You should feel safer if you live in Texas than in other states. A law requires criminals to give their victims a 24 hour notice in writing or orally before committing a crime, and that is only one of the strange laws in Texas. The criminal is also supposed to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
According to another strange Texas law, when two trains meet at a crossing, each is supposed to a complete stop. Neither is allowed to proceed until the other has gone.
It is illegal in Texas to sell one’s eye. The law also forbids selling any human organ. Exceptions are for physicians, medical personnel hospitals, clinical services, and in some other cases involving health professionals.
Another strange Texas law is that it is illegal to shoot at a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.
Make sure you never milk another person’s cow, if you want to obey Texas law.
Because it contains a formula for making beer at home, the complete Encyclopedia Britannica is banned.
Make sure you never loiter or are idle anyplace within the corporate limits of a city to be able to flirt or be a masher. You will be breaking the law if you do.
Some cities in Texas have their own strange laws.
It is illegal in Abilene to carry wire cutters in your pocket.
In Beaumont, college football is banned at Lamar University.
In Borger, you will be breaking the law if you throw whips, rubber balls, feather dusters, confetti, or any kind of explosive firecrackers.
In Clarendon, it doesn’t matter how neat a person you are, it is illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster.
Make certain if you own a business such as a hotel, store, market, hall of assembly, railroad depot, saloon, or if you are in charge of a church, that you provide a spittoon, “of a kind and number to efficiently contain expectorations into them,” in El Paso.
One strange Texas law is that it is illegal to land an airplane on a beach in Galveston. Also in the town, make certain you never drive a car on Broadway before noon. Make sure you never allow your camel to run loose in the street.
Have you ever wished the drivers of public vehicles would obey the law when driving, like you have to? A law in Harker Heights requires drivers to do just that.
In Houston, if you want to obey the law, make certain you never sell Limburger cheese on Sunday, as one strange Texas law makes that illegal.
You may wonder who would be the judge, but in Mesquite, it is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.
If you are in Port Arthur, you may not emit obnoxious odors if you are in an elevator.
In Richardson, never do U turns, if you want to obey the law. Don’t place a “for sale” sign in front of your house, if it is visible from the street.
In San Antonio, you will be breaking the law if you flirt or respond to flirtation with your hands, eyes, or both–regardless if you are a man or woman.
In Temple, if you are a cattle thief, you can be hanged on the spot. You can ride your horse in a saloon, however.
Citations:Dumb Laws in Texas, no author listed, Dumblaws.com
Stupid Laws from Texas, no author listed, Bitoffun.com
No title listed, no author listed, Strangefacts.com
