Did You Know?: Did You Know? Strange Laws Around The World

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Did You Know? Strange Laws Around The World






- In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundown.







- In London, England, it is illegal to use a camera tripod, throw a stick for your dog or use an offensive powder like pepper on your jacket potato in any park.





- In London, England, wife beating is legal just as long as it is not after 9pm and it doesn't disturb the neighbours.





- In London, England, it is illegal to impersonate a Chelsea pensioner which once carried the death sentence in the 19th century.





- In Lebanon men are allowed to have sex with any other animal just as long as it is a female. If a man is caught having sex with a male animal then the penalty is death.





- Non-Christians have been banned from being within 20 metres of churches in Rovato, Italy. The move, instigated by the local government, has angered police because a major highway passes within 15 metres of one of the churches. Officers claim that they cannot be expected to stop motorists and demand to see a Baptism Certificate.





- North Carolina has a law to ban people from swearing in front of cadavers. The law also sets out guidelines transporting the recently deceased after one funeral firm was caught piling stiffs onto the back of a pick-up truck. It outlaws 'profanity, indecent or obscene language in the presence of a dead human body' making it technically illegal to say the 'f' word in front of a hearse!





- In Minnesota, USA, it is still against the law to hang male and female underwear together on the same washing line.





- In Indiana, USA, in the 1950's anything to do with Robin Hood was banned on the grounds that robbing from from the rich to give to the poor was a communist act!





- In England, in 1837, a law was passed that entitled a woman to bite off a man's nose if he kissed her against her will!





- The Egyptian government banned male belly-dancing in 1837 because of the enthusiastic riots that it caused.





- In Arizona, USA, it is illegal to hunt camels.



- In California, USA, in 1986, Judge Samuel King became so annoyed that jurors were absent from his court because of heavy rain that he issued a decree which stated "I hereby order that it cease raining by Tuesday." Amazingly it stopped raining on Tuesday and California suffered a 5 year drought. In 1991 the judge then decreed "Rain shall fall in California beginning February 27th." Later that day California had the heaviest rainfall in ten years.




- In Alexandria, Minneapolis, USA, it is against the law for a man to make love to a woman with the smell of sardines on his breath.



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