Every state has some crazy laws, check out Crazytopics: Craziest Laws in America for a list of them all, but here are the ones discovered in Georgia:
- Acworth: All citizens must own a rake.
- A Kennesaw, Ga. law makes it illegal for every homeowner not to own a gun, unless you are a convicted felon, conscientious objector or disabled.
- Against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
- Atlanta: Against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp; One man may not be on another man’s back.
- Columbus: Can’t cut off a chicken’s head on Sunday; It is illegal to carry a chicken by it’s feet down Broadway on Sunday.
- Gainesville: Chicken must be eaten with the hands.
- In Columbus, Georgia it is illegal to sit on one’s porch in an indecent position.
- In Georgia, movie houses that want to show films on Sunday must reserve one showing a month for religious material.
- It is illegal in Georgia to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.
- In Quitman, It is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
- It is illegal to change the clothes on a storefront mannequin unless the shades are down.
- It is illegal to say “Oh, Boy” in Jonesboro.
- It is illegal to take a bath of orange peel.
- Marietta: Though it is illegal to spit from a car or bus, citizens may spit from a truck.
- Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.
- Signs are required to be written in English.
- St. Mary’s: No spitting on the sidewalk is permitted after dark.
