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Subject: Dumb Laws
If you're bored, you might find this interesting.
http://www.dumblaws.com
Subject: Re: Dumb Laws
LOL! ;D
Yes, I am bored, and yes, these are interesting.
Subject: Re: Dumb Laws
yea so I've seen something like that before, are they actually true?
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yea so I've seen something like that before, are they actually true?
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Looking through the UK ones (inaccurately labelled "English", but I'll forgive them that), AFAICT they are true though I have found one that I don't believe (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) - it's a bit like something out of Gulliver's travels).
Having said that, they didn't mention that the penalty for imitating a Chelsea Pensioner was death...
There's also a load of silly UK laws they've missed, which isn't surprising as we've had hundreds of years and laws passed by insane and egotistical monarchs which Parliament can't be bothered to repeal.
Phil
Subject: Re: Dumb Laws
While these may indeed be on the books, I don't think many, if any, are enforced. Most are antiquated and no one ever bothered to repeal or change them.
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Here are a few from my state:
- Bingo games may not last over 5 hours unless it is held at a fair.
- Serving alcohol at a bingo game is not allowed.
- No one may be a professional fortune-teller, and if one wishes to pursue the practice as an amateur, it must be practiced in a school or church.
- It's against the law to sing off key.
- Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.
- While having sex, you must stay in the missionary position and have the shades pulled. (I swear, when I get married I'm moving out of here! ;D I'm kidding, kidding.)
- If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.
- All couples staying overnight in a hotel must have a room with double beds that are at least two feet apart. Making love in the space between the beds is strictly forbidden. (Oh please)
- It is illegal to have sex in a churchyard. (That kinda makes sense.)
- Oral sex is considered a crime against nature. (No comment. :))
- A marriage can be declared void if either of the two persons is physically impotent.
- The mere possession of a lottery ticket is illegal in North Carolina and may result in a $2,000 fine. (Oh crap!)
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- It's against the law to sing off key.
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Guess I'd better stay away, then. So had Britney.
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- It is illegal to have sex in a churchyard. (That kinda makes sense.)
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Dead right ;-)
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- Oral sex is considered a crime against nature. (No comment. :))
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So you'd be punished by nature, right? Still, I guess it had to go down in statute, so to speak
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- The mere possession of a lottery ticket is illegal in North Carolina and may result in a $2,000 fine. (Oh crap!)
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...which is fine if you win the $64,000 prize, I guess
Phil
Subject: Re: Dumb Laws
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- The mere possession of a lottery ticket is illegal in North Carolina and may result in a $2,000 fine. End Quote
As ridiculous as it sounds, this one is true. There have been articles in NC newspapers within the last year about this one...Oh well, guess I've broken a few laws in this state (bingo is just so much better with beer...). ;D
The one for AZ about the illegality of cutting down cacti is true also. Remember that one from living there...
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There's also a load of silly UK laws they've missed, which isn't surprising as we've had hundreds of years and laws passed by insane and egotistical monarchs which Parliament can't be bothered to repeal.
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lol..I've had a cop quote a law from 1780 something to me.
He was scraping the barrel a bit though.
I did notice on the site above, that it considers Scotland's lack of trespassing laws 'dumb'. Is this unusual? The UK doesn't consider trespassing to be a criminal offence.