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1. Cleveland: It’s illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

2. Bay Village: It’s illegal to walk a cow down Lake Road.

3. Cleveland: It’s illegal for women to wear patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear.

4. Columbus: It’s illegal for stores to sell Corn Flakes on Sunday.

5. North Canton: It’s illegal to roller skate without notifying the police.

6. Ohio: It is illegal to get a fish drunk. (Our friends in Perry are much more rambunctious than we thought!)

7. Fairview Park: It’s illegal to honk your horn “excessively.”

8. Strongsville: Catch-22 is banned.

9. Toledo: It’s illegal to throw a snake at anybody.

10. Ohio: It’s illegal to kill a housefly within 160 feet of a church without a license.

11. Paulding: A policeman may bite a dog to quiet him.

12: Cincinnati: It’s illegal to have anal sex.

This article appears in Jun 12-18, 2013.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

8 replies on “12 Dumbest Laws Still on the Books in Ohio”

  2. Wow really well then I guess cleveland jails would b filled wouldn’t they cause every one catches mice and in cinncy I knw there are alot of therr jails that would b filled to since people like anal and there are a lot of gay people

  3. Oh man… hilarious… #8 when I lived in Strongsville, and worked at the mall, I swear I walked to work reading this book, also read it at the mall twice on shift. Never knew about the law until just now. HILARIOUS.

  4. After reading this article, I feel much safer now that I know all these horrible things are illegal!

  5. The thing about Catch-22 is outdated. The book was banned from the high-school’s library along with a few other books, but the ACLU took them to court and won

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