TNB Night Owl – Weird State Laws MARYLAND

Let’s take a drive through “Little America” AKA Maryland to find some weird state laws!
Read to the end to find last weekend’s comment highlights!
  • You may not curse inside the city limits
  • Eating while swimming in the ocean is prohibited
  • In Baltimore, it is illegal to wash or scrub sinks no matter how dirty they get
  • In Baltimore, Maryland, it is illegal to take a lion to the movies
  • It is a violation to be in a public park with a sleeveless shirt -$10 fine
  • In Annapolis, you cannot throw a bale of hay out of a second story window
  • It is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only “in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for 
    consumption on the premises.” 
  • In Rockville, it is illegal to remove a public building by writing on it
  • @ral s$x can not be given or received anywhere
  • Thistles may not grow in one’s yard
  • In Columbia, you can not have a antenna exposed outside of your house yet you can have a 25′ satellite dish
  • A woman may not go through her husband’s pockets while he is sleeping
  • In Ocean City, men may not go topless on the Boardwalk
  • It is a violation of city code to sell chicks or ducklings to a minor within 1 week of the Easter holiday
  • It is necessary to document any services performed by a jackass
  • In Cumberland, you cannot keep your chickens with you in your hotel room
  • It’s illegal to block the sidewalk with a box. To do so will account for a 1$ fine
  • In Caroline County, you may not be “forecasting or pretending to foretell the future.”

“In Baltimore, it is illegal to wash or scrub sinks no matter how dirty they get” If my OCD was in human form their eye would be twitching right now. “It is a violation of city code to sell chicks or ducklings to a minor within 1 week of the Easter holiday” Chicks are not toys, believe me, as someone who had chickens they grow up to be @ssholes, kiddos. “In Cumberland, you cannot keep your chickens with you in your hotel room” Is Benedict Cumberbatch the mayor in Cumberland? I think he should be. “In Ocean City, men may not go topless on the Boardwalk” There are some men you do not want to see topless… “In Rockville, it is illegal to remove a public building by writing on it” Okay y’all, I think I may be missing something because this law makes zero sense. More than usual.

And now, a soothing selection of comment highlights featured by TNB 102.8
Demo wins a gold star because he praised me!
Aardunza wins best comment for making me laugh!
Questions of the night:
  1. What are your best theories to explain these weird laws?
  2. If you were dictator for a day, what law would you create?
  3. If you were dictator for a day, what law would you abolish?

Sources: Forest Grove Strange LawsFun Laws 50 Weird Laws

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