Did you know that you can legally shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow in Hereford Cathedral (England)? Do you know of any strange laws or rules in your country?
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Yes. In the U.S. burglars have the right to sue me if they get hurt on my property.
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Not any more. My uncle used to be on the committee repealing such obsolete laws. You could also be fined for swearing on Sunday (one shilling for gentlemen, sixpence for farmers, threepence for sailors). And it was illegal to cut down a yew tree in a churchyard, lest you deprive the country of a munition of war (yew bows) *yews could be cut down elsewhere because their berries poisened sheep).
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I didn't know that, but I can get a flight tomorrow at 07:30 landing at 11:10 at Birmingham. Please line up as many sheep sh***ers as you can and I look forward to meeting you.
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This one is too real for me because it is becoming more of a trend here in California and probably other places. City employees of San Francisco can now have sex change operations covered by their medical and have the taxpayers pay for it.
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It's probably the same as the ridiculous laws like "It's punishable by death to have a hippo in your bathtub in the state of Pennsylvania after midnight", or some poppycock like that. I think they just *forget* to get rid of these laws and then they just seem silly to the people in the future (aka, us!) I love reading silly law books, it always makes you wonder, "Now what on earth had to have happened for THAT law to come into effect!"
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