Those Crazy State Laws will be a new feature when we have a 5th Thursday in a month.

Lately, I’ve been really interested in laws that were put on the books 50 to 100 years ago and are somehow still around today. Some of them are so ridiculous it’s hard to see why they were made in the first place, but apparently, something happened that made some lawyer official think a law was needed.

So, here we go with 15 crazy laws:

1. In Arkansas, you can be arrested if you tie your dog to the roof of your car – even if it’s in a cage.
2. In Montana, it’s illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck unless a chaperone is present.
3. House Bill 110 in Texas was introduced on the House floor, which would require criminals to give their victims 24 hours’ notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. Not sure if it ever passed…
4. In North Dakota, you may be jailed for wearing a hat while dancing, or even for wearing a hat to a party where dancing occurs.
5. In one city in Oklahoma, there is an ordinance that says it shall be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
6. In Pennsylvania, all fire hydrants must be checked one hour before all fires. Exactly how anyone would know when a fire is going to happen is a mystery to me.
7. At one time in Memphis, Tennessee, it was illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there was a man either running or walking in front of it, waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians.
8. In Georgia, it’s against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
9. Here’s another one about a giraffe—residents may not fish from a giraffe’s back in Idaho.
10. In Indiana, citizens are not allowed to attend a movie nor ride in a public streetcar for at least four hours after eating garlic.
11. In Arizona, donkeys cannot sleep in bathtubs.
12. If you’re in Connecticut and walking on your hands, you aren’t allowed to cross a street.
13. In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is “simple assault”, while biting someone with your false teeth is “aggravated assault”.
14. In Chicago, Illinois, it is illegal to take a French poodle to the opera.
15. In Colorado, it is not legal to keep a mule on the second floor of a building not in a city, unless there are 2 exits.

So there you have fifteen really dumb laws. Have you heard iof any of these? Or others? If so, leave them in the comments.