- Indiana
"Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal.
- A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.
- All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads.
- Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.
- Auburn: It is illegal to bike, roller-skate, skateboard, or inline skate in a commercially zoned area. For these offenses, there is a fine of no more than $5 or the impounding of one's bicycle for a period not to exceed 30 days.
- Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.
- Beech Grove: It is forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.
- Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.
- Citizens are not allowed to attend a cinema or theatre nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.
- Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest.
- Drinks on the house are illegal.
- Elkhart: It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.
- Evansville: While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on.
- Fort Wayne: You may not sell or play on a radio broadcast, the record "It's In the Book".
- Grocery stores may not sell any type of cold liquor.
- Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.
- If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Certain Immoral Practices.
- In Indiana it is illegal to sell laughing gas with the intent to induce laughter.
- In South Bend, Indiana, it is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.
- It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.
- Men are prohibited from standing in a bar.
- Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans.
- No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.
- One man may not back into a parking spot because it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate.
- Oral sex is illegal.
- Pedestrians crossing the highway at night are prohibited from wearing tail lights.
- Smoking in the state legislature building is banned, except when the legislature is in session.
- State government officials who engage in private duels can be dismissed from their post.
- Taxpayers of Bainbridge, Ind., used to have to swear a solemn oath that the values they placed on their taxable property were the fair market values.
- Terre Haute: No one may spit on the sidewalk.
- The value of Pi is 4, and not 3.1415
- You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table; the waiter or waitress has to do it.
- You are required to pour your drink into a glass.
- You can get out of paying for a dependent's medical care by praying for him/her.
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