For instance: in Fairfax County, Virginia, persons may not use pogo sticks on a city bus.

You can't coast downhill in neutral in Rhode Island.

In Biloxi, Mississippi, the ice cream man is forbidden to use a speaker to attract customers.

You can't hunt bullfrogs with a firearm in Illinois. Also in Illinois, "No person shall take turtles or bullfrogs with commercial fishing devices, including hoop nets, traps or seines, or by the use of firearms, airguns or gas guns."

In Kennesaw, Georgia, every head of household is required to own a firearm. "In order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of the household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore."

It is illegal to reproach Christ or the Holy Ghost in Massachusetts.

In the village of Schaumberg, Illinois, ordinances say: "No person shall, at any place in the village, fly kites, play ball or engage in any sport or exercise likely to impede the passage of vehicles and otherwise injure persons or property or obstruct the business or other persons."

It is illegal to color a bird in Indiana. "A person who dyes, stains or otherwise alter the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit."

In Rhode Island it is illegal to challenge someone to a duel or to accept a challenge, even if the duel is not fought.

You may not sit on a street curb in Thousand Oaks, California.

It is illegal to intentionally burp in church in Nevada.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, it is illegal to honk your horn at a restaurant after dinner.

In Utah first cousins can marry, but only after they are both sixty-five or older.

No one can park under a bridge in New Jersey. Nor under any bridge or other elevated structure.

In Duluth, Georgia, it is illegal to litter on one's own property.

In Delaware it is illegal to sell alcohol where it is illegal.

In Massachusetts it is illegal to sell fewer than twenty-four ducklings at a time or before May 1, or to sell rabbits, chicks or ducklings that have been painted a different color.

In Texas, a $25 a year license is required to possess a dead alligator.

In Hillsboro, Oregon, no one may be towed behind a car on a skateboard.

In Galveston, Texas, playing with a frisbee on a beach is illegal.

In Kentucky, walking on the street in one's bathing suit was recently illegal. It was made legal again in 1974.

In Connecticut no one may use a white cane unless they can't see it.

In Texas, windshield wipers are required, even though a windshield is not.

Dr. A.O. Goldsmith of Kennett is a retired director of the School of Journalism, Louisiana State University.