Oregon Crazy Laws

Canned corn is not to be used as bait for fishing.

Ice cream may not be eaten on Sundays.

Dishes must drip dry.

It is illegal to buy or sell marijuana, but it is legal to smoke it on your own property.

You may not pump your own gas in service stations.

The "Peer Review Statute" prohibits you from finding out details of any written or oral discussion about your medical treatment. Not even a court of law can. All you can access is what the doctor or nurse voluntarily records in your chart.

One may not bathe without wearing "suitable clothing," i.e.,that which covers one's body from neck to knee.

Beaverton

You must buy a $10 permit to be allowed to install a burglar alarm.

Eugene

It is legal to conduct a horse race or a symphony concert.

It is illegal to show movies or attend a car race on Sundays. (Repealed in the 1970s)

Hood River

Juggling is strictly prohibited without a license.

Klamath Falls

It's illegal to walk down a sidewalk and knock a snakes head off with your cane.

Portland

People may not whistle underwater.

It's against the law for a wedding ceremony to be performed at a skating rink. (Repealed in 1989)

You cannot wear roller skates in restrooms.

Marion

Ministers are forbidden from eating garlic or onions before delivering a sermon.

Myrtle Creek

One may not box with a kangaroo.

Salem

Women may not wrestle in Salem.

Springfield

It is illegal to own a reptile within the city limits, unless you are a school or city, as a pet.

Stanfield

No more than two people may share a single drink.

Cloth towel dispensers are banned from restrooms.

On the canned corn law, actually what is prohibited is 'chumming,' or bringing a school of fish near your pole by throwing a bunch in the water, or puncturing a can and lowering it down.

Some fishermen actually use a piece or two of corn on the end of their hook and I believe that is legal. It's the chumming that'll get you hooked by game wardens.

Herb

I usually only chum after a PDXRADIO get together! HA

Actually many of those make sense, a lot of areas charge more than $10.00 for you to have a burglery alarm, those things cause a lot of headaches for the police, because of all the false alarms.

Wearing rollarskates in a restroom, would constitute a hazard for the one wearing them, and anyone else in the room.

Boxtking with a kangaroo constitutes animal crulity And it was occassionally a drawing card for carnivals.

You should never kill snakes, their our friends.
Owning reptiles , depending on which ones, can be a public nusince.

are you for less goverment or more goverment?