Playing golf in the street will get you in trouble

On this day in 1901 Benjamin Adams was arrested for playing golf on Sunday. This happened in New York, which has clearly not always been such a hot-bed of hedonism. In fact playing golf in the street is currently against the law in albany, New York.

In this country it is still illegal for cabbies to carry rabid dogs or corpses, and by law they must ask all passengers if they have small pox or the plague. It is still an offence to beat or shake any carpet rug or mat in any street in the Metropolitan Police District (that includes all the streets in the Laundry area), although you are allowed to shake a doormat before 8am.
Londoners are not allowed to keep a pigsty in the front of their homes and furthermore, it is illegal to bring ‘old world’ pigs, like Wild Boar or Wart Hogs, into this country, without the permission of your local authority. Apart from the last one however, no-one is ever going to get arrested for these things, unlike the residents of Bogota, Columbia, where gossip has allegedly been made illegal by the mayor, punishable by up to four years in jail.