Strange Laws That Made You Laugh

[wcc-curtis]

In Waynesboro, Virginia, it’s against the law for a woman to drive a car in Main Street unless her husband is walking in front of the car waving a red flag.

In Memphis, Tennessee, women can't drive a car unless there is a man with a red flag in front of the car warning the other people on the road.

[Danik 2016]

Are there so few car driving women In this cities, Curtis? If applied in São Paulo those laws would cause a red flag traffic jam.

[MANICHAEAN]

In the UK you can still get your head chopped off for killing one of the Queen's swans.

And if you compound the heinous crime by originating from that part of the UK where "Braveheart" was born, then you get hung, drawn and quartered first.

Damn right too.

M.

[Pompey Bum]

In Massachusetts a male is legally required to carry a shotgun to church. Duels to the death are permissible on Boston Common but only in the presence of the govorner. And a woman on top is sodomy. Be glad we left, MANICHAEAN. :)

[Lokasenna]

In the UK you can still get your head chopped off for killing one of the Queen's swans.

And if you compound the heinous crime by originating from that part of the UK where "Braveheart" was born, then you get hung, drawn and quartered first.

Damn right too.

M.

Also, the celebration of Christmas in the UK is technically illegal - Cromwell banned it, and the law has never actually been altered...

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Also, the celebration of Christmas in the UK is technically illegal - Cromwell banned it, and the law has never actually been altered...

Lokasenna!!!! Having you back is cause for celebration. Tis the reason I clicked on this thread. Dear oh dear, do grace more of our games with your learned presence.
Now then...
Speaking of sodomy, Pompey, me old chum, let's talk adultery. What if you commit sodomy while committing adultery? Do they send you to Scotland to get drawn and quartered? I do like the shotgun requirement, though, right up my street. Of course, in my case, they'd have to expand the law to include synagogues. And howitzers.

[MANICHAEAN]

Trump that.

[Pompey Bum]

Speaking of sodomy, Pompey, me old chum, let's talk adultery. What if you commit sodomy while committing adultery?

Typically you'd be dressed as a Pilgrim and sent 'round to Senator Warren's chambers. That'll cure you.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Typically you'd be dressed as a Pilgrim and sent 'round to Senator Warren's chambers. That'll cure you.

:puke:

[Pompey Bum]

:puke:

Out of the mood so soon?

[MANICHAEAN]

A few more that require serious consideration by those of a legally imaginative disposition.

• Entering the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.
• Dying in the Houses of Parliament (Very poor show)
• Keeping a pigsty in front of your house - unless duly hidden
• In London, riding the bus (knowingly) with the Plague
• Handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances (My favourite)
• Being intoxicated and in charge of a horse or cow
• Firing a cannon within 300 yards of a dwelling house
• Removing a dead whale found on the British coast - since it automatically becomes the property of the ruling monarch
• For a pub landlord, allowing drunkenness in their pub (Unheard of with the price of beer these days.)
• In Scotland, turning someone away if they knock on your door and require the use of your loo
• Allowing your pet to copulate with any pet from the Royal House (Corgi Alert)
• Importing into England potatoes which you suspect to be Polish ( Ties in nicely with Brexit)
• As of 1998, causing a nuclear explosion

[Danik 2016]

I always wondered about the prohibition to import snails to US in the traveller´s luggage.
My problem was not the prohibition itself, but who would want to travel with snails in the luggage.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I always wondered about the prohibition to import snails to US in the traveller´s luggage.
My problem was not the prohibition itself, but who would want to travel with snails in the luggage.

Well Pompey Bum might. He's shy about this sort of thing. Not keen to admit it. But get a couple of bottles of merlot into him and you wouldn't believe what you learn.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

A few more that require serious consideration by those of a legally imaginative disposition.

• Entering the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.
• Dying in the Houses of Parliament (Very poor show)
• Keeping a pigsty in front of your house - unless duly hidden
• In London, riding the bus (knowingly) with the Plague
• Handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances (My favourite)
• Being intoxicated and in charge of a horse or cow
• Firing a cannon within 300 yards of a dwelling house
• Removing a dead whale found on the British coast - since it automatically becomes the property of the ruling monarch
• For a pub landlord, allowing drunkenness in their pub (Unheard of with the price of beer these days.)
• In Scotland, turning someone away if they knock on your door and require the use of your loo
• Allowing your pet to copulate with any pet from the Royal House (Corgi Alert)
• Importing into England potatoes which you suspect to be Polish ( Ties in nicely with Brexit)
• As of 1998, causing a nuclear explosion

There is an underlying logic to all of these, Manichaean, but this last one...I just don't see it. :biggrinjester:
Also, how does one test a potato to see if it's Polish? Hold a kielbasa in front of it and see if it goes for it? Start playing polka music and see what happens?

[MANICHAEAN]

Good point Tyrion.

Potatoes in deep cover.

Profiled potatoes at Immigration?

[Pompey Bum]

Also, how does one test a potato to see if it's Polish? Hold a kielbasa in front of it and see if it goes for it? Start playing polka music and see what happens?

It would develop polka eyes.

It's also illegal to detonate a nuclear weapon in Marlborough, Massachusetts. When will the madness end?

[wcc-curtis]

If you stop for a beer in North Dakota, don't expect to get any pretzels with your beverage. It's against the law in that state to serve beer and pretzels at the same time.