If among the countries in which silly laws operate, have held competition a victory with considerable overweight would gain the USA. American “dumb laws” (“stupid laws”) as it is accepted to name them here, became for a long time already the talk of the town. Has reached that in the country operate about fifty organizations which struggle for cancellation of these laws.
In each staff and even a city of the USA necessarily there will be at least one law which health of legislators, its accepting will force to doubt the reader in mental. The most severe laws – in the State of Texas. Here, for example, it is forbidden to do more than three drinks of beer standing, and also to shoot on bisons from the second floor of hotels. The penalty, accordingly, 50 and 200 dollars. If in the hot Texas afternoon you want to walk along the street barefoot don't forget to come at first into municipality and to obtain the special permit for which it will be necessary to pay 5$, otherwise any policeman who has noticed you without footwear, will fine you on 40$. And some years ago under the pressure of governor George Bush-younger of that time in staff the law according to which the criminal is obliged to warn in writing a victim about a forthcoming crime not less than 24 hours prior to its fulfillment has been passed, and in the letter the preparing crime should be described in all details. Default of the given law threatens in the future with additional three years of prison.
In the State of Illinois to moustached men it is strictly forbidden to kiss the woman on public. Infringers of the law are expected by punishment in the form of the 20-sentry of socially useful work. And in the State of New York you are threatened still with the penalty at a rate of 25 dollars if in the street you are lost in contemplation of women.
The American laws are strict not only to men. In the State of Washington the woman sitting in a lap at the man in a train or the bus without presence of a pillow between their persons, automatically receives six months of prison. In the city of Sant-Kroiks (State of Wisconsin) on pain of three-monthly imprisonment it is forbidden to women to wear red clothes, in a place Takson (State of Arizona) representatives of the weaker sex can't go out of doors in trousers, and in Kentucky “any person of a female can't appear in a bathing suit on road … if it isn't accompanied by two policemen or not armed by a shovel”.
Legislators haven't ignored also matrimonial relations. In the city of Jasper (Alabama) the husband can't cane the wife which diameter is more a than thickness of its thumb. And here in Arkansas husbands are authorized to belabor wives a belt, the only stipulation – that they did it not more often an once in a month. The strange law operates to Logan Kaunti (Colorado) – here it is considered a criminal offense to kiss the woman while she sleeps. It is interesting, how it is planned to check observance of this law? After all if the woman complains of its infringement, she didn't sleep, and if she slept, as she has learned, what her spouse has broken the law?
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