Regulation Roundup

Here’s a fresh batch of regulatory bloopers:

• In Michigan, it is legal to kill ducks during hunting season, but not to scare them.
• In Pateros, Washington, it is illegal for dogs to be nuisances.
• Massage parlors are illegal in well-named Horneytown, North Carolina.
• In Salem, West Virginia, it is illegal to eat candy if you’re going to church in the next 90 minutes.
• In Maine, it is illegal to walk on any street with untied shoelaces.
• In New Britain, Connecticut, fire trucks on their way to a fire may not go faster than 25 mph.
• In Brooklyn, New York, it is against the law for horses to sleep in bathtubs.
• In South Dakota, it is illegal to fall asleep inside a cheese factory.