The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation

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| author = Dick Hyman

| name = The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation

| country = United States

| language = English

| subjects = Law

| publisher = The Stephen Greene Press

| release_date = April 1976

| pages = 116 pp.

| media_type = Print (Hardcover), e-book at [https://archive.org/details/trentonpickleord00hyma Internet Archive]

| isbn = 0-8289-0278-X

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The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation is a 116-page book published in 1976 and written by Dick Hymanhttps://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jleg4&div=18&id=&page= 4 J. Legis. 179 (1977) Recent Books about Legislation and Public Policy{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|211779552}} |last1=McMenimen |first1=Leo |title=An irreverent view |journal=The CPA Journal |volume=48 |issue=12 |date=December 1978 |pages=5 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/402419909/ | title=Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin on August 8, 1976 · 123 | date=8 August 1976 }}https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55644268/ Called "The Trenton Pickle Ordinance And Other Bonehead Legislation," the book was written and copyrighted this year by Dick Hyman,{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/318516490/ | title=Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida on August 8, 1976 · 222 | date=8 August 1976 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/87387676/|title=The Waxahachie Daily Light from Waxahachie, Texas on May 30, 1976 · Page 2|date=30 May 1976 }} (1904-1995),{{rp|iv}} a newspaper and magazine columnist and feature writer from New York City.{{rp|inside flap, back}} The book includes a posthumously published foreword by Bob Considine{{rp|vii, xi}} and publisher's note by Castle Freeman Jr.{{rp|xiv}} The book is a collection of humorous{{cite web |url=http://library.law.wisc.edu/information/newsandviews/20001002.htm|title=Recreational Reading and Viewing Materials at the Law Library |quote=Humor You can also find books that take a look at the lighter side of the law, such as Legally Correct Fairy Tales and The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation. These works are located on the third floor in the call number range KF/184...,|website=University of Wisconsin Law Library|date=2 October 2000|access-date=9 August 2018|author=Bonnie Shucha}}{{cite web|title=BONEHEAD LEGISLATION|url=https://inkslingerblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/bonehead-legislation/|date=16 May 2011|access-date=9 August 2018|quote=In his book The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation, journalist Dick Hyman cites 600 examples of absurd laws in America. For your consideration and amusement, here are just a few{...} }} one-sentence summaries of six-hundred unusual{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/exclusive-interviews/anthony-wile-richard-maybury-explains-mal-investment-crooked-regulations-and-the-true-cost-of-economic-fairy-tales/|author=Anthony Wile|website=The Daily Bell|title=Richard Maybury Explains Mal-Investment, Crooked Regulations and the True Cost of Economic Fairy Tales|date=7 June 2009|access-date=9 August 2018|quote=Daily Bell: You say regulations are difficult to understand. Richard Maybury: Here is an example from a book called The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and other Bonehead Legislation, by Richard Hyman. A law in Texas says that when two trains meet at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone. Daily Bell: That's extraordinary.}} ordinances and laws (organized alphabetically by general topic) which the author reports he had gathered from across the United States over the preceding forty years before publication of the book.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/trentonpickleord00hyma|url-access=registration|title=The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation |publisher=The Stephen Greene Press |location=Brattleboro, Vermont |date=April 1976 |isbn=9780828902786}}{{rp|xv}} The book's name comes from one of the unusual ordinances: "A Trenton, New Jersey, ordinance states that it is unlawful to throw any tainted pickles in the streets."{{rp|82}}