 As part of a publicity stunt to promote the city of Gainesville as the poultry capital of the world, a law was created in 1961 that made it illegal to eat fried chicken with anything other than fingers. The law declares fried chicken “a culinary delicacy sacred to this municipality, this county, this state, the Southland, and this republic.”
Georgia certainly takes their fried chicken seriously, very seriously. In 2009, a Louisiana woman celebrating her 91st birthday at a restaurant in Gainesville was arrested as a practical joke for breaking the fried chicken law. Her arrest summons detained her at the table until she mastered the proper technique down to the licking of the fingers once she had finished. The arrest was a PR stunt, much like the original law. The woman was pardoned once she finished her finger-licking chicken. There was one other condition of the pardon: that she return to Gainesville often to eat lots of chicken.
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 In 1966, the FIFA World Cup was stolen from an exhibit at the Westminster Central Hall in London. This occurred only a few months before the games were to begin. Somehow, the thief dodged round the clock security and ignored other higher-valued items.
The next day, a ransom was demanded, but it turned out to be from someone unrelated to the crime with no knowledge of the trophy’s location. The trail went cold for about a week before something quite unexpected happened. A mixed-breed dog named Pickles followed his nose to the trophy which was wrapped in paper near the wheel of his neighbor’s car. With this discovery, Pickles hit it big time. He was invited to the World Cup banquet, issued a cash reward, awarded a medal by the National Canine Defense League, and even became a movie star. He appeared in the 1966 film The Spy with a Cold Nose. To this day, Pickles’s collar is still on display at the National Football Museum in Manchester.   Below are the answers to this week’s True Crime Trivia Q & A.
  Below are the answers to this week’s True Crime Trivia Q & A.
  Here is the answer to our True Crime Trivia Question:
Andrew Cunanan terrorized the nation during his 3-month killing spree in 1997. It all came to a head with the murder of famous designer, Gianni Versace. Back when Cunanan was in high school, his graduating class voted him to be most likely to be remembered. This was likely because he had a reputation for telling outlandish lies about his personal & family life.  It is illegal to bite off a person's limb in Rhode Island. We would have thought this one went without saying, but surely something must have come about to go through all the trouble of having a law so specific. The law states: "Every person who shall voluntarily, maliciously or of purpose put out an eye, slit the nose, ear, or lip, or cut off, bite off, or disable any limb or member of another, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty (20) years nor less than one year."
 While this one has recently been repealed in 2020, having premarital sex had been against the law in the state. In fact, consensual premarital sex had been considered a Class 4 misdemeanor with a fine of up to $250. But Virginia isn't the only state with such a law.
Fornication, defined as having sex with another unmarried person, is still a crime in Idaho and Mississippi, both with a possible six-month jail sentence.
 According to Nebraska law, persons with STDs are not permitted to marry. The actual writing of the law is “no person who is afflicted with a venereal disease shall marry in this state." Since blood tests are not required to obtain a marriage license, this law may be a little difficult to enforce.
It’s unclear why the law was created. This relatively obscure piece of legislation has been on the books in Nebraska since at least 1944 and has not been amended since the 70s. |
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