17. Arizona allows the selling of horse meat in restaurants if the customer is warned
A law which no doubt goes back to the days of the Earps in Tombstone allows restaurants to sell horse meat, but only if the fact that it is horsemeat is noted clearly on the menu, printed in green ink. Why diners would opt for the horsemeat is anybody’s guess. Another law cited but provably false in Arizona elevates the commission of a misdemeanor into a felony of the committer of the crime is wearing a red ski mask at the time. Still another law prohibits six adult women from living in the same house at the same time and is likely in place as part of the crackdown on brothels as the state tamed itself from its more open wild west days. Other states have similar laws, though the number of women allowed varies.
Stealing soap in Arizona is often reported as being punished, in part, with a law which requires the thief to use up the entire bar. The law is reported in some media as being active in Mohave County. As with many of the strange laws so often reported there is little to verify them other than the circular reporting which drives many urban legends and myths. Mohave County doesn’t list it. Another often reported Arizona law, this one a city law in Tucson, Arizona, prohibits women from wearing pants within city limits. The existence of that law has been completely debunked by the state historian, yet it continues to appear on websites and in magazine articles as if it wer factually correct.
