In the USA there are thousand the laws operating in the order of staff, a county or of municipality. Some of them nowadays seem absurd, however occurrence of similar normative acts was no time is called by quite severe causes. For example, in the city of Los Angeles it is forbidden to lick frogs.
In the State of Arizona it is forbidden to hunt on camels.
The cause: the Army of the USA is no time used camels in the capacity of draught force. The local residents unfamiliar military experiments, considered two-humped animals as a novel specie of wildings and hunted on them, than caused severe injury of defensive capability of the USA. As a result, camels have been dismissed from the military service and nowadays in Alabama semi-deserts feral camels live. To hunt on them it is still forbidden.
In the State of California baths are prohibited.
The cause: This law has been established in the late eighties when the majority of homosexuals, sick of AIDS was revealed, that, infested in public baths. The law has been accepted to intercept epidemy developing.
In the city of Los Angeles it is forbidden to lick frogs.
The cause: the Law has been accepted after urban teenagers have found, that the skin of some frogs contains hallucinogens. Narcomaniacs captured frogs and diligently licked them, and the police could do nothing with it.
In the city of Norko the law prohibits to inhabitants to have rhinoceroses.
The cause: Норко has an informal title "cities of unusual domestic animals". Townsmen keep in dwellings of monitor lizards, alligators, pigs, not SPK grass-snake ABT traditional dogs, grapnels, rabbits, hamsters etc. House favourites are in the habit to escape sometimes from the dwelling. Once it has descended to a cub of a rhinoceros whom the heavy injury has caused to aboriginal gardens and grassplots.
In the city of Mobile it is forbidden to men to howl on-wolf in public places.
The cause: there was no time in a city the military unit during times lodged these wearing on нарукавном a chevron the plotting of a wolf (it, in turn, speaks old history when the USA wared against Indians, and subdividings of explorers thus demonstrated the boldness, caution and force). In the evenings soldiers were going to in aboriginal bars and terribly howled, imitating wolves, that, terribly stimulated town-dwellers. A military base have occluded, and the law remained.
In the same city, it is forbidden to women to wear shoe on a heelpiece-stud.
The cause: One woman on studs has set in in a grid of a weir and has hurt a leg. She has considered, that in all the municipality which has equipped streets by similar dangerous devices is guilty, has reverted in court and has won a case. As a result, to prevent occurrence of similar claims in the future, fathers of a city have considered what more low-cost to pass the special law, than to change grids.
In the city of Boulder it is forbidden to exhibit sofas on a dwelling stoop.
The cause: In a city there is major and very cheerful university. In 2003 log-book US News and World Report has named this temple of a science the best place 4 fans of entertainments. Students like to mark victories of university sportsmen by delution of fires in urban streets, that often result ins to fires. Sofas are an ideal fuel.
In Florida doors of all buildings should be discovered only outside.
The cause: In case of a fire to people to run out on street lighter.
In the city of Sisajd round all dwellings the white scooping should be established. Each dwelling should have a beautiful stoop.
The cause: the city Economics is based on the tourism industries. Therefore the municipality has decided, that the similar design will allow to create "fantastic small town" that will make its even more tempting 4 tourists.
In the State of Hawaii boards on roads and in public places are prohibited.
The cause: Advertising should not prevent tourists to admire on the Hawaiian landscapes.
In the State of Michigan it is forbidden to rush octopuses in public places.
The cause: B4 an adoption of this law, during matches in which one participated hockey Detroit Red Wings, fans threw octopuses on ice. The tradition has occurbed in 1952, when the command needed to score all remained eight plays to score cup Stanley. In the beginning of the first play SUM1 from fans has thrown an octopus on ice - one leg for each play - and Red Wings became champions.
In states of New Jersey and Oregon, people cannot self-contained slosh benzine in a gasoline tank - the worker of the gas station should help them.
The cause: the Law has been accepted very much for a long time when many people (specially elderly) did not know the elementary things, for example, that benzine is explosion-hazard and during a refill it is better not to smoke. Holders of the gas station were afraid, that their clients can blast a fuel station.
In the State of North Carolina it is forbidden to public organisations to meet, if their terms are dressed in equal costumes.
The cause: the Law has been accepted to prevent architecture of concourses of active workers of an aboriginal Ku-kljuks-clan which one wear white loose overalls.
In the city of memphis of the beggar should obtain a licence from staff (which one $10 cost) to acquire the right to beg
The cause: the Law has been accepted to be saved of crowds of beggars which one occupied tourist remarkables in the middle cities.
In the State of Texas it is forbidden to men to wear W itself clipper.
The cause: In days of the Feral West, swindlers could steal cattle, intersecting the wire fences clipper. Such thefts became so frequent, that, in long run, have decided to prohibit clipper.
In the State of West Virginia pupils cannot visit school if from them smells as an onion.
The cause: the certain kind of a common wild leek which one has extremely strong odour grows In staff. The odour is felt EVN in some days after its use in nutriment.
In the same staff, any animal who has been brought down by the car, becomes the property of the car driver.
The cause: the Law has been accepted to spare money for clearing of roads. Besides, under sprockets of cars edible deers more often hit.
In the State of Washington, people who have arrived to staff with an eye to commit a crime, should call at first in police and inform her on retention of similar schedules.
The cause: the Law has been accepted - absolutely severely - to diminish quantity of crimes. To inhabitants of other countries and the states, committed a crime in the State of Washington, follow-up incriminate also violation of this law.
