Sorry Dennis. My bad.
The post where I cited some strange laws was my failed attempt at interjecting some tongue in cheek humor. Whoa, did that bomb miserably.
My mistake (OH and it was a serious boo-boo) was twofold:
One, I failed to mention that the laws cited were local town/city laws and not statewide laws (except for the one about the Brittanica, and that one is very very old and according to two of my source sites, in the process of being cleaned off the books)
Two, I should have cited my sources. The best one, which is not only informative and reasonably well-researched (I always double check the more dubious entries) but funny as all get out, is the Dumb Law website.
I have long had a fascination with old/arcane/silly/confusing/downright weird laws. Started when I was a clerk at the Riverside County Public Defenders Office in California, and stumbled on an old law from Long Beach that staetd that a woman in a bikini walking down a public street had to be escorted by at least two men, one of whom had to be armed with a large stick --- I am NOT kidding.
Anyway, here are a couple of the websites I use, and two books that are excellent sources for this kind of information:
http://www.thedumb.com (go to the secion on Dumb Laws. Gotta love their tagline "Big Government. Little Brains. Dumb Laws.")
http://www.adminlaw.org (state of Texas law resource website. Use the links provided, too. All states have a website of this variety.)
http://www.internetlawyer.com
For books, I like these two:
"A Guide To American Sex Laws" by Richard A. Posner and Katherine B. Silbaugh. Includes a lot of arcane and just downright weird laws in regards to sex, marraige, consent, etc.
"Ludicrous Laws and Mindless Misdemeanors" by Lance Davidson. This one is a side-splitter.