Thursday, November 08, 2007

strangest laws

i wanna share these with you cause i thought it was hilarious and i believe that most people would be unaware if they didn't read this article

do these laws actually exist in US GB

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Fish while wearing pajamas in Chicago.

Sell instruments in South Carolina on Sunday.

Be drunk in a Wyoming mine.

Have a goatee in Boston.

Serve margarine in a Wisconsin restaurant unless the customer specifically requests it.

Eat a hamburger on Sunday in Minnesota.

Offer cigarettes and/or whiskey to zoo animals in Jersey.

Use a lasso to catch a fish in Tennessee.

Perform marriages in Pennsylvania when either the bride or groom is drunk.

Box a kangaroo in Oregon.

Shoot rabbits while motorboating in Kansas.

Sell milk in a liquor store in Indiana.

Wear masks in public in Alabama.

Have kisses lasting more than five minutes in Iowa.

Fall asleep in a South Dakota cheese factory.

Use profanity in front of a dead body in Georgia.

Keep a gorilla in the backseat of a car in Massachusetts.

Take a lion to the movies in Maryland.

Whistle underwater in West Virginia (same goes for Vermont).

Push a live moose out of a moving airplane in Alaska... it's also illegal to feed moose alcoholic beverages for the purposes of getting them on an airplane.

resources adopted from blog.washington.com

silliest regulations in GB


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

sources from yahoo.com

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