The Seventh-day Sabbath and the Weekly Cycle

In Georgia, it’s still illegal to carry ice cream in a cone in your back pocket. Apparently, some ingenious 19th-century thieves used this trick to lure horses so they could claim, “I didn’t steal your horse; it just followed me home!”¹

In Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, whispering in a church—or within 300 feet of a church—is still a crime! No doubt there are far fewer attending church services there today and services are far too quiet.²

And until 2019, it was illegal to throw snowballs in Severance, Colorado. But thanks to the efforts of nine-year-old Dane Best, snowballs were eliminated from a list of “dangerous missiles,” and Dane and his friends can have snowball fights without fear of arrest!³

Thousands more archaic laws like these still exist in legal codes around the world. Good reasons likely existed for them at one time. For instance, hoodlums used to pack stones