ice-cream on Bank Street on a Sunday.
-Toronto - You can't drag a dead horse down Yonge St. on a Sunday.
-Toronto - You're not allowed to release 10 or more helium balloons within 24 hours.

Quebec

Provincial Laws

-It's illegal for margarine to be the same colour as butter.
- You are not allowed to turn right at a red light at anytime

City Laws

-Montreal - The Queen Elizabeth Hotel must feed your horse freely when you rent a room.
-Montreal - Cars parked in public places must be locked, and their windows must be down to less than the width of a hand.
- Montreal - You cannot wash your car on the street
- Montreal - You cannot park your car and block your own driveway

- Quebec City - You may not swear in French.

-Victoria - Street entertainers aren't allowed to give kids balloon animals.

That one is just mean. ) :

-Ottawa - It's illegal to eat ice-cream on Bank Street on a Sunday.
-Toronto - You can't drag a dead horse down Yonge St. on a Sunday.

I don't understand the laws that are extremely specific, even to the day of the week? Why? >>;


Also, illegal man boobs? What are the consequences... D:

the Law is an Ass1!