Stupid Laws tagged 'age'
A legislator recently introduced a bill making it illegal to tattoo someone under the age of 18. He was quoted as saying, “I’m going to save the buttocks of a few juveniles.”
Location: Wisconsin, United States | 2 comments
A person must be 18 years old to buy a wax container.
Location: Glendale, California | 2 comments
By law, if you pass anyone over the age of 70 in the street, you must bow to them and say a prayer to the Gods of the Ancients.
Location: China | 6 comments
Frightening a baby is in violation of the law.
Location: Mole, Missouri | no comments
Handcuffs may not be sold to minors.
Location: New Jersey, United States | no comments
In cemeteries it is illegal to: get drunk, picnic, enter at night, and enter by one’s self if that person is younger than 10.
Location: Claremont, New Hampshire | no comments
It is against the law for children under seven years of age to go to college.
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina | no comments
It is illegal for anyone over the age of eighty-eight to ride a motorcycle.
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho | 2 comments
It is illegal to dare a child to purchase a beer.
Location: Tennessee, United States | no comments
It’s illegal to sell to minors comics that might incite them to violence or depraved or immoral acts.
Location: Washington, United States | no comments
It’s statutory rape for a man over 18 to have sex with a female under the age of 18, provided she’s a virgin.
Location: Oklahoma, United States | no comments
Minors are prohibited from frequenting pool halls.
Location: Olympia, Washington | no comments
Minors can buy rolling paper and tobacco but not lighters.
Location: Marceline, Missouri | no comments
Minors may not go to businesses with coin-operated foosball machines unless accompanied by an adult.
Location: Jefferson Parish, Louisiana | no comments
No child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
Location: Blue Earth, Minnesota | no comments
Old women must hide their faces when in the vicinity of virgins. The penalty for disobeying this law is 5 years in prison.
Location: California, United States | 2 comments
Persons under the age of 16 may not play pinball after 11:00 PM.
Location: Athens, Georgia | no comments
Six-year-old girls may not run around without being fully clothed.
Location: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware | 4 comments
Tattooing a minor is a misdemeanor.
Location: Tennessee, United States | 2 comments
The legal age for straight sex is 16, unless the person is in the care of the older person, in which case it is 18.
Location: Australia | 6 comments
You must be 18 years old to buy spray paint.
Location: Tempe, Arizona | 8 comments
