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Thousands of books and web sites have been devoted to the subject of loony laws, those statutes and regulations from various states and municipalities which seem ridiculous because they prohibit activities which are highly improbable or downright impossible (e.g., fishing for sharks in a landlocked state), ban actions so mundane that government has no conceivable interest in regulating them (e.g., barbers eating onions on Sundays), establish rules that seemingly defy common sense (e.g., requiring fire engines to stop at red lights), or are laughably anachronistic (e.g., mandating that all taxis be outfitted with spittoons). We could spend the rest of our lives trying to track down and verify all these wacky laws, an effort which in nearly all cases reveals only that the alleged laws never existed, or fell off the books so long ago that no one can demonstrate they were ever real. But, as a nod to the subject, we thought we'd tackle a few entries having to do with our neighbor state, Arizona. All of these alleged Arizona laws are cited on numerous web sites:
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