Download or read book Crazy Laws written by Dick Hyman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chickens May Not Cross the Road and Other Crazy But True Laws written by Kathi Linz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is against the law in Brooklyn, New York, for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. In Idaho you are not allowed to fish while sitting on a giraffe. In California you must not keep slugs as pets. Yes, it’s the law—says so right on the state or city books. Some of the most ludicrous laws in the history of our country come to light in this funny and fascinating book for young citizens . . . citizens who have a special appreciation for the tyranny of silly rules.
Download or read book 100 Crazy Laws written by Michael Wenkart and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law is an ass, said Dickens. If he had seen some of what we have collected here he would be more convinced than ever that his assertion was true. From the sheer comedy of parking elephants, not shooting buffalo and definitely not having sex with porcupines to the more worrying legislation against women, homosexuals and people from minority groups, this is a compilation from around the world of the more bizarre and disturbing actions of law-making bodies. A lot of this crazy law seems to come from US states –not a slur, just a fact. America is so multi-ethnic, cultural and religious that strange fusions were bound to emerge in some states. Strangely it seems that most have succumbed to this unfortunate disease at one time or other. See what weird laws apply where you are today!!
Download or read book Weird Laws from Around the World written by Manik Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird laws, Dumb Laws, Funny Laws, Crazy Laws from around the world. Weird laws from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, USA (State-wise list) and many other countries.Sample This:01. Weird Laws -- Australia01. Weird Laws -- Australia01. It is against the law for children to purchase alcohol, cigarettes, but they are not prohibited from using them.02. It is against the law to be drunk in a pub.03. It is against the law to be near or inside a house that is used by thieves regularly. [Vagrancy Act of 1966]04. It is against the law to come closer than one hundred meters from where a carcass of a dead whale is.05. It is against the law to crush a can of beer between your breasts.06. It is against the law to dress up as batman or robin.07. It is against the law to drive a cat or dog attached to a vehicle in public place.08. It is against the law to have an article of disguise without a lawful excuse.09. It is against the law to leave the keys in the ignition or inside a vehicle of an unattended vehicle.10. It is against the law to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes, and black shoe polish on your face.11. It is against the law to swim unless you are wearing a neck to knee swimsuit in Brighton Beach.12. It is against the law to touch in electric wires that cause death instantly.13. It is against the law to walk on the right hand side of a footpath.14. Bars are required to stable, water and feed the horses that come with patrons.15. If you advertise a reward for finding lost or stolen objects, the advertisement must have a statement that no questions will be asked.16. Men are allowed to cross-dress, just as long as their dresses are not strapless.17. No man under 4ft 8 inch is allowed to surf on Klondike Beach (due to the size of the waves.)18. Taxicabs are required to carry a bale of hay in their trunks.19. The legal age for straight sex is 16, unless the person is in the care/custody of the older person, in which case it is 18.
Download or read book Wacky Laws Weird Decisions Strange Statutes written by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of silly laws, ridiculous court decisions, and strange government statutes that in many cases are still on the books.
Download or read book Crazy Laws and Lawsuits written by Robert Allen and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a collection of strange laws, lawsuits, and court cases, including the story of the woman who sued a furniture store after breaking her ankle when she tripped over her own son or the man who sued after being bitten on the behind by a dog that he was shooting at with a pellet gun.
Download or read book Don t Hurt a Sasquatch written by Tyler Vendetti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most laws are predictable: don't steal, don't kill, don't go somewhere you don't belong. But what about the wackiest and weirdest laws? [This book] is a tribute to the strangest rules on the books. Consider: sending a surprise pizza to someone in Louisiana can result in a $500 fine; at times, it has been illegal to scare the queen in Canada; if you participate in a frog-jumping contest in Angels Camp, California, and your frog dies, you are not allowed to eat it; [and] it's against the law to harm a sasquatch in Skamania, Washington. Discover all the strange and unusual laws you might not even know you're breaking!" -- Back cover.
Download or read book 1001 Cool Freaky Facts written by Glen Singleton and published by hinkler. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth is often stranger than fiction. Need proof? In England, in the 1880's, 'pants' was considered a dirty word. Statistically you are more likely to be attacked by a cow than a shark. The sun loses close to a billion kilograms of weight every second. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. Phobophobia is fear of fear. 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' was written by Mozart. There are 1001 cool, freaky, funny, fabulous, foul, frightening, far-out, fascinating, first-class, phenomenal, fantastic facts here for you amusement and edification!
Download or read book How to Become a Federal Criminal written by Mike Chase and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “excellent book for people who like to start sentences with ‘Did you know that…’” (The New York Times), discover the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in America—from mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holes—written and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account. Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can become—or may already be—a federal criminal. Whether you’re a criminal defense lawyer or just a self-taught expert in outrageous offenses, How to Become a Federal Criminal is “an entertaining and humorous look at our criminal justice system” (Forbes).
Download or read book The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity written by Carlo M. Cipolla and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws. The Laws: 1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us. 2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Download or read book Don t Go to Jail written by Saul Goodman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer Saul Goodman of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad offers his own particular brand of funny, down-to-earth legal advice. Got the long arm of the law around your neck? Does Lady Justice have her eye on you? Were you set up at a lineup? Saul Goodman can help! There are some crazy laws out there. Did you know that in New Mexico there’s a law that says “idiots” can’t vote? Or that Massachusetts still has a ban on Quakers and witches? Or that in Georgia it’s illegal to put a donkey in a bathtub? Even if you’re not bathing a donkey (and hey, if you are, no judgment from me!), you could be breaking the law right now and not even know it. That’s why you need Don't Go to Jail! You can carry the advice of a seasoned legal practitioner with you anywhere you go, helping you to stay out of the courts and in the good graces of the criminal justice system. Want to be your own attorney? Want to avoid getting hauled in on a warrant? Want to keep the cops from discovering the baggie of “your friend’s” marijuana stashed under the passenger seat of your car? This is your chance to get those tips and many more savory bits of indispensable legal advice--all for much less than my usual hourly fee.
Download or read book Weird But True written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you hear the one about the crook who broke into a vending machine and then left a trail of cheese curls all the way to his hideout? Or the burglar who left his wallet in an apartment he robbed, and actually went back to get it? Based on the Stupid criminals busted! column in National Geographic kids magazine, this collection of stories about stupid criminals and the ridiculous ways they give themselves away is illustrated with collage art and sprinkled with more than 150 weird-but-true facts about crime.
Download or read book The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America written by Richard Rothstein and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
Download or read book Loony Laws written by Robert W. Pelton and published by Walker & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects bizarre, laughable, and unenforceable legislation from communities around the United States
Download or read book The Law Says What written by Maclen Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ain t Nobody s Business If You Do written by Peter McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McWilliams derides laws against "victimless crimes" like gambling, drug use, prostitution, homosexuality, and seat belt laws.
Download or read book Bird Law written by Charlie Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
