Stupid Laws Around the Land
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"The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation" by Dick Hyman
(The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont) lists 114 pages of items
similar to "Florida law prohibits rolling a barrel down the street."


In San Francisco has an ordinance banning picking up used confetti to throw
  again.

In Blythe, a city ordinance declares that a person must own at least two cows
  before he is permitted to wear cowboy boots in public.

And Brawley passed a resolution forbidding snow within the city limits.

A Stockton law of 1926 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing.

A Riverside health ordinance states that two persons may not kiss without first
  wiping their lips with carbolized rose water.

San Francisco prohibits elephants from strolling down Market Street unless they
  are on a leash.

But in Belvedere, a City Council order reads:  "No dog shall be in a public
  place without its master on a leash."

In Hanford, people may not interfere with children jumping over water puddles.

The California Paiute Indian Reservation's laws forbid a mother-in-law to spend
  more than thirty days a year with her children.

Babies in Los Angeles are forbidden to ride in a grocery pushcart with food
  their mothers have been buying.

Los Angeles law also forbids hunting moths under a street light, and says that
  you can't drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one
  time.

L.A. also prohibits pickle-making at any point within the city's jurisdiction
  where its aroma might offend the nostrils of passersby.

But an L.A. judge rules that "A private citizen may snore with immunity in his
  own home, even though he may be in possession of unusual and exceptional
  ability in that particular field."

In Berkeley it's against the law to be caught smoking, or with matches in your
  possession, while out fishing.  You also can't whistle for your lost canary
  before 7 a.m.

It is unlawful to plant vegetables in California cemeteries, or to pick  
feathers from live geese, or to sell snakes on the street.

It's a misdeameanor to detain a homing pigeon in California.

A Glendale ordinance permits horror films to be shown only on Mondays, Tuesdays
  or Wednesdays.