The Miami Herald reports that in Miami-Dade it is illegal to own a “dyed or artificially colored rabbit or other animal, baby chicken, duckling or other fowl.” It also tells us that the South Florida building code includes a “structural specifications for rubber contraceptives” that someone “slipped in as a joke” just after the “Methods for deep, quasi-static, cone and friction-cone penetration test of soil.'' The mind boggles.
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