Crime spree targets dumb laws

What are you planning to do during your summer vacation? British college students Luke Bateman and Richard Smith plan to travel around the United States, violating stupid laws in every state along the way, the Guardian reports:

Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course.

In the far more conservative - and landlocked - state of Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting.

If they manage to outwit state troopers in Utah, and perhaps federal agents on their trail, they will be able to take a deserved, but nevertheless illegal, rest when they have a nap in a cheese factory in South Dakota.

"There are thousands of stupid laws in the United States, but we are limiting ourselves to breaking about 45 of them," said Richard Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall.

The journey, which appropriately enough begins in Alcatraz, will cover around 18,000 miles and take eight weeks - provided, of course, that Mr Smith and his accomplice, Luke Bateman, are not apprehended along the way.

Here's a sampling of other laws Messrs. Smith and Bateman plan to break, according to the Times of London:

• It is illegal to play cards against a Native American in Globe, Arizona
• It is illegal to drive around the town square in Oxford, Mississippi, more than 100 times on a single occasion
• It is illegal to say “oh boy” in Jonesborough, Georgia
• It is illegal to play golf in the streets of Albany, New York
• It is illegal to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats and other pets in Zion, Illinois
• It is illegal to take a lion to the cinema in Baltimore
• In Carmel, New York, a man cannot go outside while wearing a jacket and trousers that do not match
• In Miami, it is illegal for men to be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown

You can read about more of the nation's dumber laws at The Dumb Network.