Weird Laws In New York

In New York, you can get arrested if:

• Walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in your pocket.
• You do not purchase a license before hanging clothes on a clothesline.
• You talk to someone while riding in an elevator or fold your hands while looking toward the door.
• You flirt: a fine of $25 will have to be paid. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking “at a woman in that way.” A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a “pair of horse-blinders” wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll.
• You throw a ball at someone’s head for fun.

Staten Island, NY

• You are a father and call your son a “faggot” or “queer” in an effort to curb his “girlie behavior.”
• You water your lawn without holding the hose in your hand.

New York City

• Smoke within 100 feet of the entrance to a public building.
• Greet someone else by “putting one’s thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers”.
• However, women may go topless in public, provided it is not being used as a business.
• You are a woman wearing “body-hugging clothing” on the street.

Ocean City, NY

• You are a man and go topless in the center of town.
• Eat in the street in a residential neighborhood or drink a beverage on the beach other than water from a clear plastic bottle.

Greene County

• Eat peanuts during a concert or walk backward on the sidewalks.

Carmel, NY

• You are a man and go outside wearing a jacket and pants that do not match.