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Longyearbyen

It is illegal to die in town

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In 1950, it was discovered that bodies were not decomposing in the permafrost. The town passed an ordnance to outlaw dying to protect residents from disease that may spread from bodies in graveyards. Spanish Flu has been extracted from victims of the 1918 breakout since they were preserved in the permafrost.

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Oregon

In Oregon, a dead person cannot be required to serve on a jury.

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Brazil

If a driver in an accident dies the police are still required to do a breathalyzer test to legally be able to determine who was at fault for the accident

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If the deceased refuses to take the test they can face fines and a suspension of driving privileges.

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Oklahoma City

One may not tip over a casket at a funeral.

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30-84. Disturbing funerals. No person shall willfully disturb, interrupt or disquiet any assemblage of people who have met for the purpose of any funeral, or obstruct or detain any person or persons engaged in carrying or accompanying any dead body of a human being to a place of burial.

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Norton

Funeral jargon seems to have crept into the wording of a cemetery fee regulation as regular plots are $33, but “creamies” are $75.

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Hibbing

Policemen are required to kill stray cats

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It shall be the duty of any policeman or any other officer to enforce the provisions of this Section, and if any cat is found running at large, or which is found in any street, alley or public place, it shall be the duty of any policeman or other officer of the city to kill…

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Boston

Duels to the death permitted on the common on Sundays provided that the Governor is present.

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Wells

Advertisements may not be placed in cemeteries.

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§ 100-4. Prohibited acts. [Amended 11-2-1993] A. The following acts are violations of this chapter: (1) [Amended 4-7-2001] The willful disfigurement, marking, defacement or tampering with any tomb, gravestone monument or other object placed or designed as a memorial to the dead or any fence, railing or other thing placed about or enclosing a burial…

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Idaho

Cutting off a friend’s head with an axe is against the law.

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Tennessee

Stealing a horse is punishible by hanging.

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