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British UKTV TVchannel has presented results of interrogation which participants have named the most ridiculous laws of Great Britain and other countries of the world.
The leader of the British rating has appeared the law, forbidding dying in parliament. 27 percent interrogated have named it's the most absurd. The second line of the list has been taken by the law which recognizes as the state traitor of the person who has pasted head over heels a stamp with the image of the British monarch.
Further in the rating following laws have settled down:
- it is forbidden to eat on Christmas sweet pies with a stuffing from raisin;
- Scots are obliged to let in any person who will be knocked at a door with the request to allow using their toilet;
- a pregnant woman on the lawful bases can urinate anywhere, except for a helmet of the policeman;
- the head of a dead whale found at Great Britain coast, automatically become the property of the king, and a tail of a whale - the property of queen;
- it is forbidden to not tell the tax inspector that it would be desirable to hide from it, but absolutely lawfully to be silent about of what you do not do secret;
- it is forbidden to enter the parliament in an armour;
- in York city it is allowed to kill Scots only if they have at themselves a bow and arrows.
Ten the most ridiculous laws of other countries looks as follows:
- in Ohio it is forbidden to make a drunkard of fishes;
- in Indonesia it is directed to chop off a head for masturbation;
- in Bahrain the man-doctor can examine woman's genitals only looking on reflection in a mirror;
- in Switzerland it is forbidden to piss, if has woken up after 10 o'clock in the morning;
- in Alabama it is forbidden to drive a car with the fastened eyes;
- in Florida an imprisonment is stipulated for the unmarried women jumping with a parachute on Sundays;
- in Vermont women are obliged to receive the written sanction of their husbands to teethe;
- in Milan it is offered to smile always, except for funeral and visiting of hospitals;
- in Japan the age of majority legislatively is not established;
- in France it is forbidden to give pigs Napoleon nickname.
The list is made by results of researches of the out-of-date laws which have not been cancelled though have lost sense because of new rules of law.
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