It is illegal to require someone to purchase a horror comic book.

I saw this on www.msn.com.  It was in a list of ten silly laws.

The definition of "horror comic book" is as entertaining as the law itself.


http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/grad/?article=LudicrousLaws

LAW: It is illegal to require someone to purchase a horror comic book.

COUNTRY: USA / STATE: California 

CITATION: Cal Bus & Prof Code §16603 Requiring purchase of horror comic 
book as condition to sale or consignment of magazine or other publication.
 
ACTUAL: Every person who, as a condition to a sale or consignment of any 
magazine, book, or other publication requires that the purchaser or 
consignee purchase or receive for sale any horror comic book, is guilty of 
a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 
six months, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1,000), or by 
both.

As used in this section "horror comic book" means any book or booklet in 
which an account of the commission or attempted commission of the crime of 
arson, assault with caustic chemicals, assault with a deadly weapon, 
burglary, kidnapping, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery, theft, or voluntary 
manslaughter is set forth by means of a series of five or more drawings or 
photographs in sequence, which are accompanied by either narrative writing 
or words represented as spoken by a pictured character, whether such 
narrative words appear in balloons, captions or on or immediately adjacent 
to the photograph or drawing.