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My favorite crazy law is that in Massachusetts it is illegal to display an artificially created albino person. http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-33.htm ht
by tjic 17y ago
My favorite crazy law is that in Massachusetts it is illegal to display an artificially created albino person.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-33.htm http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-33.htm
- stcredzero 17y agoIn many states, there are laws along the lines of: 5 or more unmarried women living under the same roof constitutes a brothel. Hence, most colleges are running brothels.
- sethg 17y agoIIRC Boston recently passed an ordinance forbidding landlords to rent a unit to (IIRC) groups of more than 4 unmarried persons living together. The intent was to deal with absentee landlords who rented houses to large groups of students, since (a) the students, as a rule, could outbid working families interested in the same kinds of housing; (b) there have been a number of problems with students being bad neighbors (drunken late-night parties, and so on). Since Massachusetts has same-sex marriage, I suppose that six Boston College students looking to crowd themselves into a three-bedroom house could take a short trip to City Hall and present themselves to landlords as three married couples....