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Dumb traffic laws still on the books (really long)
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Posted by Dave Westlake (more from Dave Westlake) on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:08:11 Share Post by Email
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See if any of these laws are in your city or state.


It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. (AL)


Persons may not ride in the front passenger seat of a car. (AL)


It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile. (AL)


Cars may not be driven in reverse. (Glendale, AZ)


No person shall sound the horn on a vechicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 P.M. -Little Rock City, AR Code Sec. 18-54


No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour. (CA)


Motor vehicles may not drive on city streets unless a man with a lantern is walking ahead of it. (Redlands, CA)


It is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear. (San Francisco, CA)


Car dealers may not show cars on a Sunday. (CO)


You may not drive a black car on Sundays. (Denver, CO)


It is illegal for fire trucks to exceed 25mph, even when going to a fire. (New Britain, CT)


Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session. (GA)


If a police officer approaches a vehicle and suspects that the occupants are engaging in sex, he must either honk, or flash his lights and wait for three minutes before approaching the car. (Coeur d' Alene, IA)


You must contact the police before entering the city in an automobile. (IL)


It is unlawful to change clothes in an automobile with the curtains drawn, except in case of fire. (Evanston, IL)


A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17. (IN)


It is against the law to pass a horse on the street. (IN)


While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on. (Evansville, IN)


All cars entering the city limits must first sound their horn to warn the horses of their arrival. (Lawrence, KS)


Musical car horns are banned (Russell, KS)


Before proceeding through the intersection of Douglas and Broadway, a motorist is required to get out of their vehicle and fire three shot gun rounds into the air. (Wichita, KS)


It illegal for a woman to drive a car unless her husband is waving a flag in front of it. (New Orleans, LA)


Taxi drivers are prohibited from making love in the front seat of their taxi during their shifts. (MA)


No gorilla is allowed in the back seat of any car. (MA)


Peeping in the windows of automobiles is forbidden. (Milford, MA)


Couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's own property. (Detroit, MI)


Red cars can not drive down Lake Street (Minneapolis, MN)


It is illegal to drive around the town square more than 100 times in a single session. (Oxford, MS)


Motor vehicles on the square are prohibited. (Oxford, MS)


Horn honking is not permitted as it might scare horses. (Oxford, MS)


It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone. (MT)


It is illegal to operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels. (Whitehall, MT)


You cannot pump your own gas. All gas stations are full service and full service only (NJ & OR)


On a highway you can not park under a bridge. (NJ)


If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates. (NJ)


Automobiles are not to pass horse drawn carriages on the street. (NJ)


You must stop and call City Hall before entering town in an automobile. This is so the townspeople will have time to go out and hold their horses until you get through town. (Forest City, NC)


The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car. (OH, OK)


It's against the law to honk your horn "excessively". A grandmother was fined for honking her horn twice at her neighbor. (Fairview Park, OH)


Riding on the roof of a taxi cab is not allowed. (Youngstown, OH)


You may not run out of gas, (Youngstown, OH)


It is against the law to read a comic book while operating a motor vehicle. (OK)


Tissues are not to be found in the back of one's car. (OK)


Molesting an automobile is illegal. (Clinton, OK)


One's mode of transportation must be tied up while not attended. (Wynona, OK)


Any motorist driving along a country road at night must stop every mile and send up a rocket signal, wait 10 minutes for the road to be cleared of livestock, and continue. (PA)


Any motorist who sights a team of horses coming toward him must pull well off the road, cover his car with a blanket or canvas that blends with the countryside, and let the horses pass. If the horses appear skittish, the motorist must take his car apart, piece by piece, and hide it under the nearest bushes. (PA)


Motorized vehicles are not to be sold on Sundays. (IN, NJ, PA, WI)


It is illegal to coast downhill in your car with your transmission in neutral, or with the clutch disengaged. (RI)


When approaching a four way or blind intersection in a non-horse driven vehicle you must stop 100 ft from the intersection and discharge a firearm into the air to warn horse traffic. (SC)


Performing a U-turn within 1,000 feet of an intersection is illegal. (SC)


Performing a U-turn within 1,000 feet of an intersection is illegal. (Charleston,SC)


You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile. (TN)


Driving is not to be done while asleep. (TN)


When you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the window to warn horse carriages that you are coming. (Lenoir City, TN)


Illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians. (Memphis, TN)


It is illegal to drive without windshield wipers. You don't need a windshield, but you must have the wipers. (TX)


It is illegal to drive a motor car down Broadway before noon on Sundays. (Galveston, TX)


No one may have sex in the back of an ambulance if it is responding to an emergency call. (UT)


It is illegal to have sex in a moving ambulance and if you are caught the guy is let go and the woman is punished and her name appears in the newspaper. (Tremonton, UT)


Citizens must honk their horn while passing other cars. (VA)


It is also unlawful to drive by the same place within 30 minutes on Atlantic Avenue. (Virginia Beach, VA)


It is illegal for a woman to drive a car up Main Street unless her husband is walking in front of the car waving a red flag. (Waynesboro, VA)


All motor vehicles must be preceded by a man carrying a red flag (daytime) or a red lantern (nighttime) fifty feet in front of said vehicle. (WA)


An old ordinance forbids parking for over two hours unless a horse is tied to the car. (Milwaukee, WI)



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