Wacky Laws and By-laws of the world
All over the world you will find that the peeps in charge love to impose some very strange and often out-of-date laws. These are genuine* examples collected by our legal expert Alan McBeal.
- In the UK, you can be fined up to ten grand for impersonating a milkman.
- Anyone using a cockney accent in Manchester, without the correct permit may be imprisoned for up to five years.
- In Wales, your sheep are entitled to half of all your possessions if you split up.
- Time Travel is illegal in Dorset.
- In Texas, it is illegal to marry your cousin if closer blood relations are still available.
- In France it is illegal to murder somebody without their express written permission.
- The North Korean age of consent is forty-four.
- In Vatican city it is against the law to kill the pope.
- It is illegal to import ducks into Sweden.
- International law states it is illegal to say monkeys are rubbish.
- All men in Ireland must complete four years of national service. They can choose between joining a boyband, touring with riverdance or becoming a tramp.


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