Every entry checked against the statute, or shown to have no statute behind it.
City of Toronto historians and bylaw officers have found no reference to this specific prohibition in the archives of the six municipalities that amalgamated to form Toronto. The claim is legal folklore, not actual law.
This is frequently cited as the pinnacle of legislative absurdity—a landlocked state banning whaling. However, the Oklahoma legislature never specifically banned whale hunting. The state statute simply adopts the federal endangered species list by reference, which includes various whale species.
The Metropolitan Police Act 1839 prohibits making or using "any slide upon ice or snow in any street or other thoroughfare, to the common danger of the passengers." This targeted the practice of street urchins polishing patches of ice to create slides.
Despite widespread internet claims, extensive searches of the Code of Alabama, Kentucky Revised Statutes, and Official Code of Georgia Annotated reveal no such statute. This is pure legal folklore.
Under Section 27A of Singapore's Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act, it is an offence to appear nude in a private place if one is "exposed to public view." If visible to neighbors through an open window or balcony, homeowners can be fined up to S$2,000 or jailed up to 3 months.
The Metropolitan Police Act 1839 prohibits "wilfully and wantonly disturbing any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-bell or knocking at any door without lawful excuse." This confirms that the prank known as "Knock Down Ginger" or "Ding Dong Ditch" was a sufficiently widespread social plague in 1839 to warrant parliamentary intervention.
Under Singapore's Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations, regulation 16, anyone using a public sanitary convenience must flush it after use. It's a genuine, fineable offence — but the S$1,000/S$5,000 figures often quoted for it actually come from a separate SFA penalty scale aimed at toilet operators, not individual users, so the exact fine for not flushing needs to be confirmed against the statute.
PARTIALLY TRUE! BC municipalities do impose limits on backyard chicken keeping, but the commonly cited "4 hen limit" is often wrong. Limits vary significantly between municipalities.
UNVERIFIED! Various sources claim BC has a law protecting Sasquatch from being killed, but no official statute or regulation has been located.
REPEALED! It was illegal to make, print, publish, distribute, sell, or possess "a crime comic"—defined as a magazine that "exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious."
PARTIALLY TRUE! Multiple secondary sources cite this 1906 prohibition, but the original bylaw text has not been independently verified.
ACTIVE! Canadian criminal law applies to Canadian crew members on the International Space Station, on any other space flight, or on the surface of the Moon or any other celestial body.