Dumb laws in Washington
Washington
• A law to reduce crime states: “It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.”
• All lollipops are banned.
• Bremerton: You may not shuck peanuts on the street.
• Everett: It is illegal to display a hypnotized or allegedly hypnotized person in a store window.
• In Olympia, Wash., minors are prohibited from frequenting pool halls.
• In Spokane, Wash., it used to be illegal to interrupt a religious meeting by having a horse race.
• In the state of Washington it’s illegal to catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.
• In Washington state it’s illegal for a candidate to buy anyone a drink on Election Day.
• In Washington state it’s illegal to sleep in an outhouse without the owner’s permission.
• In Washington it’s illegal to pretend you’re the child of a rich person.
• In Washington state, until quite recently, you could have been fined up to $500 for removing or defacing the label on a pillow.
• It is illegal to pretend that one’s parents are rich.
• It’s illegal in Wilbur, Washington, to ride an ugly horse.
• Lynden: Dancing and drinking may not occur at the same establishment.
• People may not buy a mattress on Sunday.
• Spokane: TV’s may not be bought on Sundays.
• The state of Washington doesn’t allow marathon dancing–or marathon skipping, sliding, gliding, rolling or crawling.
• Waldron Island: No structure shall contain more than two toilets that use potable water for flushing.
• Washington state doesn’t allow fake wrestling.
• When two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.
• You are not allowed to breast feed in public.
