Around The Weird In 80 Days

Rich Smith, author of You Can Get Arrested for That, returns to the scene of the crime for more adventures through small-town America.

Rich Smith lives in Portreath on the north Cornish coast where he is currently studying for a degree in journalism. His ambition is to become a primary school teacher, and continue travelling, as long as US law enforcement never catches up with him.

When you've broken 25 of the USA's most absurd laws, what do you do next? If you're Rich Smith, you return to the scene of the crime, and then: 
 
Attend the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, which includes such treats as the Hobo bake sale, a giant parade, a pie and ice-cream social and the 'cheerleader omelette breakfast' 
 
Watch the convicts compete in The Prison Rodeo at Louisiana State Penitentiary. 
 
Browse for treasures at the World's Longest Yardsale, held each August along 630 miles of Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky 
 
Expose yourself at the Amtrak Mooning in Orange County, California. This year sees the 28th annual mooning of Amtrak. After 8pm, night mooning starts. Mooners are advised to: 'bring a torch with plenty of batteries...Night mooning is better because it is less crowded, cooler temperature, and more authentic'. 
 
Compete in the Redneck Games, in Buckeye Park, Georgia, where eager participants engage in such high-brow events as the mudpit belly flop, the armpit serenade, and bobbing for pig's feet.

Rich Smith

Brilliant and funny...An outrageous romp of a book that feels like it's been waiting for someone to write it forever

Smith and a friend go on a mission to break 25 of America's dumbest laws, such as falling alseep in a cheese factory and catching fish with a lasso. Hilarious

Opinion is divided in the office on this one... half of us (the girl half) has fallen in love with this student joker and think traversing America while breaking its ridiculous laws is a funny idea...The other half is full of bravado about how they did this sort of thing all the time while at university, too. Either way, it's good for a titter on a long-haul flight

What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. 
 
In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to: 
 
- Lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota) 
- Play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California) 
- Catch a fish with a lasso (Tennessee) 
 
Rich's first problem was narrowing down the huge choice of laws to just twenty-five. The second was persuading his mate Bateman to come along, to do some of the driving - and possibly provide bail money. The third was finding someone who was willing to help him break his first law: one of San Francisco's oldest statutes, which related to oral sex. No, Bateman couldn't help with that one. 
 
Join Rich as he attempts his one-man crime wave - almost as difficult as a one-man Mexican wave.

Rich Smith

Praise for You Can Get Arrested For That

Brilliant and funny...An outrageous romp of a book that feels like it's been waiting for someone to write it forever

Smith and a friend go on a mission to break 25 of America's dumbest laws, such as falling alseep in a cheese factory and catching fish with a lasso. Hilarious

Opinion is divided in the office on this one... half of us (the girl half) has fallen in love with this student joker and think traversing America while breaking its ridiculous laws is a funny idea...The other half ...

Brilliant and funny...An outrageous romp of a book that feels like it's been waiting for someone to write it forever

Smith and a friend go on a mission to break 25 of America's dumbest laws, such as falling alseep in a cheese factory and catching fish with a lasso. Hilarious

Opinion is divided in the office on this one... half of us (the girl half) has fallen in love with this student joker and think traversing America while breaking its ridiculous laws is a funny idea...The other half ...

Brilliant and funny...An outrageous romp of a book that feels like it's been waiting for someone to write it forever

Smith and a friend go on a mission to break 25 of America's dumbest laws, such as falling alseep in a cheese factory and catching fish with a lasso. Hilarious

Opinion is divided in the office on this one... half of us (the girl half) has fallen in love with this student joker and think traversing America while breaking its ridiculous laws is a funny idea...The other half ...

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