Every entry checked against the statute, or shown to have no statute behind it.
The claim that Californians must obtain a hunting licence before trapping or killing mice is false. In reality, California law explicitly exempts house mice from all trapping licence requirements and even legally obliges residents to exterminate rodents for public health reasons.
Alabama law makes it a misdemeanor to fraudulently pretend — by clothing or outward appearance — to be a minister, nun, priest, rabbi, or other member of the clergy in a public place. The law is real, but widely misunderstood: intent to deceive is the key element, not merely wearing a costume.
In approximately 14 U.S. states, selling or buying a car at a dealership on a Sunday is explicitly prohibited by law. These restrictions are remnants of colonial-era 'Blue Laws' and remain actively enforced today.
The claim that Texas law specifically prohibits shooting a buffalo from the second story of a hotel is a popular internet myth. No such statute has ever been found in the Texas legal record.
Utah's disorderly conduct law once included 'abusive or obscene language' as a punishable offense, but that provision was struck down by courts and removed from state law in 1999. Today, casual public swearing is not a crime under Utah state law, though some municipal ordinances can restrict profanity when it rises to the level of a breach of the peace.
Florida law prohibits any person from intentionally feeding or enticing wild American alligators or crocodiles with food. Violations are a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
It is widely claimed that Hawaii has a law making it illegal to place coins in one's ears. Despite viral circulation across hundreds of 'weird laws' websites, no such statute exists anywhere in the Hawaii Revised Statutes or any other official Hawaiian legal code.
Under Texas Penal Code § 48.02, it is a state jail felony to sell, purchase, or transfer a human eye — or any human organ — for valuable consideration. The law covers kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, pancreases, bones, skin, and eyes, but notably excludes hair and blood.
Naked hiking is NOT illegal across Switzerland under federal law. But the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden banned it at its 2009 Landsgemeinde, and its fixed-penalty schedule still sets a CHF 200 fine for "being naked in public" — though cantonal police say nobody has been reported in years.
Croatia does prohibit and fine sleeping in public places under its Law on Misdemeanors Against Public Order and Peace. However, the specific extra fine for snoring while asleep in public originates from a widely-reported 2016 draft amendment — and no primary legislative source confirms it was enacted as law.
The widely-shared claim that Alabama law prohibits wearing a fake mustache in church if it causes laughter has no basis in any real statute, ordinance, or regulation. Despite decades of circulation across 'weird laws' lists, no legal researcher has ever located a primary source.
Oshawa's City Trees By-law (78-2008) makes it illegal to climb, damage, or interfere with trees on City-owned public land. The widely-shared claim that climbing ANY tree in Oshawa is illegal is an exaggeration — the restriction only applies to municipally-owned trees.