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Silly string is banned.
In the mid 1990s, a group of children ran up to a police officer and sprayed him with silly string during the Apple Harvest Festival. To prevent such acts from happening again, the ban was passed on the sale of the product.
It is illegal to discharge a firearm from a public highway.
General Statutes of Connecticut, Revised to 1997 Title-53 – Crimes Sec. 53-204. Hunting or discharging firearm from public highway. Any person who hunts or discharges any firearm from any public highway shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. This section shall not apply to any law or conservation enforcement officer in the performance…
It is illegal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick larger in diameter than his thumb.
The “Rule of Thumb” originated in Rome, under the rule of Romulus, in approximately 753 BC. It dictated how large of a stick that a husband could use to beat his wife. Almost 1000 years later, women briefly had “rights” if their beatings were unjustified. However, those rights were short-lived, lasting only about 100 years….