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Die and you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws! |
Fatal Rocko Willis
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From: Kentucky
|  Posted: 2007-11-07 14:22
Queen Elizabeth II's speech in the British parliament Tuesday may have been routine but at least nobody got bored to death. That would have been against the law.
Dying in parliament is an offence and is also by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 people by a television channel showing a legal drama series.
And though the lords were clad in their red and white ermine cloaks and ambassadors from around the world wore colourful national costumes, at least nobody turned up in a suit of armour. Illegal.
Other rules deemed utterly stupid included one that permits a pregnant woman to urinate in a policeman's hat and murdering bow-and-arrow-carrying Scotsmen within the city walls of York, northern England.
A law stating that in Liverpool, only a clerk in a tropical fish store is allowed to be publicly topless, was also ridiculous, said a poll of 3,931 people for UKTV Gold television out Tuesday.
Nearly half of those surveyed admitted to breaking the ban on eating mince pies on Christmas Day, which dates back to the 17th century and was originally designed to outlaw gluttony during the rule of the Puritan Oliver Crowmell.
The laws and other regulations were culled from published research into ancient legislation that has never been repealed although subsequent statutes have rendered them obsolete.
Most ridiculous British laws:
1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down.
3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.
4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day.
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter.
6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet.
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen.
8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing.
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.
10. 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.
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Junky Da FunkyMonke
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| Posted: 2007-11-07 21:37
Lol I think I would pay to see the pregnant women one. Where the heck did they get the topless clerk from?
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Guyton (Angel of Death)
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| Posted: 2007-11-07 22:26
Guess they had alot of times on their hands...
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Little Pet Slinki
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| Posted: 2007-11-07 23:23
I've seen the exact same thing on another board, word for word...
Email?
I knew about the Mince Pies one, But not the others Lulz. Should be Interesting.
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Fatal Rocko Willis
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From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2007-11-12 07:03
No.. i was just surfing the web for random pages... just poking around and stumbled over this nugget of information...
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AdmiralChaos [Vanity]
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| Posted: 2007-11-12 07:43
Very interesting.. I would love to see more.
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Deadly Assassin
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| Posted: 2007-11-12 10:27
NO MINCE PIES ON CHRISTMAS DAY! HIDE!
[ This Message was edited by: |Deadly Assassin| on 2007-11-12 13:38 ]
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PJ's clone
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| Posted: 2007-11-13 08:44
In the state of Georgia it is legal to beat your wife with a stick,as long as it is no bigger than your thumb.(hense the phrase rule of thumb)
In the state of Georgia If a person/business contacts you on a sunday in reference to paying a bill,the bill due is considered paid in full.
In the state of Georgia,if a cop is convicted of domestic violence,he loses his right to carry a firearm(and yes,even on duty),but cannot be fired for not having it.
just a few I thought interesting.
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