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Stupid Missouri Laws

Honking someone elses horn is prohibited

Toot your own horn, but not someone elses!
10.32.100 Climbing into another’s vehicle, sounding horn, etc. prohibited without permission.

No person shall, without the permission of the owner or person in charge thereof, climb upon or into, or swing upon any motor vehicle or trailer, whether the same is in motion or at rest, or sound the horn or other sound-producing device thereon, or attempt to manipulate any of the levers, starting device, brakes, or machinery thereof, or set the machinery in motion.

(Prior code � 21-28)

Filed in: University City

Milkmen cannot run while on the clock

This is because milk is to be stirred and not shaken.

Filed in: St. Louis

Drinking beer out of a bucket while sitting on any city street is illegal

Try to conceal your bucket with a paper bag or just stand up to drink your bucket of beer.

Filed in: St. Louis

Strickly no dancing in Purdy, Missouri

The “How to dance like a white guy” tutorial (as seen on YouTube)  most likely originated in this town and is the reason this law exists.

Filed in: Purdy

Getting an elephant drunk or high is prohibited

The reason elephants have such a good memory is because they don’t smoke the wacky tabacco.  Just say no (to smoking with elephants).

Filed in: Natchez

Four unrelated persons cannot occupy the same dwelling

This is most likely a very old housing restriction.  By legal terms it would be considered a brothel if four unrelated women occupy the same apartment.

Filed in: Marceline

Minors aren’t allowed to buy lighters, but buying rolling papers and tobacco is okay

Minors will have to use a magnifying glass on a nice sunny day to spark up their smokes.

Filed in: Marceline

Minors are allowed to buy shotguns but are prohibited from purchasing a cap pistol

Cap pistols have never killed anyone – where’s the logic in this law?

Filed in: Kansas City

It is unlawful to drink in a bar between 2am and 6am

It’s probably unlawful to drink in a bar between those hours because the bar is closed and you’d be trespassing.

Filed in: Columbia

Yard waste may only be burned on Sundays

Buckner Missouri, a town of 4000, are only allowed to burn yard waste on Sundays.

Filed in: Buckner

One dollar annual tax if you’re single and between the ages of 21 and 50

This law, enacted in 1820, taxes a single guy for a buck every year.  Milking a single guy for his beer money is just wrong.

Filed in: Missouri