Silly Laws Journalism
Recently, the Ass. Press gleefully reported that “a state law” in Kentucky mandates that people bathe at least once per year, and another state, as amended reads:
No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club. The provisions of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it apply to female horses.
Like most Ass. Press stories, this one ran in many other places, including California attorneys’ leading “news” paper, the Daily Urinal (not available online, but see the bottom-right story on p. 4 of the 11/26/03 edition).
For starters, the preferred format for citing a Kentucky statute is KRS
