Die and you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws

Tue Nov 6, 2:19 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - 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ancient legislation that has never been repealed although subsequent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.

Respondents were given a shortlist and asked to vote.

Most ridiculous British law:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent)

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British
monarch upside-down (seven percent)

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk
in a tropical fish store (six percent)

4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (five percent)

5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your
toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants,
including in a policeman's helmet (four percent)

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 (3.5 percent)

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
(three percent)

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
(three percent)

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 (two percent)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071106...ainlawsoffbeat

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In Britain it is also legal to take very weekend a handfull of drugs if you
are bound to live in a wheelchair and are to coward to face anyone for real
(=Takin Gthe****).

"Trivino Abelardo" wrote in message
Tue Nov 6, 2:19 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - 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.

Respondents were given a shortlist and asked to vote.

Most ridiculous British law:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent)

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British
monarch upside-down (seven percent)

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk
in a tropical fish store (six percent)

4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (five percent)

5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of
your toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants,
including in a policeman's helmet (four percent)

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 (3.5 percent)

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
(three percent)

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
(three percent)

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 (two
percent)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071106...ainlawsoffbeat

************************************************** *********************

In Britain it is also legal to take very weekend a handfull of drugs if
you are bound to live in a wheelchair and are to coward to face anyone for
real (=Takin Gthe****).





**Hello Trivino. :-)

I believe that in some countries it is legal for yaabaa addicted assholes to
post intimate details about their sex life - like you did on sct a few years
ago when you posted details about the first time that you had sex with your
wife.

It's legal, but an *EXTREMELY* foolish thing to do........ :-)

Your amigo,
Takin


--
"I had sex for the first time with my girlfriend on the evening of my
Bouddhist wedding in her house at Chayaphum in 2000, 3 weeks after my
arrival in Thailand. I was divorced from my second wife in 1997 and had no
sex untill 2000." - Abelardo Trivino

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:25:47 +0700, "Al Bundie" in this
message from subject as: Die and
you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws :
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5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your
toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)
i think there is an exaggeration on this tort.
iirc any owner ,anywhere in britain, of a property/device.... must avail to
anyone urgently in need to relief of this physiological urge-- not any dick tom
or harry can just come up to a place to ease himself. there must be
visible/extraordinary need of recourse to this relief.
is this correct, our sct scotsman k sc please?
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On Nov 8, 7:17 am, pluto wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:25:47 +0700, "Al Bundie" in this
message from subject as: Die and
you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws :
wrote/and/or quoted:5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your
toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)

i think there is an exaggeration on this tort.
iirc any owner ,anywhere in britain, of a property/device.... must avail to
anyone urgently in need to relief of this physiological urge-- not any dick tom
or harry can just come up to a place to ease himself. there must be
visible/extraordinary need of recourse to this relief.
is this correct, our sct scotsman k sc please?
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Khun Pluto khrab.

As I have now spent more time in LoS than in I did living in Scotland
I don't feel quailfied to comment, but I do seem to remember taking a
lesson at school in Scotland by Proctor our English master. It dealt
with anachronistic laws still on the statute books of Great Britain.
One which raised great juvenile mirth was (IIRC) that "A lady in need
of urinating can do so in the gutter and has the right to ask a
policeman to hide her with his cloak"

Sandy
Huay Khwaang

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:11 -0800, Sandy Cruden in this
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you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws:
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One which raised great juvenile mirth was (IIRC) that "A lady in need
of urinating can do so in the gutter and has the right to ask a
policeman to hide her with his cloak"

Sandy
Huay Khwaang
great guns!!
did the satiated lady clitorally thank the policeman after getting the golden
shower? ;-)
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