"10 Silly Laws" Topic

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What's the address of that fish store?

I thought this was going to be yet another IP thread :)

We in Texas have you beat. It's illegal to have a donkey on the second floor of a building. When people bring it up for amusement, they always couch it as a building ordanence. Myself, I've always thought it was a sodomey law written so no one has to ask or prove what you were doing with a donkey on the second floor.

I'm pretty sure most of those are English laws. Feel free to come up to Scotland, stuff your face with mince pies on Christmas day and die in Holyrood, Phil :)

Although, don't drink anything; I don't want you using my cludgie.

Nitpick; it can't be legal to murder a Scotsman in York, with or without a bow & arrow. It may be legal to kill him, but murder is, by definition, an unlawful killing, no?

This thread already turned up in the CA board, by the way:
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"The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen."

So, does Elisabeth have somewhere an impressive collection of whale tails?

And since there is technically no king at the moment (AFAIK Prince Philip does not count, but then again I am not a Brit), what do they do with the whale heads – pickle them just in case some king might show up in future to demand his fair share?

Griefbringer

And how do tropical fish go with chips?

Tropical "anything" goes with attractive women… Please follow this link for samples that will delight the eye and nurture your imagination… I/S

I thought it meant the tail of the queen – maybe David Icke was right all along…

Here's one from my country, a former colony:

Offences against the President's person.
121A. Whoever compasses, *imagines*, invents, devises, or intends the death of or hurt to or imprisonment or restraint of the President, shall be punished with death, and *shall also be liable to fine*.

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I don't know which is worse: the 'imagine' part, or the part where they kill you AND fine you.

I think it is Massachusetts where a blind person is exempt from paying sales tax on any car they purchase. (the driver's license exam there must be quite lenient)

"I don't know which is worse: the 'imagine' part, or the part where they kill you AND fine you."

I'd have to say the 'imagine' part. The fine you part is actually a good idea. Imagine for a sec, you pay a suicide bomber a million bucks to blow himself up. He agress because the money will take care of his family. Nope, because the state can convict him posthumously and take away the ill gotten gains.

Is there some sort of telepathic special force keeping tab on what people imagine?

Griefbringer

In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter.

Well, of course.

Idiot Savant

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I wonder if the UK has a Minister of Silly Laws?

Several…

I was recnetly in Cambodia, where they have just enacted a new set of traffic laws. One of the first laws in the book says something like: "Every motor vehicle moving along the road must have a driver."

Now, I am racking my brains trying to think what sort of situation that law is supposed to cover. Though judging from the various contraptions I saw travelling on the road there, anything is possible ….

Arteis, have you ever heard of "Remotely Piloted Vehicles" (RPV for short)? Never mind all the sorts of auto-pilot functions that are being developed…

Griefbringer

I must humbly apologize for forgetting to include the disclaimer correctly amended to my potentially offensive post… I just forgot. Sorry! I/S

Bodin advocated the death penalty for thinking about harming the head executive. He even gives an example in Book II Chapter 5 where a guy gets executed for confessing to a priest about having thought about killing the head executive, although he didn't still want to and was repenting of his evil thoughts.

The priest tells someone, finally it comes out and the man is executed for thinking like that.

It has been done.

I'm going to look at all my mail from the UK very carefully from now on. Can anyone conduct a citizen's treason execution for a clear upside down stamp violation?

My favorite is the requirement that all houses are required to have a hitching post in front of them. Even though it is now illegal to ride horses in town.

Our neighbors to the south in Sacramento County still have on their books an ordinance making it a disdemeanor for two horses to mate within 200 yards or a school or 100 yards of an occupied dwelling.

In about twenty years of owning horses, I've never known one who was any good at judging distance, or well prepared to carry on their any kind of range finder, let alone checked out ranges when it was bmounting time. That even included geldings.

Then again there was the famous sheriff's grand jury in West Texas which passed three resolutions.

1. The old jail no longer meets the law enforcement needs of our county, so a new jail must be built.

2. To save costs all useable parts of the old jail will be stripped for use in the new jail.

3. To ensure law enforcement doesn't decline, the old jail shall not be demolished until the new jail is ready for use.

Ahh three simple resolutions passed by citizens good and true and the end result is they can't build their new jail.

"Imagine" originally meant "Make an image of" – meaning a physical, not a mental image. Laws have a tendency to contain a lot of old-fashioned linguistic usages.

how 'bout this one, I'm not only required to attend church (place of devine worship) but also I must carry a gun rifle/shotgun, or two pistols (minumum 6 shots) with me when I go!

About the restraint and imagination part…

Does that mean a person could be arrested for having bondage
fantasies about Van Buren or McKinley?

Well, I'm in Singapore, so you are really talking about this guy…

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Participants in the Nazi genocide are ineligible for US visas.
And IIRC so are communists.
And prostitutes.