Offers a collection of illogical laws, strange lawsuits, unusual wills, bizarre court cases, and other peculiar incidents, including unreliable predictions, useless inventions, and odd coincidences
What possesses people to name a town Armpit? Why would the government pay $640 for toilet seats? These hundreds of loony laws, silly rules, weird names, crazy contests, ridiculous research, and zany trivia will have you shaking your head and laughing out loud. Here's just a sampling: laws against sneezing on a train (Nashville) and barring extraterrestrials from landing (Avignon, France); plus, a court ruling that permits jurors to be insane (Indianapolis). From a motorized pogo stick to a frog museum--each fact is stranger than the last! 96 pages, 76 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Why would there be a law against people sneezing on a train or one that makes it illegal for a person to step out of a plane when its in the air? Hundreds of loony laws, silly rules, crazy contests, and zany trivia will have you shaking your head and laughing out loud. From rules forbidding the use of hair rollers without a license to laws against disturbing bullfrogseach fact is stranger than the last.
