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Genuinely stupid laws - that still APPLY !!
Carol Haynes:
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
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"Senator? Senator? *sigh* We'll count that as a 'Nay'."
-Ralf Maximus (November 07, 2007, 08:39 AM)
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That was the BBC headline example - but it does make you wonder how it would be enforced? Would your corpse be tried and then sentenced to life in prison, or maybe you get the life penalty (electric chair in reverse).
cranioscopical:
This had me rolling about ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7081038.stm
-Carol Haynes (November 07, 2007, 06:27 AM)
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Legislation said to prohibit people dying while in the Houses of Parliament
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This one doesn't work, obviously. Some of those guys have been dead for years, especially in the Lords.
Ralf Maximus:
Ah. That explains the "Mandatory Corpse Reanimation Act of 1978" then.
cranioscopical:
Here is a well known law from my home state of New Jersey, that is enforced, and makes us kind of an odd-ball state:
It is against the law here to pump your own gas.
-app103 (November 07, 2007, 07:43 AM)
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And very welcome it was too, the last time I was there in the pouring rain!
It used to be that when we pulled in for gas here, in Ontario, Canada, someone would hurl him/herself at the car and scrub all the windows, check the fluids, replenish the gas and even check tire pressures. (This was after most of the UK had moved to self-service stations.) Those were the days, especially when it was 30 below freezing outside!
cranioscopical:
Ah. That explains the "Mandatory Corpse Reanimation Act of 1978" then.
-Ralf Maximus (November 07, 2007, 10:41 AM)
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It's long been known that members of the House of Commons are always looking for a free bier.
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