The best law EVER!!!!

**HoreTore** · 02-09-2008, 22:10

Forget about privacy laws, gun rights or other such nonsense, here in Norway we've created the best law in the world!

If a politician breaks a promise he made(during campaigns), he can face jail for a maximum of 1,5 years!

Unfortunately no-one has known about this paragraph, and it was found during the review of our legal system, and since our politicians are creating the laws, the law will be removed in a matter of weeks... And it has sadly never been use, since nobody knew about it.

But imagine the consequences of such a law; never again would we see populist dolts promising everything! Losing the next election isn't nearly as scary as getting gangbanged in a prisoner shower every day for 18 months...

**Viking** · 02-09-2008, 22:18

Man, I am so wishing the big red book for my next birthday so I can figure out how many weird things I can sue my neighbours for.

**HoreTore** · 02-09-2008, 22:26

Good luck with that. That book is IMPOSSIBLE to read, no wonder nobody knows the laws. Some twisted merger of danish and norwegian...

Found the law in question, I'm trying to translate it... To norwegian first, so I can understand it

Linky: http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-19020522-010-014.html#105

§105 covers the broken promises. But what the hell does "hefte" means? The editorial in Dagbladet said 1,5 years in prison, the law states "Hefte" for 3 years... Or can 3 years "hefte"(whatever it is) be substituted with 1,5 years in prison by the judge?

**Pannonian** · 02-09-2008, 22:30

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Good luck with that. That book is IMPOSSIBLE to read, no wonder nobody knows the laws. Some twisted merger of danish and norwegian...

Any Northern Norwegian in there?

**Viking** · 02-09-2008, 23:10

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Good luck with that. That book is IMPOSSIBLE to read, no wonder nobody knows the laws. Some twisted merger of danish and norwegian...

Found the law in question, I'm trying to translate it... To norwegian first, so I can understand it

Linky: http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-19020522-010-014.html#105

§105 covers the broken promises. But what the hell does "hefte" means? The editorial in Dagbladet said 1,5 years in prison, the law states "Hefte" for 3 years... Or can 3 years "hefte"(whatever it is) be substituted with 1,5 years in prison by the judge?

Call a Dane. He can translate it into English for us; then we can translate that into understandable Norwegian.

**CBR** · 02-09-2008, 23:29

That is Bokmål is it not?

In Denmark "hæfte" was like a mild form of prison and generally only used for short terms like a few days.

CBR

**Viking** · 02-10-2008, 10:55

Originally Posted by CBR

That is Bokmål is it not?

In Denmark "hæfte" was like a mild form of prison and generally only used for short terms like a few days.

CBR

Actually it is riksmål. If it was in bokmål, we wouldn't have any problem understanding it.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 02-10-2008, 09:19

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Forget about privacy laws, gun rights or other such nonsense, here in Norway we've created the best law in the world!

If a politician breaks a promise he made(during campaigns), he can face jail for a maximum of 1,5 years!

"Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not"
Gen 28:16