State of the day(Maryland

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Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It <br />__________________________________________________<br />Maryland: A Thinking Man's Delaware <br />__________________________________________________<br />Maryland: If it weren't for Washington, you couldn't find us <br />__________________________________________________<br />Dumb Maryland Laws<br />Thistles may not grow in one's yard. <br /><br />Baltimore<br />It's illegal to throw bales of hay from a second-story window within the city limits. <br /><br />It's illegal to take a lion to the movies. <br /><br />It is a park rule violation to be in a public park with a sleeveless shirt. $10 fine. This would include joggers that go shirtless. (1898) <br /><br />No person who is a "tramp" or "vagrant" shall loiter in any park at any time. They define tramp as a person who roves for begging purposes and a vagrant as an idle person who is able-bodied living without labor. It's a $50 fine. I guess the tramp would have to beg for the money to pay the fine. -Park Rule 6 <br /><br />It is a violation of city code to sell chicks or ducklings to a minor within 1 week of the Easter holiday. <br /><br />Baltimore City <br />Though you may spit on a city roadway, spitting on city sidewalks is prohibited. <br /><br />You may not curse inside the city limits. <br /><br />Columbia <br />You can not have a antenna exposed outside of your house yet you can have a 25' satellite dish. <br /><br />Though clotheslines are banned, clothes may be draped over a fence. <br /><br />Ocean City <br />A law from the early 1900's prohibits men from going topless on the Boardwalk. (Repealed) <br /><br />Eating while swimming in the ocean is prohibited.