Weird Alabama

Weird Alabama Laws
  • Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

  • Incestuous marriages are legal.

  • It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.

  • It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.

  • Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.

  • It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

  • Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

  • Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.

  • It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

  • You must have windshield wipers on your car.

  • You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.

  • Masks may not be worn in public.

  • Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce.

  • However, this provision does not apply to men.

  • It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.

  • You may not wear blue jeans down Noble Street.

  • No person may spit on the floor of a church.

  • It is illegal to bike, roller-skate, skateboard, or inline skate in a commercially zoned area.

  • Men who deflower virgins, regardless of age or marital status, may face up to five years in jail.

  • If an animal control officer is in uniform, it signifies to the public that he is an animal control officer.

  • It is illegal to sell peanuts in Lee County after sundown on Wednesday.

  • Women may not wear a 'lewd dress' in public.

  • No one may use a 'funk ball' within the city limits.

  • Bathing in city fountains is prohibited.

  • No person within the city may possess confetti.

  • It is illegal to spit orange peels on the sidewalk.

  • 'Spray String' is banned.

  • Most locales do not have this problem, but Mobile found it necessary to ban bicycles from the interstate highways.

  • If one wishes to read palms in the city, they must first pay $10 for a permit.

  • It is illegal to howl at ladies within the city limits.

  • It is unlawful to wear women's pumps with sharp, high heels.

  • It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses.

  • It illegal for a woman to drive a car unless her husband is waving a flag in front of it. Source