OFF: Silly laws in the USA

M Holmes fofp at TATTOO.ED.AC.UK
Thu Jan 16 07:58:08 EST 1997


Ed Gallagher writes:

> I remember hearing that it's illegal to cary an ice cream cone in your
> pocket in Texas.
>
> For quite some time (maybe still) it was (or is) illegal to buy baby
> food, diapers and lots of other stuff on Sundays in South Carolina. Part
> of a bunch of laws that were refered to as "Blue Laws".

Then there's the infamous law in one County where Pi was declaed to be 3
because of a description in the Bible which indicated that this might be
its "True" value.

FoFP



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