Re: @enormous c word I like it
@Graham Marsden
Honestly, I dont know about US law but there's plenty of ridiculous laws in the UK - 30 seconds on google found these:
- It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
- It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
- In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store
- Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day
- In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
- In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet
- It is illegal to remove a dead whale found on the British coast as it automatically becomes the property of the King / Queen (1322)
- It is against the law for anyone to fly a kite or slide on ice in the street (1839)
- It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
- It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (1313)
- In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow
- no person shall import into England potatoes which he knows to be or has reasonable cause to suspect to be Polish potatoes' (2004)
- it is illegal to carry a plank of wood along a pavement (1839)
- it is illegal to impersonate a Chelsea Pensioner