Stupid British Laws?

Question

Well, i don't know what to say.
I though a cow falling on a car was nuts lmao, but this.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071106/tuk-britain-laws-offbeat-a7ad41d_1.html
What do you Y/A people think?

thought* sorry

curious steve: i'm looking, no what????

curious steve: now* (sorry)

Mark: Thanks, this will keep me entertained all day lol

KatKat: i hate mince pies, but i didn't even know that law existed. So mince pies here i come! lol

northvil: I dread to think

cukkoo: thats what i was thinking after reading northvil's reply lol

Mrs Ricky Bobby: i don't even know what to say about that one.

Maid Angela: I know what you mean, another example, men were not allowed to wolf whistle at women passing by. (think that was aimed at builders)

Maz T: Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.
In Iowa, State law forbids any establishment from charging admission to see a one-armed piano player

NUTS NUTS NUTS lol!

Answer 1

There is an, outdated, law in Wiltshire that states that you can shoot any Welsh people coming into Swindon on a Sunday.

As yet, and I have been there with the gun loaded on many a Sunday, no obvious Welsh people have entered Swindon.

Shame really...

Answer 2

English law is full of such pieces of legislation. Parliament has been passing acts for about 600 years and over that time conditions have changed so what was required 100 years ago is now not relevant. When I was studying law we did look at one of the education acts (I forget which one) that had never been used and was never likely to be. One of the problems is that Parliament are so busy passing legislation that unless a particular act is causing problems there is little time or money to spare to repeal them. I do remember that at one time it was the law and maybe it still is that a London taxi driver had to carry a bale of hay and a bucket to get water for his horse.
There is also the point that lawyers love old laws. The older a law is the more authority it has and barristers who are trying to establish a legal point will go back hundreds of years to find a something to hang their argument on.

Answer 3

The reason these laws still exist is that Britain has had a 1000 year long legal history. They were brought in for genuine reasons hundreds of years ago (for instance no suits of armour in parliament was brought in to stop MPs intimidating and/or killing each other, no mince pies was brought about by the puritans to stop people celebrating Christmas (they thought celebration was immorral) Parliament has just never got round to repealing them now they're irrelevent.

Answer 4

Good point, although I think the US is king when it comes to bizarre laws:

In Logan County, it is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep.

Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.

In Iowa, State law forbids any establishment from charging admission to see a one-armed piano player.

In Montana, it is a felony for a wife to open her husband's mail.

If a child burps during a church service in Omaha, his or her parents may be arrested

In Ashville (North Carolina), it is illegal to sneeze on city streets.

In Cleveland, women are forbidden from wearing patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear.
[I assume that means the women's underwear - could be a contentitious point in court]

ad infinitum....

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I've always found it amusing that I am a repeat offender on every Christmas day!! Mince pies are my desert of choice - I'd live off them if I could, I wish they made them all year round!!!

Answer 7

OH MY GOODNESS!!..... what they gonna do with the dead body keep it in a cell for however long the sentence is for dying, before they allow to buried in peace?

Answer 8

I can tell you right now law or no law, I live in Scotland and nobody is getting in my house to use my toilet!!!!

Answer 9

I liked number 6 very much ... Imagine it! 'Scuse me officer, may I piss in your helmet?!'

Answer 10

okay its a stupid law but you can't punish the dead