cover image You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant: 101 Real Dumb Laws

You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant: 101 Real Dumb Laws

Jeff Koon, Andy Powell. Free Press, $12.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-3065-0

In Utah, first cousins can marry, but only after they're 65 years old. Training a bear to wrestle is a felony in Alabama. In Delaware it's illegal to sell perfume as a drink. Seventeen-year-olds Jeff Koon and Andy Powell collect these and other wacky laws in You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant: 101 Real Dumb Laws. Some of the laws show compassion (in Florida's Jupiter Colony Inlet, you can't launch missiles at birds), while others are just plain bizarre (in Oklahoma, hamburgers purchased on Sunday can only be eaten in the restaurant). (June)