[haroos]

here are a few examples :
http://newlyswissed.com/?p=162

you can't go flush the toilet after 10 pm ??
are there people here from switzerland who can verify this ?

[Aptorian]

Some of those laws a probably very old or otherwise linked to special circumstances

This one for example is probably connected with Switzerlands neutrality. It safe guards against some idiot priminister losing his senses and inadvertently throwing the country into war.

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5. It is against the law for any man to unilaterally declare war on another country.

This one I am assuming is to avoid car theft:

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4. If you leave you car-keys inside the car with the door unlocked, you will be fined.

I bet some famous/historical person did this and broke his neck long ago and to avoid it ever happening again they made a law for it.

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8. It is illegal to ski down a mountain while reciting poetry.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

All countries have weird laws still on the statute books which would either never be enforced or would be superceded by other laws in court.

Int his country for instance, it's legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the walls of the City of York (although no on a Sunday). I can guarantee you you'd be locked up for murder if you tried it though.

It's also illegal to be drunk in general on licensed premises in the UK, which must be the most widely flaunted law in history.

[Aptorian]

Thelomen Toblerone, on 01 August 2010 - 09:34 AM, said:

Int his country for instance, it's legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the walls of the City of York (although no on a Sunday). I can guarantee you you'd be locked up for murder if you tried it though.

Somebody needs to do this!

This gives me an idea for a great serial killer thriller. Have the murderer run around from place to place killing people in ways that old laws claim are legal.

I'm going to e-mail Jerry Bruckheime and get this on CSI.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 01 August 2010 - 09:44 AM

[champ]

weirdest law in the uk... it is illegal to die in the houses of parliament... errrr whats the punishment?

This post has been edited by champooon: 01 August 2010 - 11:36 AM

[Thelomen Toblerone]

That's probably just because they don't want people to realise a bunch of corpses would probably do a better job.

[Darkwatch]

I think it's in Halifax that you can't kiss anyone on Sunday, not even your partner.
In Ottawa you're not allowed to walk backwards on Bank street while eating ice cream.
In Alberta a cow must maintain a minimum speed limit of 5 kph on a highway.

[Aptorian]

In Copenhagen Law students have the privilege of being allowed to carry a sword within the city walls of old Copenhagen, because they helped repel a Swedish attack on the City.

[HoosierDaddy]

I should have went to law school in Denmark.

[Aptorian]

Yeah, it's enough to make you want to study law, even though it's so dreadfully boring and law students are insufferable gits.

[Illuyankas]

You can't even punch them in the face because they'll stab you with their swords.

[D'rek]

In Canada it is illegal...

...to not immediately kill an injured migratory bird that you find in a Canadian national park. If you just leave it the fine is $300.

...to give children balloon animals if you're a street musican. (Victoria, BC)

...to ride a bicycle without carrying a kerosene lantern, which can be seen plainly, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

...to walk down the main street with your shoes untied if you're a teenager in Fort Qu' Appelle, Saskatchewan.

...to kill a sasquatch in British Columbia.

...to let pigs run in the streets of Toronto

...for a man to drink with a woman in an Edmonton beer parlor.

...to throw snowballs or set off firecrackers within the city of Calgary, without the authorization of the mayor or City Council.

...to try and catch fish with your hands in Saskatoon

...to strike the sidewalk with a metal object in Winnipeg

Also, in Edmonton, there are two seperate bylaws - one stating all cyclists must signal with their arms before making a turn and the other stating all cyclists must keep both hands on the handlebars at all times.

[HoosierDaddy]

Law students are insufferable gits.

Wait. What?

[worry]

I hope that sasquatch law isn't limited to British Columbia. They're an endangered species!

[Coco with marshmallows]

worrywort, on 01 August 2010 - 08:38 PM, said:

I hope that sasquatch law isn't limited to British Columbia. They're an endangered species!

that's what they want you to think.

Don't believe the lies of the Sasquatch rights lobby!

Now, the Rapa on the other hand..........

[Morgoth]

H.D., on 01 August 2010 - 08:29 PM, said:

Law students are insufferable gits.

Wait. What?

The only truth to be found in this thread.


In Norway it was until very recently illegal to make potato flour without government permission. It is also illegal to cut down threes in a forest that has not existed for more than a hundred years.

The maximum punishment for illegally detonating a nuclear weapon on Norwegian soil is three years imprisonment.

[Tsundoku]

D, on 01 August 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

...to throw snowballs or set off firecrackers within the city of Calgary, without the authorization of the mayor or City Council.

So Rodeo has to get a permit to defend himself? Outstanding!

[Cause]

Morgoth, on 01 August 2010 - 11:17 PM, said:

The maximum punishment for illegally detonating a nuclear weapon on Norwegian soil is three years imprisonment.

Expand upon this immediately.

Does it imply that one may legally detonate a nuclear weapon on Norwegian soil?

[Tiste Simeon]

Aptorian, on 01 August 2010 - 09:29 AM, said:

I bet some famous/historical person did this and broke his neck long ago and to avoid it ever happening again they made a law for it.

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8. It is illegal to ski down a mountain while reciting poetry.

I've sang whilst skiing in Switzerland is that the same thing??

Aptorian, on 01 August 2010 - 09:43 AM, said:

Thelomen Toblerone, on 01 August 2010 - 09:34 AM, said:

Int his country for instance, it's legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the walls of the City of York (although no on a Sunday). I can guarantee you you'd be locked up for murder if you tried it though.

Somebody needs to do this!

You need to be from York to be allowed to do this. I believe it dates back to the time when William Wallace and his crew were travelling down into England in retaliation and heading towards York. This basically meant if you were a citizen of York you could do it (even if you weren't a soldier) and I think it was a crossbow... I haven't tried it yet but I wanted to when a bloke was stood outside the restaurant I used to work in and playing bagpipes for hours on end...

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Aptorian, on 01 August 2010 - 09:43 AM, said:

Thelomen Toblerone, on 01 August 2010 - 09:34 AM, said:

Int his country for instance, it's legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the walls of the City of York (although no on a Sunday). I can guarantee you you'd be locked up for murder if you tried it though.

Somebody needs to do this!

This gives me an idea for a great serial killer thriller. Have the murderer run around from place to place killing people in ways that old laws claim are legal.

I'm going to e-mail Jerry Bruckheime and get this on CSI.

The problem with this show is that it would really come off as racist if based in the US. One of the Dakotas still allows you to shoot an Indian if you are in a covered wagon and there is at least one state (Arizona or New Mexico I think) that allows you to shoot Indians if there are more than two of them on your land. I believe various other laws regarding the same exist in other states as well.