Tennessee
The definition of "dumb animal" includes every living creature. (Repealed)
It is illegal to dare a child to purchase a beer.
Skunks may not be carried into the state.
You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile. (Why persecute the whales?)
Hollow logs may not be sold.
It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish. (Why does anyone care how you catch a fish?)
Driving is not to be done while asleep. (That's a relief...)
It is legal to gather and consume roadkill.
When you pull up to a stop sign you must fire a gun out the window to warn horse carriages that you are coming.
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. (What, women are bad drivers?)
It's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM.
No person may keep a cheetah as a pet.
An ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'."
The shortest route to the closest city in Canada is 598 miles while the shortest route to Memphis is 496. I go to Canada every summer with to visit my wife's family.
See post #43. The crime that involved the Sherriff of Hamilton County going to the Supreme Court was a lynching that occurred on the "County Bridge"/Walnut Street Bridge.
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