Odd U.S. state laws ban owning skunks, swearing - Yahoo! News

Odd U.S. state laws ban owning skunks, swearing - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In Virginia, under the terms of a 1950 law, no animal may be hunted on Sundays except raccoons, which may be hunted until 2:00 a.m.
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In Connecticut, a 1949 ordinance forbids the storing of town records in any place where liquor is sold.

A 1974 Tennessee law states: 'It is unlawful for any person to import, possess, or cause to be imported into this state any type of live skunk.'

The legal codes of U.S. states, counties and cities are replete with archaic, sometimes nonsensical and often humorous laws, many of which were passed decades or even centuries ago for a reason that seemed good at the time but has long since been forgotten or faded into irrelevance.

But these old laws occasionally come back to bite."