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"A student is planning to carry out a crime spree by travelling across the United States and breaking weird local laws along the way.
Richard Smith, 23, will risk being arrested for falling asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota and going whale-hunting in landlocked Utah.
He intends to break about 40 strange state and town laws as he crosses America, starting from the former prison island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
His 18,000-mile journey across the continent will end in Hartford, Connecticut, where it is illegal to cross the road while walking on your hands.
Mr Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall, said: "I am not really one of those people who likes going away and sitting by a pool. I want a purpose, and this seemed perfect."
The inspiration for his criminal crusade came while he was playing a board game which included details of a law forbidding widows in Florida from going parachuting on Sundays.
He has since discovered that it is illegal to play cards against a Native American in Globe, Arizona; to drive around the town square in Oxford, Mississippi more than 100 times on a single occasion; to say "oh boy" in Jonesborough, Georgia; and to play golf in the streets of Albany, New York. He plans to challenge all those laws.
Mr Smith, a journalism student at Cornwall College Camborne, estimates the challenge will take him eight weeks."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...aw26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/26/ixworld.html
maximus otter
Richard Smith, 23, will risk being arrested for falling asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota and going whale-hunting in landlocked Utah.
He intends to break about 40 strange state and town laws as he crosses America, starting from the former prison island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
His 18,000-mile journey across the continent will end in Hartford, Connecticut, where it is illegal to cross the road while walking on your hands.
Mr Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall, said: "I am not really one of those people who likes going away and sitting by a pool. I want a purpose, and this seemed perfect."
The inspiration for his criminal crusade came while he was playing a board game which included details of a law forbidding widows in Florida from going parachuting on Sundays.
He has since discovered that it is illegal to play cards against a Native American in Globe, Arizona; to drive around the town square in Oxford, Mississippi more than 100 times on a single occasion; to say "oh boy" in Jonesborough, Georgia; and to play golf in the streets of Albany, New York. He plans to challenge all those laws.
Mr Smith, a journalism student at Cornwall College Camborne, estimates the challenge will take him eight weeks."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...aw26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/26/ixworld.html
maximus otter
And if he rides side-saddle into town, orders milk at the bar, insults ol' Shelby's chilli, fails to remove his frickin' bowler, or mentions one bad thing about Saint Landry and our beloved Cowboys, he's gonna git sanded, branded, and de-man-ded (that's removal of the crown jewels sans anesthesia, fer you tea timing Tower of Ben people) before we stretch'im!!! 