According to a law still on the books in Glendale, Arizona, for instance, you can get arrested for driving in reverse(相反的方向)! You may not sleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota. Can't legally set a mousetrap in California without a hunting license. Tease a skunk in Minnesota, or gargle in public in New Orleans, Louisiana, and they can put you in prison.
If you have business in the western state of Utah, be especially careful. In particular, don't go whale-hunting there. It's illegal. Doesn't matter that Utah is 1,500 kilometers from the nearest ocean! And be aware while you're in Utah that you cannot legally fish from horseback, or refuse to drink milk.
These are old, old laws that probably that had some reason behind them that makes no sense today. But nobody ever bothered to take them off the books. Why not? Well, suppose you're on the council(委员会) in a town that has a law that makes it illegal to blow your nose in public. If you stood up and said that it's high time to do away such an old law, the voters would toss you out of office for wasting time on useless matters. And since a lot of these old laws have to do with sex, religious beliefs, and lovely animals, some interest group would probably take offense and make you sorry you opened your mouth. So laws like one in Indiana that makes it illegal for monkeys to smoke stay on the books because people are simply too embarrassed to bring them up.
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