all countries and cities have strange laws on their books. they get added for anicdotal reasons, and people never bother to remove them, so they just sit there and seem odder and odder as the centuries pass. so in the staff room some collegues and i had a good chuckle over some of englands. these are my favourites:
in london it is illegal to:
1 fly a kite
2 die in parliament
3 take a flock of sheep accross london bridge
4 wash your clothes in the fountains at trafalgar square
5 jump the queue in the tube ticket hall
6 sign your name falsly in the register of a hotel for the purpose of having an affair.
7 have sexual intercourse in a park, park, train, church; churchyard, or a bus.
8 gamble on the tube
9 wear a shocking hat
10 (my favourite) " the severest penalties will be suffered by any commoner who doth permit his animal to have carnal knowledge of a pet of the royal house."
so there, keep your muts away from the queens corgies, or face the wrath of the law!!!!
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Can't we bang up the queen due to number 9 ? And surely someone must have actually died in parliament at some point....
the royal pet one is the best...and yes people have died in parliament, that is actually why the law exists. it seems that if you die in parliament you are technically entitled to a state funeral,and i dont imagine they want to fund any more of those than they have to already.but then, i suppose it would be rather difficult to punish someone if they are dead, so why not go out with a bang?
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