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11 UK Laws You Didn't Know You Were Breaking
Jason
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Well it makes a change from the Friday sex thread 
http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/offbeat/articles/11-weird-uk-laws-you-didnt-know-you-were-breaking#7lFGpvJzzlsJWjxT.99
So please people, stay safe and stay out of jail and make sure you get that longbow practice done this week
1. Eating mince pies on Christmas Day
2. Not telling the taxman your dirty secrets
3. Playing knock, knock, ginger
4. Sticking a postage stamp upside down
5. Being drunk in a pub
6. Not completing two hours worth of longbow practice within a week
7. Having an impromptu sing-a-long
8. Carrying planks along the pavement
9. Handling salmon, suspiciously
10. Flagging down a taxi when you have the plague
11. Murder
http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/offbeat/articles/11-weird-uk-laws-you-didnt-know-you-were-breaking#7lFGpvJzzlsJWjxT.99
So please people, stay safe and stay out of jail and make sure you get that longbow practice done this week
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The mince pies is a scary one though the paragraph covering it does warrant the death penalty all on its own for use of 'flaunting' instead of 'flouting' :mad:
And other mistakes :eek:
* OT, not intending to derail...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820
The postage stamp one is debatable. The law actually says that you cannot do anything which makes the monarch look bad, I'm not sure an upside down stamp fits the criteria.
Being drunk in a pub is not a criminal offence. The offence is supplying alcohol to someone who is drunk. That however does include buying a round for drunk friends!
The sing-a-long one only applies to obscenity so most people would be ok. It's not simply bursting into song which is targeted.
I like the salmon one! apparently it refers to the selling of salmon but the act isn't as clear as it could be on that.
I'm genuinely puzzled by the inclusion of murder on the list. I can only assume there's a joke in there that I'm missing
It is amazing though when you think about what's still on our statute books. There is a legal doctrine that if a later law contradicts an earlier one then the later law takes precedence but other than that there's nothing to prevent an old law being enforced even if it hasn't been used for centuries!
Well check out the link that I got the list from. That'll help
I do have to admit that I have been neglecting my longbow practice lately.
I did before I posted and it didn't help at all
It's a joke subject from a comedy site. not to be taken seriously
Perhaps you could incorporate the salmon in to your longbow practice. It would certainly look suspicious if you're hanging the salmon from a tree to fire your longbow at it!
I think its a joke.
the knock and run law though, unless you're in Scotland you cant be charged with a breach of the peace in England and Wales.
Ah yes, that daily problem we all face.
Personally I carry planks everyday in my office, the lazy buggers!
Well that is some comedians in trouble and South Park and other shows like that.
And then you get people that do things to pictures of the queen in the newspapers
"9. Handling salmon, suspiciously" WTH? ;-)
How about picking a pack up in the supermarket and examining it closely to find out the price?
I'd like to hear their definition of "suspiciously" ;-)
ba-doom TISH!
I thank you, I thank you *bows* *trombone slide down and up*
There are some things it is better for a taxman not to know. And what do you mean murder is wrong, since when? What am I meant to do with all these corpses?
Being drunk on a highway, public place or licensed premises is a criminal offence. Section 12 of the Licensing Act 1872.
A normal game of knock and run would never reasonable suggest a breach of the peace, because a normal game of knock and run doesn't include harm, damage, violent disorder, affray or riot. It is an offence however under Section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 for "every person who wilfully and wantonly disturbs any inhabitant, by pulling or ringing any door bell, or knocking at any door, or who wilfully and unlawfully extinguishes the light of any lamp". That being said, I'm pretty sure that Section 28 is due to be repealed, or even has been in recent months, and it's incredibly rare that any of it's offences are ever used these days, however some are incredibly useful when dealing with anti social behaviour.
I would really really really really really *really* suggest not trying this!
There can only ever be one result.
:eek:
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You can carry them along the pavement, so long as they aren't stiff as planks.
There's a get out clause for this one:
"but it shall be a defence in proceedings for an offence under this section to show that no relevant offence had in fact been committed in relation to the salmon in question."
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/62/section/32
Who drafts this crap.
2. Not telling the taxman your dirty secrets
7. Having an impromptu sing-a-long
8. Carrying planks along the pavement
9. Handling salmon, suspiciously
10. Flagging down a taxi when you have the plague
I suppose any of these are our equivalent of the law in Wisconsin which forbids you from worrying a squirrel.