Laughable Legalities 1: Ridiculous Travel Regulations

1. In Virginia, pedestrians can be fined if struck by a vehicle.
2. Ambulances can’t travel faster than 20 mph in Port Huron, MI.
3. Fire trucks must stop at red lights in New Orleans.
4. There’s no sneezing on trains in West Virginia.
5. Drivers in Buenos Aires may have to pass a drunk driving test to get a license, which involves consuming 24 oz beer and then driving on a crooked, wavy-lined road.
6. In Maine, you can’t legally walk down a street with your shoes untied.
7. It’s also illegal to exit a flying plane there.
8. Similarly, in Vermont it’s illegal to throw anything out of a plane while in flight, including yourself.
9. In Canada, passengers are prohibited from boarding planes that are in flight.
10. Horseback riding is forbidden in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Norfolk, VA.
11. A South Carolinian city has a policy against eating nuts on buses.
12. In Tennessee, it’s illegal to drive while unconscious.
13. People in this state are also forbidden to shoot anything except a whale from a moving car (see a U.S. map if the irony of this is unclear).
14. You can’t drive while sitting on someone’s lap in Ohio… or without shoes in Alabama… or while shaving in Massachusetts.
15. Blind people are not allowed to drive in New York.
16. In a Vermont town, cars are not permitted to backfire.
17. In an Ohio town, they are not permitted to run out of gas.
18. Best of all, in one Illinois city, they may not impersonate wolves.
19. There’s also a law against driving without a steering gear in Illinois.
20. Never wipe down a car with used underwear in San Francisco.
21. Don’t abandon your boat or ark on a submerged street there, either.
22. Livestock cannot be carted on school buses in Florida.
23. Bullfrogs can’t be exported out of Arkansas.
24. Tricycles are not to be ridden on sidewalks in Spring Valley, NY.
25. Birds have the right of way on public highways in Utah.
26. Why did the chicken cross the road? If you’re in Quitman, Georgia, it’s probably because he was feeling rebellious. Good chickens don’t cross roads there; they aren’t allowed to.
27. Finally, perhaps the dumbest travel law ever written: a Kansas law read, “When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone.”

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