Stupid Laws tagged 'personal habits'





A law provides that school teachers who bob their hair will not get a raise.
Location: Arkansas, United States | no comments

A man is not allowed to run around with a shaved chest.
Location: Omaha, Nebraska | one comment

A man may not relieve himself while standing up, after 10 P.M.
Location: Switzerland | 6 comments

A woman isn’t allowed to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission.
Location: Michigan, United States | no comments

A woman isn’t allowed to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission.
Location: Minnesota, United States | 10 comments

All residents shall bathe every Saturday night.
Location: Barre, Vermont | no comments

All sex toys are banned.
Location: Georgia, United States | 8 comments

Ambling and strolling is a misdemeanor.
Location: Hialeah, Florida | no comments

An old law prohibits the taking of baths on Sunday.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts | no comments

An old ordinance declares goatees illegal unless you first pay a special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public.
Location: Massachusetts, United States | no comments

Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.
Location: Indiana, United States | 4 comments

Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.
Location: Indiana, United States | 14 comments

Boxing matches that allow biting are not allowed.
Location: Utah, United States | 2 comments

Churches, hotels, halls of assembly, stores, markets, banking rooms, railroad depots, and saloons are required to provide spittoons of a kind and number to efficiently contain expectorations into them.
Location: El Paso, Texas | no comments

Citizens may not publicly remove bandages.
Location: Canada | 2 comments

Citizens may not take showers on Wednesdays.
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming | 6 comments

Citizens may not urinate or spit on the street. Punishable by a fine of over 100 Canadian dollars.
Location: Montreal, Canada | 2 comments

Clove or other non-harmful cigarettes are illegal
Location: Montreal, Canada | no comments

Condoms were considered an obsene article and had to hidden behind the pharmacist’s counter.
Location: Wisconsin, United States | 3 comments

Disposing of chewed bubblegum in public is a $600 fine.
Location: Thailand | one comment

Every business must have spitoons and clean them every 24 hours
Location: Buffalo, New York | no comments

Every citizen of is required to take a shower once a year.
Location: Kentucky, United States | one comment

Every inmate of the state’s training school for girls be issued crinoline bloomers.
Location: Wyoming, United States | no comments

Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state.
Location: Oklahoma, United States | 5 comments

Firemen may not whistle or flirt at any woman passing a firehouse.
Location: Huntington, West Virginia | one comment