# Do Any Localities Ban Mundane Things? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 27, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846 "2008-12-27T14:54:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/61 "2008-12-29T18:06:29Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > How on earth is this GQ? Maybe we should just rename it “Urban legends and making up shit” and be done with it. Otherwise I am calling BS on half the posts and demanding cites. OK, Sailor, exactly which posts are you wanting cites for? So far, only one _“illegal in Liverpool for a woman to be topless unless they’re a clerk in a tropical fish store”_ turned out to be bogus. > **[Topless Fish Saleswomen Legal in Liverpool](https://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/3950/)** > > Status: Undetermined (though I'm assuming it's false, until proven otherwise) Some of you may have read this claim before: Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. I hadn't heard it before until I... But I admit it’s a wide-spread myth, so I can’t blame \*\*Fake Tales of San Francisco \*\*for being taken in. Not suprising considering the user-name, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/62 "2008-12-29T18:10:01Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Bolding mine. A trailer (including the one the boat sits on) most certainly has to be registered at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), and is therefore taxed. If your post was accurate, it’d be illegal to tow a boat behind your vehicle. That depends on the carrying capability of the trailer. Trailers that have a capability of less than one ton (trailer included in weight), do not need to be registered. Otoh, you might need to be able to show the Boys in Blue those papers if they stop you. (Icelandic regulations, but I’m assuming most countries have something similar as we base our legislation on foreign ones) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/63 "2008-12-31T00:31:03Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > Nothing else for the teens to do on Saturday night, or what? Are you kidding? It’s _ **the** _ thing to do on a Saturday night for teens and young 20s. It’s just another form of the bar scene. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/64 "2008-12-31T09:29:57Z")
A suburb of Cleveland OH (Mayfield, I think?) required that businesses were limited to the use of only three colors on outdoor signage. Black and white were considered, for the purpose of this ordinance, “colors”. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/65 "2008-12-31T15:08:42Z")
One or two counties in our neck of the woods in Florida have banned glass bottles/containers/cups on some rivers/creeks as well as the beaches. Somewhat mundane, but it makes sense. Broken glass on beaches and waterways where folks are likely to swim and or go barefoot is not good. And thank the gods that those dettachable pull tab aluminum soda cans are finally gone as well. Now, as to how EFFECTIVE said ordinance is, I have little idea… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/66 "2008-12-31T16:13:48Z")
Sometimes it’s better to have effective ordnance than effective ordinances. Our town issues official, required licenses for fortunetellers. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/67 "2008-12-31T17:25:41Z")
> [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](#): > > BoJo has banned alcohol consumption on any London public transport: > [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7387113.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7387113.stm) > > Doesn’t stop people being \*drunk \*on public transport, so a giant waste of time, IMHO. That makes it rather mundane? Consumption of any food or drink is banned on public transportation here. Anyway, you must admit that banning consumption of alcohol necessarily \*reduces \*the number of drunks on the train. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/68 "2008-12-31T17:26:42Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > How about Arizona’s ban on license plate frames? > > [Dumb law](http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/12/10/20081210platecover1210.html) That linked story makes it sound like a perfectly reasonable law. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846/69 "2008-12-31T17:36:33Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > That linked story makes it sound like a perfectly reasonable law. Yes, it’s really " Arizona’s ban on license plate frames\*…if the frame obscures the state’s name."\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-localities-ban-mundane-things/478846.md?page=3)