Dumb laws from the UK:
1. You may not fish on Sundays for salmon.
2. If someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your commode, you must let them enter.
3. It is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
4. It is illegal to be drunk on Licensed Premises (in a pub or bar).
5. It is illegal for two adult men to have sex in the same house as a third person.
6. Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).
7. It is illegal to stand within one hundred yards of the reigning monarch when not wearing socks (enacted by Edward VI).
8. A bed may not be hung out of a window.
9. Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked manequin.
10. Picking up abandoned baggage is an act of terrorism.
11. Destroying or defacing money is illegal.
12. If a steam locomotive is driven on roads, a man must walk in front of the vehicle with a red flag during the day and a red lantern at night to warn passersby.
13. All steam locomotives are limited to 4mph on roads.
14. It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.
15. Committing suicide is classified as a capital crime.
16. Placing a postage stamp that bears the Queen (or King) upside down is considered treason.
17. A license is required to keep a lunatic.
18. Damaging the grass is illegal.
19. Those wishing to purchase a television must also buy a license.
20. Interfering with the mail or sleeping with the consort of the Queen is classed as treason, and as such, carries a maximum penalty of death.
Originally posted by zakkwylderI saw someone like Donald Trump [it wasn't him] light up a cigar with a burning hundred dollar bill on TV once....would that be ilegal in the States?
What's so dumb about it being illegal to destroy money? Its a crime over in the U.S.A. as well.
In France it's illegal to land a flying saucer in a vineyard.
In Denmark the law says that it is not illegal to attempt to escape from prison, but if in doing so the prisoner is caught they must return to prison and serve the remainder of their sentence.
In Miami it it illegal to teach dogs.
In Washington State it is illegal to throw bulls. Don't even think about it!
Originally posted by Sicilian SmaugIt's also "legal" to kill a welshman with a longbow provided you're inside the walls of Chester cathedral green and it's Sunday. These are just old laws that haven't been explicitly repealed. If someone tryed it then they'd fail on they grounds that killing people is obviously illegal.
And one may shoot a Scotsman dead with a bow and arrow from the walls of certain castles 😀
New Labour actually wasted some parliamentary time repealing some of these old laws, presumably to pretend they were doing something...
Trial by combat was still on the books in Scotland until the 1980s when someone actually tryed asking for it, but the courts weren't having it - which is in some ways a bit of a shame really as that could have been quite entertaining.