Dumb Maryland Laws You May Have Violated

From the "Craziest Laws in America" blog—here are some wacky Maryland laws.

• A woman may not go through her husband's pockets while he is sleeping.
• Men may not buy drinks for female bartenders.
• It is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises."
• Thistles may not grow in one's yard.
• Eating while swimming in the ocean is prohibited.
• In the entire state, it is illegal to give or receive oral sex.
• It is a violation to be in a public park with a sleeveless shirt, including joggers, punishable by a $10 fine.
• In Halethorpe, kisses longer than one second are illegal.
• In Columbia, you cannot have an antenna exposed outside of your house yet you can have a 25-foot satellite dish. Though clotheslines are banned, clothes may be draped over a fence.
• You cannot swear while inside the city limits of Baltimore.
• Also in Baltimore:
  Though you may spit on a city roadway, spitting on city sidewalks is prohibited.
  It's illegal to take a lion to the movies.
  It is a violation of city code to sell chicks or ducklings to a minor within one week of Easter.
  It's illegal to block the sidewalk with a box. But the offense only carries a $1 fine.
  It is illegal to throw bale of hay (or a bale of anything else) out a second-story window. That gets you a $20 fine.
  It's illegal to play professional croquet before 2 p.m. on Sunday.
  It is illegal to mistreat oysters.
  It is illegal to wash or scrub sinks no matter how dirty they get.
• Gypsies should steer clear of Caroline County, MD, where it's a $100 fine or six months in the can for "forecasting or pretending to foretell the future."
• In Ocean City, a law from the early 1900s prohibits men from going topless on the boardwalk.