A poll by UKTV Gold placed the law that makes it illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament number one in a list of the UK's most ludicrous pieces of legislation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7081038.stm
What's your favorite useless law?
2007-11-06 22:26:22 · 16 answers · asked by smith.w6079 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Too late Gordon Brown's been doing it for ten years...
As for my favourite stupid law, that would be the law that always a pregnant woman to urinate anywhere in London including in a policeman's helmet. Love to see that happening.
2007-11-06 22:30:03 · answer #1 · answered by slıɐuǝoʇ 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
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
surely made up...
2007-11-07 10:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by toietmoi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first Ive heard of it and that is really ludacrous. Yeah I would want to die in the houses of parliament as i would have the last laugh....What could they do about it. My favourite ladacrous law is that one I have just heard. Another law that has never been repealed is....'It is against the law to drivwe a motor car on a sunday' Imagine how many repeat offenders are getting away with that one every week.
2007-11-07 06:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by joe m 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't want to enter the Houses of Parliament really, let alone die in there!
As for my favourite law:
It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store. (Liverpool law)!
2007-11-07 07:42:10 · answer #4 · answered by robincaz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some funny laws about. ie All Hackney cabs have to carry a bail of hay. This originates from the time of horse driven cabs.
2007-11-07 07:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So if Gordon Brown has a heart attack and dies (We live in hope) in the houses of Parliament what are they going to do cuff him and say your nicked!!!
2007-11-07 06:39:02 · answer #6 · answered by Madness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne Boleyn - second wife of Henry VIII was beheaded there - maybe he changed the law after she started haunting the place.
2007-11-07 06:35:53 · answer #7 · answered by Zed 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not allowed to have a fish and chip shop in West Jesmond. TRUE. There is a chinese takeaway though. Yum.
Lisa - A two litre bottle of bella is not acceptable anywhere.
2007-11-07 06:31:20 · answer #8 · answered by Chris 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
no! fact...its a illegal for a woman to go topless in liverpool....unless....she works in a fish shop! if you live in scotland and someone knocks your door and asks to use your toilet the law states you have to let them!
2007-11-07 06:45:51 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Israel apparently it is against the law to blow your nose on a Saturday.
2007-11-07 06:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by Knownow't 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋