[wil421]

The city adjacent to me has a law that all heads of households must have a firearm. In response to the gun law, the next city over created a law everyone need to have a rake for leaves. Unlike the straw bale laws, we don’t take it seriously.

It’s also illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. In another city it’s illegal to eat fried chicken with anything but your hands.

[smeej]

I wish we had the back stories on more of these. Who was it who tied a giraffe to a telephone pole? What disaster ensued, such that "there oughtta be a law!"?

[extraduder_ire]

I would guess it's not giraffe's specifically, but anything besides a horse or any animal more massive than a dog in the actual law.

Most of these wacky laws are usually special cases rather than the verbatim text of the law. At least the ones I've looked into.

[KineticLensman]

> I wish we had the back stories on more of these. Who was it who tied a giraffe to a telephone pole?

(Teeters on the edge of this rabbit hole. Pulls back just in time)

[DaiPlusPlus]

> The city adjacent to me has a law that all heads of households must have a firearm

Oklahoma?

[gmcharlt]

Dunno about Oklahoma, but Kennesaw, Georgia, does have a gun ownership requirement, passed in 1982 in response to Morton Grove, Illinois, banning handguns. Kennesaw's neighbor, Acworth, is the one with the rake ownership requirement -- passed in response to Kenneswaw's gun law -- though it is not immediately clear to me whether that ordinance is still in effect.

[Mountain_Skies]

Kennesaw's law allowed for conscientious objection and had no penalty for non compliance so it was effectively dead when passed but did make quite the splash in the international press. Crime rates in Kennesaw did drop significantly after the law was passed but the same was true for surrounding communities without the law, most likely due to them becoming affluent bedroom communities for Atlanta's white collar class.