You crazy Brits!

[CountArach]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/07/2083733.htm


Most ridiculous British laws

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 per cent)

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down (7 per cent)

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6 per cent)

4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (5 per cent)

5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (3 per cent)

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet (4 per cent)

7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail belongs to 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 (3 per cent)

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (3 per cent)

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 (2 per cent)

[Fragony]

But don't say they have no humor, there was this navy officer that claimed his constitutional right on a daily ration of rum, he got a fine because he appeared in court without wearing his sword :beam:

[Idaho]

But don't say they have no humor, there was this navy officer that claimed his constitutional right on a daily ration of rum, he got a fine because he appeared in court without wearing his sword :beam:
I think that is a mix up of a different story.

There was an Oxford college where one of the students looked up the old laws of the college and found he was entitled to a pint of beer during his exams. He demanded his rightful pint during his finals, but on the way out was fined 20 shilllings (a pound) for not wearing his sword. So he pretty much paid for his pint.

Some of the laws listed at the top aren't quite right. Any whale washed up on the beach is the property of the monarch. Unless it is in Cornwall in which case the Prince of Wales gets it.

[CountArach]

There was an Oxford college where one of the students looked up the old laws of the college and found he was entitled to a pint of beer during his exams. He demanded his rightful pint during his finals, but on the way out was fined 20 shilllings (a pound) for not wearing his sword. So he pretty much paid for his pint.
That's the version I heard.

[Fragony]

My bad, still great :beam:

[InsaneApache]

A £ a pint sounds like good value to me. :laugh4:

[macsen rufus]

A £ a pint sounds like good value to me.

Well, it does now, but it wouldn't have in the days when a pound was still twenty bob ~D

[Prodigal]

Taxi drivers can relieve themselves on, (I think), the back right wheel of their cab, its one of the back wheels anyway. The one about pregnant women is true, annnnnnd all men over a certain age are supposed to practise archery on a certain day of the week too if I remeber correctly.

[Peasant Phill]

Most of them are redundant laws that just haven't been cancelled yet because they didn't need to. Most Brits, apparently, use their common sense.

The topless Fish shop clerk mustn't be cancelled. Hey everybody should have their Duece Bigalow moment!

[macsen rufus]

Unfortunately the topless fish-stress is urban myth.....

[Fragony]

Nonsense her name is Sheena Moonsilk

[Rhyfelwyr]

[url]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 (2 per cent)

I heard that you could shoot any Scotsman from the walls of York regardless of whether or not he had a bow and arrow, but in the version I heard you had to shoot him with a crossbow, and it had to be after dark.

[CrossLOPER]

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (3 per cent)
Awesome!!!

[InsaneApache]

Well, it does now, but it wouldn't have in the days when a pound was still twenty bob ~D

That's true. My first pint cost me 11p.

That's even better value; albeit in 1975. :tongue:

[Captain Fishpants]

I heard that you could shoot any Scotsman from the walls of York regardless of whether or not he had a bow and arrow, but in the version I heard you had to shoot him with a crossbow, and it had to be after dark.

Actually, the by-law is that you will be fined if you fail to kill a Scotsman found within the city walls.

I believe there is an equivalent law in Chester for dealing with Welshmen.

[Prodigal]

and people wonder why their lurks a deep rooted fear of all things foreign in the british psyche

[Louis VI the Fat]

I was browsing some rugby sites, and stumbled on this fantastic 1974 picture of a 'Twickenham Streaker'. It says a lot about Britain and it's law enforcement. It doesn't really belong with the subject of the thread, but something about it screams 'You crazy Brits!' so I can't resist sharing it:

https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/741/twickenhamwk9.jpg

[Gregoshi]

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet (4 per cent)

Too bad that fellow in the picture isn't a pregnant woman...

[InsaneApache]

I could post summat rude about a 'Bobbies helmet', but I sharn't. :laugh4:

[KukriKhan]

I could post summat rude about a 'Bobbies helmet', but I sharn't. :laugh4:

... and we're forever grateful. :laugh4:

We're pleased to welcome Captain Fishpants (CA-UK) to the backroom tribe. ~:wave:

[Justiciar]

Is it just me, or does that fellow look like Jesus? :inquisitive:

[Ronin]

Is it just me, or does that fellow look like Jesus? :inquisitive:


yes....the second coming was in the 70´s and we all just didn´t notice it :laugh4:

[RabidGibbon]

Maybe everyone was too busy looking at his "bobbies helmet" to realise who it was?