Officials in Malawi have locked horns over the controversial ban on farting in public.

The prohibition forms part of the Local Courts Bill, due for introduction next week. The legislation has the backing of justice minister George Chaponda, who said the clampdown on unruly bowels would promote "public decency".

According to the BBC, Chaponda did some straight talking on local Capital Radio's Straight Talk programme when he declared: "Just go to the toilet when you feel like farting."

As Chaponda sees it, the law will be enforced in a similar way to that banning public urination, with local chiefs tasked with bringing noxious gasbags to justice.

However, the minister has been challenged by solicitor general Anthony Kamanga, who reckons Chaponda's interpretation of the offending Local Courts Bill clause is taking the piss.

Said clause declares: "Any person who vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way shall be guilty of a misdemeanour."

Kamanga asserts that this refers to pollution. He said: "How any reasonable or sensible person can construe the provision to criminalising farting in public is beyond me."

Whether Malawi becomes the first nation to outlaw the trouser cough remains to be seen, but things are certainly looking rough for flatulent bogus soothsayers, since the Local Courts Bill also intends to come down hard on anyone pretending to be a fortune teller.

Real fortune tellers are, accordingly, advised to write the eventual outcome of the Chaponda/Kamanga stink on a piece of paper, seal it in an envelope and hand it to their solicitor for later presentation to tribal chiefs as evidence of their divinatory powers

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.

ROFLMAO!!!!    ;D  (or should I say)  ROF F MAO  ;D ;D

ROFLMAO!!!!    ;D  (or should I say)  ROF F MAO  ;D ;D


I wish to know how this will be enforce?

I wish to know how this will be enforce?


They'll hire midget cops to run around smelling people's a$$es

So you can't break wind? Seriously these people need to get a life.  ::)

They'd better put a ban on beans and spicy foods as well then.  Sometimes, passing gas is not something one can control

They'd better put a ban on beans and spicy foods as well then.  Sometimes, passing gas is not something one can control


I can't.  :P

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Dare I say it?  This thread is getting anal

Dare I say it?  This thread is getting anal


It is "open" for discussion. 

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Is that an 'i' out of recital?  ;D

Some people's optic nerve is connected to their rectum and that is why they have a sh!tty outlook on life.



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If I ever got arrested for letting a fart, I'd have a simple defense:

Someone told me to go blow it out my ass, so I did


Regarding this public farting ban, what happens if you are using a public restroom, say in a shopping mall or something.  You are still considered in public, so it is against the law to take a dump also?

If NASA can fire of missiles, why can't I?


A few years ago, this occured on Canadian TV.  If that law existed here, this contestsnt would be getting life in prison :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ7QmLd2eVg

Drew Carey on breaking wind ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64qZ3ODZ-s

It is "open" for discussion. 



like a fart in a breeze,My father says.

If I ever got arrested for letting a fart, I'd have a simple defense:

Someone told me to go blow it out my ass, so I did


Regarding this public farting ban, what happens if you are using a public restroom, say in a shopping mall or something.  You are still considered in public, so it is against the law to take a dump also?

If NASA can fire of missiles, why can't I?


A few years ago, this occured on Canadian TV.  If that law existed here, this contestsnt would be getting life in prison :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ7QmLd2eVg



Now that must've been a stinkeroo. :D

LOL, what a stupid law.  :D

They should ban farting in New York,if you want to pass gas wait till you get home and do it.

They should ban farting in New York,if you want to pass gas wait till you get home and do it.


If you gotta fart, you gotta fart.  Holding it can cause explosions, as in BOOM

If you gotta fart, you gotta fart.  Holding it can cause explosions, as in BOOM


and gas problems.

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I still get a kick out of this picture.  Why the musical notes?

When I fart, it sounds like Bob Dylan, not like morning birds on a summers day ???

;D

I still get a kick out of this picture.  Why the musical notes?

When I fart, it sounds like Bob Dylan, not like morning birds on a summers day ???

;D


notes don't come out of my ass. ;D